The Disney 12 principles of animation can be considered as a basis for all animation. These rules of animation may have been discovered decades ago, but they remain just as relevant today for ...

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the “old men” of Walt Disney, made laws of physics just for cartoons. In the real world, the basic laws of physics were first described by Sir Isaac Newton and Albert ...

“The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation,” written by two of Disney’s Nine Men, is out of print. But that hasn’t stopped it from making its way to the Internet in GIF and video form. The 12 principles ...

Disney’s 12 principles of animation might be some of the most influential tenets in the history of design. Here, Connective3’s Lucy Selley boils them down to 4 lessons for modern designers. Are Disney ...

How do animators breathe life onto a blank canvas? How do they get us to laugh at Pascal, sympathize with Carl, and feel the longing of Ariel wanting to be part of your world? How do they make us ...

A charming short film and series of animated gifs by motion artist Cento Lodigiani bring to life the 12 basic principles of animation as set down by Walt Disney ...

Animation as a genre of films traces its roots to the twentieth century when it was pioneered by The Walt Disney Company. As the decades passed and Disney’s procedures of animation were adopted by ...

Disney’s 12 principles of animation are as relevant for today’s interface designers as they were for yesterday’s dancing-broom illustrators. We’re not animating dancing brooms in feature films here.

How do animators breathe life onto a blank canvas? How do they get us to laugh at Pascal, sympathize with Carl, and feel the longing of Ariel wanting to be part of your world? How do they make us ...