Todays post is more animation studios from the 1950s. This post is still part of my Cartoon Modern series. Its such a beautiful book I must share it all. Enjoy!
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Your Friend The Rat Color Scripts
Todays update are some beautiful color scripts from Pixar’s Ratatouille short titled Your Friend The Rat. A beautiful short and one of my favorite short films from Pixar. I love the way they tell their history, the visuals are great and its the type of animation short that really captures my attention…ENJOY!
Terry Toons Animation Studios
Todays blog post is the chapter from Cartoon Modern where they cover Terry Toons Animation Studios
Dustcap Doormat
Springtime for Clobber 1958
Tom Terrific 1957
Sick Sick Sidney 1958
Depth Study 1957
Flebus 1957
UNITED PRODUCTIONS of AMERICA
Todays update is more Cartoon Modern, I want to high light one of my favorite animation studios. United Productions of America or UPA for short. They made some amazing works of art. True mastery from everyone involved. The images below are from the book by amid amidi.
Flat Hatting 1946
The Jaywalker 1956
Cartoon Modern pt.2
Today I share with you some more beautiful 1950’s style animation. Such a cool era, I love how style ran wild and we got so many beautiful cartoons and commercials. Enjoy!
all images come from the book Cartoon Modern by Amid Amidi
Cartoon Modern pt.1
Todays update is the start of a new book for the club! It’s a favorite of mine for many reasons. For starters I just love the 1950 art style of the smaller animation studios. It was a time in history where a lot really talented people got together and experimented. The booming economy fueled the growth of the modern cartoon look. The book Carton Modern by Amid Amidi is packed with beautiful images of the area. Pick it up if you want to learn more.
Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom 1953
Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom 1953
Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom 1953
Petroushka 1956
BG concept by Jules Engel for The Alvin Show 1961
Disney Studios King Louie expression sheet
today’s post is a beautiful illustrations with some king louie designs and expressions from the disney studios the jungle book. one of my favorite movies from disney, the animation masters frank thomas ollie johnston and milt kahl created magical with this one. below that is andy warhol print
alextoons promo 5
a 5th promotional video for the brand. I really enjoy making these they are a lot of fun!
Alextoons promo1
in art
I have spoken in the past about how I wanted to create a YouTube. The time is now there is no time like the present so here it is my very first edit. I want to keep this fun and simple and just build discipline at making content
My mentor Tsukasa
When I was in art school I had a mentor named Tsukasa. He was about 10 years older then me, grew up on 90's hiphop lived in Brooklyn and was from Tokyo Japan. I was very drawn to the man for several reasons. His artistic voice and abilities as a draft men and animator where some of the best I'ed ever seen. His key poses where something unlike anything I’ed seen. They contained so much movement and power, I would study his drawing in awe.
Unfortunately while he was working on his final project the Tsunami hit Japan and he ended up leaving to help his fellow country men rebuild forcing him to pause his thesis project. Before this occurrence I was helping him with his project. I would clean up some of his scenes and scan them, preparing them for compositing. He was an upper classmate and as tradition goes they usually enlist the under classmates to help. After his return I was knee deep in my own thesis and didn’t have much time to help him, I tired my best but as is usually the case with thesis projects it was a huge undertaking and he just didn’t have enough time to polish his.
However he did manage to complete the majority of his rough animation and a few cleaned up scene. Long story short I ended up storing a few boxes of his during one of his moves. These boxes contained his thesis drawing, I have recently re discovered them after about a decade in my basement closet. There is a lot of animation and the majority is beautiful worth studying and sharing.
So this lead me to the purpose of this post, within the coming weeks I will be re scanning some of his drawing. I will try and composite some of the scene’s and I will share them on this site. I don’t know exactly how long that will take, I am knee deep with my own animation project so it will be an on going restoration project, but believe me when I say it will be worth it. I also don’t know the timing of his scene so I will be using my judgement and opinion when the time comes.
Final note about mentors, I have had two mentors since my journey as an animator started in 2007. Both have influenced me in different ways, I have fallen out of contact with both but I still feel like I will carry their teachings with me for the rest of my years. Do you have a mentor story? How have they helped you grow?
These are some key poses from the project. As you can tell…AMAZING!!
The Art of WALLE pt.5
some more PIXAR’s the art of WALLE scans. this book is filled from cover to cover with beautiful pages, i just cant help myself but to share some of them. this update will focus on the axion and a few other things.
i really like the final design for the “auto pilot”
early concepts, very cool to see how much it’s changed and where they where trying to go early in the production
