Animating Archives - Bloop Animation

Tips for Hybrid Animation Projects

Hybrid animation, also referred to as mixed media animation, is an exciting practice that can help your animation work stand out. Broadly speaking, hybrid animation blends two or more styles of animation and footage, so that could be 2D and …

The Role of Storyboarding in Animation

In this piece, we’re going to be exploring how storyboards are used to plan and visualize animated projects. Storyboards are something that gets mentioned a lot, thrown around in behind the scenes for movies and TV shows, animated or not! …

Bloop Animation is now part of Magic Media

Bloop Animation Acquired by Magic Media

A little over 11 years ago, I started Bloop Animation. It was a simple YouTube channel with a few animation tutorials, including one covering the process of how I made my student thesis film. Animation is what I went to …

Unexpected Places to Look for Animation Inspiration

Looking for some new sources of inspiration to enhance your animations? Here are five unexpected places to look that can provide inspiration to refine and enhance your animations in new ways you hadn’t thought of before. 1. Silent Film Techniques …

The Art of Smear Frames

The Art of Smear Frames Since the mid-1900s, smear frames have been used in nearly every animated production. This is because they provide a cost-effective way to imitate the motion blur of characters and objects as they appear in live-action …

5 Free Online Resources Every Animator Needs to Bookmark

While there are thousands of free resources for animators out there, we’ve scoured the net in search of some of the best! Below are five of our personal favorites. 1) Free Life Drawing Sessions There’s no discussion when it comes …

Mastering the Basics of Keyframes and Graph Editors in After Effects

After Effects boasts a huge variety of tools, offering near-limitless possibilities for editing compositions, creating special effects, and of course animation. Despite this, many animators feel intimidated by the learning curve of animating with After Effects, often choosing seemingly simpler …

ToonSquid vs. FlipaClip: Which One Should You Use?

The increase in the capability of the Apple iPad and its library of apps led many artists to consider moving to the mobile device as their primary content creation tool. If you are an animator, FlipClip and ToonSquid are two …

The 12 Principles of Animation

The world of animation has come a long way since its early days. Animators of today have access to advanced technology and software tools that make the process easier and more efficient than ever before (learning animation is also easier …