Thought of you (Ryan Woodward)

Just gorgeous, thanks to James M for the link...



Behind the scenes -

Kahani. Final Year student film (Meg Park)

From Cartoon Brew:

"Kahani is short film created by student Meg Park in her final year at Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. Park definitely shows talent in color design, effects and pacing – in some ways her making-of video is more inspiring than the finished film."

Making of video here:


> Production Blog
> Personal Website

Morning (Nikolai Stepanovich)

Just cos it made me smile.

Annecy 08 promo (Andres Salaff)

Another great use of colour, this time from Cal Arts graduate Andres Salaff. The inky watercoloured backgrounds and use of what looks like oil pastels on the feathers near the end of the clip lend this a distinctive look.

Becky - The cover girl of ImagineFX, issue 49 November 2009. Warren Louw (2D)

It's all in the pose!

Pencil Test Depot

For anyone interested in 2d pencil tests, this is a great blog. It has archived material from animation legends as well as links to new productions and individual artists. Well worth subscribing to.

http://www.penciltestdepot.com/

An example below:

Jesus 2000 (Gobelins)

Squashy, stretchy, pose-to-pose loveliness from Gobelins. Animated in Flash.

Mini Davey Jones (Pirates of the Carribean) by Tiago Hoisel

Line Art animation to Gigi D'Agostino's Bla Bla Bla

Cheers for this link Ricky! 2d Line art animation - to a beat. Haven't seen anything quite like it in a long while!

The Cat Piano, by People's Republic of Animation (PRA)

Great film-noir style in this 2d short by Australian studio People's Republic of Animation, blue and red hues on black backrounds with a use of transitions that harks back to the more trippy mgm Pink Panther segments of the 70's (this could be just me?) :) A very graphic style of animation; I'd never have placed the studio as Australian!

"Juiced and Jazzed" by Justin Weber

Here's a project clearly born from a love of early 2d animated classics. Well worth repeated viewings to check out all the little accents and details, beatiful piece of work with some wonderful animation in a style not revived in a long time!

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From the Author:
"We wanted to make a cartoon inspired by 1930s rubber-hose animation in the fashion of Max Fleicher’s Betty Boop, as well as having the polish and excitement of 1940s cartoons, à la Bob Clampett and Tex Avery."