A well designed, well written animated film has warmth, humor and charm. Since Steamboat Mickey, animators have been creating characters and films that are charming, warm and humorous, allowing people to connect with the animated medium. Animaton fans love the characters for a lifetime. This is the legacy of the countless animators and artists who created the classic characters and fun storie…
SOUNDTRACK LANGUAGE(S): RUSSIAN, ENGLISH. SUBTITLES: ENGLISH. From 1924 to perestroika the USSR produced more than 4 dozen animated propaganda films. They weren't for export. Their target was the new nation and their goal was to win over the hearts and minds of the Soviet people. Anti-American, Anti-British, Anti-German, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Fascist, some of these films are as artistically bea…
The challenges of modelling and animating realistic faces and emotions with computer software are confronted and easily worked through in Animating Facial Features & Expressions. If you have any interest in computer-based character animation, this book will be a valuable addition to your reference shelf.The book starts with an exploration of the anatomy of the head, including underlying facial …
Animation Block Party presents Volume Two in their excellent mix-tape series. This DVD features diverse genre shorts from animation talents across the map. The lineup showcases ABP student winner, Marvelous Keen Loony Bin from Lizzi Akana, audience award winner Binge and Purge from Ben Meinhardt. Extras focus on filmmaker interviews and animatic exploration. Other films on the DVD include Tug o…
It's very rare indeed for a single DVD to function as pure entertainment and a valuable archive of animation history, but this award-winning Lumivision disc offers all that and more. Once hailed as "America's Greatest Cartoonist," Winsor McCay (1869-1934) was a master draftsman and illustrator who began his career as a newspaper illustration artist and editorial cartoonist in the late 1890s and…