HOW TO DRAW CARTOONS FOR BEGINNERS

HOW TO DRAW CARTOONS FOR BEGINNERS from Wayne Carlisi on Vimeo.

Veteran animator Wayne Carlisi shares his valuable knowledge on drawing cartoon characters. Check it out!

VTS Animation Tutorial by Keith Lango

I have been an avid fan and a big time follower of Mr. Keith Lango, truly genuine and inspirational animator in the industry. Keith has recently made all his VTS tutorial series publicly available under his YouTube channel here. I would like to thank him for his willingness to share his valuable knowledge. Thank you kind sir :)

Quadruped Animation by Layering - Horse Run Cycle

Quadruped Animation by Layering - Horse Run Cycle from Virginie Michel d'Annoville on Vimeo.

Virginie Michel d'Annoville demonstrate the technique of layering animation to create a realistic run cycle for a horse. Check it out!

“The Angry Birds Movie” Reference Comparison Reel

David Badgerow - “The Angry Birds Movie" Reference Comparison Reel from David Badgerow on Vimeo.

“The Angry Birds Movie” Reference Comparison Reel by David Badgerow.

Boss Baby Animation & Reference Reel 1

Boss Baby Animation & Reference Reel 1 from anthony hodgson on Vimeo.

Boss Baby Character Animation and Video Reference by Anthony Hodgson and Rani Namaani.

ParaNorman Dialogue Tests

ParaNorman Dialogue Tests from David Vandervoort on Vimeo.

ParaNorman Dialogue Tests by David Vandervoort. Love to see 2D reference being used to bring the best out of 3D animation.

Animation References by Kyle Kenworthy

Some great resource for #animation here...

Animation reference by David Good

David Good - Animation Reel from David Good on Vimeo.

A wonderful reference as shared by our animation instructors David Good to the students during body mechanics class.

"Check out the arcs on her hands, the stiffness of flexing muscles keeping her movements tight and accurate. But you only notice these things on a second viewing. What you feel is what the arcs etc combine to create. the principles are backstage things. The principles are hidden and felt and always present but they point to an action...like they all combine to create something greater. So now that your starting to understand them and are working them into your animations use them to describe the feeling of muscles and mass and motivation so that we notice the those things and don't notice the principles that make them up!" ~ David Good 

Join Puppeteer Lounge to learn character animation with Sony Picture's animator David Good: 

Animation Resource ~ Walk-Cycle

Some of the wonderful resources on  animating a Character Walk-Cycle. Feel free to browse through all of them before you get started! Great stuff :)

A real time demo of how to approach animating a basic 3D walk cycle using Maya!   
Walk-Cycle tutorial at Angry Animator:

In-depth Walk Cycle tutorial by Francis Jasmin:

First step guides on creating a Walk-Cycle emphasizing on walks, runs, animation principles like Anticipation, use of the right tools, work flow by Michael Berenstein:

ReferenceReference.com Kickstarter campaign

ReferenceReference.com is launching a Kickstarter campaign to upgrade their site with new tool improvement which allows you to browse and scrub frame by frame through their 1800+ online video references. Check it out!

Parkour Exercise Using Pose to Pose Method

A good resource on "The parkour exercise uses the pose to pose method". Check it out! Good read for all animators.

Virginie Michel d'Annoville Facial Animation with Lip-sync

"That's what friends are for!" ~ A great resource for animating lipysync by Virginie Michel d'Annoville :)

More info!

51 Great Animation Exercises to Master

Useful post on animation exercises at Animator Island. Check it out and start exercising today :)

Joe Walkcycle

Check out this stylized walkcycle from BackToTheGrindstone

John Carter Evolution Reel

See how the animators worked on collecting and creating reference footage and ideas for John Carter movie.

Animating Art (Art Babbitt, Richard Williams)

Interesting video.

In this Town - Final Animation vs Reference Footage

From reference footage to final animation by Ty Coyle.

Animator's Eye book trailer by Francis Glebas

Looks like yet another great book on animation. The Animator's Eye covers the whole process of bringing an idea to life using animation and it documents the making of an animated short with a wonderful score by Hans Karl.

Keith Lango Animation: Going dark...

Recently I was doing my routine round up of animation blogs and websites. I came across a post by Keith Lango, who is a great animator and has been a blogger for a very long time, stating his blog post and all the online resources that he shares to the community will no longer be updated. So he mentions in his final post that he is retiring from animation blogging and online animation teaching.

I have been a great fan of Keith Lango and I thank him for all the hard work he have done, sharing his valuable knowledge to the online animation community. His blogs and videos will be a great resource for generation to come and remembered. I personally believe his online archive is an epic library!

I wish him all the best with his endeavors and thanking him for being a great animator :)

Check out his final blog post over here...

Animated walks and runs

Great Stuff!