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The Difference Between Traditional and Digital Animation

Animation has changed significantly over the past 50 years. While animation used to require the combined efforts of hundreds of people, it’s possible for an individual to make a feature-length animation on a computer in only a few months. The following guide provides simple tips on the differences between traditional and digital animation.

Traditional animation required an artist to draw each individual frame. In the United States, most animated television shows are displayed at 24 frames per second. This would require a total of 200,000 individual frames for a 2 hour movie. In order Read the rest of this entry »

Healing With Art: From Class Rooms to Hospitals

You might be surprised to find an artist at a hospital bedside instead of a doctor or nurse. Making art has been recognized as a tool for emotional healing that can also have great physical benefits for hospital patients. In the same way that surgery or medicine can treat an illness or injury, art therapy can be used as a means for patients to heal from the emotional stress of a hospitalization experience. What’s more, there are Read the rest of this entry »

Modern Artists: Spreading Awareness With Graffiti Art

A decade or two ago, graffiti would have been called anything but art. Those elaborate “tags” on the sides of buildings, box cars, and bridges, elicited little more than scorn from thel public, and created a lot of clean up for city officials. Today, graffiti is not only an acceptable form of artwork, but real business owners actually commission graffiti artists to tag their buildings. City developers work with graffiti artists to plan elaborate murals on city and state buildings. Graffiti Read the rest of this entry »

The Evolving Art of Classical Animation

With the advent of computers, anime, and CG the realm of animation has entered a world where reality and imagination blend seamlessly. Who would have thought that the illustrations on ancient pottery, murals, tombs and scrolls would become the seed for creating imaginary voyages into outer space, dreams, the after life, Middle Earth, and the far future?

As children a lot of us experimented with the idea of a “flip book”; making our stick figures seem to move as Read the rest of this entry »

Up And Coming Artists of The Digital Age

Art and science come together in digital art from around the globe. While not classified as art, the French company, Aldebaran Robotics’ Nao humanoid robot dances with human abandon and is designed with a friendliness of form and gesture that artfully displays our desire to meld the digital and human. New Zealand artist Scott Spencer is a concept designer for digital games. His art background is both digital and classical and his life drawing and sculpting experiences translate directly into his work in ZBrush. Currently Read the rest of this entry »