Welcome to hesirAnimation…

I am a freelance Illustrator and Creative Consultant who lectures in Animation and Games Design at The Hull School of Art & Design, in Kingston Upon Hull, East Yorkshire, UK.

The principle aim of this site is to act as a test bed for sessions and workshops for the Animation Courses on which I teach as well as a repository for ideas, inspirational links and potential projects.

Here you should find links to all manner of Animation Links, Tutorials, Advice, Tips and Tricks, Portfolio/Showreel building exercises and little Animation Experiments,

…all of which you should be able to try for yourselves.

I hope you find something useful or inspirational while you are here.

Eye Placement and Athropomorphism – 001

A short article looking at Anthropomorphism… in particular eyes, and eye placement on Pixar’s cars in their animation franchise…

Article written by Jason Torchinsky over at the “petrolhead” blog Jalopnik

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Its interesting to note that the Pixar lamps (Luxor Jnr. – below) needed no human features at all to get over the emotion and pathos that they evidenced…

…a truly great animated short.