Articles, tutorials, and vlogs on animation, tools, and production.
KeyOverlay is a lightweight Windows utility that displays keyboard presses, mouse clicks, scrolling activity, and cursor highlights in real time. Version 0.2.0 introduces a customizable interface, improved positioning controls, optional keystroke sounds, and several performance and reliability improvements.
Log My Time is a streamlined, offline-first web app for tracking work hours, organizing clients, creating reports, and preparing invoices.
A free interactive web tool for quickly converting between fractional inches, decimal inches, and millimetres using a visual ruler graduated to 1/64 inch.
Animation Tool Kit v1.1.3 adds the Blue Pencil Flipbook Manager, smarter toolbar docking, improved viewport thumbnail capture, persistent Maya hotkeys, and a new website shortcut.
Animation Tool Kit v1.1.2 is now available, bringing rebuilt tools, one-click toolbar actions, Maya hotkey support, cleaner installers, and toolkit-wide stability improvements for animators using Autodesk Maya.
Animation Tool Kit v1.1.1 is now available, with an updated Onion Skin tool focused on cleaner scene handling, improved ghost alignment, and better timeline marker support for Maya animation workflows.
ATK_v1.1.0 is a production-focused update for the Animation Tool Kit that improves tool reliability, UI consistency, and Maya animation workflow stability. This release includes major updates to Bookmarks, Inbetweener / World Tweener, Noise Generator, Character Snapshot, and Mirror Controls, with stronger timeline handling, safer undo behaviour, cleaner Qt-based interfaces, and a new Character Snapshot source-of-truth workflow for mirror matching and rig data.
This week, Conestoga College Animation joined Skills Canada to demonstrate 2D animation and character design, connect with students, and share the creative process behind bringing characters to life.
Animation Tool Kit is now live: a production-focused set of tools built to help animators move faster, stay organized, and spend more time animating.