Watches Allegro non troppo once:

Shot I made for Teleframes2 (animated exquisite corpse collab). Final + process. #2danimation #traditionalanimation #tvpaintcommunity

Loose Fables will have a digital window for a few days, Dec 15 - 17. This was such a great screening! Good vibes and so many unusual animated adaptations of fables (also -- I made the key art for this poster variant).

Hit the bell here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QHH...

v2.0 is out! New brush category added: Duotone Shaders. Set your duotone via your foreground and background colors, and the brushes will mix them as your paint, in randomized ways.

I just released a new set of Photoshop Brushes. These would make a great companion to the soft round brush. A simple way to add some speckly, splattery analog character.
davemh.gumroad.com/l/airbrush-b... #airbrush #photoshop #photoshopbrushes #visdev #animationartist #conceptart

Gumroad freebie! Frame your animations for multiple aspect rations. davemh.gumroad.com/l/multiple-a...

Breaking! In the interest of helping students, TV animation legend Joe Murray has just shared his now-classic out of print book, Creating Animated Cartoons with Character, as a free pdf download on his website. Get it here: joemurraystudio.com/books-by-joe...

Newly acquired: Otomo Complete Works 21 and 22 (the long OOP Akira Storyboards book reprinted in two volumes):

I've been watching a bunch of midcentury shorts and for the crowd scenes, very often the far bg is just a still. So I'm starting to lean on that approach, just to survive lol.

No stills of the crowd scenes but here's one that shows the approach to the bgs:

I've also got Drawing Lessons From Master Comic Book Artists, which includes annotated pages, and paste-ups of examples. Really helpful book! Interesting ideas about using faux perspective based on focal point (rather than "optically correct" perspective) as a way to guide reader's attention.

Outlaw comics legend Ken Landgraf has been selling self-published instructional books on ebay. I've been working through Comic Book Perspective and strongly recommend it!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/304230370700?hash=item46d58b0d8c:g:R8gAAOxySE9Q7v-P

"Cel Animation for the Digital Era" is still my most-read article. Despite there being an AI glurge copycat now in circulation...
https://diyanimation.club/cel-animation-for-the-digital-era/