Mike Peraza is reminiscing about his animated adventures at Disney once again. This time he’s chosen something suited for the upcoming festive season. Head on over to catch up on the first three parts.

If you’re not already following Mattias’ blog, here’s a good reason to start:

John Celestri tipped me off to his new blog. He said, “I’ve been a professional animator since 1974, so I’m old school.” I couldn’t have said it better than that. Check out his new blog for lots of advice and goodies for the hand drawn purist in you.

An image from John’s blog

Brad Silby informs us of a new blog, Anim Dailies, which he’s put together with a group of professional animators. It’s designed to simulate animation dailies, a daily stop on the schedule of every production where artists get feedback from their supervisors. It’s a welcome addition to the animation blogsphere, and a great opportunity for aspiring animators that can’t afford programs like Animation Mentor to get professional feedback on their work and progress a little faster than normal. There’s a few reviews up already, and Brad says more will follow in the next few days. Check it out.

Pixar artists receive feedback from Lee Unkrich at animation dailies on Toy Story 3.

Kent has been a sculptor in the animation industry for years, working at both Disney and Pixar. His work is really inspiring. Kent sculpted this Freddie Moore girl (or so I’m told) I posted about last year, which is absolutely gorgeous. Check out his blog for more inspiration.

Brendan Body has a nice post about working during crunch on Legend of the Guardians. Click the image to check it out

Click the image below to be transported to Pat Grant’s awesome making-of blog post on creating comics. Also, don’t miss his stylish web-comic, ‘Blue.’

Really awesome blog with lots of posts on acting. Definitely a useful resource. Click the image to check it out!

Andreas Deja has finally launched his long awaited blog. Put this on your daily blog route, he’ll be sharing a lot of old Disney art and artifacts with us.

I found this awesome film on Cartoon Brew, but there’s so much more equally impressive stuff on Max’s blog, like this time-lapse footage of Max animating this short:

And this time-lapse of Max animating for a music video:

There’s a ton of other behind the scenes goodies on his blog. Go check it out!

Really cool silhouette art by Olly Moss. Check out more here

Fellow AM student Willie Downs has come up with a fantastic idea to chronicle and eventually publish inspirational correspondence between animators. I think this would make for some incredibly interesting reading as well as historical documentation. Especially if some of the now “vintage” examples could be dug up. Hopefully enough people can spread the word and we can all bare witness to the birth of yet another truly inspirational stop on the blogsphere for artists and animators alike. Good luck Willie!

Animator Letter Project