IT's SUMMER!

Summer is here! I am still teaching animation online several times a week, but only in 1 hour segments. I always try to do all the things I haven't managed to do during the Fall and Spring  semesters during the Summer and currently making a list of possibilities.

The Animateducated YouTube channel is going pretty good with 827 subscribers at last count and only 173 subscribers to go until we reach 1,000 subscribers. I'm working on more interviews and trying out live streaming event where I will demo something I have learned which animation viewers might be interested in.

Recently, I have been watching the Prehistoric Planet with David Attenborough and amazed how good the CG dinosaurs are blended into the live action backgrounds. It really feeling like you are watching a natural documentary with real dinosaurs as the characters. If you haven't seen it yet, here's a preview from Apple TV.

I recently discovered that someone filed a complaint on two of my videos posted on Animateducated. YouTube removed both videos and gave me my first copyright strike where I had to attend copyright school before I could open my channel to see what to do next.

I contacted the person who filed the complaint and informed them since the video was not flagged 2 months ago, I thought everything was a ok. I did a re-editing for my interview with Lee Crowe, taking out the 10 second copyrighted animation clip and reposting the video back to my channel.

Students need to make sure they understand what copyright is and how not to break the copyright laws. 

An Animation Hour

You are invited to an Animation Hour (or less) with me(Jim) in a Zoom meeting situation to try out this new live streaming Animateducated event. I would like to show some animation, talk about animation or possibly animate something! 

Mike Jittlov as the "Wizard"

Not sure what to expect really, but if you would like to attend its happening this;

 This Friday, May 20th @ 7pm PST

Click here to register for free, no hidden costs or fees, just stop by and say hello...

https://form.jotform.com/211646955818164

I will send everyone who registers a Zoom invite to join the 1 hour or less Animateducated event.

Hope to see you there!

Thanks,

Jim

Flip books by Flipboku

Every kid who is now an adult, either still interested in animation or are a working professionally started off by making a flip book one time or another. You may have been the bored kid in math class who would scribbled drawings in the corner of the thick math book. Or you might have made some animated epic using a small note pad of paper or index cards clipped together. Either way, you remember the fun in making your drawings move around by simply flipping through the pages rapidly to see the drawings suddenly come to life.

Meet Raul Garcia, as a young boy going up in Spain, Raul did all of the above and recently created a very unique 6 in one animated flip book made by Flipboku. Please enjoy the interview below and share it with your flip book friends.

Hope you enjoyed this interview, and you did, kindly leave a comment below!