SDA 08: Playhouse Pictures and the Story of Animation in Old Hollywood with Ted Woolery
In the 1950s a cameraman from Walt Disney Studios formed a revolutionary animation studio called...
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Steve Huston Interview with Bozeman Art Museum
Steve Huston taught me to draw. I was a “self-taught” artist and animator. When I took...
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SDA 07: Story Transcends Culture with Richard Walter
Legendary screenwriting professor, Richard Walter, is with us again in part two of my conversation...
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SDA 06: Richard Walter | Hollywood’s Screenwriting Professor
Richard Walter, was the chair of the UCLA Screenwriting Program, which is the most successful...
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Second printing of Haddon Sundblom at The Illustrated Press
The Illustrated Press has just released the second printing of their beautiful book on the art of...
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Here’s Your Pizza, Why Me?
If you’ve ever attended an acting class worth it’s salt, one of the first things...
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Notes and Colors in Sing-Syncing
Now that we’ve discussed tidal volume (the low volume of air in the lungs required to support most...
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Tidal Volume and Minute Volume
Animators and artists spend significant amounts of time studying physiology, human emotions, body...
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Thinking in Poses
One of the cardinal rules of animation is that good poses make for good performances. An animator...
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Character Performances Carry the Show
There’s a reason good actors make astronomical sums of money — they can make or break a show....
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Play to the Camera
The camera is your audience. Actors always know where the camera is because it’s big, black,...
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