DreamWorks animator Jamaal Bradley has been a long-time aficionado of pencil tests, and his website Pencil Test Depot has evolved into the place for collecting and sharing pencil tests. Encompassing ...

Previously presumed lost to time, the black and white pencil test trailer for Brad Bird’s long-gestating but unrealized project The Spirit, dating back to the early 1980s, has emerged from suspended ...

Back in 2008, there was a live-action feature film adaptation of Will Eisner's celebrated comic The Spirit. Graphic novel writer Frank Miller directed the film in the same style as the big screen ...

Former writer for Game Rant, Grown Gaming, and GameCola. Dan watches movies and TV shows sometimes, which tends to be helpful when writing about them. He's also an avid player of video games, but ...

Just a few months ago, animators Mike Dietz and Ed Schofield had no idea where their next paycheck would come from. The two video-game industry veterans had founded Pencil Test Studios in 2009 so they ...

Pencil is a very realistic sketching program and good 2D animation tool for the cost (free). Think of Pencil (free) as an animator’s digital sketchbook. It’s 2D; you can sketch things very well, then ...