Wondering how to create character designs that are ready for animation? I spent two decades doing just at Disney, and in this article I'll share my tricks for making lively characters that jump off ...

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Stories are breathed into life by characters. They are evocative, create tension, and move the story along. In digital storytelling, characters hold the ground and focus the viewer, as well as turn ...

Skit!, the comedy animation app that TechCrunch first met at Disrupt NY, is ramping up its monetization strategy with sponsored product placements. The latest one is timed to Pacific Rim’s Blu-Ray ...

Comic book artists and animators often use posable mannequins or motion capture to help get tricky action postures just right, but transferring the figures to paper or computer screens still involves ...

Facial recognition is one of the earliest skills that baby humans learn. Considering how important paying attention to faces is to our survival it is no surprise that computer vision researchers have ...

Demo reels are an invaluable tool for impressing one’s skills on potential employers. Rarely do they find a much wider audience than that. Mònica Eggert’s new character animation reel is the exception ...

Cut-out animation is one of the oldest and simplest animation techniques and has many forms and variations. Essentially, cut-out animation involves producing animations using 2-D characters, props and ...