Lightbox is a mobile-first, full-featured, traditional (hand-drawn) animation production application/suite. It is what I am focused on building now. I am incredibly excited, and look forward to sharing this adventure with the world.
On October 11, 2014 I saw a couple of people on my social networking feeds lament the "fact" that it was the first time in decades that there were "no Saturday morning cartoons" on in America. What really happened was that the last over-the-air broadcast station with a multi-hour programming
It's interesting how the production method of an animated show—traditionally hand-drawn, Flash-style "paper" marionette, stop motion, or 3D CGI—can so deeply affect design. I've noticed some long-running shows switching from one to the other, typically from hand-drawn to Flash-style, and there is just something... off about them. The
Blame TV. Animation in the US began as an adult medium, interstitial films that ran between the A and B halves of double-feature presentations at theaters as far back as the 1920s. Suggestive themes were commonplace—plenty of early Betty Boop [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boop#As_a_
On his Animation Anomaly website, Charles Kenney asks [http://animationanomaly.com/2014/01/23/is-the-animation-industry-being-held-back-by-legacy-players/] : > [I]s the animation industry being held back by existing, established, players? Consider the car industry and the fact that it wasn’t a manufacturer that made the biggest breakthrough in driverless cars, it was