Animation Mentor alumnus and YouTuber Sir Wade shares his student experience and talks about his journey to become an animator.
How to Become an Animator with Sir Wade: A YouTuber’s Journey
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Continual Learning Articles
How to Make BIG Changes to Your Polished Shot
This tip is huge. Honestly. At least for me, and my workflow, it's massive. The concept is simple,...
Do You Need Natural Talent To Be A Good Animator?
We asked former student, current mentor, and Blue Sky Studios animator Dan Segarra, “Do you need...
Why Your Animation Needs Contrast, Part 1: Posing
What's contrast? Well, on your TV, your digital camera, or in Photoshop, it's the amount of...
New Workshop Alert: Intermediate Storyboarding
Because of the overwhelming popularity of Storyboarding Fundamentals since it’s launch in 2015,...
Are you ergonomically correct?
As an animator, or animation student, you likely spend a LOT of your time at a desk of some...
3 New Animation Mentor Workshops!
We’re SO excited to announce that we’ll have not one, not two, but THREE new workshops starting...
10 of the Best Animal and Creature Animation Posts
You probably know by now that animal and creature animation are 100% essential for your demo reel...
5 Steps for the Beginner Painter: How to Get Started
All animators have different tastes and directions we’d like to take our animation careers. Some of us may prefer wild cartoony action, others may prefer subtle realism. But even if you don’t imagine yourself specializing in cartoony animation, studying it will add important tools to your foundation and make you a better overall animator. Cartoony animation isn’t just for cartoony animators—and here’s why!
Pro Animation Tip: Don’t Forget About the Shoulders!
When you think of showing emotion in animation, what's the first thing that pops into your head....
Recipe for Success: Baking Your Animation Cake
Let’s face it—we will never know everything there is to know about animation. Animation is...
From School to Studio: Sir Wade Neistadt’s Journey to DreamWorks Animation
We asked Animation Mentor alumnus Sir Wade Neistadt to tell us all about his journey from...
Why All Animators Need to Master the Moving Hold
A "moving hold” is basically just a way to have your character hold a key pose for a long time...
6 Common Mistakes of Beginning Animators
We asked Animation Mentor Grad, Pixar Animator, and current mentor Jane Cassidy to share the...
Top 10 Animation Blog Posts of 2017
To help you get a head start on 2018, we’ve compiled our top animation posts of the past year!...
What is an Animation Pipeline?
Few like to think of animation as a product to be processed like oil or an automobile. But given...
How to Maximize Your Productivity When Animating
Animation is a time-consuming art form—there’s just no way around it. Something that many people...
Welcome to the New Animation Mentor Campus!
We have big news! Animation Mentor is going to look and feel a lot different starting in the...
Making the Transition from 2D to 3D Animation
Ever wonder what it was like to be a 2D animator? How about what it was like to go from 2D to 3D...
Twinning and Why You Should (Usually) Avoid It
With twinning—as with everything in the animation world—there’s always room to break the rules....
How to Create Believable Weight in Animation
In animation, we want to believe that the character moved, not that someone moved the character....
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