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"A New Dawn" : hand-crafted animation effects by Makiko Sukikara.
www.instagram.com/sukikara_mak...
The film, directed by Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, is coming in Japanese theaters this Friday.

Hip & Glute hinge studies, learning from the Taco anatomy books #anatomy #animation

Wizard 123 featured a drawing tutorial from Leinil Francis Yu about "How To Make Your Characters Gritty". Plus some fun reader Letter Art.

Laika And The Gotham Launch New Animation Accelerator The six-month program offers mentorship, studio access, Annecy participation, and Gotham Week pitching opportunities for emerging animation filmmakers.

Laika and The Gotham have launched a new animation accelerator supporting early- to mid-career creators with mentorship, studio access, Annecy participation, and Gotham Week pitching opportunities.
www.cartoonbrew.com/educational/...

사랑이 느껴지는 손동작이 좋다,,💛

Archipel's 1-hour documentary on Mahiro Maeda is out, and it's a must watch to understand the career of this underrated artist who has worked with Miyazaki, Anno... and many international projects, from an aborted "Dune" anime to "Furiosa" (Mad Max).
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sSF...

上野 / Ueno

This vacancy is on my team. We have hired two people since 2023. Stable team, interesting work, C&M actively involved and feeding back into the dev process. Really rare opportunity!

Robot Carnival (1987)

#animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation

After two decades, Samurai Champloo's soundtrack is still iconic. Its influence is everywhere.

Shinichiro Watanabe loved underground hip hop -- and he hired artists like Nujabes to create music that doesn't just fall into the background. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-music-...

The internet hosts several very good Walkman/personal stereo archive sites, but this is the slickest yet

walkman.land

Thanks @kottke.org

The others will be linked below

Thoughts on Wings by uzlolzu on DeviantArt

This reminds me so much of a wing anatomy "tutorial" I used when I was starting out with drawing xD It has stuck with me for so many years and I had to check if it was still up. I'll just link it, idk if it's any help for your problem though www.deviantart.com/uzlolzu/art/...

LIPS! To get the FREE monthly How to THINK When You draw digital MAGAZINE, (including NEW tutorials, a YEAR before they appear online) just tap the link in the bio HERE: @etheringtonbros.bsky.social
PLUS! Tutorials BOOKS on KICKSTARTER VERY SOON!
#anime #manga #comicart #conceptart #gamedev

Our feature artist/tutorial for today is this EXCELLENT set of notes on drawing CAPES by the super-generous @GRIZandNORM! This shows that it's all about TENSION, DIRECTION and SHOWING FORM! Beautiful, as usual! #gamedev #animationdev #characterdesign #conceptart #manga #anime

Collarbone & Pelvis use in dynamic posing and Trunk & Pelvis twisting, learning from the Taco anatomy books #anatomy #animation

You may also enjoy this book from 1878 www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/t...

Painting material spheres/cubes are a good, efficient way to develop your #handpainted #gameart texture painting and understanding lighting. These by Ilaria Guglielmo

www.artstation.com/artwork/lGLmGk

Pelvis to Chest cavity ratio study, learning from the Taco anatomy books #anatomy #animation

Enchanting Chandeliers Swarm With Schools of Ceramic Fish You don’t have to dive deep to see these schools of fish. You only need to look up!

Since 2007, U.K.-based design studio Scabetti has produced Shoal chandeliers, incorporating schools of ceramic fish. trib.al/78XCNoL

Post from S. Michael Hampton - YouTube Wrapping lines are one of those “tiny trick, huge payoff” things. They’re basically ellipses that help you show the 3D direction of a form so your figures st...

youtube.com/post/Ugkx9vM...

Art of Robin Hood → buff.ly/HGFowLd

#animation #conceptart #modelsheet #characterdesign #visdev

From the trailer of "SCP:Gallionic", an indie animated short film by SOEM Studios.
Based on SCP Foundation, a wiki-based collaborative writing project, launched in 2008.
Kickstarter >> www.kickstarter.com/projects/gln...

Year of the Fire Horse

Little dragon posting!!

Celebrating the Year of the Horse - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Celebrating the Year of the Horse brings together works from The Met collection to explore the horse’s enduring nature and vital place in Chinese civilization.

I'm putting together a list of exhibitions celebrating the #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheHorse, like this one at the Met - if you know of any happening near you, could you DM or email me the info? Thanks!! :)
www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Happy Chinese New Year from Khan Art & Design Co.!

#新年快乐

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.

Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

Text: "Planes" are a depiction of anything that exists in a drawing at a FiXED spatial distance from the viewer, with each grouping of subjects at a shared distance overlapping the next in order to suggest the spatial relationship of each element in the drawing to the others. This image has three planes: (Image of a drawing with a scorpion on a rock, a cowboy sitting on a rock, and a mountain in the background). Each plane in an image signifies a different degree of distance, with the foreground SHARiNG the viewer’s spatial plane, and the background being the farthest from it. There’s clear distance between each plane; no plane “touches” another.

Text: why is overlapping the planes necessary? (image: a cowboy apparently close to the viewer, one a ways back, and then a saloon behind him). Unless one plane directly overlaps another, there’s no sure clarity that they are, in fact, suggestive of different distances. (image: the cowboy appearing to be closest is shown to be a giant, swinging the apparently midground cowboy by the head into the two-story saloon that's only about as tall as a person). it’s also important to suggest scale in each plane using subjects whose size the audience is likely to know. when that isn’t possible, try repeating the element-of-unspecified-scale (a) from one plane in another and have it (B) interact there with a subject whose scale is clear. (image: a small round cactus in the foreground, and farther off a cowboy sitting on a similar cactus)

Text: A perspective grid composition (A) suggests depth by progressive recession in space, while planar composition (B) suggests it with staggered recession in space. (image: a receding grid and a series of staggered planar elements) The principles of overlapping planar composition can be used with a perspective grid, especially if there are elements with right angles (like buildings). Rough your panel with plane elements in place first... ...then make/place a grid that fits your layout... ...then utilize the grid to make the receding angles match.

(image: a wanted man hiding against a wall while a cowgirl crossed the street, looking around). One of the most useful* aspects of a foreground element is to create a sense of immersion for your audience. by putting it on essentially the same plane as the audience itself, the audience becomes a part of the story, seemingly able to touch the foreground, to lean around it for a better view. (image: the wanted man is now decidedly a foreground element). *it also means less time spent drawing all of the detail in the midground or background planes without ever aesthetically shortchanging your audience.

Hey, friends! Here are some thoughts on using planes in your compositions.

Animation by Milt Kahl* | Sleeping Beauty (1959)

#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation