CEO Tom Bancroft interviews the newest advisory board member, actress Ming-Na Wen, draws, and answers your questions.

Here they are! For the first time, we had an animation category to #mermay and below is the list of winners! Thank you to our sponsors of this category- @wacom (first prize gets a 22” #Cintiq!) and @pencilishstudios (all winners will have this video shared of their work on Pencilish’s YouTube channel as well as on MerMay.com and elsewhere!). The winners are: ANIMATION CATEGORY First- Cody Shank (@amershkalump) “In The Splash of Time” Second- Celine Lecomte (@celine_lecomte_illustration ) “The Meeting” Third- Amber Schmoyer (@amber.schmo) “MerMay Race” (Tie for) Fourth – Fabricio Pagani (@fredic_z) “The Spell” and Sahar Golshahr (@sahar.gtoons) “Somewhere Better”

In this episode, former Disney animator Tom Bancroft teaches his twin daughters, Emma and Ellie, the basics of how to pose your characters to help tell a story. We hope you enjoy this! Sponsored by Wacom, makers of the ONE drawing surface!

In this third episode, Tom Bancroft (former Disney Animator) teaches his twin daughters another fundamental of art: Drawing Female Faces. Learn how to space your facial elements and then change them to create new characters. We appreciate if you leave a comment and like this video.

In this second episode, Disney animation veteran/dad Tom Bancroft instructs his daughters, Emma and Ellie, on the basics of drawing female faces. Enjoy and leave a comment if this was helpful to you!

Welcome to "Drawing with Tom Bancroft and the Twins" series! I'm a former Disney supervising animator but also a dad of four girls so when my teen twins, Emma and Ellie, came to me to ask me to teach them how to draw- we created this series to help others learn the foundations of drawing along with them! In Part 1, I start at the beginning and talk about how to use a pencil to sketch (something that is almost never taught these days). Sponsored by Wacom, makers of digital drawing tables and more.

For the Instagram drawing event, "MerMay", two twin former Disney animators banded together to make an epic 1 minute 2D Animation short film! Witness "High- Sea HiJinx"! Tony Bancroft (Pumbaa, Kronk) animated Earnest the seal and Tom Bancroft (Simba, Mushu) animated Emma the Mermaid. We used Wacom Cintiq hardware and TVPaint Animation software. Credits: Created and animated by Tom Bancroft @tombancroft1 and Tony Bancroft @pumbaaguy Animation assistants- Jon Densk @jondensk and William Austin @willaustin_art Editing and Sound effects - Phil Earnest @philcreative Opening Titles - Justin Garcia @budgessman Original Composition - Brandon Collins-@brandonmichaelcollins Sound Mix- Jordan Pratt @jpratt45