education

Learn the business of design (and the design of business) from The Skool

If you’re at all interested in the business of design, add The Skool to your radar. Their YouTube channel features honest talks with Chris Do… Read more

NYC: Image Design course offering from SVA

I’ll be giving a talk for an interesting new class, “Image Design,” taught by accomplished art director Ricardo Villavicencio. Offered by SVA’s Continuing Education program,… Read more

VFX World Map

The VFX World Map plots commercial and features studios, schools and other relevant entities on — you guessed it — a map of the world.

Eyeo 2014: Robert Hodgin

…I’ve been trying to come to grips with an internal struggle. It’s the struggle between doing something correctly and doing something expressively. Those two things… Read more

Pearson English: “One”

Although the script is a bit on the dry side, this explainer video from Territory kept my attention with its whimsical cel work and cheerful… Read more

Xiangjun Shi: Why Do I Study Physics?

Physics and animation are not often bedfellows, but in the hands of Xiangjun “Shixie” Shi, they seem as natural a pairing as space and time.… Read more

“Book People Unite” PSA

Remember the wild things, giant bean stalks, and green eggs? How about drawing worlds with purple crayons, traveling the Yellow Brick Road or flying off… Read more

12 Principles of Animation

“The Illusion of Life” is an interesting presentation of 12 universal principles for animation using cubes (instead of characters). “The Illusion of Life” was created… Read more

Daniel Savage: Helium Harvey

Not sold on the idea of going back to school? Neither was Daniel Savage. The NYC-based designer/director just released his animated short, “Helium Harvey,” a… Read more

Don’t Fail Idaho (Extended Version) by Buck

Over the last several years, Buck has made a point of creating elegantly clever PSAs for causes they believe in. For their latest visual essay,… Read more

Nathan Love Updates: McGraw Hill & Ring Force

With their latest batch of work, Nathan Love gets in touch with their inner child by rolling out two projects that not only showcase their… Read more

Cineversity relaunches

Cineversity, the official Cinema 4D training site from Maxon, has relaunched with a new look, new features and loads of new content.

Big Think Series: Can You Know Motion Without Knowing Stillness? (Part 1)

Editor’s Note: The Big Think Series attempts to step back from our frame-to-frame existence and look at the bigger picture. This post is from Austin… Read more

Review: Visual Effects for Directors

I have to admit that I was wary of reviewing Hollywood Camera Work’s Visual Effects for Directors. When the package arrived, I groaned. Seven DVDs.… Read more

Michael Reissinger: “A Short History of Marketing”

Michael Reissinger directed and illustrated this informative little diddy about the history of marketing

Hyper Island Recruitment Tour

Swedish digital media school Hyper Island will go on a global Recruitment Tour at the end of 2008 and early 2009

Axel Rudolph: Knowledge

[Updated with subtitles] For his final year project at Berufsakademie Ravensburg in Germany, Axel Rudolph created “Knowledge,” a proof-of-concept video for his vision of what… Read more