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These tutorials will kick your imagination into high gear. Do you want to get so creatively pumped that you can easily land a job, and not so easily get laid off? These tutorials are designed to bring you to “Master of the Art” level and be well paid for it. We'll make it fun; you'll make it pay!

Learn to Draw

This set of six animation tutorial DVD's will present a complete picture of the drawing process.  Learn the secrets Don Bluth used as Director and Animator to make engaging characters that leap off the page and screen and make your audience pay attention to their antics.

Learn to Animate

Classical animation techniques form the basis of everything you see: ads, movies and Saturday morning cartoons. Absorb my foundation principles and any of
these media are yours to command.

Animation Manual by Don Bluth

Due to popular demand, Don Bluth has decided to offer this Animation manual to the public. This manual was originally designed to accompany our Animation Master Classes and is not available in stores.

Learn to Storyboard

Can you imagine the sheer exhilaration that comes from working on a movie with a crew?  To say the least, it's a fantastic feeling! Now, to be in charge of storyboarding a movie goes well beyond “fantastic.”
These tutorials will deal with the ability to communicate with the audience, and focus their attention quickly to that critical place on the movie screen that tells the story.

Learn Acting

You are the cartoonist, but you are inevitably the "director" of the "actor" who is your cartoon subject. I?ll show you how to guide your cartoon actor to express maximum believability and entertainment.

Learn Music

Music is the spice of your animation. Melody, harmony, and rhythm must support the action yet not overwhelm it. Let me show you how to achieve the balance that brings terror, tears, and, above all, warmth to your audience's hearts.

"I am excited to show you how to bring a brain and soul into your characters so people immediately see that in your drawings. But besides great drawing technique, your characters need heart to be truly memorable.”

“I'll show you how to make that happen with the simplest of pencil lines, the simplest of space and layout. Animation is not just a mechanical process that strings drawings together, it's bringing out from within yourself all the verve and energy of your being and putting that power into your characters. Stick with me and we'll develop that together.”

 

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