Hi, I am a traditional animator and may be interested in this project. What are you looking for? 2d, 3D? cycles? animated scenes? etc. What are they being used for? What is your production timeline, budget, scenes,frame rate, etc...:) www.apscalmato.com/animations has examples of my work. PM me any ...

Thanks for the book recommendation Rasheed. I will def. give it a read. You are right on with calling animation an "illusion". A sequence of images pieced together to create the illusion of motion. Cheat in a sense may have been the wrong word and it could of been discribed as "how to...

This is a Great film to watch. It has impressive transitions, and of the character scenes are very well animated. He captured emotion, weight, anticipation while still mainting form and structure. That is very hard in traditional animation.

They ARE cheats:) The reason for them being called cheats is because the eye cannot register so many moving frames at a time. Therefor we can get away with blurs or sometimes no inbetweens to suggest a certain movement. Hold your hand out in front you and look at the back of it. now wave it back and...

Im new to this forum so please excuse me... Sorry for replying on this old post, but since this post has resurfaced I thought it was interesting reading most of these comments... Reading some of these comments ...." make my blood simmer" There is nothing wrong with asking for help on a pro...

Nice first attempt on an animated short. I think the strength's of this piece is in your camera work which made up for the character animation. The character's were very stiff with very little movement. I did not feel any weight, anticipation, emotion, or personality in their movements. Some tips wo...