Caveat Cartoon Sketches Part 3

The sketches continue as we work with a student animator, Matt, from Caveat Cartoons.

Again, we won't give away the character names or story yet, but we want you to enjoy the sketches.







Click here to check out Caveat's full blog post.

- TAE

Caveat Cartoon Sketches Part 2

The sketches continue as we work with a student animator, Matt, from Caveat Cartoons.

Again, we won't give away the names or story yet, but we want you to enjoy the sketches.



The notes in red are Matt's notes to himself as he teaches himself how to draw and animate. Being able to teach yourself is actually the most important skill of animation.



For example of the imporance of an animator being able to teach himself/herself, Disney and DreamWorks switched from 2D to 3D animation, and those who embraced it had a great future, and those who did not embrace it have not faired so well.

This gap of animators who did not ramp up quickly also left opportunities for brand-new visionary hot shots (like the directors of Bolt) to come in as animators without as much industry experience and go straight to the top.

(It doesn't seem like Bolt was very visionary, but that's because they made amazing 3D animated shorts in school and then directed mroe amazing shorts for Disney and then, as a result, they were brought on to replace the director of Bolt and to clean it up. So they were successful in saving Bolt, and I'm sure once they get a chance to make their own movies from the ground up, that's when we'll see their true genius.)



So anyway, go check out Matt's other illustrations in this round, and follow him as he journals about what he learns through this process:

http://caveatjunk.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html#2896683510116682693

Thanks!

- TAE

The Animation Empire is in cahoots with Caveat Cartoons

We're working closely with Matt at Caveat Cartoons on a new project. No names or story yet, but we want to invite you to enjoy Matt's sketches:







These are some of our favorites. Go see the rest on Matt's blog and join him as he writes about his journey as he learns character illustration:

http://caveatjunk.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html#2007809492801153023

Enjoy!

- TAE

TheAnimationEmpire - Video Banner

Here's a first take on a video banner for TheAnimationEmpire Youtube channel:





Made by Ezex:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ezex1995

New TAE Channel Background!

We've got a new channel background:




Bigger:

http://www.freewebs.com/willemworks/TAE%20NEW%204.JPG




It's on our YouTube site:

http://youtube.com/TheAnimationEmpire


Thanks to WillemWorks for the channel background! Check out his new Steven Seagal animations:

http://youtube.com/WillemWorks


- TAE

New TAE "Join the Empire" Banner!!!

New YouTube channel banner!




Full image:

http://i.ytimg.com/u/Bckv9C0qpaIHpgncqLTnmQ/profile_header.jpg

Thanks to WillemWorks for the channel banner! Check out his new Steven Seagal animations:

http://youtube.com/WillemWorks

- TAE

Empire Logo Banner - By WillemWorks

The Animation Empire has a new banner up on our YouTube channel! This is our first banner, because we recently became partners.



Bigger:
http://i.ytimg.com/u/Bckv9C0qpaIHpgncqLTnmQ/profile_header.jpg

Anybody else want to make us a banner?
The video banner is 360 x 55 pixels.
The channel banner is 850 x 75 pixels.

Thanks to WillemWorks for the channel banner!

http://youtube.com/WillemWorks


- TAE