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Interview with Sandro Cleuzo Part 2 – Advice on Animation Techniques & Skills

Welcome back for Part 2 of our interview with animator Sandro Cleuzo who has worked in the industry for decades, including at top animation studios like Walt Disney. While he has industry experience, he is a self-taught animator. His art education background stems from personal creative development without the need for expensive art education.

If you want to learn more about his background, read Part 1 of the interview: Interview with Sandro Cleuzo – an Awarded Character Designer and Storyboard Artist

Today, we will discuss questions related to animation techniques and skills, as well as how to develop a strong mindset to succeed in animation. As Sandro’s career shows, you don’t need to have a flashy degree in order to succeed in the animation industry. With perseverance and dedication to your craft, you can also aspire to create the animation films of your dreams.

How To Make A Digital Fashion Mood Board

Scrolling through social media today, you might notice your favorite fashion blogger or content creator using the term “mood board.” In fact, currently, #moodboard, #moodboardaesthetic, and other related hashtags have been used over 7 million times on Instagram and viewed over 400 million times on TikTok alone. To Gain more TikTok fans, leveraging popular hashtags like these can significantly increase your visibility and attract a larger audience to your content. Within the fashion realm of social media, some popular captions you might recognize are, “My 2022 moodboard” and “Moodboard Update.” Digital mood boards themselves are often posted alongside captions like, “Manifesting a life like this” or “Making my Pinterest boards a reality.” You can see that this trend is not going out of style soon, but what is a moodboard, why are they taking social media by storm, and why do content creators love to share them?

Read on to learn all about fashion mood boards, and why creating a digital fashion mood board can be helpful in creating your own aesthetic.

Interview with Sandro Cleuzo – an Awarded Character Designer and Storyboard Artist

Animation Desk was created with the goal of providing a handy tool for people of all ages to create their first animation. As this 2D frame animation app has become more popular, we have begun to receive questions about the animation industry, specifically about what animation technical skills are needed and what jobs there are to strive for in the industry.

In response to these questions, we thought it would be a great idea to get in contact with animation professionals with real industry experience to help quench our users’ thirst for knowledge.

This led to us reaching out to Sandro Cleuzo on Instagram. Even as a busy professional animator with tons of experience and prestige under his belt, Sandro graciously took the time to join us for an “Ask Me Anything” session. This interview allowed us to gain more insight into his experience as a character designer, animator, and storyboard artist.

Animation Desk – Ani Meme Animation Competition

Animation Desk is hosting an all-new competition: create an animation based on your favorite internet meme!

For this challenge, you can use the meme we’ve provided or create an original animation based on your personal favorite meme. A helpful tip to get you started is to pick some key elements from memes you like and create animated stories based on the images. Since this is an animation challenge, we would like to see how you transform a static meme image into a moving animation!

23 Annotation Tools & What To Use Them For

Annotation tools are the answer to digitally editing and marking up PDFs, webpages, images, and almost any other content you can think of.

Even better, with such a wide range of annotation tools for users available, you are guaranteed to find one with the right features to meet your specific needs.

We will cover 23 annotation software options and explain why they are best suited to one of the following purposes: