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Alex Leighton

Alex Leighton (or Xander Laytin) is the lead character designer fr Mukpuddy Animation in New Zealand. I’m digging his stylized colourful paintings — I’d love to see a show in this style.

  • http://monsterhaven.blogspot.com/ marmax

    Great stuff! Thanks for posting this!

  • http://monsterhaven.blogspot.com marmax

    Great stuff! Thanks for posting this!

  • http://www.safelittleworld.com/ andrew

    new zealand rules

  • http://www.safelittleworld.com andrew

    new zealand rules

  • http://www.karla78.com/ Karla

    Hahahahaha, this is my fiance and he rules and now the whole world knows!!!! World domination is close at hand!!!!

  • http://www.karla78.com Karla

    Hahahahaha, this is my fiance and he rules and now the whole world knows!!!! World domination is close at hand!!!!

  • http://podgypanda.deviantart.com/ podgypanda

    sweet!

  • http://podgypanda.deviantart.com podgypanda

    sweet!

  • Flamen Dialis

    God, I love this kind of stuff! The beauty of this piece in its direct simplicity. It gives one a very pleasant, benign feeling. Who’d a thought that a skull with a visible braintop would look so friendly? This is the sort of painting that I like to keep on my walls. Jes’ beautiful!

  • Flamen Dialis

    God, I love this kind of stuff! The beauty of this piece in its direct simplicity. It gives one a very pleasant, benign feeling. Who’d a thought that a skull with a visible braintop would look so friendly? This is the sort of painting that I like to keep on my walls. Jes’ beautiful!

  • http://drawn.ca/?p=1627 Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog » Blog Archive » Mukpuddy takes on the Colgate Taste Buddies

    [...] Recently, as part of a month long dental hygiene campaign, New Zealand kids show, Studio 2, announced a special contest to all kids: make a comic strip featuring the Colgate Taste Buddies and the winner would have their strip animated by New Zealand’s own Mukpuddy Animation (previously written about here and here). The submissions came in and were looked through, but in the end Liam and Rachel Thompson were declared the winners. From there Mukpuddy had only two weeks to get the short designed, animated, and out to the masses. Read the official account, along with the winning entry and character redesigns, over at the Mukpuddy blog and watch the finished version of the short below. [...]