Animation production in the US continues in contrast to other countries. Some European studios are completely closed and production of anime is severely impacted as this list indicates. News In other Netftlix news, Castlevania will receive a fourth season, with …
Month: April 2020

Director Kris Pearn on Crafting the Wonderful World of ‘The Willoughby’s’
I really love the idea of a story that’s nonlinear. One of the things that really appealed to me was this idea of independence with kids. I grew up in the 80s. Movies were all about kids going off and …

Animation Articles: April 19th, 2020
That said, if you’ve been a regular reader since the beginning, you probably know that besides animation, fashion is another passion of mine. This means I get quite excited when the two intersect as they do fairly often, but rarely …

20 Common Animation Terms #3
POLISHING / REFINE The final process for an animator is to polish AND REFINE the shot: cleaning the tangents, checking arcs, compenetrations, smoothness and fluidity of the movements…pushing the quality of the final result! BALANCE CONSTRAINT ACTING DYNAMIC SIMULATION ASYMMETRY …

20 Common Animation Terms #2
ATTITUDE FRAME RATE (FPS) BODY MECHANICS MOMENTUM PHONEMES HOOK UP or CONTINUITY ANIMATIC AMBIENT OCCLUSION BLEND SHAPES PAN-PANNING (CAMERA) DEMO REEL FOREGROUND KEY POSES LINE OF ACTION CAMERA SHAKE GRAPH EDITOR LIVE ACTION MOVING HOLD RHYTHM SMEAR FRAMES [embedded content] …

Animation Articles: April 12, 2020
Lots of great #sixfanarts posts this week too! News A selection of the best animation articles including news, opinions, and features from around the world for the week beginning the 12th of April, 2020. COVID-19 continues to devastate the festival …

CHARACTER TURN TIPS
👀BLINK! During a turn add a blink or an half blink! We blink every time we turn from side to side so is important to make the character more realistic and alive! (In my tutorial I was more focused on …

RUN CYCLE TIP#1
‼️In this run I slowed down the spacing when he’s in the air, this to have a more cartoon style! I accelerate between contact and passing/push poses and the decelerate between the Up and Contact poses🙃 https://iwanttobeananimator.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/ref_run-cycle_02/amp/

RUN CYCLE TIP#6
https://iwanttobeananimator.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/ref_run-cycle_02/amp/ Use references but always try to give something personal to your cycles, try different styles, different poses and attitude, don’t rush and create something with no life, also a mechanical movement like a run need a living character with …