Now Playing Tracks

anthonyholden:

What are studios looking for? How can I get into a good animation school? What should I be studying?

I get a lot of these types of questions now and again, and I never know how to answer them. I can’t be sure of what studios are looking for, I don’t control admissions policies to schools, and I have little idea what makes for a current and relevant curriculum. There are a lot of variables in your bid for a career in animation, and it’s kind of impossible to control most of them. You must be crazy to want this job!

I find it helpful to focus on the things I can control. Among those things are your study habits and how you spend your personal time. It’s good to work hard and have goals—without them we would get nowhere. Study hard and make decisive strides towards achieving your art goals. But in the heat of that pursuit, don’t forget to go out and live your life!

If you spend any amount of time looking at artists online, you’ve probably figured out by now that there are about a million dudes and dudettes in internetville who draw better than you (I relive this realization daily). Once your have done your best to rise to their level, the only tool you have to compete with these crazy talents is your background, your personal character—is you!

Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

I know this advice is not particularly animation-specific, but maybe that’s for the best. At any rate, it is something I feel strongly about. Animation is great, and there are few things that I enjoy doing more than drawing and storytelling. But in order to have stories to tell, first you have to live them.

Be good, and see you soon!

PS, if you were looking for advice on draftsmanship you should probably be reading this.

helpyoudraw:

50 male poses by MoonlitTiger

Poses….. by moni158

Poses by moni158

.Female Gesture Pose References. by sakimichan

Couples - poses chart by Aomori

Pose Collection 002by what-i-do-is-secret

Hard perspective anatomy references for males by ElephantWendigo

Another Pose Practice by MadameNyx

Anatomy Practice by tin-plated-dictator

Anatomy Practice 2 by tin-plated-dictator

isaia:

This is gonna get smushed all the way down the tag because of all the YJ SMGO posting, but that’s ok because it’s time for a break to make some terrible crossovers:

Katara and Sokka as Volkregian Aliens- and Aang as a robot who wants to be a ‘real’ boy

- Volkregian Smellerbee and Longshot

SO THEN WHO WAS PHONE WOULD SPACE ZUKO BE? SPACE ZUKO-CEPTION? AVATARVERSE RAZER?

~*~*~AVATAR THE LAST ROBOTBENDER (A SCI-FI ACTION PACKED AND DRAMA STUFFED ADVENTURE IN SPACE~*~*~

IT’S LATE AND I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IM DOIN, GUYS.

Please, please continue this! This is so cute and silly/cool all at once that I can’t even contain the grin on my face. Volkregian!Katara and Sokka are awesome, and robo Aang is actually closer to the first imagining of the Avatar story, so I’m loving this. More, please!

“Take Care”

pinkaffinity:

Title: “Take Care” by pinkaffinity

Fandom: AtLA/LoK

Rating: T

Word Count: 3,000

Published: May 4, 2013

—-

Aang knew his death was coming.

He knew.

It was a feeling, an intuition, that special Avatar sense that told him his days were numbered. Nobody could or wanted to believe him, but they knew he was telling the truth, they knew that he was going to leave them first.

He was only sixty-six.

He shared the knowledge quietly, but it did not stay quiet for long.

Katara knew first, then his children, then his friends, then the Air Acolytes, then Republic City, then the world. News spread fast, and soon people began to look upon the Avatar’s life in a more historical context. So many things had been accomplished, but so many things were left undone. He was leaving so much behind, and after he’d be gone, there was so much that would never be. So many, so much. The fact hung thickly every time the news of his imminent death whispered in the world’s ears and got people talking once more.

Read More

To Tumblr, Love Pixel Union