24 Hours in 2021

When October would roll around, I would always announce or introduce students to the 24 Hour Animation Contest. Below is a video explaining how the contest all began by Aubry Mintz while teaching at CSULB. The contest survived Covid by continuing in 2020 and once again, the contest is here for October 2021.

CSULB 24 hour animation contest from Aubry Mintz on Vimeo.

As Faculty, I would only be their for moral support and make sure the students were given a dinner break as well as some sort of breakfast for the next day to keep them fed and watered. I felt it was a way to give the students experience in creating a :30 animated film based on a written prompt where they had 24 hours to produce it.

Since that time, many studios have donated prizes and support the contest. This year the registration deadline for teams is on WEDNESDAY Oct 13th 2021 at 11:59pm PST and the Competition Begins: October 15, 2021 3pm PST

If you are interested in setting up a team, please visit this link to learn more.

Enjoy this interview I did with Aubry Mintz talking about the 24 Hour Animation contest in May 2019...

Upcoming Interviews

Working on several new interviews on the Animateducated YouTube channel and wanted to let you know they are up and running.

The first is an interview with Alfredo Cassano, who animated Jesper in Klaus. Alfredo and I teach online at CG Spectrum and I reached out to interview him and find out more about his animation background.

The next upcoming interview is with David Steinberg aka D. J. Steinberg who has become a Children's book author with 25 books written and still going. David came from Animation production where he worked for Don Bluth, at Disney Animation and recent at Nickelodeon.

In this interview, he explains what its like to write Children's books, work with illustrators and reads some of his published works. Now if I can just get his dog Oscar back to him, everything will be fine.  

Thank you to all the new people who have subscribed to Animateducated on YouTube; we just hit 578 subscribers! More interviews and animated things to come! Thanks again for watching and helping this blog/channel grow.

Character Walks

 An actor will develop the way his character moves and walk. A walk tells a lot about a character, in fact if you observe people walking in a public place, sometimes you can learn a lot about them just by watching them walk.

Here are a collection of character walks from some classic animation characters.