FLIP interviews FLIP again!  This time it's Alex's turn to talk.  His on-line animation school Animation Apprentice is completing ...

What price this piece of paper? Yesterday's post by Steve generated a lot of thoughtful opinion on what exactly a degree in animatio...

On occasion, I get e-mails from young adults looking for entry positions in animation.  They see my company listed somewhere and, unaware th...

FLIP has been granted a sneak peek at the latest animation app to hit the iPad - The Animator's Survival Kit. We have now road-tested...

Rob Hemmings is an excellent animator with a creature reel second to none. Several years ago he set up Animation A Team - the first onl...

Friend of FLIP Dave Pruiksma has announced the worldwide debut of The Minerd Collection - and exhibition of original Peanuts artwork by C...

CPG Grey is an educator with a vision for the future on online education. He has a YouTube channel with a ton of tightly-edited videos an...

Gateway to the Animation Workshop The Animation Workshop in Denmark has announced a new Graphic Storytelling Programme starting in Sep...

I've been fascinated for some time now by the tremendous power of online instruction to improve the way that we learn. Especially impres...

Logo design by Vince Alvendia On Friday, July 13, as the San Diego Comic Con rages downtown, animator and South East San Diego native  ...

Last week, I was in Hollywood visiting friends and taking in some sights with my family.  One of our last stops was a trip north to my o...

Another awesome student film from The Animation Workshop - the hilarious Space Stallions, produced by another talented crop of recently ...

I have been doing some teaching lately at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where my old friend David Byers-Brown runs an excellent ...

Now and again I teach animation classes at the wonderful Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark, a school which I think offers one of the ve...

Animation takes too long. Animators spend days or weeks (months even?) polishing our work. If I look back on the shots I am most proud of, ...

Animation is a complex craft and it takes a long time to master. The only exception to this rule - the only animator I can think of who see...