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Monday, August 22nd, 2016

PODCAST: Livestream Drawing Lesson

Drawing With Taber

Please join us on Friday August 26th for a draw-along livestream event! Taber will be covering techniques discussed in the article found here: http://animationresources.org/art-education-warming/

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Monday, August 22nd, 2016

PODCAST: Sunday Screening With Arbuckle and Keaton

Keaton Arbuckle St John

Animation Resources Members: You will find our latest Sunday Screening podcast archived on the Members Only Download Page. This week we preview two newly restored Fatty Arbuckle shorts co-starring Buster Keaton. Golden age animators studied slapstick comedy closely to develop the principles of staging, posing and timing. You should study them too!

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Tuesday, August 16th, 2016

Video Store: DOWNLOAD A Fantastic Reel Of 1950s Keds Shoes Commercials!

Every other month, members of Animation Resources are given access to an exclusive Members Only Reference Pack. In March 2016, they were able to download this great reel of animated television commercials advertising Campbell’s Soup. Our Reference Packs change every two months, so if you weren’t a member back then, you missed out on it. But you can still buy a copy of this great video in our E-Book and Video Store. Our downloadable DVD quality video files are specially selected from the collection of Animation Resources, and we also offer PDF e-books that are packed with high resolution images on a variety of educational subjects. If you aren’t a member yet, please consider JOINING ANIMATION RESOURCES. It’s well worth it.


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Keds Commercial Reel

Keds Commercial Reel
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Paul Fennell Studios (ca. mid 1950s)

This is our final commercial reel from the collection of Paul Fennell. Again, as time passes we can see a refinement of style and approach to the advertising pitch. The early spots are clearly marketing the shoes as sports equipment, but the ads evolve first into a Mother Goose theme that appears to be designed to appeal to mothers, and later to a campaign featuring a character mascot, Kedso the Clown. Voiced by children’s TV personality Pinkie Lee, the Kedso spots were very influential on the design of later television animation at Hanna-Barbera and other studios. We thank the family of Paul Fennell for sharing all of the wonderful commercial reels with us that we have been featuring over the past year.

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50s Keds Shoes Commercial
50s Keds Shoes Commercial
50s Keds Shoes Commercial
50s Keds Shoes Commercial
50s Keds Shoes Commercial


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