Some advice for young artists:
Learn how to draw at the table with good posture.
Y’know, sit up straight and don’t lean over the artwork, like Mom used to tell ya…
…Think about the amount of wear and tear that your back will have to endure if you have bad posture and you become a successful comic [...]

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Man, his style translates so beautifully into animation doesn’t it?

The song in this video is “Eugene” by Andrew Bird. Animation by John Kuramoto. Written and Drawn by Chris Ware.
The video was deleted from teh internets. If I find it again, I’ll be sure to update this post. Sorry! IT’S BACK!
Thanks [...]

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CGSociety has a great article which describes the unique process the filmmakers under took to create the beautiful film Coraline. Perhaps one of the most interesting innovations was that the replacement heads for each character were created on a 3-D printer.
It is actually a very odd yet wonderful concept. A characters head is [...]

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Some interesting wins from this years Annie Awards Show:
Kung Fu Panda beats out WALL-E for best picture!
Robot Chicken Star Wars II takes the win for best television production.
WALL-E not nominated for Character Design? Interesting…
Ben Burt nominated for voice acting in WALL-E! (I always thought the animators who worked on King Kong should have [...]

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I put together an animatic for the film over the break. Now we have a really good idea how this thing is shaping up. It is really fantastic to finally see these guys moving around on screen, and the animatic has gotten a good response from everyone who has seen it. It is [...]

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The awesome LEGO guys over at Classic-Space.com have amassed a giant collection of Sci-fi themed concept art on flickr.
Check em out! Very inspirational!

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Three years ago today I gave birth to a beautiful baby blog. This year in particular has seen a lot of ups (quality of postings) and downs (quality of readership…I kid.) This tiny little blog has come a long way in such a short amount of time. Lets take a look back [...]

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Today I watched a fantastically compelling film about Teri Horton, a 70 year old truck driving grandma who bought a painting at a thrift store for 5 bucks. After finding that it did not fit through the doorway of her friends trailer, she decided she might just throw darts at it. However a [...]

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Episode five of The Annabelle’s Bistro Podcast is now available. This week, sit in with us on a scriptwriting session!
My original intent was to jump from the treatment directly to storyboarding. However, considering that the crew is fairly large, It is probably a good idea to develop a full script just to insure that [...]

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Many of you have been asking how Annabelle’s Bistro has been going and unfortunately, I have been unable to let a lot of information out of the bag in recent months. Now that all the details have been worked out, and production is in full swing, I can reassure everyone that the film [...]

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