Happy New Year!! We are so psyched for what 2017 will bring – and good news!! Our membership service launched January 1st! Day 10: We’ve launched! BECOME A MEMBER TODAY! We used to sell our characters à la carte for animators on our website which required us to sell them for $30-$70 each. With this […]
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Day 9: Super simple, point-and-click install in Maya
It’s almost Christmas and we’re feeling that holiday spirit! Loads of new characters, $10/month. We’re all thinking the same thing: where’s the catch? Is it going to be a pain to use? Here’s the trick. We’ve all dealt with characters that come with “required” tools. Nothing sucks more than being locked out of your file […]
Day 8: Look how cute our kids are!
Our Long Winter Studios’ 12 Days of Awesome isn’t over yet! We have a gang of four new kid/child characters that are going to be added to the library this spring. Their proportions are super appealing, cute, and fun to work with, and because you can get all the characters for $10/month, you can animate […]
Day 7: You’ve got questions? We’ve got answers (plus, meet Reno!)
We are very excited about our new service coming out in January and have gotten a number of great questions as we prepare to roll it out. Below are some of the highlights – the whole breakdown can also be found on our updated FAQ page. If you have other questions about the new service […]
Day 6: Best rigs for animation students
Schools and students, we have especially been thinking about you wonderful people as we’re rolling out our 12 Days of Awesome. You are important. Since day one, schools have played a huge role in our motivation for getting characters out. It was while our CEO Andrew Conroy was teaching animation to college students that Long […]
Day 5: Woof! More animal rigs coming in 2017
We’re not fooling around when we said we were focusing on animals in 2017. We’re gonna keep adding to the humans but it’s hard not to enjoy building characters like Mack here. (Maybe you saw a peek at him in our new demo reel earlier this week.) With all the great features of our human […]
Day 4: Better price AND better characters
Day 4: Better price AND better characters – the price is going down, but the quality is going up! It’s Day 4 of our 12 Days of Awesome! We are cutting the price, but we want you to know that we’re not at all cutting the quality – that just keeps going up! In fact, […]
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 […]
Day 2 of our 12 days of Awesome
Our new service is debuting in January and we’re celebrating with 12 Days of Awesome! We’ll be introducing some of our new characters that you’ll get access to after January, and previewing what sweet new benefits you’ll get. This is the best stuff we’ve made yet. Day 1 was introducing one of our new characters, […]
Day 1: 12 Days of Characters, Animation, and AWESOMENESS!!
We are full of holiday cheer and want to share our newest gift with you: 12 Days of Characters, Animation, and AWESOMENESS!! We are constantly trying to help you all improve your animation skills and want you to have access to the best, film-quality, super flexible character rigs for your short films, commercial work, or […]
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 […]
Say hello to Luke, our newest character
Come on over and say hello! Luke is our latest male character rig and he’s awesome. He has the same killer setup as Franky and Kate – our Long Winter-exclusive, ultra-flexible TimberBeast system – and would make a great pair for Kate or one of our other characters in your next animation. Grab a copy […]
Get inspired by these “Zootopia” demo reels
When “Zootopia” first released images a while back, I got pretty stoked. The amount of visual interest that was put into the designs made my eyes sing with delight. Then the film came out and I watched as an hour and 48 minutes of animation gold went sailing past my eyes. It was fantastic. Now, […]
The new Luke rig is almost here
We are about to roll out a new Long Winter character rig! Luke is our latest male character rig and he’s a pretty rad dude! He has the same killer setup as Franky and Kate – our Long Winter-exclusive, ultra-flexible TimberBeast system – and would make a great pair for Kate or one of our […]
Spring sale!
Did you know a bunch of our characters are on sale right now in our store?? We know. Shocking! Julie is marked down to $58 (regularly $80), our dragons are 50% off, and there are huge discounts on Kate, Mark, Franky, Sally, Craig, Walter, and Cody! We have marked everyone down like crazy but it’s […]
Tommies 2016: Staff Pick Awards
Welcome to the Long Winter Studios Animation Awards (aka The Tommies) 2016! We weren’t surprised that your work is high-quality and imaginative, and we’re grateful you chose Long Winter character rigs to tell your story. We had a blast watching your submissions and loved so many of the animations that we couldn’t settle for just […]
Tommies Awards 2016: People’s Choice Award
Welcome to the Tommies – the Long Winter Studios’ Animation Awards 2016! The winner of the Long Winter Studios’ 2016 Tommies People’s Choice Award is…Salman Alam’s 11 Second Club November animation! Salman wins our $100 gift certificate to the Long Winter Studios store and tons of street cred for his animation with our Tom rig. Thanks for choosing […]
CAST YOUR VOTE FOR THE TOMMIES 2016!
WELCOME TO THE 2016 TOMMIE AWARDS! Watch the videos below and cast your vote here! You can only vote once so choose carefully. [poll id=”4″] Video #1: Breakup by Corey Stisser Video #2: Pizza by Bibi Fontana Video #3: Aloha Vacations by Juan Carlos Vigil Video #4: Laundry Day by Nadia Diaz Garces Video #5: […]
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