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First Concept Art Meeting

This was the first meeting with the concept art team and it occurred 3 days into the production of the film so everything was still in its earliest stages. In the meeting we tried to establish the artists direction for the film, but …

A Quick Update on the Making of Our Animated Short

In the first season of Making an Animated Movie, where I documented the making of LIFT UP, I showed specific tutorials on the different aspects of animation filmmaking, such as sound design, making an animatic, animating a short etc. Over the …

After Effects Animation Launches on December 1st

Big news – our new course After Effects Animation is coming out next month on December 1st So what is this course about? As an animator, I’ve designed this course to be tailored specifically for people who want to make animations. …

Aspect Ratio (2.35:1 vs 16:9)

In this post I want to cover the topic of aspect ratio, mostly deciding between 2.35:1 vs 16:9. I’m going to show you different kinds of popular aspect ratios, when should you use them and which one I’ll be using …

5 Reasons You Won’t Be an Animator

This is a guest contribution by Rusty Gray. It’s 2015 and You Won’t be an Animator Another year is coming to a close. You’ve spent your life fascinated by movies (Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Lion King). You’ve captivated yourself for hours …

Flash Animation is Available for Purchase

Exciting news! Our new course Flash Animation is now available for purchase. So what is this course all about? In a few words, this course is all about becoming a flash animator. Either for making cool animations for YouTube, or …

Adobe Flash New Features (June 2015 Release)

In this guest tutorial, David Schuttenhelm will go over all the important changes to the the latest release of Flash, focusing on the animation tools. David and I have just finished creating an entire Flash course, designed especially for animators, …

2 New Animation Courses Coming Up!

As you might have noticed around the site, we’re currently working on 2 new animation courses. One for Flash and one for After Effects. Flash Animation will be released first, with the launch date expected to be sometime next month, …

What Ratatouille and Monsters University Taught Me About Being an Artist

This is a guest post by Dean Movshovitz, the author of our new book Pixar Storytelling. One of the joys of writing Pixar Storytelling was simply re-watching all of Pixar’s magnificent films. And while all of Pixar’s films are very …