Today I’d like to officially announce the beginning of production on the Snowlands graphic novel. What is Snowlands? Snowlands started as the next big project I was working on at Bloop Animation. After making 3 animated shorts, and documenting the …
Animated Short Film Structure Guide (Breaking Down the 8 Genres of Animated Shorts)
Animated Short Film Structure Guide Breaking Down the 8 Genres of Animated ShortsThis guide was created as a result of a personal study I have done, watching and analyzing the difference and similarities of every Academy Award nominated animated short …
Why Our Next Project is an Animated Feature Film
We recently posted a teaser reveal for our next project – Snowlands. Here it is in case you missed it: Pretty cool, right? But before we get into the film, we need to go back a year or so. After …
Why You Should Teach Your Kids Animation (Even If You Have Zero Animation Experience)
Learning new skills isn’t something children should only do at school. There’s a lot of fun interesting topics that aren’t taught at traditional (and even more modern) schools, and it’s often the parent’s job to expose their kids to new …
Spiderman into the Spider-Verse: 2D or 3D?
Every once in while an animated movie comes out that is impossible to ignore. Spiderman Into the Spider-Verse is one of those movies. It is without a doubt one of the best animated films I’ve ever seen. Apparently I’m not …
Why I Don’t Do Client Work
I worked for different productions studios (animation, VFX, film etc…), and noticed a few things about their business model. It’s mostly based on having minimal staff, getting clients, then hiring as many freelancers as possible to deliver the work to …
My Process for Choosing My Next Project
There are 2 major creative tragedies: Starting a project, and not finishing it. Doing something well that shouldn’t have been done at all. This is why, for me, choosing an idea to pursue is a BIG DEAL. It should be …
Character Animator Animation Course coming November 23
Exciting news! This upcoming Friday (AKA Black Friday) we’re launching a brand new course: Character Animator Animation Adobe’s Character Animator is a new player in the animation game, but it’s already made waves in the industry. It lets you record …
Which of Our Courses Is Right for You?
As our courses library continues to expand I’ve been getting a lot of emails from people asking me which course they should get, based on their own needs. In this post I’ll address some common situations and try to answer …
