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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 […]

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Tommies Awards 2018: People’s Choice Award Winner

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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 […]

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Tommies Awards 2018: Staff Pick Winner

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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 […]

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CAST YOUR VOTE FOR THE TOMMIES 2018

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WELCOME TO THE 2018 TOMMIE AWARDS! Watch the videos below and cast your vote here! Voting ends at midnight on Thursday, March 1, 2018. Winners announced Friday, March 2, 2018. You can only vote once so choose carefully. [poll id=”2″] Video #1: A Date by Elien Kellens Video #2: Fight Sequence by Mauro Botero Video […]

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Exclusive: How we made the “Wall of Death” short film for Autodesk Maya

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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 […]

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We are giving away our very first free character

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We have big news! Our very first FREE character rig from Long Winter Studios is coming out next week, along with five new characters! Meet Big, one of our shiny new crash characters. We have spent all year working furiously to get fresh new character rigs ready for you to animate. Hopefully you’ve seen Stompasaurus, […]

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Long Winter will be at CTNX 2017!

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Next month you can find us in Burbank at CTNX 2017! We’ll be at Booth B91 and we can’t wait to meet you and show off what we’ve been up to this past year and all the awesome projects to come. We’ll throw some free stuff at you and you can grab some candy. Come […]

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Giving April: Thanks for helping us help kids with Save the Children!

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We wanted to do something in April and #giveback. We pledged to donate 90% of all new sign-ups that month to charity, and we are so thankful that you jumped on board and wanted to give back too. With your help, Long Winter Studios was able to donate over $500 to the charity Save the […]

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Tommies 2017: Daniel Quintero creates smooth, natural animation in “Acting Exercise”

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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+ […]

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Tommies 2017: Anton Kozlovskyi pushes extreme motion in “Dr. Emmet Braun”

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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+ […]

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Tommies 2017: Genuine creepiness in “Sleaze Ball” by Don Dixon

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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+ […]

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Tommies 2017: It’s all about acting in “Connection” by Amjad Afifah

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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 […]

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Tommies Awards 2017: People’s Choice Award Winner

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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 […]

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Tommies Awards 2017: Staff Pick Winners

Tommies Staff Pick Winners 2017

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 […]

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CAST YOUR VOTE FOR THE TOMMIES 2017

WELCOME TO THE 2017 TOMMIE AWARDS! Watch the videos below and cast your vote here! Voting ends at midnight on Thursday, February 23. Winners announced Friday, February 24. You can only vote once so choose carefully. [captainform id=”771351″]  Video #1: Good Idea by Clément Cacchionni Video #2: Blow Your Head Off by Rb Reber Video […]

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Enter the 2nd Annual Tommie Awards!

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It’s that time of year again…the 2nd Annual Long Winter Studio Tommie Awards! We are celebrating awards season by handing out some sweet recognition (and prizes!) for the best videos made with our characters. We accept entries starting today until February 17, so read the rules and enter below! During 2016 we saw all the […]

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Day 11: The nuts and bolts of how membership works

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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 […]

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