Not that Spline Doctors is a place to pimp anything but animation education, I did wat to say that Presto is available on Itunes. Here is a link. Please address any questions about this short in the comments section and myself or Travis or Mark will try to answer them.
Stay tuned for the Doug Sweetland Spline Cast…
Andrew
Hey, here is link to some pretty neat tutorials, put together by Cameron Fielding. They are worth a look and thanks to Cameron for taking the time to put them together.
–stephen
Our Good friends at Animation Mentor have posted the works of their fall show. Carlos gave me a look, and man is it good. Amazing job to all the students and teachers. Animation Mentor really is committed to animation education. They really care about the students which is not the case with a lot of animation schools out there. I expect it will only get better and better. I’d love to hear any comments from students about the program.
The best thing animation students can do is to do 2d animation before they enter the vast world of 3d animation.It teaches you the basics much quicker and really helps you understand the process. Here are a bunch of 2d animation software packages that are out there for the computer. I like using these packages because it lets me experiment more and try out different techniques. Its also easier to make changes.
Here they are:
Pencil - A free open source program
Mirage - Alot like deluxe paint 4 for the Amiga only better! (TV Paint is the european counter-part)
Flipbook - widely used 2d program. Very simple and robust
Feel free to submit any other 2d animation programs that you know of.
-Andrew
Hey guys I found this interview with the amazing Jeff Pidgeon on-line today. Everyone should check it out. Jeff has been at PIXAR forever and he is in my opinion one of the most influential artists of PIXAR’s earlier films, Toy Story,Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc, etc. Worth a listen.
–Dr. Stephen G.
