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This is a quick test of the TileIwa fx node that (amongst other things) can make one screen full of background appear to continue on and on and on… seemingly forever. Note:  The “Iwa” in the fx nodes name stands … Continue reading →

Just a quick test of workflow with no particular goal in mind other than to create a short sequence with moving background (sky), middle ground (set), and foreground character. I suppose if there was a goal it was to set … Continue reading →

Two of my favorite programs were recently updated. Animation:Master and Fusion.  So good together.  🙂

Every once in a great while a work appears on the scene that validates the usefulness of cartooning, whether via comics or animation… or both in this instance.  One of the last true examples of this was Jeff Smith’s ‘Bone’ … Continue reading →

Imported and quickly colored o damn’s** cat walkcycle.           The first cycle is rendered out with a reframing from 25 Frames Per Second to 135 FPS.  I put the same walk cycle on 2s and it … Continue reading →

Because the previously posted bugs have to have a princess…

This is an old document but well worth dusting off… The Perfect Pan: An Animation Scene-Planning Primer by David Steinberg   Unless I am mistaken, this document was created for Sullivan Bluth Studios in 1987.