Tag: Animation Desk

5 Insider Animation Tips from the Animation Desk Team

As iAniMagic Animation Contest is well underway, our specialists from the Kdan design and Animation Desk team offer 5 professional yet easily adaptable tips to help you succeed. These tips will not only help you with the contest, they also serve as good pointers for any animation creators.

Rather than concentrating on specific animation techniques and concepts like we have done so for #AD4EVER Back to Basic, we want to focus on animation habits – tips that are useful for animation making. Continue reading “5 Insider Animation Tips from the Animation Desk Team”

iAniMagic2016: My Ani-Character Goes Live

Welcome to the sixth annual animation contest of Animation Desk, iAniMagic2016! The contest is now officially live! This year we invite you to create your very own, unique animation character and share the story with us. Between September 15 and November 16, you can submit your work and have the chance to win great prizes including iPad Pro, Wacom Intuos Pro and Apple TV! Continue reading “iAniMagic2016: My Ani-Character Goes Live”

#AD4EVER Back to Basics: #Throwback

This week, we want to take the opportunity to look back at some great works from #AD4EVER Back to Basics.

Here are the highlights of some creative and inspiring works solicited from the event. It is rewarding to see how our users leverage from our tutorials and apply the skills to  their own work!  Check our blog if you missed the quick tips that will enhance your animations! Continue reading “#AD4EVER Back to Basics: #Throwback”

#AD4EVER Back-To-Basic: The Final – All Good Things Must Come To An End

This is our final post of #AD4EVER Back-to-Basic series. We hope this series could serve as your future reference guide. Besides just teaching you some classic animation techniques, we hope that we have also inspired you to be even more creative and make your own animation. Continue reading “#AD4EVER Back-To-Basic: The Final – All Good Things Must Come To An End”

#AD4EVER Back to Basics V: It’s Time for Stop Motion Animation

You must have come across a flip book when you were younger and find yourself unable to resist flicking it over and over again once you have started. And after each time it leaves you with a feeling of amazement, as you see static images come to life in front of your eyes.

In this edition of #AD4EVER Back to Basics, we will introduce to you stop motion animation, an animation technique that shares some basic principles as flip books. As one of the oldest techniques in the history of animation creation, stop-motion is a timeless and essential animation skill to add to your knowledge base. Continue reading “#AD4EVER Back to Basics V: It’s Time for Stop Motion Animation”