Thanks @SigneAnimated for the awesome original art! (On the Rocks in My Pockets reward package)

Rockin’ out with the kitchen knife: Alice Cohen’s video for Octa#grape.

I’ve been working on retooling my Storyboarding class to incorporate writing. This excellent post by “storyshots” really hits the nail on the head as to the connection between writing and drawing.

storyshots:

Writing as a drawing tool - yeah, that sounds weird. If you wanted to work with words, you’d be a writer, right?

This isn’t beautiful writing, though. This is organizational, planning writing that I’m going to talk about. Writing out a scene beat by beat. Outlining an entire story.

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One-up the traditional Valentine’s day card with a Valentine’s flipbook, like the one by this Etsy creator. There are a slew of more great flipbooks on Youtube. (Plus some that are even printable.)

La Taxidermiste — the perfect film to watch on the day my class learns UV mapping (the taxidermy of 3D animation).