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A few words from AnimationMentor.com’s Co-Founder, Carlos Baena about Sergio Pablos...

Check the new video about what mentors and students have to say about Animation Mentor!

The Animation Mentor Student Showcase premiered at Comic-Con 2006 with an amazing response from fans, onlookers and studio representatives. The best thing about the Animation Mentor Student Showcase is that it shows work that has been done 100% by our students, some of which came to the school with no prior animation experience!

Dave Burgess, Supervising Animator at DreamWorks Animation and AnimationMentor.com mentor, speaks about his transition from traditional animation to 3D animation.

Animation Mentor:
What inspired you to learn animation?

Matt Wessel :
This honor would probably have to go to Disney's' Beauty and the Beast. I was always interested in drawing and animation but I was truly awed by Beast. I was old enough to understand how animation worked by then and I was just amazed by the soul that was injected into a buffalo/bear type animal. I wanted to be able to have that effect on someone else someday so I began reading about animation and painting little cells and such. This is when I wanted to become a traditional animator.

Raquel Coelho: I love Animation Mentor. I love the community spirit, the interface, the students, the lectures, everything! It's great to interact with students in the Q&As, and I like the eCritiques too. The eCritique tool rocks! It's awesome to have people from so many different parts of the globe and to see their animation changing and improving.

Last month, we talked about the overall importance of contrast in entertainment and any art, be it sculpture, painting, photography, joke-telling, storytelling, horror movies, or love stories, and more specifically, we talked about the importance of using contrast in our posing.  If you haven't read it yet, I'd encourage you to start with last month's article, which you can link to in our archives.
This time around, we'll talk about applying the concept of contrast to an area of animation where it's arguably even more vital than with posing:  Timing.

Did you know the number 1 highest grossing Animated film of all time is Shrek 2 with $436,471,036.

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