Today we have the wonderful, zany illustrations of Josh Parpan to inspire you! He’s a former CalArts student now working at Disney TV on a show called ‘Gravity Falls’. Josh has a superb grasp on character design, with all manner of angles and shapes explored to great effect. His colour palettes are also always stylish and tasteful.
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Wischnik was born in Wolgast, and now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His website portfolio is a must-see. It’s full of all sorts of styles and mediums, including vector, animation, collage, traditional inked illustration, digital illustration and even a great little comic strip simply titled ‘Oh’. You can definitely see that this is someone who enjoys their work. And I enjoyed it too.
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Student of the famous Gobelins School, Rémy Schaepman, whilst studying produced two outstanding short animations. The first Dodudindon, produced for Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and the second is the prize-winning Three dots. He has great versatility, displaying a range of accomplished styles both in his animations and personal work. To see more of his work, head over to his website.
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Most illustrators I’ve come across use pencils to sketch with, so when I first saw Joe’s work I thought it was totally refreshing. Not only are his pencils finished pieces, he also animates using this method. Beautifully grotesque, Joseph’s work is an ongoing exploration of the absurd. In his own words:
“All my personal work is based around a long standing research project which focuses on the absurd and its relationship to visual and written communication. I am interested in How fantasy, nonsense and the inexplicable can take on the semblance of ‘normality’. The language of science is one element which I look at extensively in my work, exploring how this language can be used to represent the absurd and what effect this has on the narrative. I explore these subjects using narrative illustration and illustrative animation, creating printed books and short animations.”
Visit Joe’s website to see more of his excellent work.
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The label “Internet Famous” gets thrown about a lot these days, not always justifiably, but after amassing a huge fan-base on sites like deviantArt and Facebook, I believe Lois Van Baarle has definitely earned it. Born in Holland, Lois Van Baarle studied animation in Ghent, Belgium, then continued her studies at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU). Lois is currently working as a freelance illustrator and animator with international clients including Channel 4, CBBC, and Centre National du Jeu. All the while self-funding and developing her animation project, Trichrome. Check out her website for more stunning work. Also her FAQ is a very useful read for those looking to to start a career in illustration or wanting to learn more about digital techniques.
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Brace yourself, you may step into the same trap that a lot of people do, and fall in love with Jake Wyatt’s work. Contributor to The Anthology Project, Mr. Wyatt’s style is deceptively simple. His typical process is darkening his pencils in Photoshop, applying flat colours, and a couple textures on top. I think a strength of his work, beside fooling us into thinking it’s so easy, is that his characters are so believable. If you, like I suspected, have fallen in love with Mr. Wyatt you can hang out with him just as long as you stick to these simple rules. Alternatively you can follow Mr. Wyatt’s work on his tumblr and deviantArt page.
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Vietnamese illustrator Le Thu is currently working on a really interesting comic book project entitled ‘Titi’s Adventure’. It’s about a boy called Titi who enters a fantasy land where trees take human form and vice versa.
“There is a world, where plants become not so far from human kind…”
Le’s work generally is very cute and pleasing to the eye, and there are several interesting projects to browse through on her Behance page. Enjoy!
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HonkFu is a visual development studio based in Moscow, Russia. They work in a wide range of styles, primarily in comics and animation. Their animated project ‘JAM’ looks beautiful, fun and atmospheric so that’s one to look forward to. Here’s a bit about it: JAM … Read on
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I stumbled on Patrick Leger’s work a short while ago through the excellent promotion illustrations he created for Adult Swim’s Venture Bros.. As well as Turner Broadcasting, some of his other client’s include The New York Times, Esquire, Harper Collins, GQ and Google, but a … Read on
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Strange Oaks is the short animation from super skilled Spanish studio, Headless. Headless is a small, but evidently, very well formed, independent animation studio headed up by Adrian Garcia, Victor Maldonado and Alfredo Torres. Their work is quite phenomenal for such a small team. It has a very quirky feel, but a slightly dark edge—very dark, in the case of Strange Oaks.
Last I heared, Headless were working on a hand drawn feature length animation, along side Nectarious Films, called My Family and the Wolf. Pop over to their Vimeo page where you can see the film’s teaser trailer.
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There is a multitude of merry work by Texas based, Andy Helms. His blog, oktotally has a plethora of pop-culture piece. Some of which have been thoughtfully animated for Mr. Helms amusement and ours. I am especially appreciating his He-man and X-men interpretations.
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Today on The Lounge we have super talent André Smatik Ljosai aka Smatik. Art direction, illustration, motion graphics and graphic design are amongst his skill set, with many of the world’s biggest brands flocking to his creativity. He is also a trained lithographer and scallywag … Read on
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The Chicken or the Egg is a very cute short from Ringling College of Art and Design students, Christine Kim and Elaine Wu. I was taken back by the amount of talent these two students already have. There’s no prizes for guessing Chicken or the Egg has already won an award, as well as been screened at a bunch of film festivals.
“Chicken or the Egg” is an offbeat romantic comedy about a pig who has an EGGdiction to eating eggs. But when he falls in love with the hottest chicken in town, he must choose what comes first… the Chicken or the Egg.
Find out more about animation on its Facebook page.
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Christopher Lee is a designer and illustrator from Sacramento. After graduating in 2006, he moved to California where he worked as an Art Director for Vapors Magazine, then moving on to motion graphics studio ‘Buck’, spending three years plying his trade there. In October of … Read on
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Israeli born Ariel Belinco is a great illustrator, Animator, concept artist and character Designer. His graduation film “Beton” won 16 international awards at major festival including Annecy, Stuttgart, Hiroshima & Zagreb. He currently teaches art and animation at the Bezalel Academy and at the Sapir … Read on
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Shaun O’Neil has that anime style that we have all seen many times before however, xshaunx is clearly not your “run of the mill” anime artist. He illustrates with great humor and his dynamic and intense characters really leap of the screen. He currently storyboards … Read on
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Howdy loungers, I just stumbled on a fantastic animation for Mountain Dew by the Buck collective, which is just too good not to share.
It’s a 15 second walk through history, starting with Dew’s country roots as a moonshine mixer to the current day depicted by progressively more urban fellows. This short promo was conceived as part of Mountain Dew’s new logo launch and commissioned by Pepsi.
Illustrator : Josh Cochran, Thomas Schmid
Creative Directors: Thomas Schmid, Orion Tait
Producer: Erica Hirshfeld
Cel Animation Director: Aaron Augenblick
3D Animation Director: Joshua Harvey
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Daniel Spacek lives and works in Prague (Czech Republic) as a freelance artist. Daniel has recently produced a series of animated shorts for a popular new kids channel “ČT : D” for Czech television. These short animations are available to view on his official website … Read on
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You may already be familiar with the work of Javi de Castro from a recent running Doctor Who gif, which he created for the Spanish site Crucigramas y Café, to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary. As an avid fan of gifs, de Castro uses them … Read on
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Adam Foreman aka A4man (get it?), is an illustrator, animator, sculptor and designer. He has worked with, multi award-winning independent game developers Size Five Games on the video game Gun Monkeys. Mr. Foreman also worked on trading card artwork for the video game Hack, Slash, … Read on
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