LoopdeLoop

LoopdeLoop is a bimonthly animation festival that features short, looping animations.

The festival itself is based out of Australia, however the organization behind LoopdeLoop has ventured into the United States and many other countries over the past year or so. What makes this festival a little different is that people from anywhere in the world can submit their animation to be voted on by the public. Each festival also has a theme that all submitted animations have to be inspired by. Past themes include hallucinations, light, frustration, and childhood. Over the past few weeks they've been posting loops for the current theme, gravity, for people to vote on.

They recently updated their website HERE so that you can go through all the festival submissions from both current and past themes. Unfortunately their videos aren't embeddable on blogger so you have to go directly to the website, but I definitely recommend you take a look at some of the loops. Some of them are really unique.

A Tutorial For Everything

So many of us know of the popular Andrew Kramer, who gives us tutorials on Video Copilot. He gives you a lot of tutorials, but I find myself looking for more and different tutorials. So I wanted to share some another website that I have found that contain more tutorials. So that you can have them for any project.

The first website is called Motion Works. Based in Sydney Australia, John Dickinson is a cutting-edge motion graphics artist who is in demand. As Senior Broadcast Designer at Foxtel (foxtel.tv), ambassador and presenter for Adobe Australia, John delivers highly creative yet commercially relevant motion graphics solutions. With Motionworks, John combines 15 years of industry experience with a proven teaching ability to provide high quality learning resources that encourage and challenge participants to break through to new levels of excellence and impact in their work.

This picture is from his Sparkling Rays tutorial. 

This is a picture from his Drifting Smoke tutorial.

There are also so many different tutorials that can be found on Youtube.