Inspiration: Pencil Tests - deleted scenes from Snow White

 During the making-of Walt Disney's  "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" several sequences were started and then abandoned due t...

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Inspiration: Master Animators At Work - SYLVAIN CHOMET

In this excerpt from the BBC series "The Secret of Drawing" (2006) director Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville  and   L...

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Inspiration: Uli Meyer

Students:   if you're not familiar with the work of Uli Meyer and his London animation studio  "Uli Meyer Animation"   you sh...

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"One More Time" by Alexander Petrov

  A recent film supervised by Alexander Petrov , "One More Time" . (all of these images are hand-painted with oil paint on gl...

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Academy of Art - Current Online Traditional Animation Faculty

For my Academy of Art animation students I've been remiss in not officially noting that my friend and colleague Diana Coco-Russell has j...

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Fuddles by Frans Vischer

Animator Frans Vischer has written and illustrated a new book, "Fuddles" .     He animated this charming trailer to promote the...

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Tahsin Özgür - Pencil Tests

I'm grateful to  C. Siemens on the Don Bluth Animation Forum for directing my attention to this remarkable collection of pencil tests b...

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