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 – 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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Long Winter is looking for a couple talented Character TD’s for a few current and upcoming projects. Our ideal Character TD / Rigger candidate will be able to create flexible and expressive character rigs, have a solid understanding of modeling, skin weighting, and the principles of animation, and work well with a team of different […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
We liked this T-Rex animation by Thomas Shek so much we had to make a GIF so we could enjoy it over and over. Flying… – T-Rex animation from Thomas Shek Get animating! Browse the Store to get your own copy or any of our other full-featured character rigs. For more Long Winter Studios news, […]
Our own T-Rex and Panter rigs in some nice animation work by CJ Burbage and Thomas Shek, respectively. Nice work, guys. Get animating! Browse the Store to get your own copy or any of our other full-featured character rigs. For more Long Winter Studios news, follow us on Facebook.
This is a fantastic reel from Keenan Goncalves. Check out the great western clip with our Walter on horseback getting shot by arrows, and Tom and Argus in a hilarious pirate scene at the end that totally cracked us up. Nice work, Keenan! Get animating! Browse the Store to get your own copy or any […]
If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a really nice walk cycle with one of our student starter rigs featured in Kelly Vawtner’s 2015 reel – the rest of the shots are pretty awesome too. Browse the Store to get your own copy or any of our other full-featured character rigs. For more Long Winter […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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