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...

Rebirth of Gaea

Not only impressive compositing, but a huge effort invested in making this 'making of' animation showing the process.

The Pirates! Band of Misfits - Featurette #1 (2012) [HD]

Click the title for the official site, interesting behind the scenes stuff here too...

Bon Iver - Towers (Official Video)

Twinings "Sea" advertisement (Psyop)

Twinings "Sea" Sound design & mix by Raja Sehgal & Munzie Thind from GCRS on Vimeo.

Gorgeous spot for Twinings tea from Psyop, everything about this works really well. It seems to borrow heavily from a sequence in Studio AKA's short film Lost and Found, in itself no bad thing!

Stopover (LeMob)

By all accounts, this is almost a 1-man job. No small achievement!

Neil Stubbings own site is well worth checking out too.
http://www.lemob.ch/

BUNRAKU (Guilherme Marcondes)

Great puppet, prop and paper cutout animated intro for Guy Moshe's film Bunraku.

...Click here or on an image below for a flickr set of the artwork.

Fox Retro Promo (Punga)

Tons of references to video games of old, animated in a lovely throwback style...

Paths of Hate (Platige Image)

Great short from the very distinctive production studio Platige Image.

http://www.itsartmag.com/features/pathofhate/
http://www.itsartmag.com/features/pathshatemo/

Glen Keane Character art for Tangled

Cheers for this link James - some great character studies from Glen Keane for Tangled.

http://floobynooby.blogspot.com/2011/07/art-of-glen-keane.html

New ISO50 test video

You’ve got to love what this guy does with colour. On screen, photo and video treatments, print, there’s always an interesting tactile, analog feel to his work.

Tycho live visuals test footage from ISO50 on Vimeo.