Inspiration: Master Animators at Work - ERIC GOLDBERG

Master animator Eric Goldberg demonstrates how to animate.







A couple of Eric Goldberg animated commercials :










Here's a link to a presentation that Eric gave at the Academy of Art University's annual Fall Animation Festival in 2008 -


Industry On-Campus Videos - ERIC GOLDBERG


*NOTE:  Sorry, I can't embed the video here.  You'll have to go to the AAU Videos web page and scroll down through the list of videos to find "Eric Goldberg".  Click on Eric's name to launch the video.

British Animated Ads of the 80's

YouTube has a number of animated commercials by Richard Williams, Oscar Grillo, Richard Purdum, Eric Goldberg, and other luminaries of the British animation scene.

Also check out Garret Gilchrist's The Thief Archive channel on YouTube for more British commercials from the 70's and 80's.

Klacto Animation (Oscar Grillo and Ted Rockley) "Sinatra 20 Golden Greats" advert -



Klacto Animation (Oscar Grillo and Ted Rockley) "Heinz Baked Beans Lighthouse" ad.
Designed and directed by Oscar Grillo, Animated by Eric Goldberg, Backgrounds by Neil Cambell Ross.



Pizazz Pictures (Eric Goldberg) "Rolos" animated by Eric Goldberg -



Richard Willliams Animation . "Jovan Sex Appeal" ad , animated by Richard Williams, BGs by Rebecca Mills.



Richard Williams Animation. "Listerine" ad , animated (I think) by Russell Hall -






Richard Williams Animation . "Limara Perfume" ad. Not sure who animated. Maybe Eric Goldberg? -



Passion Pictures . "Cadbury Creme Eggs" advert. Animated by Chuck Gammage. -




Richard Purdum Animation . "Tate Gallery Liverpool - Modern Art" . Animated by Richard Purdum -

Making-Of "The Princess & the Frog" - A Frogumentary

Behind the scenes interviews with some of the artists who made "The Princess & the Frog" .

Here are two parts of the "frog-umentary" featuring Lead Animator Eric Goldberg , and Lead Key Clean-Up artist Marshall Toomey.

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Click through to YouTube to watch the other parts of the documentary.

Pups of Liberty - a new animated film by Bert & Jennifer Klein

Directed by Bert and Jennifer Klein, copyright Picnic Productions 2009.

This new animated film looks absolutely charming. "Pups of Liberty" is a 15 min. animated film directed by Bert and Jennifer Klein. The story of the 'Boston Teabone Party' told with cats and dogs. Beautiful 2D hand drawn animation.


(and check out the full crew list : http://www.pupsofliberty.com/FullCrewCredits.html . Quite the impressive pedigree this film has !)

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*UPDATE: There is now an interview about the making-of "Pups of Liberty" with the directors Jennifer & Bert Klein on Michael Sporn's blog. Check it out :

http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=2018

Many nice stills from the film are posted and Michael mentioned that in his next blog post tomorrow he will be posting some pre-production artwork from the film that the Klein's sent to him for the interview.

Eric Goldberg talk- AAU Fall Animation Festival 2008

Each Fall the Academy of Art University Animation Department has a Fall Animation Festival. In 2008 the special guest speaker was master animator Eric Goldberg who regaled the assembled students with a recounting of his brilliant career in animation (ongoing) with film clips accompanying his many charming anecdotes about his adventures in animation.

Click on the link to view Eric's presentation.

AAU Industry on Campus videos

(once you get to the "Industry on Campus" site , click on the link to "Industry on Campus: Eric Goldberg") .

I hope you enjoy watching this presentation as much as I did.

If you're an animation student at Academy of Art University (or anywhere else) and you don't yet own a copy of Eric's wonderful book "Character Animation Crash Course" then GET IT . (I mean it : go order it right now. Hop to it !)

The Art of Storyboarding

With your host, Eric Goldberg :

Eric Goldberg Interview Part 2 - Animation Podcast

Clay Kaytis has posted part 2 of his interview with Eric Goldberg on The Animation Podcast .

Eric Goldberg Interview on Animation Podcast - Part 2 

Listen and be inspired by Eric !  (and if you missed the first part , check it out and the other great interviews on the Animation Podcast  -- Eric Goldberg Part 1  )

Also, Eric now has an official website connected with his new book "Character Animation Crash Course"  with sample pages and movies from the animation in the book:

Goldberg Character Animation Crash Course website .

Eric Goldberg's 'Character Animation Crash Course'

Master animator Eric Goldberg's long-awaited book has finally been released.  



Character Animation Crash Course  is now available at your local bookstores (check Barnes & Noble or Borders , or online at Amazon.com) 

I have treasured my xeroxed copies of Eric's lecture notes from animation lectures he gave us at Disney several years back and now I am so glad to have all of this material , plus some new material that Eric has added to expand his notes, all bound together in neat little package , including a CD which has Quicktime movies of many of the animation examples he shows in the book. 

Eric is one of the best animators working today . This book will perfectly compliment the Richard Williams book . Some of the material will overlap , but Eric's approach to the material has a different flavor than Richard Williams' approach , so you'll get something new from Eric's book , even if you have the Williams book .

At Academy of Art we're not yet using this as a Required Textbook for any of our animation classes since it was just published over the summer,  but I can say without any hesitation to all of my students: This is a must-have book for any animator, student or pro.

The website Animated News and Views has a recent interview with Eric where he discusses the book:

Interview with Eric Goldberg on "Character Animation Crash Course"