Amazing hand animation

Cool Art based off of children's drawings!

I saw this the other day and I thought it was cool!

CLICK HERE!

Pyrats

""Pyrats" is an animated short film made by 5 french students from the animation school

"Gobelins l'école de l'image" in Paris ,FRANCE."

http://www.pyrats.net/movie.html

William Kentridge

Another Fine Art Animation Great. Animates on charcoal.

The Brothers Quay

Fine Art Animation. These guys(identical twins) are the godfathers of Alternative Animation!

SPIELBERG ON ANIMATORS

DemiUrge Emesis

Aurelio Voltaire's new stop motion film DimiUrge Emesis, narrated by Danny Elfman.

SImple, strong, well animated

How it was done... stop motion socks

Check out Carlo Vogele's site!

new hero

Awesome dragon dance!, er, I mean Lion

Dancing Lion from illworkz on Vimeo.

My buddy Jahmad

BoobyTrap from illworkz on Vimeo.

glen keane test

First rough Pencil-Test of Tarzan catching Jane

Team Fortress 2: Meet the Team

Sorry for the lack of embedding, but the best quality videos seem to be on Valve's official page.

Meet the Spy

Meet the Sniper

Meet the Engineer

Meet the Heavy

Meet the Demoman

Meet the Soldier

Meet the Scout

Meet the Sandvich

Jon Klassen

Simple, dramatic, beautiful design

Paper cut-out animation

This is the best cut-out animation and design I've seen.

Check out the credits animation for Madagascar.

Lou Romano

Pixar's Designer, Fabulous blog!

research for fresh ideas

The world is constantly giving us inspiration for designing. Look around, research, draw, combine, make it beautiful and your own.

I've always wanted to bring a deer into drawing class, maybe next semester!

Character Designer Chhuy-Ing IA

her website

Absolutely Fantastic!

Some resources I used this weekend

Stoc.Xchng - download free royalty free photos! I used these to use some photographic elements in my background images.

I also looked up some After Effects 3d text tutorials, on youtube like this one:


There are probibly even better ones out there if you look. I just type in "How to... blah and blah...in insert program name here" and just browse what comes up. I was manipulating type in after effects this weekend and youtube was a handy resource for that. Take atvantage of the nice folks offering up thier tips for free! ;)

Peter De Seve

Peter De Seve is the most popular character designer working today.

Check out his website

playing with sketchbook pro

Bobby Chiu

This is a demo on Autodesk sketchbook pro. But it is mostly the artist talking about being a student, the frustrations and his determination...... inspiring.

"I made this in 4th year at animation school at Sheridan. 5 months of storyboarding and re-boarding, 2 weeks of design and 3 months of mad production. Its all now but a fuzzy dream. There are a lot of things that were rushed, but it is what it is. Over the last year C Block has been showing in a few festivals around the world, and I was fortunate to attend a couple of them. I will try to make a a summary of it all at some point."
-Vladimir Kooperman

Hand drawn on paper, colored in Photoshop, composited in AfterEffects. Enjoy:

This is considered more motion graphics than animation, but it is dang cool!

parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.

THIS IS GOLD!

Absolutely enjoyed this one! Check it out!

"The Lady and the Reaper"

This one time... from nelson boles on Vimeo.

Oscar nominated for 2009
This Way Up - The best free videos are right here

old fangs, a 2010 sundance animation

thought i'd share this. very inspired by the gorgeous compositions and color. diggin the artistic style of this piece :)



Click here to watch Old Fangs

Thanks to James Hoe for this, I've been looking forward to seeing it!

Talented Kyle Santos found this online. S0 many ways to animate.

We can totally do this : - ]

Speaking of Animation

This is from a cool new website called Speaking of Animation:
Here’s evidence that proper acting and gestures are more important than lip-sync.
(It’s a clip Pete Docter showed in a lecture a couple years ago.)
So make sure your character’s body sells the line before you go crazy trying to get the lip-sync right.

Doctor Who?

I was really pleased to find on the Doctor Who page on BBC's website that they have examples of thier concept art and storyboards among other goodies. My husband and I caught up on the ones we missed over the winter break. I *heart* that show!

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

found these when linda suggested we look up some animation festivals. diggin the style and the stories are engaging :)

Monstera Deliciosa

Fenrir

La Grande Arche

tons of animation keys, model sheets, BGs, etc.

http://ultimateirongiant.com/model/model.php

Coraline Character Designer

http://www.shaneprigmore.blogspot.com/

http://louromano.blogspot.com/2009/05/art-of-up_3697.html
Lou Romano has a blog!

please post some cool stuff!

Um- How about something like this for ACM 320???? :)

Almost Complete ZEN PANDA from bj crawford on Vimeo.

http://emmanuellewalker.blogspot.com/

http://dylanforman.blogspot.com/

Low Oxygen from Dylan Forman on Vimeo.

ROBIN JOSEPH
Love this guys work!

http://patchoforange.net/

Welcome to the art jam!