Milt Kahl sequence from Disney's Robin Hood

Great sequence from Disney's Robin hood with some interesting insight and breakdowns on Andreas Deja's blog: 

http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2013/05/robin-hood-little-john-in-drag.html

Shroom (Laurent Pierlot)

Great colours and sinister undertones here - I loved that the hands and face on the main mushroom are things noticed at a second glance. For me at least!

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=1077879

Seeing a traditional animation studio in action is never less than fascinating. This short film focuses on the making of Popeye cartoons at Fleischer Studios in the 1930's

 

"Wreck-It Ralph" Animation Reel (Andrew Chesworth)

Great Wreck-It Ralph animation on Andrew Chesworth's reel, and more of his artwork here on his Vimeo Channel. Source: Flooby Nooby Blog / Vimeo

Nicolas Weis Artwork

An interesting style to this guy's artwork.  View more over on Cartoon Brew. His rough use of watercolour techniques looks great.

Home is a Quest (Onesize, for Warde)

Gorgeous fabric environments and characters by Kiwi motion graphics studio Onesize for Warde Source: Motionographer 

Lucas Cultural Arts Museum

http://www.presidio.gov/about/Documents/11_George%20Lucas.pdf

Museum for illustration, comics, digital arts, and all kinds of movie arts. Proposed for San Francisco.

Source: Drawn

Woah... a year out?

...Somewhat spookily I felt I should get back into posting to this blog, checking in today for the first time, 1 year exactly to the day since my last post! It seems this blog took a year long sabbatical! What with final work on Devil May Cry with Ninja Theory where I worked as an animator until recently and looking into new opportunities, I've neglected these pages.

From here on though, I intend to add update regularly as an ongoing scrapbook of all things inspirational. As of January this year I'm working in animation at Black Tusk Studios (Microsoft) in Vancouver.

The move has been exciting, exhausting and a little daunting, as moving to a new country almost certainly always is, but it's already proving an incredible experience. Devil May Cry shipped to great reviews almost universally, something our team at Ninja can be really proud of.

Paranorman Trailer (Laika)... from the makers of Coraline

"Cenk" Character Reel: Inspiring facial rigging

Wow... some of the best facial deformation I think I've seen in a character. Lovely stuff...