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akira yamaguchi - http://www.mizuma-art.co.jp

Carlos iryalba -

genovese studios - genovesestudios.com

Brendan Monroe - www.brendanmonroe.com

super mundane - www.supermundane.com

Blu Blu

Don't know too much about the background of this perticular street artist/animator but he's one of my favourite artists at the moment. Went to see an exhibition of his work in london. please click here to see this guys work, mind blowing. Will update his background soon.

Walking (2007)


Fantoche (2007)

Gerald McBoing-Boing

Gerald McBoing-Boing is a 1950 animated short film produced by UPA and given wide release by Columbia Pictures on January 25, 1951. The winner of the 1950 Academy Award for Best Animated Short, Gerald McBoing-Boing is the story of a little boy who speaks through sound effects instead of spoken words. It was adapted by Phil Eastman and Bill Scott from a story by Dr. Seuss, and directed by Robert Cannon. The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In 1994, it was voted #9 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.

Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950)

Bill Plympton

Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon to Don and Wilda Plympton. From 1964 to 1967, he attended Portland State University, where he was a member of the film society and worked on the yearbook. In 1968, he transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, New York.
Plympton's illustrations and cartoons have been published in The New York Times and weekly arts newspaper The Village Voice, as well as in the magazines Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Penthouse, and National Lampoon. His political cartoon strip "Plympton", which began in 1975, eventually was syndicated and appeared in over 20 newspapers. His distinctive style is easily recognized.
Plympton is considered the first animator to draw every frame for an animated feature film entirely by himself. Signe Baumane, also a director and animator, has been inking and painting Plympton's cells for many years. As of 2006, Plympton has created 26 animated short films and five animated features. He has also published a comic book, The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton. Plympton usually publishes a comic book of his feature before he releases the feature to raise money for the film. Plympton has teamed up with other independent New York City animators from and has released two DVDs of animated shorts. Avoid Eye Contact Volumes 1 & 2. His work also appeared on the 1992-1993 FOX Network comedy series The Edge.
From 2001 to 2003, he teamed with Don Hertzfeldt for the touring "The Don and Bill Show" which was played throughout the United States.
In 2005, Plympton's "Guard Dog", was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Also that year, Plympton animated a music video for Kanye West's "Heard 'Em Say". In 2006, Plympton created the music video for "Weird Al" Yankovic "Don't Download This Song". The actress Martha Plimpton, "a distant relative of mine" served as associate producer on Plympton's animated feature Hair High (2004), doing much of the casting. The movie's voice cast included her father, Keith Carradine, and her uncle David Carradine. Plympton said in early 2007 he was working on an 80-minute feature, Idiots and Angels, that will have no dialogue.

Below are two of my favourites but there are many more classics.

Push come to shove (1991)


Nose hair (1994)


Click here to visit Plympton's personal website.

Ivan Maximov

Ivan Maximov was born on 19 November 1958 in Moscow. He studied photography at the Biophysical Institute in Moscow till 1976. From 1976 - 1982 Maximov studied at the Physical-Technical Institute in Moscow. He worked as an illustrator for various magazines and from 1982 to 1986 he was an engineer at the Russian Space Research Institute. Between 1986 and 1989 Maximov took advanced studies in Film Directing and Script writing.Starting 1995 he worked as "virtual studio IVAN MAXIMOV" where he set up his studio at home to work on film, video and computer animation. He worked as a caricaturist for VREMYA mn and in 2000 and 2001 he worked as a caricaturist for VREMYA NOVOSTEY. In 2003, Maximov created the computer game Full Pipeand began teaching film directing and script writing at school-studio SHAR and VGIK. In 2007, Mr. Maximov completed his latest work Rain Down from Above.

take a look at his first animation below (pretty trippy stuff);
From left to right (1989)


click here for a link to his website.

kristofer Strom

Cant find much info at the mo but check this guy's crazy interactive 2D animation, must of used a white board i guess, fecking sweet.

Minilogue/hitchhikers choice (2006)


click here to this guys website.

Wada Nanahiro

Wada Nanahiro is a japanese graphic design who creates intresting interactive flash animation. Click on the picture above and try and crack the puzzle to unlock the treasure.

Otherwise click here to see links to the rest of Nanahiros animations and illustrations

Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren was born in Stirling, Scotland, where he studied set design at Glasgow School of Art. His early experiments with film and animation included actually scratching and painting the film stock itself, as he did not have ready access to a camera.
After finishing his studies in Glasgow and making a few films in London, McLaren moved to New York City in 1939, just when World War II was about to begin. At the invitation of John Grierson, he moved to Canada in 1941 to work for the National Film Board, to open an animation studio and to train Canadian animators. During his work for the NFB, McLaren created his most famous film, Neighbours ( 1952, viewed below), which has won various awards around the world, including the Canadian Film Award and the Academy Award. Besides the brilliant combination of visuals and sound, the film has a very strong social message against violence and war.
In addition to film, McLaren worked with UNESCO in the 50s and 60s on programs to teach film and animation techniques in China and India. His five part "Animated Motion" shorts, produced in the late 70s, are an excellent example of instruction on the basics of film animation.

Neighbours (1952)


Such Mclaren films like Neighbours have inspired generations, like this contemporary short film below for example;

Tony vs. Paul (2006)

Pic pic et Andre

what the feck is goin on

Osamu Tezuka

Dr. Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫 Tezuka Osamu?, November 3, 1928 - February 9, 1989) was a mangaka Japanese manga artist and animator. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. He is often credited as the Father of Anime, and the Walt Disney of Japan.

Below is Tezuka’s original (and much more creatively executed) short Jumping (1984).

JUMPING

Christy Karacas

two animations by Christy Karacas

SPACE WAR


BAR FIGHT [ALSO CO-CREATED BY STEPHEN WARBICK

snails abused

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