When we talk about animation, and 2D especially, we cannot forget the past. It seems now a days, that animation process is so trivial and sometimes we forget how hard people once worked on creating the animation process we use today.

Glen Keane, Animator at Disney Animation Studios since 1977, has a really amazing video interview, talking about Ollie Johnston's animation (at disney), and the way he animated the characters we still love today.

Glen also didn't forget to mention Fred Moore's influence on Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas drawings in their animated characters.

Enjoy the interview!

Kyoto Animation company is a Japanese animation studio located in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in 1981 and than became a ltd company in 1985 and then became a corporated company in 1999.

The company is connected with studio Sunrise and is also supports the studio Animation named 'Do'.

Built in 1981, The company has only produced 7 animes on their own, 5 were being a television shows adaptations, 2 of them were self produced OVAs, and have also been involved in several other productions, such as Kiddy Grade, Inu-Yasha, Nurse Witch Komugi, Tenchi Universe and Generator Gawl.

Kyoto Animation also have been involved in Konami's baseball game "Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū" for four parts (8,9,10,11), they did the vocal opening and ending sequences.

Enjoy the 8 parts of behind the scenes!

Pixar Animation Studios, are one of the most well known animation studios in the world, and not only because their movies were groundbreaking and stunning, it is because they included a lot of innovation into the animation business in terms of new software, new technology, pushing their 3D further than any other company have.

Of course, Pixar are not 2D animation studios, (even though they still make 2D storyboards) we at AnimDesk can't deny that the animation world has changed since these guys first appeared with their 3D animated film, which cause a steer and uprising in the animation world.

A newer (rare) look into Pixar:

Thanks to NYTimes

There are many 'Behind the Scenes' of animated filmes, which gives us helpful insight into the best studios out there, and as an animation fan as we are, we enjoy every chance to view and review this kind of knowledge!

We are now used to 3D and advanced (mixed) 3D-2D animated filmes, but, what about the old magic, the old paper and pencil magic that was well known in the mid of the 20th century ? Who could forget the magic that Disney (Walt Disney and the Nine Old Man) did back than?

Well, if you are new or old, you will never get tired of watching these gems that we put up for you to watch.

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One of the things AnimDesk Studio can do, is animation reconstruction. Animation Reconstruction is a method where the original Animated film is being broken down into different elements such as: backgrounds, foregrounds, repainted images, replaced animation and re-edited into complete film with a new look and atmosphere.

Many animated films of the past were done with rush, cells and drawings were done due to tight-schedule and only the key shots were done with high quality. Our studio can bring the high quality back into the film so the audience can enjoy the film as it should have right from the start.

This is a really time consuming work and a different concept. We at AnimDesk are professional in animation reconstruction and the end result is fantastic.

Below is an example of a 'work in progress' of a film reconstruction. The target film is The Transformers: The Movie
that was hand-drawn and cell painted back in 1984 by Sunbow Productions.

Here is behind the scenes, enjoy!

"The Lion King" is the only original animated story by Disney Animation and no doubt one of the best one that they ever did since the early days of animation.

But, what do we really know about the guys who actually animated the film? There is no doubt that this film had the best animators in the world working on it.

We can't miss not watching them speaks about how they worked on it and what steps they took in order to create the amazing characters of the film and what inspired Disney animators to create them.

Watch and enjoy the guys from Disney animation!

Sometimes the best way to understand why Animators did what they on the film that they worked on is to take them all, sit them down on a comfortable chairs and than pick their brains outs!

In the case of 'Behind the scenes' of the animated feature Aladdin, the successful animation team came to an open meeting in front of a live audience (young animators) and were asked questions about the movie and how they worked on it.

The result is a 2 parts 'behind the scenes' documentary.

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This is a great documentary on Ghibli's "Spirited Away" animated feature, that was created in the year 2000-2001 before the release to the cinema.

This documentary is only about the Animation department and their workflow on the movie. The process to create "Spirited Away" was hard and long, and in the end, the the final movie was a stunning work of art.

I hope you will enjoy this 'Behind the scenes' and keep on animating! The behind the scenes are 2 Parts video.

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