Mack Carruthers’s short film Snowdrifter just made my day. I don’t want to to spoil anything by saying anything more than “just watch it.”
Oh my god.
progression shot from Tangled
THIS IS PRETTY MUCH HOW IT’S DONE, FELLAS
ALL OF IT.
anyway I really love the gorgeous models that this movie uses, wow wow wow. I bet the face rig was a riot to animate too, I want to animate rigs that are like 80% realistic like this.
the layout portion really unnerves me
This is incredibly fascinating.
Important to watch if you’re interested at all in making animation.
Claycat’s THE THING (by leehardcastle)
This is amazing. Not the best animation, but a great homage. Worth a watch if you’re a fan of Carpenter’s The Thing.

I’ve caved and joined this silliness. I’d like to actually use this and use it to animate stuff. And I love stick figures. So here’s something I made back in 2003, when LiveJournal ruled the world.
Then I made this one:

I hope to do a whole bunch of silly things like this and share ‘em with you. Go ahead and use them as avatars if you still go somewhere that lets you do that.
