The founders of Tiny Inventions explain how their (tiny) two-person animation studio evolved and share the process behind their film Between Times. Two animators cross paths. They fall in love. And then they open an animation studio. Meet Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter, the founders of Tiny Inventions. Between the two of them, Ru and Max have to perform all the work of a much larger company, but they wouldn't have it any other way. Their process combines...

Learn how to create a walk cycle for 2D animation. This tutorial is appropriate for all levels of animators, using any software. There are four primary poses of a walk cycle, and the sequence in which they are animated is very important. In this 2D animation tutorial, Dermot O' Connor provides an introduction to the basics of all walk cycles. The principles apply to any animation student, regardless of software. First, he reviews the poses—contact,...

Learn all the skills you need to know to bring your first characters to life, including posing to the camera, animating from pose to pose, walking basics, and dialogue. The fundamentals of great character animation are rooted in posing your model in a way that reads true, animating from pose to pose to mimic natural movement, and simulating convincing dialogue. Start here to learn the skills all beginning animators need to know to bring their characters...

In a space version of the classic Treasure Island, the boy Jim Hawkins and the cyborg cook John Silver travel the galaxy in search of Captain Flint's treasure.

Rerun, Linus and Lucy's baby brother, believes he'll be the happiest little boy in the world if he receives one very special Christmas gift: his own dog. Unfortunately, his mom won't get him one and he doesn't have the ten million dollars Charlie Brown says it will cost to buy Snoopy. Still, Rerun figures there must be a way, and when he learns that Snoopy's brother, Spike, is coming to visit, he decides that he'll adopt Spike instead.

Rob Garrott interviews storyboard artists, animators, VFX artists, and other film-industry pros in this series of creative conversations. Rob Garrott, lynda.com's video content manager, got the chance to sit down with nine influential artists to talk about their work, their inspirations, their tools, and the industry as a whole. The series kicks off with a conversation with Kris Pearn, storyboard artist for Sony Animation, and one of the people "drawing...

Get to know the first computer used for motion graphics and animation, Scanimate, and the men who have kept the machine alive for the last 40 years. Digital artists have been trying to replicate the ephemeral quality of graphics from the 70s and 80s for years. But nothing comes close to the real (analog) thing. Get to know the first computer used for motion graphics and animation, Scanimate, and the men who've kept the machine alive for the last...

Two brave mice try to rescue a kidnapped young orphan from the evil Madame Medusa, who is obsessed with getting her hands on the world's largest diamond.

The Duncan family is beside itself when son Sylvester turns himself into a rock to escape the jaws of a hungry lion.

By the time the DEFA Studio for Animation Film closed in 1992, it had produced more than 800 shorts in a wide variety of styles and techniques. The 16 animation films included in this collection were directed by 8 different animators between 1974 and 1990, and give a taste of animation production in East Germany. Established in 1955, the studio initially produced shorts exclusively for children. During the 1970s and '80s, however, films targeting...