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.