Animation Mentor Launches a New eBook and Survey Report Today!

Ideal for people who love animation and are passionate about learning about the art of animation, Animation Mentor has launched the How to Become an Animator series. The eBook, How to Become an Animator, provides advice and information on different types of animation jobs, tips on clarifying your personal goals and what to look for when researching schools and training programs that best suit you.

In addition, Animation Mentor's industry report, Learn What Future Animators Look for in a School, discusses key findings from an animation industry survey that shows what future animators are looking for in a school and what professional animators say are the most important things to look for.

Click here to view the ebook and industry report and let us know what you think!

Animation Tips & Tricks II Is Here!

Dear Readers,

We’ve released the free ebook Animation Tips & Tricks Volume II! It’s full of insider animation advice from Shawn Kelly and Carlos Baena of Animation Mentor, animator veterans and mentors Aaron Gilman of Weta Digital, Keith Sintay of Digital Domain, and Wayne Gilbert, animation director and writer.

Animation topics in the ebook include:

• Animation Career Advice
• The Working Life of an Animator
• Making a Scene
• Acting
• Bringing Characters to Life
• Workflow

For your free copy of the ebook, click here.

Animation Mentor is also sponsoring a free webinar discussing planning and workflow on April 18, 2009. The webinar will be hosted by ebook contributors Keith Sintay and Wayne Gilbert.

The free webinar will be held Saturday, April 18, 2009, from 1 -2:30 p.m. (PST). Registration for the webinar begins today. If you can’t attend the webinar, you can catch the replay on April 22.

We hope you enjoy the new ebook and look forward to seeing you at the webinar!

Happy Animating!
Animation Mentor Staff

Hablas Espanol?

I'm TOTALLY excited to announce that the Tips & Tricks eBook is being released in Spanish! We have a "sneak peek" of the eBook in Spanish for you -- the full book will be available in December. I've received a lot of emails asking for this, and I really appreciate all the offers to help with the translation - I hope you like the results! I don't know very much Spanish, but hopefully there are words for "fried" and "chicken," otherwise the book isn't going to make very much sense, huh? :)

I also wanted to thank my buddy Carlos Baena for writing the foreword to the book! Woo hoo!

Exciting stuff. Muchas gracias!



Shawn :)

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