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

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...

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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...

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If you rightly suspect that there's more to good animation than 12 clearly defined principles then the book Animation Insiders is for you. And if you're strapped for cash or a starving artist, well - it's still for you because it's been published as a free eBook at les Shamans under the direction of Patrick Beaulieu.

 Moritz Mayerhofer shares the long road towards making his Oscar-short-listed graduation film Urs.

Sports form a window to the soul of.... erm, okay. That's a bit thick. Football is only peripherally relevant to animation and yes - I'm stretching that relavance here. But somebody has to - its the World Cup after all. And it's truly interesting how a sport can reveal a country's mentality - or perhaps form it.