Pat Rock on Sep 25th, 2008BAR FIGHT!
Cool indie animation for the Spike and Mike crowd:
Pat Rock on May 16th, 2008Dr. Seuss Ford Commercial
To cool! Dr. Seuss apparently did some commercials for Ford Parts and Service
These are pretty great, especially the last one about a “real Ford lube job.”
Pat Rock on Sep 1st, 2006Stephen Silver Podcasts
Stephen Silver has been done podcasts on the art of character design, animation, and illustration.
The First One
On Caricatures
Sketchbook philosophies
Getting started in the animation industry
Getting involved in the art community
Memory Sketching
Pat Rock on Aug 2nd, 2006The Cat Came Back
The National Film Board of Canada has put up 50 cartoons for online viewing from their archive for their Focus on Animation special. The really shameful part of this is how many of these I had seen at the various Cartoon Film Festivals I attended through the early nineties.
I’m especially surprised that they put [...]
Pat Rock on May 17th, 2006John Kricfalusi Wants To Teach You To Cartoon
John K. the creator of Ren and Stimpy wants to teach young artists how to cartoon right, and he’s giving away the lessons for free on his blog.
John has perceived rightly that much of the groundwork of great animation that was laid during the golden era of animation (1928-1960) has been lost. Most notable [...]
Pat Rock on Apr 26th, 2006Disney Self-Plagiarism
A russian site that shows how disney recycles animation scenes
Although the test is in Russian I think you’ll find the pictures very easy to follow. Its just an interesting exposition of how Disney recycles scenes in different movies. I don’t think of this as a criticism. More like if you have a [...]