PENCIL LINES: SLOW POST FROM CHINA!

PENCIL LINES

Journeys from the desktop of a traditional animator in the digital age!

"The ANIMATOR'S NOTEBOOK" TUTORIALS!

Click below to download my latest interactive digital tutorials! Just pick the tutorial link of your choice and load it onto your desktop instantly! Each tutorial contains about 20-30 pages of my personal hand-written notes, with embedded illustrations and related animation clips. A unique and valuable resource for all animators. For beginner to industry professional/2D to 3D/Cut-out to Stop-frame & Claymation! $9.95 each.
Tony White's Animation Store:
Subscribe Via Email

Blog Post
Related websites:
Quick Search

Search only in titles: Keyword:

Search in:

Date Range:

Advanced Search

Basic Search
February 2012

Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29
Tony White
Tony White is a British Academy Award-winning animation director, animator, author, educator and consultant. At the beginning of his career, he studied advanced animation techniques with some of the finest masters of the art-form. Specifically: Ken Harris (original lead animator of "Bugs Bunny," "Roadrunner," etc.), Art Babbit (original lead animator on "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," etc.) and Richard Williams (3 times Oscar winner and author of "The Animator's Survival Kit"). Tony is currently animation program director and instructor at the inspirational non-profit, AIE-Seattle (www.theaie.us), where he is developing a 2-year program that will enable students to enter the industry without the extreme student loan challenges that are common at other animation schools in the USA. Tony is founder of "Drawassic Age" (www.drawassic.com), a ground-breaking animation studio that seeks to preserve, teach and evolve the art-form of traditional animation in this digital age. Tony's ultimate dream is to establish a unique atelier-style studio/academy of advanced animation - where his most talented student graduates can gain industry experience through an MFA-level style apprenticeship with master professional animators, on unique, ground-breaking animated films. To help realize this dream, Drawassic Age is currently producing a short 2D animated teaser for its first intended movie production "Bad Penguin". (www.badpenguinmovie.com) Tony's current best-selling books include: "The Animator's Workbook"; "Animation from Pencils to Pixels ~ Classical Techniques for Digital Animators"; "How To Make Animated Films" and "Jumping Through Hoops: The Animation Job Coach". His latest (and Tony believes, his best) animation book, "Animator's Notebook", is to be published in October 2011 by Focal Press.
Back to Main Page

SLOW POST FROM CHINA!

The logo for the 'World Expo' event in Shanghai was everywhere - in this case, the Beijing airport!

I'm afraid its taken a while for me to post images of my lecture trip to China earlier but I've been so busy working on tutorials and other things that this has had to be put onto the backburner I'm afraid. China was a wonderful revelation and experience - an exciting hybrid of the ancient past and the rapidly growing present. An unforgettable experience!

But first, the business side - 5 major lectures in 5 days!

The poster for the lecture events!

Part of the 300-strong audiences that attended each of my lectures!

Our fantastic translator throughout the event - Gavin Liu (and friend)!

Trying to look inconspicuous at a local 'Cosplay' event!

Lectures over - relaxing at the 'Forbidden City' in Beijing!

China - a wonderful place where the 'new' rapidly emerges from the 'old'!

Conclusion: I had never been to China before but this will most certainly not be the last time I go there. I barely scratched the surface of this magical and ancient culture, even in the limited number of locations I visited. This country is a huge amalgam of varying facets of culture within a greater whole ~ offering a veritable lifetime of exploration and discovery. I thank all the wonderful people I met in China and the amazing range of possibilities this trip opened up for me!

Tony. :^{)}=-