Hey Campers, wanted to give a quick shout out and heads up that new tutorials are on the way, and some new categories as well. In the mean time,please enjoy the Squidoo Lens we put together for our sister company, Salsaholica. Its called the Traffic Light Special, a habanero salsa recipe.

Hey, campers!
We have recently partnered with tokidigital (more on tokidigital later) to make our HD & Premium tutorials available for purchase as digital downloads and will be beta testing until the end of August.

So what does this mean?

Well, the FREE tutorials you’ve come to know and love (and thanks for the love!) will still be available, and we will continue to produce them for FREE. The only difference is you now have the option of downloading an HD version of the tutorial at $2 each. For further clarification, allow me to get technical for a second:

Our free videos are in Flash Video format (flv) at a size of 640×360, or 360p. Our $2 HD downloads are in movie format (mov) at 1280×720, or 720p.

We also will begin releasing Premium Tutorials in HD, which are moderately priced at $5 to $15 each. There will not be a free version of the Premium Tutorial; however, from time to time we will be offering discount coupons.

These optional pay-tutorials will allow tonyteach.com to continue to function as an instructional service, without making ourselves a paid membership site.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q – When I purchased a tutorial, my credit card statement indicates the name tokidigital, not tonyteach.
A – Any purchase made from tonyteach is via PayPal and will show up on your credit card statements as tokidigital or toki digital files.

Q – Does tokidigital now own tonyteach?
A – Well, not exactly … however, the companies are related and supported by the same qualified and reliable professional staff.

Q – What if tokidigital wants to turn tonyteach into a paid membership site?
A – The companies are independent entities; which means this is a highly
unlikely scenario.

Q – How can you be certain?
A – Well, actually, I (Tony Ross) own both tonyteach and tokidigital.
No, I’m not having an identity crisis; I’m just a firm believer in putting your socks in the sock drawer. In short, tonyteach was not built to handle e-commerce or to deliver digital files securely, so we created a separate entity that could — tokidigital. Tokidigital also will handle the sales and pre-sales of our upcoming DVD series.

Also, just a thought . . . if you’d be interested in tonyteach doing any tutorials on e-commerce for individuals and small businesses, please leave your comments below.

Thanks-
Tony

Ok, for those of you who don’t know I am a HUGE Bobby Chiu fan! I have been following his work and career since I first saw his “Big, Bad, Bunny Eater” in ImagineFX magazine. Anyway, he has plenty of Youtube videos out there, and if you are looking for some AWESOME inspiration, listen to what he is saying during the video. He has never really taught technique on these videos, and instead saves it for students who take his classes at the online school he helped create, Schoolism.com… until now. He has released a FREE tutorial on his other brainchild of a site Sketchoholic.com. Sign up to be a member of Sketchoholic (also FREE) and watch his 76min demo “Designing Creatures for Live Action Films”.
By the way, what does Bobby Chiu know about the subject?? he worked as a Character Designer on this low-budget flick with this Tim Burton dude, I think it was called Alice in Wonderland, lol.

On a side note, I got this video from my good friend Marcus, meeting Bobby at a show last year. You can see how cool Bobby really is, enjoy.

Hey Campers, here is a look at the first commercial that one of my brainchildren, STUDIO 11D12, is doing for local cable in Atlanta.

writing, directing, & animation: Tony Ross

character design & animation: Lamont Russ

All Voices : Demarcus Hill

So, I had planned on catching up on some over due tutorials this past weekend… However, my first-born had other plans (showing up 30 days early).
Born November 1st, 10:23 pm EST, meet my daughter, Isabella Danielle Ross “Izzy-D” for short. I will return to tutorials soon… she is just too cute to ignore

Hey Campers – Ran across a YouTube video from a guy who’s book I’m reading. The guy, David Allen, the book, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. Check it out!

omG! So I was up at about 1am randomly searching Google for stuff, as I do that from time to time, and found a piece of Open Source and or FREE 2D animation software, Pencil. It ROCKS! Enough talk, let me show you.

Straight on animation tutorial using Pencil.

BTW, using another FREE resource to record this, Jing by Techsmith, more on this later.