Anthony KoithrainLocodromeTwo Years of Being an Indie AnimatorApril 1st marked two full years since I quit my job to make independent animated films, so its a good occasion to take stock and see how…7 min read·Apr 15, 2024--1--1
Anthony KoithrainLocodromeMaking an Original Short Film in Unreal: Part 1This is the first in a series of posts about the production of my original short animated film ‘Machines Learning’. I’ve written about some…7 min read·Feb 6, 2024----
Anthony KoithrainLocodromeWill AI Destroy Animation As We Know It?I’ve recently been bombarded with a lot of doomsday talk about AI’s disruption of the animation industry, often in articles with…11 min read·Aug 8, 2023----
Anthony KoithrainLocodromeThe Summer of GobelinsWay back in the late Cretaceous (like, 2006) I saw an animated short called ‘Burning Safari’, which made an enormous impression on me. It…5 min read·Jul 18, 2023----
Anthony KoithrainLocodromeUnreal Filmmaking: The Avengers meets The OfficeLike I said in my last post, as I prepare for some bigger original short films, I’m trying to quickly crank out another ~2 minute short, an…6 min read·Apr 28, 2023----
Anthony KoithrainLocodromeOne Year of Being a Solo Indie AnimatorIt’s been a few months since my last entry — largely because I’ve been deep in the animation trenches, cranking on new projects…6 min read·Mar 30, 2023----
Anthony KoithrainLocodromeThe Unbearable Lightness of Being a Shark & Other StoriesLast year I posted a few of the (very) short 100 and 250 word stories I’d written for the NYC Midnight series of competitions — they’re…3 min read·Jan 2, 2023----
Anthony KoithrainLocodromeUnreal Filmmaking: Building a Stylized Custom MetahumanIn my last diary entry I described my character workflow problem statement as: How to (A) keep a distinctive and stylized shape for the…7 min read·Dec 28, 2022----
Anthony KoithrainLocodromeUnreal Filmmaking: More Human than MetahumanAnyone with even a passing familiarity with animation has likely heard of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ — the creepy feeling that some people…5 min read·Dec 20, 2022----
Anthony KoithrainLocodromeUnreal Filmmaking: Production Tracking for the Solo AnimatorThis is the second diary entry on production for Project Rogue (you can read the first here, and all about pre-production here and here)…8 min read·Dec 12, 2022----