Frame By Frame

Drawing Digitally

Help! What do I buy??

I get this question all the time from students diving into the digital drawing realm. I’m not an expert or a reviewer, but here’s a quick guide to what’s what when you are looking for digital drawing equipment.

DIY downshooter set-up

Schools have great resources for students, but actually getting to campus to use the labs and equipment isn’t always possible. Whether it’s a long commute, a snow day, or a COVID-19 pandemic, working remotely can sometimes be a necessity.

The Three Parts of Staging

I talk about our brains and perception a lot in class. Animation is just a weird thing. It’s like real life, but…

Anticipation, Follow Through, Overlapping Action, and Secondary Action

Animation Fundamentals, flipped!

There’s a time and a place to flip the classroom, and I think teaching the animation fundamentals is…

Collaborative Learning Through Stopmotion

Students come into our program at all levels of ability and experience. Some have an intuitive sense of timing and spacing while others love animation, but have never considered the actual process of breaking down a movement into frames. As in any course…

Lecture: First Day of Class

I always show this film on the first day of Intro to Animation. Because… well… just watch it, you’ll…

Bouncing Balls: RWO

RWO: Real-World Observations

Cultivating Healthy Animators

Now is the time of the semester when students (and instructors) might start feeling the physical effects of…