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Read This if You’re Low on Motivation For Your Personal Project

Feeling a bit low? Can’t bring yourself to work on your business/project/art piece today? Here’s a thought for you: Many times when we’re working on our own projects, be that at home, a coffee shop or at the park, we …

The Misunderstanding of Job Security (Investing in Yourself)

Why do you want a job so bad? “You know… Security.” What kind of security are you talking about? Putting your financial fate in someone else’s hands feels safe to you? This rant is aimed at entrepreneurial types, as well …

Flash Animation is now Animate CC Animation – Course update

We have finally updated our Flash Animation course to reflect the name change Adobe implemented a while back. The course is now titled Animate CC Animation. Here are the update details: Changes The course itself hasn’t changed much. It didn’t …

Should Your Film Be Animated or Live Action?

Before you decide to make an animated film, here’s a question to ask yourself: Does it have to be animated? If the answer is no, then you might want to consider making it a live action movie instead. Now, I’m …

Making an Animated Film by Yourself – Can You Do It?

Many people consider filmmaking a collaborative sport, and in most cases it certainly is. Making live action movies is virtually impossible to do all by yourself. You can’t act, shoot and direct at the same time. Not well, anyways. Animation …

3 Free Lessons from Making a Graphic Novel Course

If you are interested in learning how to make a graphic novel or a comic book, but not sure if our Making a Graphic Novel course is for you, check out these 3 free lessons from the course.Traditional Inking ToolsDigital InkingScreentonesready to …

Making a Graphic Novel – Coming May 1st

I’m excited to announce the newest edition to our courses library – Making a Graphic Novel. Just like the name implies, the course will teach you everything there is to know about creating graphic novels and comic books from scratch. …

Making the Trailer for Tasteful

In this post I will cover my process of creating the trailer for our latest animated short film Tasteful. Before you keep reading I suggest watching the trailer (it’s only 39 seconds long). Music first The first thing I did, believe …

Instructors Needed – We’re Hiring!

Bloop Animation is now recruiting new instructors to create courses for our learning platform. If you have teaching experience and are proficient with any animation or visual effects program – lets talk! What are we looking for? We’re looking for …