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Category: Animation

  • Jamie Caliri

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    Jamie Caliri isn’t an illustrator, animator or graphic artist, he’s the director of two of my favorite recent short animations. If you haven’t seen Dragon, the wonderful, essentially wordless, animated ad for United Airlines in which a father tucks his son in bed and flies off on the back of a bird to meet with…

  • Ree (Cherie) Treweek

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    Ree (pen name for Cherie) Treweek is a South African artist and illustrator. Her fascinatingly detailed illustrations and drawings usually start as an ink drawing that she brings into Photoshop to be fully developed, occasionally in collaboration with Jannes Hendrikz. The images look anything but digital and modern, however. They seem to be from another…

  • Max Fleischer

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    Max Fleischer was a pioneering animator responsible for some of the all-time classic animated cartoons. Together with his brothers Dave and Joe he founded Fleischer Studios, one of the first animation studios. It was Fleischer, not Disney, who produced the first sound cartoons. The studio was responsible for the Betty Boop cartoons, KoKo the Clown,…

  • Nosepilot (Alexandru Sacul)

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    Nosepilot is a diversion: a Flash animation in which charmingly simple vector drawings morph and change and blend one into the other in a loose, not-quite-a-story sequence set to music. I think Nosepilot has been on the web in one form or another for at least 8 or 9 years, and has been immensely popular…

  • Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli)

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    Hayao Miyazaki is arguably the greatest of all directors of “anime”, Japanese animation. He is noted for such classic animated films as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Laupta: The Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and, most recently, Howl’s Moving Castle (Amazon links).…

  • Dodecaden (Man Arenas)

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    Man Arenas is a production designer and concept artist, primarily for animated films. His production designs, storyboards, location drawings and character designs are sometimes simple, sometimes complex but always beautifully realized, He works in a loose, confident drawing style that is full of life and just plain fun to look at. Many of the images…