A lot of people gave their interpretation of "What IS Animation?", whether they spoke about it or visualized it. We all have our own way to experience animation. But no one can sum it up better than Tatsuya Egawa's character "Kintaro Oe" (From Golden Boy). So, when ever you feel that you're down, whenever you feel your animation is not going anywhere, or that you're not good enough, Just think of "What IS Animation?!" by our animated friend Kintaro Oe, and I'm sure you'll find some extra will power!

We know how a production of every movie can be tedious job and time consuming (And requires a lot of money too), but.. Sometimes the lack of money doesn't mean lack of creativity and hard work! In the making of movie that I'm displaying you here, you can see, how the passion to create an animated film (in this case, 3D film) surpassed the lack of finance! This showed me once more how the love for what you do can triumph every single time!

Enjoy this wonderful 'making of'.

Thanks to the guys at Anime News Network we're yet again can get a glimpse into the core of one of the most successful animation studios around! This time it's Production I.G. The studio is well known for releasing the known titles: "Ghost in the Shell", "Blood: the last Vampire", "The Prince of Tennis" and many more.

Enjoy this fine piece of inside information about this amazing company.

If you ever wanted to get a glimpse into Toei animation's studio, here is your chance. In this 'behind the scenes' of Toei animation studio, you will find out about the studio's history, the animator's workflow and the software that they use nowdays, how their visual effects are created, the vision and future of the studio, and some other good gems. Many thanks to the guys at Anime News Network for releasing this fantastic footage. Enjoy.

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The late nights, the lack of sleep, the countless shots to draw, the tight schedule and the need for food! Those are all just a few examples of what an animation studio looks like in its middle of a tight schedule! And I guess that's what make animation so hard business to keep doing, but the satisfaction in the end is all worth it! No matter if you're an In-between animator, painter, key-animator, director or what not, the final movie/product is what's keep us going.

Here is an example of a daily life inside an in-house animation studio:

It's always great to see nowadays how animation production companies create their work. I always loved to see what tools they are using, what techniques they are developing, and how the studio basically looks like :). So here is a clip from A-1 Pictures Inc. (株式会社エー・ワン・ピクチャーズ), which is a Japanese animation studio, a subsidiary of Sony's anime production firm Aniplex, that released a Behind The Scenes video production of an anime of theirs: Tonari no 801-chan R. It is a 4 mins and 14 seconds long footage and it includes some of the methods that are used by animators/artists in creating the their product. I hope you will enjoy.