Marie Thorhauge
Marie Thorhauge is a Danish designer and visual development artist. She got her start in animation in 2009 as Head of Design at the Oscar Nominated studio Cartoon Saloon. There she designed characters...
View ArticleInterview with Jerry Suh
Jerry Suh is a Background Artist at Nickelodeon Animation Studios. She has freelanced at JibJab Media, Awesome Inc and Psyop. We were given the opportunity to interview Jerry about her career and...
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Manga Mondays ~ LeSean Thomas
LeSean Thomas is an illustrator, animator, animation producer, and director currently living and working in Los Angeles, California. He is known for his work on The Boondocks (2005-2008), The Legend...
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Maxime Dupuy
Maxime Dupuy is a freelance artist based in Paris, France. Working primarily in animation as a background, color, and concept artist. Born in Apt, France, Dupuy was drawing from young but only...
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Chris Sasaki
Chris Sasaki is an Annie Award-winning character designer. He works at Pixar Animation Studios and has designed characters for Monsters University (2013) and Inside Out (2015). Sasaki was doodling from...
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Sweet Winter
Sweet Winter is a short animation by Marie Vieillevie, also known as Mary Oldlife, and Hugo Bravo. The film was created for a competition launched by Yoplait, in which it was a finalist. It combines...
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Xoana Herrera
Xoana Herrera is a Graphic Designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is currently based in Los Angeles, California, where she works for production company Buck. Herrera studied at the University of...
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Shiyoon Kim
Shiyoon Kim is a Korean-American animator who currently lives in Los Angeles. He is a Lead Character Designer for Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has had a hand in designing characters from Tangled...
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Typha
Typha is a short French animation created by Yoann Oignet, Thomas Landrein, Jonas Genevaz, Aurélie Gomez and Raphael Ethievant. The story follows Cattail, a young girl living in a miniature village....
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Bang Bang!
Bang Bang! is a 12-minute French animated short directed by Julien Bisaro and co-written by Claire Paoletti (Long Way North). The psychological film follows Éda, a young girl who feels confined to her...
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BEER by Charles Bukowski (Mature)
Stale cigarette butts, endless bottles of beer and the loneliness of waiting for people and situations that never arrive. When you’re a lost degenerate, alcohol is both curse and consolation the viewer...
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Aiko: An Animated Series
Aiko is an animated series which blends the bygone time of samurais with fantasy and monsters. It was created by multi-award winning animation director Evan Viera and award winning writer Charley Pope....
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IMAGO
IMAGO is a 2005 short film by Cédric Babouche. It received ten awards, including two at the Cannes Film Festival, and was selected in more than 110 festivals around the world. It blends watercolour...
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Manga Mondays ~ Mingjue Helen Chen
Mingjue Helen Chen is an Art Director and Visual Development Artist, based in Los Angeles. Currently working at Walt Disney Animation Studios, she has contributed to notable films Big Hero 6 (2014),...
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Darren Rawlings
Darren Rawlings is a Canadian illustrator and creative director of Thinkmore studios. He has worked on storyboards, concept art and animations for clients including Discovery Channel, HBO, Sony, BBC...
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Peepshow Collective
Peepshow Collective is a multi-disciplinary studio, specialising in animation, art direction and illustration. The collective was formed in a London pub in 2000 without any long-term plans outside of...
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Great Big Story ‘Coming Home From Another World’
NASA Astronaut Leland Melvin tells us about readjusting to life on earth after a stay on the International Space Station. He shares the immense love and pride he felt seeing his family and friends...
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Ryohei Yanagihara (1931 – 2015)
At the start of his career, prolific artist and honorary MOL captain Ryohei Yanagihara illustrated numerous book covers and movie title sequences. He created the cultural icon, Uncle Torys, for Suntory...
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Steven Sugar
Steven Sugar is the Lead Background Designer on Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe and the inspiration for the main character. Sugar studied at one of America’s most prestigious art schools, Rhode...
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Art&Graft
Art&Graft is an award-winning design and animation production studio based near London’s bustling Brick Lane. It is renowned for insightful and striking animations. Art&Graft was founded in...
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