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Wondering how to create character designs that are ready for animation? I spent two decades doing just at Disney, and in this article I'll share my tricks for making lively characters that jump off ...

Morgan Williams has been a professional animator for almost 30 years and an animation educator for almost a decade. He has deep experience creating 2d character animation for commercial applications ...

Lisa is a character animator who's been creating animation for games and film for fifteen years. Her craft involves understanding how characters move, breathe, gesture, and express emotion through ...

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Akira Takahashi, an animation director and character designer at Bandai Namco Pictures, was held at Osaka Seikei University on October 17, 2025. The seminar featured behind-the-scenes stories from the ...

Having spent several weeks staring at the subway posters for “Gnomeo and Juliet,” a computer-animated retelling of Shakespeare’s classic in which the star-crossed lovers are lawn ornaments, I can ...