Artlover3224

My first video commission of 2020, made for @artlover3224. The WME video will be up later this month on my girlfriend TheNamelessDoll’s channel. (◕ ω ◕) Material used: Disney colouring pages, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Castle In The Sky

Artlover3224 wanted to see their OC Azora as a Disney character. ;3

Video Commission Time! Artlover3224 wanted to see their OC Azora as a Disney character. ;3

When I was in school and wanted to work in animation, there was very little information about how cartoons are actually made. Even my professors at college knew very little about the industry as it is today. I’m sure it would’ve been better to study somewhere in California (like CalArts) to be better informed about this stuff, but I didn’t have that opportunity.

Nowadays, many kids in school have a dream career that they don’t really know much about. There’s a lot of missing bits of information and a lot of straight up lies that get circulated as fact as people try to scramble to put the pieces together on how cartoons for television are actually made.

I’ve been storyboarding for television for a while now, and there still aren’t clear resources for those wanting to get into the industry. I wanted to make the basics available to everyone, so here’s a quick rundown through the TV pipeline. Please note: all studios and productions are different. Even cartoons made within the same studio could have wildly different production guidelines. This is not a concrete explanation of how every cartoon is made; this is simply a generalized look at the “typical” television pipeline.

**DISCLAIMER** All images in this post have been sourced from blogs, twitters, scribd and flickr pages are publicly available, and no internal studio materials have been used that have not been already published publicly online. This post is influenced heavily by my own individual experience, as well as friends’. 

With that said, this might be a lengthy read, so let’s go!

“To Belong” Writing Contest Entry Written by: Rachel T.

It was a bright sunny spring day in the city of Silverview. This victorian city had a sense of elegance thanks to the magical looking forest surrounding it. The Glassy River ran through the middle of the city, splitting the city in half. The preferable way of crossing the river was to walk across the Crimson Bridge.

On the west side of the River, lived the people belonging to the middle class and the working class. The market, the school and City Hall also were located here, making it the busiest part of the city. Little children were often playing the streets, while the adults were either buying or selling food in the market or gathered at City Hall, to see what the city officials would do.

The upper class on the east side of the river, which had a much cleaner and polished look compared to the west side. It was normally was quiet over there, but today is was busy to do the preparation of young Mirabell Darleston’s 10th birthday.

Oh god, why has nobody noticed this?

I mean… they… they are holding hoofs!

And he is staring at her happily!