One of our favorite YouTube accounts, KaptainKristian, just returned from a 1 year sabbatical with this fantastic video essay on Disney’s 12 animation techniques, as defined in the book The Illusion of Life by Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson.

Stop motion offers both advantages and restrictions when it comes to the application of these ideas, and one of our quests at Open The Portal is to capture these techniques by finding new ways to break the limitations of shooting animation in 3D space. Stay tuned…