(Featured image from the famous Toy Story series) It is about that time of the year for the annual animation competition especially held for enthusiastic users of Animation Desk like you to kick off. To continue the legacy of iAniMagic, this year we have picked a...
#AD4EVER Back-To-Basic: The Final – All Good Things Must Come To An End
This is our final post of #AD4EVER Back-to-Basic series. We hope this series could serve as your future reference guide. Besides just teaching you some classic animation techniques, we hope that we have also inspired you to be even more creative and make your own...
#AD4EVER Back to Basics Event Now Live!
Here’s the first set of tutorial videos that you’ve been long waiting for. In the videos you will find a step-by-step guide to create animations, and everything that will get you started. We have sorted the videos that demonstrate different animation-making techniques...
Advanced Storytelling tips for Animators
With just over a week until the end of iAniMagic 2015 | The Living Light Box, it’s time to get to into the hard work getting your audience to fall in love with your story. There’s a number of techniques and skills you can use to your advantage, but making them all...
Judge Profile – Jenna Calvao and the Disney Insider Tips
One of the judges for this year's iAniMagic| The Living Light Box competition is Jenna Calvao. We've had the great pleasure of working with Jenna and speaking with her to find out what her expectations are for this year's contest. In order to help you make the most of...
Inside iAniMagic2015 – The Living Light Box
We’re now two weeks into iAniMagic 2015|The Living Light Box and we’re delighted to see how many of you have been asking questions and showing your desire to bring your best to this year’s competition. To those of you that know iAniMagic, this year’s theme should come...
How to Submit Your Work to iAniMagic 2015 – The Living Light Box
Welcome to the Living Light Box! This week marks the beginning of our two-month long iAniMagic contest and we’re excited to have you here with us. We’ll be sharing information, examples and tips from our judges about the contest in the coming weeks so make sure...
iAniMagic 2015: The Living Light Box
Summer is ending and winter is coming up on our heels, but here at Kdan Mobile we’ve got something you can look forward to this upcoming season. As you start to bundle yourselves up in blankets wondering what to do now that you’ve run out of shows to binge-watch on...
Rotoscoping In Animation: The Secret Weapon Of Animators
Guess how many frames were drawn to come up with this 25-second video? You probably would never have guessed that there are exactly 303 frames constructed to make this short story come alive. The author, Ray Lu, had to create more than 30 frames just to show a simple...