Drawing on Knowledge

Time-tracking is often viewed as the one most singularly evil impulse between you and your creative energies. For good reason? David Maas gives a first-hand impression.

The German/French station Arte interviews David O'Reilly, who takes the opportunity to talk candidly about the materiality of 3D graphics, the idiocy of an unnamed American producer, the creative energies of Berlin and many of his films.

Nick Cross releases The Pig Farmer in the same manner that he produced it... boldly, independently and without looking back.

Moritz Mayerhofer shares the long road towards making his Oscar-short-listed graduation film Urs.

Ryan Woodward's film "Thought of you" offers a great look at what hand animation has to offer, and what an animator and his audience can expect from the medium.

Occasionally I'm confronted with the following scenario: an independent or student film is already half-finished, but now the budget's used up and the initiators are running out of steam / taking on jobs / otherwise reducing their future engagement on the production in question. But the film is really looking good and - yeah, it's half-finished! Here's what I tell them...

Renovating an apartment is more similar to animation production than I would like. A metaphorical look into the logistics, planning and communication that swallowed me whole.

If you don't have a grip on how long you'll need to produce your animation, you don't have a grip on your animation. This first post on targets shows how easy it is to calculate an animation target, and how important...

Sports form a window to the soul of.... erm, okay. That's a bit thick. Football is only peripherally relevant to animation and yes - I'm stretching that relevance pretty thin here. But somebody has to - its the World Cup after all. And it's truly interesting how a sport can reveal a country's mentality - or perhaps form it.