Butt Flap Pajamas: Best Christmas Present Idea Ever! Remember the episode of Family Guy where Peter goes to the resale shop and signs over a blank check for the onesie red-footied butt flap pj’s? I’ve looked for a pair for a long time, thinking they’d outperform the Snuggie as a great Christmas gag gift. I’ve [...]
Help me make this list of cartoon characters for a chance to win! Hey Fellow Animators, I’m putting together this list of cartoon characters, just for the heck of it, but I need your participation. Want to be rewarded for your efforts? This should be quite the nostalgic trip down memory lane for some [...]
How to draw Chowder from Cartoon Network This isn’t so much a tutorial on how to draw him as it is a tutorial on how to animate him like they do. I don’t mean to be misleading, but if I named my post, “How to make chowder,” I’d have 100,000 New Englanders on my site looking [...]
Do you want Anime Studio characters? Due to an immediate financial need, I’m unloading a ton of my cartoon resources. There’s a cartoon Osama Bin Laden and his #1 man, Abu. There’s a bunch of cartoon characters and scenes; some are really high quality, some are like South Park style, and a lot of them [...]
2D Animation Software Review- My choice for the Best 2D Animation Software Out There Today! As far as 2d animation software goes, there are really only two names in the business that carry much weight, Anime Studio and Toon Boom, but I’ll review all the 2D animation programs I’ve used in the past. If you’re [...]
Cartoon learning for beginners: If you’re new to cartoon learning, my biggest piece of advice is- BE PATIENT! It takes time to learn how to make cartoons. People think that because they can draw they can also make cartoons. That’s probably true, at least with 2D cartoons. (3D cartoons are another matter entirely!) Don’t think [...]
I’m running Anime Stuido 7 Pro software, not that the version matters. About a year ago I went to Wal-Mart and bought their top of the line Hewlett-Packard a6433w computer with 3.0 GB of RAM and dual Intel(R) Pentium(R) 2.0 GHz processors; a 32-bit system with only 286 MB of graphics memory. I rendered a little [...]
Anime Studio Pro 7 has physics and 3D capabilities that are incredibly intuitive! 3D Capabilities: I bought Anime Studio Pro 7 yesterday, the day after I got the new release email from Smith Micro. All I can say is, WOW!” It’s so easy to use, I already made a character’s head in 3D (not sure how [...]
How I set up this website: As mentioned in the previous article, I use WordPress as my blogging platform, but since I want advertisements on my website I need a website hosting provider. I can’t just use a free WordPress subdomain. Who is my website hosting provider? I chose Bluehost. I’ve never used any others, so don’t [...]
Where to begin to make my own website: Making your own website can be tricky and scary, especially if you’ve never made the switch from a free blogging platform to paying for your own server space, but it doesn’t have to be. I hesitated for a long time, using Google’s Blogger platform before finally making [...]
The final version of the Willy Ways Sham-Awesome infomercial spoof will be available shortly, and some of the assets will be available as free downloads! Please check back often. I’ve posted this video as an example of how to draw a crowd to your website to make money from videos you create. Read the [...]
I had the priviledge of doing an interview with Brian Garrison, one of the writers and the animator for the cartoon, Sea of Idiots. Sea of Idiots Created by: Brian Garrison & David Jessup Written by: David Jessup, Brian Garrison & Tom Devenport with additional material by Justin Foster Animation: Brian Garrison Eric: [...]
This is a basic article on how to make money with cartoons. For a more complete understanding: Click Here to learn how to make money with your art or cartoons. So, you enjoy drawing, and you think animation might be something you’d like to try, either as a hobby or a source of additional cash. [...]
