Talks at Google: The Peanuts Movie

Director Steve Martino, screenwriter Craig Schulz, and story artist Karen Disher stop by Google to talk about "The Peanuts Movie"

RIO2 Animation Explained by Patrick Giusiano

Patrick Giusiano recently posted this great breakdown reel of his work on RIO2. Thanks for the heads up Oz!

BJ Crawford Animation Tests

More great animation tests over on BJ's vimeo channel:
// BJ Crawford 

Also, check out his blog here:
// BJ and the Blog

Great interview with BJ explaining his animation process over on 11 Second Club:
// BJ 11 Second Club Interview

RIO 2 Behind The Scenes: Animation with Melvin Tan

Behind the scenes of RIO 2 with supervising animator Melvin Tan. For more interviews on the making of the film swing by CGMeetup

// RIO 2 Behind the Scenes

Free Flash for Animation Lecture by Story Artist Sam Hood

This looks like a great lecture. Swing by Art Connection Academy to sign up.

Free Lecture: With Storyboard Artist Sam Hood 
April 26, 2014, 1:00pm, Central Time
Art Connection Academy is hosting a free public lecture led by highly acclaimed storyboard artist, Sam Hood. During this lecture, Sam Hood will demonstrate the time saving power of animating in Flash while keeping the hand drawn appeal of traditional 2D animation. Sam will also demonstrate how traditional animators use Flash, focusing on learning workflows that top working professionals consider the staples of solid Flash Animation.

The lecture will also focus on a basic hand drawn workflow – helping even those planning on animating mostly with puppeting to be expressive and maintain a natural organic feel to their animation.

About // Sam Hood
Sam Hood is an Annie Award-winning animation artist. He has worked with some of the top animation studios in the United States, including Wildbrain, Blue Sky Studios, Laika, Leapfrog, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network. For the past three years, Sam has been working as a story artist at Pixar Animation Studios.

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