If you don't have a grip on how long you'll need to produce your animation, you don't have a grip on your animation. This first post on targets shows how easy it is to calculate an animation target, and how important...

What's professional? If you're an instructor, this is likely a tedious discussion. Recently, while renovating yet another apartment (don't ask) a possible discussion-ending metaphor occurred to me:

Being professional means using cheap sheets of plastic.

Occasionally I'm confronted with the following scenario:

an independent or student film is already half-finished, but now the budget's used up and the initiators are running out of steam / taking on jobs / otherwise reducing their future engagement on the production in question. But the film is really looking good and - yeah, it's half-finished!

Here's what I tell them...

Correspondence allows insight into Walt Disney's ideas about the animation and what animators should be capable of.

Time-tracking is often viewed as the one most singularly evil impulse between you and your creative energies.  For good reason? David Maas gives a first-hand impression.

Meet Veronica

Mike the paleontologist says: "Anybody can do this. You learn by doing."

David the animator says, "valuable advice."

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We don't have to travel to some alternative future to look back at 2010 as the year in which animation technologies and talent has spread beyond the film and games industries to make a true difference in education. Its happening now and its pretty exciting.

David Maas takes a look...