Jim Henson Visiting The Empire Strikes Back Production Office

The Muppets On The Set Of 'The Empire Strikes Back'

Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Yoda and Luke Skywalker. (via)

E.T.

Carlo Rambaldi (1925 - 2012), 'father of E.T.' (Thanks, Laura)

Bruno Bozzetto: Space04, Kunsthaus Graz

On September 10th, 2014, 5:00pm, which is exactly two hours before the official opening of the Paperwalker exhibition, Bruno Bozzetto and my humble self will have a panel chat about all sorts of things (mostly animation related, I would imagine) at the Kunsthaus' fancy-pancy panel room, space04. (Photographs: Universalmuseum Joanneum, Nicolas Lackner)

Weekend Plan

(source/via)

Make A Wish: 1959 Cadillac Cyclone Concept Car

Exhibition: Paperwalker, Designforum Steiermark @ Kunsthaus Graz, SEP 10 - NOV 16, 2014

Advance guard making checks at the venue. (Photographs © Jorj Konstantinov. All rights reserved.)

John Starduck: DuckMe

Throwback reference... this kid on the reference photos is me, a couple of million years ago. Badass tee, isn't it? Anyways, I'm using this past-mini-me as reference/basis for the entire outfit design of the John Starduck character. This here is the first rough sketch of the process.

Inner Workings

Paperwalker Journal's Most Favourite Reference/Inspirational Photos, Part 10

Bullwinkle and Donald, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, NYC, at different years. (Source unkown: photographs are © by their respective owners. All rights reserved)

Paperwalker Journal's Most Favourite Reference/Inspirational Photos, Part 9

Lunch break with Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Billy Wilder (c. 1960, source unkown: photograph © by its respective owner. All rights reserved).

Two Of The Finest

René Goscinny and Morris on a rooftop terrace, Amsterdam, May 1971.

Photographs: Peters, Hans / Anefo

Paperwalker Journal's Most Favourite Reference/Inspirational Photos, Part 8

Girl reading comic book in newsstand, c. 1940–1945. Photograph by Charles “Teenie” Harris, courtesy of Eyes on Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Museum of Art. (via)

How To Draw

Smashing book cover, what a beauty from the past: Walt Disney's How To Draw And Color Book (Whitman, ca. 1960).

Carl Barks At His Drawing Table

ca. 1962/1963

The SpongeBob Movie [updated]

Sponge Out of Water - Official Trailer (2015)

Here's a piece (see below) I just came across at Sherm's. Sherm's the man!

The Ant And The Aardvark

These two characters were as important to me as the Disney classics were. Love everything about them, without any limitation. For more, please check out Colin Lougheed's posting about these very characters.