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 …
Pixar Storytelling Ebook – Coming Out Next Week!
Those of you who were paying attention already know that we have a great new book in the works. Well, we have a launch date! Pixar Storytelling will come out next Tuesday on October 6. What is this book about? The Pixar …
Changes to Bloop
In the past few weeks I have been making some changes to BloopAnimation.com. It might not have been noticeable to newcomers, or even to some veteran readers since the changes are small and subtle, but they are significant to me, in …
The 5 Types of Animation – A Beginner’s Guide
The 5 Types of Animation A Beginner’s Guide3DHand DrawnVectorStop MotionMotion GraphicsWhat is this guide about? The purpose of this guide is to take you through the intricacies of the different types of animation styles and techniques. It also covers the path …
FOODz New Official Title – “Tasteful”. Watch the Animatic Now!
Exciting progress in the production of Bloop’s new animated short, formerly known as FOODz, now officially titled Tasteful. Not only did we pick the final name for the film, we actually released the animatic this week for everyone to watch. …
Storyboard Development
In this video from the Making an Animated Movie series (season 2) I go over the storyboard with Milos, our storyboard artist. This is your chance to get a glimpse to our process. Why we make certain story decisions, how we …
