Clay Kaytis - Strange Sort of Love Letter

Read a great post on theanimatorlettersproject.com  entitled "Strange Sort of Love Letter" from Clay Kaytis that I had to share. He talks about finding his way in terms of process, and gives his guide to animating a hand-drawn scene, which I felt was hugely inspiring and found his thoughts/processes something that could easily be transferable for a 3D Character Animator starting out, like myself. Great stuff. Let me know what you think.

TT Games - My first Animation Job

Today I start my first job as a cutscene Animator at TT Games. I am very excited, proud, and nervous all at the same time, but I am raring to get stuck in.

12 principles of animations

Found a great post yesterday about Disney's 12 Principles Of Animation, In A Cartoon, on fastcodesign which I thought I should share. Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, 2 of the "9 old men" that worked at the Walt Disney Animation Stuido's, made the laws of physics just for cartoons.

You can read more about it on their site here, but here is a good video from motion artist Cento Lodigiani that describes the principles:

Beginners guide to aspect ratios

Found this interesting article published on Empire Online about aspect ratios that I thought I would share.

Epic animation workflow tips and tricks

Interesting walk through of an animator's thought process on some shots from Epic by Blue Sky Animator Patrick Giusiano

How to get a job as an animator

I also found this article today too, how to get a job as an animator, on theoryanimation.com that I wanted to share as I thought it was well worth a read and has some great advice. Let me know what you think.

The 25 fastest ways to fail at animation

I found this article, the 25 fastest ways to fail at animation, on animatorisland.com and felt a lot of it rang true and was definitely something to think about each time you are doing some work. I know its something I will be referring back to again and again but check it out for yourselves and let me know what you think.