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Video: Long Winter Studios Members’ Showcase 2019
The best part of what we do is seeing all of the amazing work you put out with our characters year after year. We feature some of those in our annual Tommie Awards but wanted to put together this Members’ Showcase to show off even more of what you’ve created. Way to go! Thanks for […]
Tommies Awards 2019: Staff Pick Winner
WELCOME TO THE 2019 TOMMIES, the Long Winter Studios’ Animation Awards! We had a BLAST watching this year’s Tommies submissions, and we’re grateful you chose Long Winter character rigs to tell your story. Our amazing users submitted some amazing animations and the voters chose the 2019 People’s Choice Award winner. We can’t just pick one […]
Tommies Awards 2019: People’s Choice Award Winner
WELCOME TO THE 2019 TOMMIES, the Long Winter Studios’ Animation Awards! The winner of the Long Winter Studios’ 2019 Tommies People’s Choice Award is…Bernie’s Lament by Vanessa Calogera Alessi and Friends! Vanessa wins our Grand Prize of 1 Free Year of Long Winter Membership, a $120 gift certificate that gets her our sweet new service […]
Tommies Awards 2018: People’s Choice Award Winner
WELCOME TO THE 2018 TOMMIES, the Long Winter Studios’ Animation Awards! The winner of the Long Winter Studios’ 2018 Tommies People’s Choice Award is…Traditions by Mariah Luna! Mariah wins our Grand Prize of 1 Free Year of Long Winter Membership, a $120 gift certificate that gets her our sweet new service with unlimited characters […]
Tommies Awards 2018: Staff Pick Winner
WELCOME TO THE 2018 TOMMIES, the Long Winter Studios’ Animation Awards! This year’s Tommies submissions were better than EVER, and we’re grateful you chose Long Winter character rigs to tell your story. We had a blast watching the sweet animations our amazing users submitted (check out the 2018 People’s Choice Award winner). This year, all […]
Exclusive: How we made the “Wall of Death” short film for Autodesk Maya
We are incredibly proud to announce Autodesk Maya’s release of our “Wall of Death” film, created in partnership with Rockstar to showcase Maya’s 2018 update features. For this project, Long Winter had the privilege of pitching and designing the entire film, from concept to final footage. The main character, Grizz, riffs off an internally developed […]
Check out these new animation videos with our characters
One of the best parts of our job is seeing killer animation with our character rigs. We make the awesome rigs but you animators bring them to life! If you have some sweet shots with our latest Crash 3.0 characters or any of our other rigs, share ’em if you’ve got ’em! Email us with […]
First look at our project with Autodesk Maya and Rockstar
Here is the announcement we’ve been looking forward to sharing with our Long Winter community! We are incredibly proud to have worked on a killer new project with Rockstar and Autodesk Maya to showcase the new features of Maya 2018. Autodesk has posted a preview of some of the film on their blog – here’s […]
Tommies 2017: Daniel Quintero creates smooth, natural animation in “Acting Exercise”
This year’s Tommies Awards entries were better than ever. Our members have brought our Long Winter character rigs to life and we are psyched to see the inspiration and creativity from such a diverse community. Our winners received a ton of great prizes (including free memberships to our new service with unlimited access to 38+ […]
Tommies 2017: Anton Kozlovskyi pushes extreme motion in “Dr. Emmet Braun”
This year’s Tommies Awards entries were better than ever. Our members have brought our Long Winter character rigs to life and we are psyched to see the inspiration and creativity from such a diverse community. Our winners received a ton of great prizes (including free memberships to our new service with unlimited access to 38+ […]
Tommies 2017: Genuine creepiness in “Sleaze Ball” by Don Dixon
This year’s Tommies Awards entries were better than ever. Our members have brought our Long Winter character rigs to life and we are psyched to see the inspiration and creativity from such a diverse community. Our winners received a ton of great prizes (including free memberships to our new service with unlimited access to 38+ […]
Tommies 2017: It’s all about acting in “Connection” by Amjad Afifah
It was tough to choose the winners of our 2017 Tommies Awards because submissions this year were better than ever. Our members have brought our Long Winter character rigs to life and we are psyched to see so much inspiration and creativity from our diverse community. Our winners received a ton of great prizes (including […]
Tommies Awards 2017: People’s Choice Award Winner
WELCOME TO THE 2017 TOMMIES, the Long Winter Studios’ Animation Awards! The winner of the Long Winter Studios’ 2017 Tommies People’s Choice Award is…Connection by Amjad Afifah! Amjad wins our Grand Prize of 1 Free Year of Long Winter Membership, a $120 gift certificate that gets him our sweet new service with unlimited characters […]
Tommies Awards 2017: Staff Pick Winners
WELCOME TO THE 2017 TOMMIES, the Long Winter Studios’ Animation Awards! This year’s Tommies submissions were better than EVER, and we’re grateful you chose Long Winter character rigs to tell your story. We had a blast watching the sweet animations our amazing users submitted (check out the 2017 People’s Choice Award winner). All of our […]
Day 11: The nuts and bolts of how membership works
Today we’re going to break down how individual users can expect to use our new service, with video walk-throughs by our CEO, Andrew Conroy. Day 11: The nuts and bolts of how membership works In this video, we cover how to access your downloadable files via our website as well as go over the information […]
Day 3: Wild Animals!
We’re setting our sights on a whole crew of new animals. And not just pets and wild creatures but anthropomorphic characters too! Day 4: Meet Dale! With our concept artist Eric Meister cranking out designs, we’re tackling some of our most challenging work yet: building incredibly flexible and appealing animals, creatures and anthropomorphic characters. Dale […]
Video: This short film turns history fun with adventure, heroism
Much of our work is silly or just pure entertainment, but we love when it also mixes with teaching and inspiration. Our summer project with Moondog Animation Studio was this educational short film for Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, which was commissioned to help teach the next generation about […]
History is fun in Patriots Point short film
This summer Long Winter got to rock and roll on a fast-paced, commercial short film for Moondog Animation Studio! Their talented team does excellent work across the board, and we were honored to work with their studio on this exciting and adventurous short for Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. […]
Animating ‘Talking Tom’ with Lunar Animation
In addition to producing high-quality character rigs for all of our online customers, we also get to do custom character work for studios and schools. In this case, we had the pleasure of animating a few scenes with a very talented crew over at Lunar Animation. This summer we worked with Lunar Animation on a […]
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