Melbourne illustrator Melanie Matthews has given herself quite the challenge for the year: 365 cartoons – 1 a day for the entire year. She kicked things off with this awesome tiger, presumably because it is the year of the tiger on the Chinese calendar.
Although, it is quite possible that she just loves tigers, as her portfolio is full of them! And that’s a good great thing.
Portland’s Curiosity Group has posted a gorgeous stop-motion video, plus a printable PDF so you can recreate the main character at home. Nice.
(via Curiosity Group former intern, Corey Thompson)
I love the work of Nathan Jurevicius, though it fell off my radar for a while until I saw another one of his fantastic toy series on a recent trip to San Francisco. It’s amazing to see his creations come to life in the string of MTV bumpers above.
(via Nathan’s twitter)
Director Rodrigo Blaas offers up Alma, a perfect little animated short that is equal parts Pixar and The Twilight Zone. Sadly, the short’s official site notes that it is only available for viewing online for a limited time. I don’t know how long that will be, but do enjoy it while you can.
Watch it in full screen.
Several years ago, animation historian John Canemaker wrote an exhaustive and very informative two-part article on the life and career of John Parr Miller, aka J. P. Miller for the ASIFA magazine, “Cartoons”. I’ve had the great pleasure of owning the two issues that featured this article and for a long time had the notion of sharing it somehow with others. Well, no need to now. NY animator Michael Sporn beat me to it and now you guys can see both parts of the article on his blog:
There’s some wonderful early work of Miller’s that Canemaker was able to show us, including this portrait of Mary Blair, whom J.P. traveled with (along with other artists) to South America during Disney’s “Good Neighbor” Tour of 1941.
I can’t imagine characters more fun to draw!
Looks like Fred Seibert is sharing a whack of stuff on Scribd, for various animated shows, including scripts, storyboards, media kits, and character bibles like this one.
Love this bit:
We’re not looking for “on model” drawings.
We’re looking for “in character” drawings.
(via @bobjinx)
Stephen Silver offers us this glimpse at his latest efforts for the Schoolism online art classes. The Masters Series: In the Studio With… is an ongoing documentary/interview series conducted by Stephen in the home studios of some cartooning greats. The first episode features iconic MAD Magazine caricaturist and parody artist Mort Drucker.
Stephen is as passionate about teaching others to love drawing as he is about drawing itself, so this is sure to be a great collection.
This short clips only whets my appetite for the full video, which will set you back $40.
At what point is it too late for new year posts? You’re all still just settling back into work, right? Anyway, Christopher Harrup put together this swell animated new years card and you can find a short production journal over at his site.
Loving these fake screengrabs of fake movie titles from illustrator Matthew Lyons. I wish they were all real movies.
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