Insightful observations on acting from Michelle Williams. This is all directly applicable to our craft as animators.
Author: On Animation
Helm’s Deep: How To Film An Epic Battle
An excellent break down of story structure and how to keep an audience engaged.
Ten Meter Tower
Ten Meter Tower is a social experiment which found people that had never jumped off a 10 meter tower and filmed the results. All manner of reactions, inhibitions, insecurities, and fears are on display from wide range of people. No …
Pete Docter on Nick Animation Podcast:
Pete shares what it was like to be one of the first animators at Pixar, how constraints can elevate storytelling, and he even drops a few hints at what’s next for him at Pixar.
The Unsung Heroes of Cinema
A look at three different films all in different stages of the restoration process, and how film restoration as a whole has evolved and continues to evolve in an increasingly digital world.
Ken Duncan – Treasure Planet Production Test
Ken Duncan shares an animation test he completed for Disney’s Treasure Planet combining both hand drawn and CG techniques.
Top 10 Performances on Film
Cinefix takes on the unenviable task of picking the top ten performances (on film) of all time. How Daniel-Day Lewis did not make this list is beyond me. Still it’s worth a look.
Doctor Strange – Visual Effects Breakdown
Framestore gives us a great look at their incredible work on Doctor Strange.
Basic Broom Handling Technique #2
Felix Sputnik shows off his ability to draw the human form from any angle in this seriously impressive “exercise in freestyle 2D scene planning”.

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