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Last month we posted about Hans Bacher’s excellent blog Animation Treasures, in which Bacher does an amazing job re-creating classic …
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Thursday Morning Inspiration: Bretislav Pojar
This cartoon series is a surprising and joyful discovery for me. From what I’ve read online though, it seems to be a well known classic …
Monday Morning Inspiration: John Hubley Boards
Michael Sporn is posting the entire storyboard to the John and Faith Hubley short film Cockaboody (1974), along with frame grabs from the …
BG Inspiration
Art director Hans Bacher (Mulan) has started up an incredible new blog called Animation Treasures. He’s painstakingly recreating pan …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Tex Avery
The word genius is thrown around a bit too frequently nowadays (admittedly, I’m guilty of it myself), but true animation geniuses the …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Now Hear This (1962)
Now Hear This is without doubt one of the weirder (and more difficult to find) WB shorts that Chuck Jones ever made, but it’s a nice …
Friday Morning Inspiration: Hardie Gramatky
Hardie Gramatky (1907-1979), one of the great American watercolorists, actually started in animation working at Disney from 1929-1936. …
MONDAY MORNING INSPIRATION: Sam Cobean
Chuck Jones once said in an interview that when he wanted to draw believable human characters, he would pattern his drawing after Sam …
JIM FLORA INSPIRATION
Art by Jim Flora is being posted by guest blogger Irwin Chusid this week on Leif Peng’s Today’s Inspiration blog. Chusid, author/editor …
Monday Morning Inspiration: MUNRO and ERSATZ
Animation fan Kenny Bullard has recently been posting some terrific, difficult-to-find independent animation on YouTube, including Will …
The Animation Information Revolution
There is a quiet revolution happening in the animation community, and it’s all thanks to the Internet. With the explosion of blogs in the …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Charles Harper
This Flickr collection of 1950s bird illustrations by Charles Harper, courtesy of Eric Sturdevant, is incredible…so many interesting …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Joseph Holt
I’ve been a fan of Joseph Holt’s work ever since I ran across a big stack of his exquisite background layouts for MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE …
MONDAY AFTERNOON INSPIRATION: Random 50s Design
Here’s some random art from 1950s cartoons which appeal to me for different reasons. To start things off, below are four details from UPA …
Tons o’ Monday Morning Inspiration
Craig Yoe said it best in the recent anthology THE EDUCATION OF A COMICS ARTIST: “Those who don’t study the ‘toon past are doomed not to …
Wednesday Morning Inspiration: Bill Hurtz/Bob Dranko
I love these images from the UPA industrial film LOOK WHO’S DRIVING (1954). The design is spare, yet artful. More importantly, it’s a lot …
Monday Afternoon Inspiration: John Dunn
This is a painting by John Dunn (1920-1983), the supertalented story artist and designer who will be profiled in ANIMATION BLAST #9. …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Tom Oreb
Here’s a few random model sheet drawings by Tom Oreb. These drawings won’t be included in my forthcoming Chronicle book on 1950s …
Tuesday Morning Inspiration: Tom Oreb
A few random sketches by legendary animation designer Tom Oreb…
Monday Morning Inspiration: Jim Flora
This rare Jim Flora spot illustration is courtesy of Irwin Chusid, author of THE MISCHIEVOUS ART OF JIM FLORA, a terrific book which I …
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