Brent Galloway recently launched a kickstarter campaign that will be the next big step in his design career, which is getting his own product into the hands of others.

Titled ‘Stay True’, the goal of the t-shirt and print designs are to make a bold and positive statement: Stay true to who you are. “No matter your beliefs, no matter your lifestyle, you stay true to yourself and you should be proud of it,” says Brent on his kickstarter page. We at CJC Entertainment couldn’t agree more, as staying true to ourselves is something that we’ve had to fight for many times.

Check out the kickstarter page here and back the project if you can. Or just simply spread this word!

The official YouTube channel of Disney recently posted the trailer of their Oscar-Nominated short, Paperman. The six minute short has been capturing the attention of animation fans since its June 2012 premiere at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and continues to astonish us today.

What really sets Paperman apart is the use of Disney’s new in-house technology called Meander, which allows animators to draw directly on top of the CGI. This revolutionary technique (called ‘final line advection’) completely blends digital animation and hand drawn together seamlessly, which is an absolutely amazing feat!

In a behind-the-scenes series titled, ‘Paperclip’ (also available on Disney’s YouTube channel), director John Kahrs explains that his inspiration for the visual style came from the rough character drawings created during preproduction of Paperman. He wanted to somehow retain that natural hand-drawn artwork, which is something that’s notorious for getting lost during the transition to 3D animation. Thanks to the Meander technology, Paperman achieved this look beautifully, and has now been nominated for ‘Best Animated Short Film’ at this year’s Oscars, which is an honor in itself!

Here’s a look at the Paperman trailer:

For many years, one of our biggest challenges was the process of getting our animations from Flash to a high quality video format. We’ve tried (and purchased) many different converters, but none of them can compare to Newgrounds’ Swivel. The best part? Swivel is absolutely free!

It only took a few minutes with Swivel to realize that it was by far the best converter that we have ever used. Swivel allows the conversion of SWF files containing not only ActionScript 2 coding, but also ActionScript 3. So, every version of VCAM worked flawlessly. No dropped frames, fast conversion, and absolutely perfect!

If you’re a Flash animator, then you should definitely check out Swivel and give it a download!

To learn more about Swivel, visit: http://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/creator-resources/flash-resources/swivel

And for a quick peek at out it works, check out this demo:

After much anticipation, a very awesome app that was originally exclusive to iOS, has finally arrived on Android! The Viddy team put together a very cool announcement video that featured various ‘viddys’ created by users in celebration of its arrival. It also includes a 15 second animation that we created to help promote Viddy’s arrival to Android.

You can check it out right here:

UPDATE: Unfortunately Viddy is no longer available to download as the company had to shut their doors. It was an amazing app while it lasted!

The SkateHub commercial was a very fun and interesting project to work on, but at the same time, it was incredibly challenging. With a very short turnaround time and no idea how we were going to pull off half of the ideas in mind, we had to work fast and smart.