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 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 […]
CAST YOUR VOTE FOR THE 2019 TOMMIES
WELCOME TO THE 2019 TOMMIE AWARDS! Watch the videos below and cast your vote here! Voting ends at midnight on Friday, February 22, 2019. Winners announced Monday, February 25, 2019. You can only vote once so choose carefully. [Total_Soft_Poll id=”2″] Video #1: Lock Your Door by Carin Powell Video #2: The Adventures of Space Duck […]
Enter the 2019 Annual Tommie Awards!
Nothing better in the long, dark wintertime than…the 4th Annual Long Winter Studios Tommie Awards! Every year when everyone is watching the Golden Globes and Oscars we celebrate awards season by handing out some sweet recognition – and some amazing prizes – for the best videos made with our characters. We accept entries starting today […]
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 […]
Enter the 3rd Annual Tommie Awards!
It’s that time of year again…the 3rd Annual Long Winter Studios 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 23, so read the rules and enter below! HOW IT STARTED In 2016 we […]
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 […]
We are giving away our very first free character
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, […]
Meet our five new characters!
These five shiny new crash characters are some of the first with the latest version of our ultra-flexible rigging system. If you’re already a member, you’ll see these guys automatically added to your character manager next week. No clunky installs or updates or need to do anything. Boom. If you’re not a member yet, let’s […]
Meet our newest character, Stompasaurus
Fall is one of our favorite times of year here at Long Winter. School is back in session, the colors are a’changin (at least where we are), and we have spent all year working furiously to get fresh new character rigs ready for you to animate. We are super excited to announce Stompasaurus, one of […]
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 […]
Enter the 2nd Annual Tommie Awards!
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 […]
Day 12: Let’s rock and roll
Happy New Year! We say, bring on 2017! We’re so psyched to roll out all this new stuff to you guys. Thanks for coming along with us on our 12 Days of Awesome as we debuted our awesome new Long Winter membership. On our final day, Day 12, let’s take a moment to recap some […]
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