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Finding Story Ideas – A Simple Trick (Making an Animated Movie)

Writer’s block Coming up with story ideas is always hard. But there are ways to make the process much easier and get over this “writer’s block” many people experience. The Problem is that when facing an empty white page people …

4 Blinks Every Animator Should Know

How to animate blinks and eye darts Blinking and eye movements gives life to a character, even when it’s standing still. Each animator develops his/her own blinking style, but in this video I’ll show you some of my bread and …

Lip Sync in After Effects: How to Build a Mouth Rig for 2D Animation

In this tutorial we’ll learn how to take mouth shapes drawn in Photoshop and bring them to After Effects to be used for 2D lip sync animation. This is not a complicated tutorial but you should have a basic understanding …

How to Photoshop Your Profile Photo to Look Amazing With 6 Simple Tricks (For Facebook or More)

People obsess over their profile photos. They would go over hundreds of photos to pick the perfect one. But its actually very simple to take an average photo and make it look MUCH better using some very simple photoshop tools. …

How to Make an Animated Movie: A Short Documentry

This video gives a quick breakdown on the steps it takes to make a short 3D animated film, in a way that’s easy to understand. Don’t forget to watch the actual film. Read more about the making of our animated …

“Food For Thought” – an Animated Short Film

My thesis short film, produced at the Computer Arts department at the School of Visual Arts. About the film A fish’s journey to discover its true place in the world. “Food For Thought” is a 3D animated short film full of …