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Wow - I'm so late to the party! Just wanted to say "Welcome" Stefan and tell you that I really enjoyed your show reel. The work that you and Hisko are doing on Junkyard is really amazing. He was kind enough to send me a clip. The depth of color and vibrancy of each scene is so impressive. ...

Wow - there have been so many really great contributions to this thread - I thank you all. Like Master Chief, I also dabble in 3D and so I'm exploring avenues in both disciplines. I can't help but think there has to be a better way for one person with very limited working time to produce quality ani...

Tantalus wrote: .... animation is a hard art.

Well, that pretty much sums it up.

Klaus Hoefs wrote:
So let's see Cathy, what's up with that mouse / ähem, rabbit ? Cathy ?

At the rate I am going I'll have something to show you in about 10 years.

So I am practicing and practicing and noticing that I do not have good consistency of image as I go along. For instance, I start with a little rabbit and I want him to flick his ear – but as I draw him in sequential images he seems to deform and degrade … is this a common problem for beginners? I ha...

This is a great link - thanks for sharing it. I really like his take on animation. Very instructive!

Thank you for sharing this link - I didn't recognize who he was until I saw the Beatrix Potter work in his show reel! OMG!! I have that whole collection and it's one of my prized possessions! I really enjoyed watching the interview he did on the Little Vixen production. Very instructive. He has a lo...

There's a book about this, "Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics" by Maureen Furniss. Thanks for mentioning this book, It sounds interesting, I've ordered it on Amazon. Thanks to everyone else for sharing their insight and wisdom. I really appreciate it and I think I have a better understa...

I found the turn in perspective as she lifts her leg very instructive. I watched it over and over until I understood it. Do you do this part of the animation straight on, or do you do a beginning and ending drawing and then fill in the tweens? I also agree with Sierra about the anthropomorphic scene...

This may be a very naïve question so please bear with me. Because I am just beginning I have no predefined style and I’ve felt pulled to work in more than one way – this is confusing. How does one define their style? I have a defined style as an illustrator – but it doesn’t work when animated. So I ...

Cathy, what kind of eye sight do you have that you keep your monitor so far away in the distance?! Well Paul, I just measured it, and it's 24" from me when using the Wacom and 17" when just typing. ! It's a 24" wide screen monitor and I do wear glasses... I am experimenting with diff...

The main site: http://www.toondra.com Ton's of 2D free extracts here and also a link to extracts to a 1,000 from Annecy: http://www.toondra.com/animaquid/?annee=2007&search=&texte=&page=0&film_id=attente&langue=us Much of it is in languages other than English, but I find that rea...

slowtiger! I love your workspace! All those books! I am drooling! HAHAHA~

There is much more to be learned on this subject so don't try to understand everything all at once; it'll come to you in due time. Truer words were never spoken. I think I was confusing drawings per second with frames per second. But I seem to be grasping the concept better as I actually do it and ...

Thanks lemec. I really enjoy your tutorials on YouTube also (I'm a subscriber!)

Cathy, how does it feel to draw on the tablet tilted like that? I was doing that for a while but found I that I was hunching over it too much and causing a lot of discomfort in my neck and shoulders. I find keeping it flat and looking forward at my monitor, I can sit up straight and sit for longer ...