Today's the day

"If you were a Rembrandt today, you wouldn't be able to resist animation. Instead of etchings, he'd be making stuff move." - Richard Williams

Watch his documentary.

Clubs

This is really depressing:

The golden drawing

Everyday, I draw looking for that touch that will tip over the image and spill lines onto the paper. It is frustrating trying to create life in a matter of minutes, imitating what looks so seemless. The character's we've grown up with were alive to us, and were as much a part of our lives as friends that've come and gone. It takes effort to realize they are carefully constructed. Watching a pencil test of a scene from the Lion King is like watching a mechanical city huff through time. Each line comes to life, lives, and dies to make way for the next.

Making of Feature of Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke
A great colleciton of classic Disney Animators speaking about their work

Those are the giants that made the dirt we're standing on.

Wacoms

I finally got a tablet.

The textbook

I scanned the "Walks" from The Animator's Survival Kit. You can download the chapter here: Walks.