A look behind the scenes of Tangled,

Andreas Deja starts blogging,

and Valve explains how the Meet the Medic short came to be.

Molyneux, Mechner, Chahi et al discuss the making of their classic games,

Google zooms all the way in on the world’s art,

DICE explains the moves in Mirror’s Edge,

and Gambit talks to various Looking Glass alums.

J. Shea explores believability in fiction,

Victor Navone ponders animating limited characters,

Double Fine joins the podcasting world,

and Gamestorm collects indie design sketches.

Adam Saltsman goes into subtle detail on creating Canabalt,

Eric Guaglione shows an early 3D test of Roger Rabbit 2,

the University of British Columbia knows how to stitch panaromas,

and Peter Kelly (ILM) has Useful Tips on animation.

Happy 2011!

A gorgeous light-show on a 600-year old clocktower,

great interviews with indie game developers,

Monet and web-design,

Dovi Anderson (Pixar) on animation lists

and an interview with Glen Keane. (en français, translation here)

Seven Camels ponders tone and colour,

Chris Hecker et al argue in favour of brevity,

Cameron Fielding talks of work abroad,

and Derek Yu says you should finish your game.

More good advice from Games Industry Mentor,

Carlos Baena does a recap of some of his animation writings,

how to animate a 2D platform game with Earthworm Jim,

and Temple of the Seven Camels still golden.

Shaylyn Hamm creates a female cast for TF2,

Ken Robinson talks about creativity and education,

and Batman likes videogames.

Good animation advice from Bobby Pontillas on breathing,

some wonderful art of pixels and Wild Things,

moving drawings at the Pencil Test Depot,

… and notes, slides, and other materials from GDC…