{"id":156703,"date":"2025-03-26T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animation\/montgomery-thump-pilot-episode-the-video-that-started-the-academy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:09:08","slug":"montgomery-thump-pilot-episode-the-video-that-started-the-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=156703","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery Thump &#8211; Pilot Episode &#8211; The video that started the Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>This is the project that led to the creation of our school The Animation Academy. Authoring your own character based properties has been at the core of what we teach and a direction we have long encouraged our students to head towards. This is the era we have fully entered in the modern animation industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video is a great accomplishment. It was among the very first videos to utilize digital animation production for hand drawn animation. Many of our earliest students got their break into the biz by assisting with it. For a comprehensive history of the pilot episode of Montgomery Thump and Timbuk Too you&#8217;re invited to read the description in the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YxsF2zV0rdI\">link to the YouTube video<\/a>. You&#8217;ll find all the links to the other chapters in this story there as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keep Creating everyone! 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