DIY Animation Club co-founder Dave Merson Hess taught animation and developed curriculum for Aurora Picture Show's youth workshops, 2014-2018, including stints as a resident artist in the Arts in Medicine programs at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Childrens' Hospital. He also started Rush Process, a Gulf Coast-based festival celebrating animators who work with physical media, which ran from 2015 to 2018. Dave is currently an MFA candidate in Experimental Animation at Calarts.
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A brand new tut on Tape & Thread Hinge, plus a list of free resources documenting additional approaches for building puppets for flat and multiplane cutout stop-motion animation projects.
A crash course based on existing internet resources plus additional things I've learned in a year of experimenting with hand painting on cels.
In which we borrow a classic technique from 2D level design, and put it to work in the context of a DIY animated short.
A 3-hour long animation game that's sure to shake ideas loose.
Robert Breer on getting started in animation, and working with index cards.
A rad cutout short from Jonni Phillips and Victoria Vincent, made with sharpies, construction paper, and a 10-year-old webcam.
