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Stolen Items - Minecraft Animation

In this animation I started to use the Pose-to-Pose workflow. Obviously still a lot of flaws and problems, but I think this is a step in the right direction.

Create an animation for me!

I also get a lot of questions asking if I will make an animation for someones channel. I typically spend between 50 and 100 hours to create a 2-3 minute animation. This is just too much work to give away. Even if you give me full credit with an annotation link at the end, I would probably only get a few dozen subs from a small to medium sized channel. Compare that to hundreds that I could get if I just do my own animation. I would only consider creating an animation for someone else in two scenarios:

1. You have a great idea for an animation, I create the animation and upload it on my channel (only my channel, I don't do shared uploads). You would get an annotation link at the end giving full credit for the idea. This would assume you have a fully written script with lots of details. It also assumes that the idea is not too long or complex, I don't want to spend much more than 1 month on an animation right now. If it works out and the video does a million views then your channel would get a fair amount of traffic from it.
2. If a large channel (100k subs or more) approached me about making an animation for them, I would probably consider it. The reason I might do this is because even though only a few percent of the people that watch the animation will follow the annotation link at the end, that would still be thousands of new people coming to my channel. Of course a channel with that many subs obviously has no problem generating views and really doesn't need my help  ;)

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but it is reality kids. Even your best friend is unlikely to do something for you that takes 100 hours unless he is also getting something significant from it as well.

Animation Help

I often get questions from people asking me to help them with Blender, or asking me to make tutorials. Since I have very little free time, I can't do either of those. The best I can do is show you what I did to learn Blender.

Beginner
This guy makes great turorials and there are a LOT of them. This should keep you busy for a long time. Also note that he has everything organized into playlists, including a specific one for beginners.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ianscott888

Beyond Beginner
All of the items below assume you have a basic working knowledge of Blender, but they generally show every step and explain things very well.
http://cgcookie.com/blender/
http://www.blenderguru.com/

The Blender Wiki seems to be hit or miss, there is some good info, but it will often just show you exactly what you see in the interface.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual


I also own the training series below from Blander Cookie. This is more advanced animation training, I highly recommend these for learning to animate with Blender.
http://cgcookie.com/blender/2012/03/15/character-animation-fundamentals-v1-training-series/
https://cgcookie.com/downloads/blender-animation-toolkit/