Howard Wimshurst Animation
Award winning filmmaker and artist who specializes in hand-drawn animation. Profesisonal animator for over 12 years, from independent film making at home, to a Bachelor of Arts degree in Animation, to leading commissioned projects for world renowed organizations and individuals.
Main animation software used is TVPaint. Also the Adobe creative suite for post production.
This channel spans a wide range of topics related to 2D animation.
Founded animatorguild.com - to provide comprehensive online training to animation students.
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Howard Wimshurst Animation
Thank you to everyone who has been leaving comments on Emersion! (my new short film) https://youtu.be/NgFtwXie1dA?si=R8PWC...
It's overwhelming to read all this positivity!
2 days ago | [YT] | 405
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My short film is coming out tomorrow! Emersion
I hope you're ready to watch it!
3 days ago | [YT] | 568
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Hey there, I've been into poetry recently, just for the fun of it. I just released a poem (sorry it doesn't rhyme) on my website, about a subject you can't get away from these days... www.howardwimshurst.com/post/at-a-time-like-this-a…
I built this little space on my website where i'll be publishing writing now and then.
As you can see, I'm not done being salty about AI trends 😂
Go easy on me, I'm a total beginner!
1 week ago | [YT] | 264
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“All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak - and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Many more good quotes in my latest video
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 50
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Hey, I get a lot of questions about burnout. it seems to be something a lot of animators struggle with. I put down some of my thoughts in this video. Hope you enjoy
4 weeks ago | [YT] | 77
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I animated something happy to brighten your week :)
Used our amazing Dance pack as a source of reference: www.animatorguild.com/contemporary-dance.html
1 month ago | [YT] | 1,287
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Status update of the Animator Guild Anual Film Contest.
Long story short: I completely lost the ability to update the Animator Guild website.
I was doing some back-end work inside the weebly editor, uploading reference images to our web server (weebly is website builder I have always used to build and update animator guild) for Motion lab www.animatorguild.com/motion-lab.html
Then suddenly... poof! everything inside the site editor was deleted. Every page was just blank white. Luckily I had not hit the "publish" button, so as long as I don't publish any changes to the website, everything stays as it is. The website has been frozen in its current state for months now. It works, but I can't update it without losing everything.
This is no longterm solution. There are many things waiting to be released, including a free version of the Motion Lab lifedrawing interface, new packs, courses, and the launch of the new short film contest.
When I contacted them, they couldn't offer anything to save the website. They said they can't restore it (despite the website clearly still being loaded from their servers somewhere). There was a forum thread dating back many years where dozens of people had reported the same error happening to them. Now that thread with all the complaints appears to have been deleted.. And they have not patched it. The only solution is to hop in a time machine and back up your website before it crashes (which I did not do).
There's no way I'm going to stay with square/weebly after this betrayal. So I'm working with an amazing developer (www.capercube.com/) to rebuild the site from scratch without the reliance on an unstable third party editor. It will look even better than before, and in the long term, it could massively expand the potential of the website.
It's a big project to rebuild, so it's taking time to reconstruct.
We have had to place the start date of the contest / announcement on hold until the new website is finished. In the meantime, www.animatorguild.com/ is functioning completely normally.
I'm mainly writing this because I'm bitter about Square - the company that acquired weebly. I've been with them from the very star.They turned their back on me and DOZENS of other website creators who have had the same fatal error.
For anyone wanting to laugh at my choice of website editor - 2012 was a very different internet to what we have today. Back then Weebly was actually one of the best options for someone like me.
DON'T start a website with Weebly. They don't deserve your money.
1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 157
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Hello guys, today we are shooting a hand reference pack for animators. What references do you hope to see in there? We have some props too like weapons.
1 month ago | [YT] | 135
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I was interviewed by a blog called Life in the Machine. lifeinthemachine.substack.com/p/animators-against-… I spat some hot fire in the interview which you might be interested to read.
2 months ago | [YT] | 247
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I made a little music video animation. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhXRX...
It's 30 seconds long. I had lots of fun drawing it!
3 months ago | [YT] | 770
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