Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Enjoy the latest music video from Webuyyourkids. It’s for Paul Dempsey’s song, Bats.

I feel like I got this flood of great Geoff McFetridge exposure recently. Last time I was in Seattle, I discovered his fantastic installation at the Seattle Art Museum’s cafe by the sculpture garden. Then I watched the great documentary, Beautiful Losers, where McFetridge appears among a bunch of other artists I love. Of course he also did lettering, titles, and other drawings for Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are.

And finally, above is a great video of McFetridge talking about how he works and what he does, all while a video of him doodling runs on the screen behind him. Thanks, universe, for the inspiration!

I’m looking forward to the new Gorilaz album, Plastic Beach. More than the music, I’m looking forward to the animation and visuals that Jamie Hewlett will bestow on us. This trailer for the album certainly whets the appetite.

In these videos, Gabe Swarr shows how he creates his webcomic Big Pants Mouse using, first, Photoshop for his roughs, and then Flash for his final artwork. Note how Gabe pulls parts of his characters, pre-drawn, from a library of stock parts, but also mentions how he does this only when appropriate, and still draws poses from scratch when stock pieces don’t exist.

(via Cartoon Brew)

This trailer for the Bothers McLeod’s The Moon Bird is intriguing. I’m digging the black-and-white chalk drawing look; it’s nice and spooky, but without losing their trademark sense of fun.

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I love this animated spot for the 2010 Virgin London Marathon. Animation and illustration by Andy Rementer.

Previously: Techno Tuesday

I love these spots for Australian cable channel TV1. The three stop motion shorts try to capture the “quintessential Australian summer”. And while it’s winter in this hemisphere, it’s nice to daydream of sunny days on the beach.

The spots were created by the team at Sixty40.

The first four segments of Alex Dron’s FOT: The Next Big Thing (starring Flight of the Conchords‘ Rhys Darby) are now online. Here are parts one and two. (Visit the FOT site for the rest)

Previously: FOT

Olly Reid sends in this teaser trailer to something called Deus. He won’t say anything more about the short, but colour me intrigued. Can’t wait to see more.