Happy Birthday Thinking Animation!

Our book Thinking Animation is one year old today!

ANNOUNCEMENT!
In celebration of our birthday...
the first person who can answer this question
by comment on this blog will win a FREE! copy of our book
THINKING ANIMATION!

"Who animated the bulk of the
Capitan hook in the Tiger Lilly
cave sequence of Peter Pan?"

The first person to answer correctly
will get a free copy of the book!

And the winner is!
SHABAAZ SHAH!
OF
http://bigtimeanimation.com/

THE ANSWER: Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman
under the direction of Frank Thomas.
He also directed the Sword in the Stone and Rescuers.

CONGRATS SHABAAZ!!!!!
nice little reel you got there!
your book is on the way!

We will be posing a trivia question
every month this year for a free book!
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AND! To celebrate!
We have given the website
a face lift and all new content!

The new website navigation is cleaner
and it's "ohhh so much easier"
to find your favorite pages.

We also have brand new content...by popular demand!

There has been so much fan mail to Spicy Cricket
asking about the articles and tutorials that were
located on the Spicy website and are no longer...
we decided Thinking Animation should
house that content and even more
helpful learning tools have been
uploaded to the learning section!

The new learning section includes:
the animation timeline from the book!

lists of online handouts

career strategies articles,
acting choices and performances in animation,
building walk cycles,
...and more!
Finally, Q and A 01, 02 and 03 transcripts
from interviews and chats
with Angie and Jamie are in this section.

Oh! and for those professors of animation out there!
classroom ancillaries to implement Thinking Animation
into your course curriculum are on their way!

Happy Birthday Thinking Animation!

We would like to thank everyone for
their support over the past year.
Here are some fun pictures to remember the journey!

Check out the new and improved website!
Happy Birthday Thinking Animation!