Topic: backgrounds

Intro to composition for artists/animators and some interesting psychology behind why art gets organized in certain ways.

This show’s animation is good enough to make the perfect bad example.

Animation tutorial on the complex style used in the Castlevania Netflix series.

Creation of hand painted animation backgrounds and cels.

A tutorial on how to design, draw, and animate characters in the Aggretsuko art style.

This fantastic all-ages movie features watercolor animation made in Flash with handmade watercolor backgrounds.

Snakes breakdance in this terrible movie featuring a serpent who snorts sand and has a surfer dude voice. Details on how the trippy 2D/3D sequence in the middle of the film is animated.

How to animate in the rubber hose style of the 30’s like the game Cuphead.

A cartoon by Rachel Kim that uses a loose animation style and classic backgrounds.

Investigating a sneaky scene from Nichijou that switches between 3D and 2D animation.

It’s a trap! A look behind this genius animation by Guy Collins.

This insane animation has plenty of crazy perspectives and character distortions.

Digging for hidden animation gems. This one is about frogs and rainbow effects.

A creepy black and white animated feature for the end of October. How to tell if a 2D animation is actually 3D.

A spirit fox faces his greatest enemy with perfect harmony between music and animation, the art of eyes, and 2D special effects animation.

Comparison of the original There She Is!! to the remaster and tricks for animating purely in Flash.

Hand drawn watercolor backgrounds in an animation that mixes frame-by-frame and puppets.

A lively interpretation of a 3D game as a 2D cartoon. It’d make a great series!

Dragons animated in Flash, Photoshop, and After Effects.