Split Screen!

Another great find, today! Enjoy:

Splitscreen: A Love Story from JW Griffiths on Vimeo.

via colossal art + design

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The Broccoli House

Hahaha, this one made my day:

via swissmiss

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Pixar's Brave Teaser Trailer

Via Onanimation.com

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Take The Bus

Lovely character design on the ants.

Via Onanimation.com

Update: By the way, Davide (see comments) is absolutely right, the clip with the penguins is indeed a funny and well designed one, too :) Love the design on the Orca whale:

And last but least, here's the one with the fireflies:

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Robot Commando!

Frankly, robots always make my day :) Oh boy, how much I like those kind of 1960s toy commercials!

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Vehicle Design: Jaguar E Type Inspired Submarine

Legendary cars are always good "shape-helpers" to me...

Photo: Wikimedia

By the way, this bird controlled and Jaguar inspired submarine is part of a range of designs of mine (mainly out of "Toby Skybuckle" and "Motorbirds" visdev things) which will be exhibited at the Top International Designers Show in the scope of this year's Shanghai Design Exhibition.

Photo: Wikimedia

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Mr. Bubble (1950s); We Learn About The Telephone (1965)

Update: OH WOW, WHAT A FIND, how beautifully and smoothly animated this commercial is. A real treasure for classical hand drawn animation lovers:

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Apropos, I really love the animation parts of this educational film from the 1960s, too:

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The Machiniac

Do you want to know where I go first when I need some inspiration and some decent reference materials for vehicle designs and things? Machiniac is the answer...

All images images copyrighted © by their respective owners.

Update: Best of behind the scenes photos (via swissmiss).

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Deja View

No way! Disney's Andreas Deja started blogging!

© Andreas Deja/Disney Corp.

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Toby's Hands

Practice at drawing hands is always worthwhile. At Toby Shelton's blog is a beautiful post from last year about this topic worth revisiting:

Artwork © by Toby Shelton. W.r.r.

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Brilliant Animation Test

Well, I wouldn't call this a test, it's more like a brilliantly done little movie, wonderfully deployed by SONY's uber-talented Chris Williams.
"Here's an early performance test I animated for the Mayor in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. This is unfinished and is still quite rough in terms of timing and lip sync, but it gives you an idea of where we were heading with this little guy. Enjoy!"

Rough Animation Test for Mayor Shelbourne from Chris Williams on Vimeo.

(via OnAnimation.com)

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Update: Here's a nice Q&A with 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' titles co-director Todd Hemker:

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Radio Controlled Pet In Manhattan

Last year, we spent about 4 weeks in NYC. I've done a lot of sketching there, at places like Central Park, Bryant Park and Union Square... Bryant Park by the way I liked best regarding sketching around, watching people and stuff.

That summer, we also had the joy to meet up with Tina Roth Eisenberg in her studio in Brooklyn. I still owe her a swiss-miss-branded duck. Which is so very nearly finished since last year, only the final clean-up is missing...

(above from left: Maryam Laura Moazedi, Tina Roth Eisenberg and me behind the camera)

Photos © Maryam Laura Moazedi. W.r.r.

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The Mountain

Purely tremendous (via OnAnimation):

"This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide. Spain´s highest mountain @(3718m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world´s best observatories."

The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

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Mattias Adolfsson: The First In Line

I'm a great admirer of Mattias Adolfsson's work and style, now, his first personal book is out, full of selected artwork from his sketchbooks. Yay! Check out his blog for more details... and don't forget to view the assorted pieces section!

Via lines and colors

Images © by Mattias Adolfsson. World rights reserved.

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How To Draw A Duck

This is the very man who is behind my enthusiasm for drawing ducks and all kinds of bird-like characters. Jeremy Townsend aka Jimmy Jammz from Super Experts U.S.A., enjoy:

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Apropos Future of The Past: Yesterday's Cars of Tomorrow

As a visual development artist I collect reference materials a lot. Like this very clip which inspired pretty much several vehicles I did some time ago for a Red Bull project. In one of my next postings I'll give an example of exactly how, in detail, those "retrofuturish" things affect my design work.

By the by, this here is one of my all time favourites, the Bugatti Atlantic. They only built 3 or 4 of them: Click here for the YouTube clip

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Pure Inspiration: Magic Highway USA (1958)

How Disney saw the future of highway transportation. I really love the art direction on this.

© Disney Corp. World rights reserved.

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Motorbirdcopter Super Suit 3000e

This is the rough design of a little gift for my pal Achdé I'm working on. It's a sort of further stage of the "Lucky Duck" I did 2 years ago. I stressed the "Motorbirdpunk" features a little more than in the earlier version. I'll post the finished/coloured piece at a later time...

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Alex Orrelle

This is the current Animation Reel of my uber-talented blood brother Alex. He's a true wiz in every aspect of animation, enjoy:

Alex Orrelle Animation Reel from Alex Orrelle on Vimeo.

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Rough Artwork

This is a rough visdev piece out of a stack of early concept sheets for Toby Skybuckle©. This gives btw nothing away. I won't do any spoilers here. It's just a wild rough sketch with no relevance for the story...

Toby Skybuckle © Florian Satzinger/Ankama Editions. W.r.r.

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