Your goal: To work without pain, but still remain productive.
My goal: To build movement into your static posture and getting you to be as lazy as possible while staying as productive if not more so. To give you more energy; to help you feel better at the end of the day, and to keep your body going longer and stronger for the rest of your life.

Animation Mentor was chosen as an official honoree by the prestigious 10th Annual Webby Awards. The Webby Awards is the leading international competition recognizing excellence in web design, creativity, usability and functionality.

I grew up watching Disney movies. Around the age of 10, I was completely obsessed with Beauty and the Beast. I would watch it, rewind it, watch it, and rewind it again. I can still lip-sync the entire movie to this day, from watching it so much, I memorized it by heart, hahahah! I guess I really identified emotionally with the characters.

Matthew has been with DNA Productions for the last 6 1/2 years. He started with DNA on the Emmy nominated "Olive the Other Reindeer." Matthew went on to be a character animator and the supervising vehicular animator on the Academy Award nominated "Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius."

Welcome back to our monthly Tips & Tricks article, where I pretend to know all kinds of mysterious secrets of animation. Hopefully they've made at least a little bit of sense so far! Last month I veered off onto a tangent about how we are all actors, and how we must think of ourselves that way, but I also promised to be more practical this month, so what to talk about?

Originally from Vancouver Canada, Rik Maki is one of the most prolific quick sketch artists in the animation and cartoon industry today. 18 years as character designer for every major feature animated film created at Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Did you know that the soon to be release animated feature film "Over the Hedge" took a crew of 237 over three years to make the film?

The Animation Mentor Report is your inside guide to US movie releases and the visual effect companies who made movie magic.