When You Animate

When You Animate:

- Approach it with the spirit of a young child. Babies have to learn to crawl, then to take steps just to walk. Same with animating. When the child falls, he/she is eager to get back up and try again. Have the same spirit when you need to get up again to animate.

- Hold on to that vision of the scene/project. Animation is a long process, and you must keep that passion and vision strong, to see it come to pass.

- Do it because of your belief that you can. The doubters and naysayers aren’t even holding a pencil. You can move mountains and oceans, more than they can move a stroke. So don’t let their influence distract you from your goals.

- Always think ahead. Don’t just think ahead as you animate the current scene. Think for the future, so that you will never lose inspiration to animate once more.

this animation is beyond amazing

THISE LEAVES ARE REAL SHUTUP

I really need to see this. It’s garden of words if I’m not mistaken…

Yes it is! Garden of Words is truly a delight to watch.

Stunning.

I swear, Sinnoh is like a piece of art.

Studio Ghibli from 1984 until 2014

It’s amazing to see how some of their older films still hold up to this day!

My thesis film!!  Thank you so much to fwugradiation for the music/score, surasshu for the sound design and mixing and kirbopher for voice casting!! And also a huge thank you to krispykitten and to everyone who helped out with my film!! I really appreciate it!  I hope you enjoy!

Very well executed! 

Reddit user podrickforking has created beautiful GIF versions of Hayao Miyazaki’s movie posters.

(via thecreatorsproject)

“I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing—that it was all started by a mouse.” - Walter Elias Disney

The only black and white Mickey Mouse pencil test known to exist: The Mail Pilot, 1933 

Hey guys my fourth year film is now online!

Sorry for the repost, apparently I needed to  link through vimeo to get a thumbnail.

Such a simple, yet compelling story told in a beautifully animated style!

Since making the first set, I’ve seen many comments being added about how animation meant so much to so many people. That it’s changed their life, their view on the world, and how it’s taught them valuable life lessons they couldn’t have learned from anywhere else. Don’t you see how important animation can be? How so many lessons, so many feelings and emotions can be carefully packaged into a twenty minute show? They’ll only continue to make our lives warp into something magnificent.