“The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.” If we want to put Theodore Roosevelt’s quote another way, learning the origins of a field helps give ourselves the best chance for success in that field. Discovering how something first came to be is key to understanding why it…
Nobody really likes to talk about recession until one’s about to hit. It’s not just because economic hardship is an unpleasant thing to think about, but also because each recession tends to be a little different from the last, with its own characteristic difficulties to navigate. If you’re trying to keep your brand afloat it…
Animation is a visceral visual medium which demands you take control of it. There’s no passive visual elements: you can’t sit a camera down and film whatever happens in front of it. Every element you see on screen is intentionally created and placed. If designers and animators choose their elements so carefully, then how can…
Spend long enough talking to animators and you’ll start to hear the word ‘appeal’ come up. In terms of animated characters, appeal is what makes an audience see the character as charismatic or realistic. It’s what makes us feel for them, and remember them, even after the animation is over. Creating appeal comes from not…