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Derek Ballard

Derek Ballard

38-39°C stop-motion animation by Kangmin Kim

Jason Edmiston

Jason Edmiston

Gerald Leung

Gerald Leung's bad ass characters.

Collapsing Cooling Towers

 Cute little video from Ecotricity.  

It's time to move on. Our country, and all of us, need to move from a fossil fuel past to a renewable energy future. The mood in Britain has turned very much against the Big Six energy companies. And it's not hard to see why. People are fed up with the unethical pricing, complex tariffs, awful customer service and the dire lack of investment in new sources of green energy. It's become quite unbearable, self evidently. Even the government are calling on people to leave the Big Six. People:Power can bring change to the energy sector -- when people join Ecotricity they vote with their energy bills - and the more that do so the better. Together we can harness the energy bills of Britain and direct them to a proper outcome - the creation of a Green, energy independent Britain -- a Green Britain. http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/dump-big-six

Charlie Immer

I'm loving the gross/cute characters showing their colorful innards that Charlie Immer is producing. It makes me want to listen to grindcore and pick flowers. Check out his blog for more goodies.

Salão Coboi

Salão Coboi is a collective from Portugal. They create some pretty fun characters both in illustration and sculpture form.

Gotye- Bronte

Robert Ball

Robert Ball has pretty great caricature/character illustrations.

Alberto Cerriteño

Alberto Cerriteño is a Designer and Illustrator from Mexico City who likes to animate as well and enjoy whatever looks good with the right colors. He has developed his own very personal technique and style, having always present a delicate hints of traditional Mexican artistic influences in his management of rich textures and decorative patterns.

The Gruffalo

It's been a while, hasn't it char-lovers? I'm back with something all kinds of adorable.

I was on Hulu browsing for some bg noise while I work, and ended up having a 20 minute diversion from everything when I came across The Gruffalo. I can't seem to embed the whole thing, so I'm gonna show off this li'l trailer from youtube, and you can go watch it here.

It was released about a year ago, but that doesn't make it any less awesome.

I've taken these screenshots from the full-length version, so stop here if you'd rather watch it first.

If you have already watched it, you might have realized that this is a film adapted from Julia Donaldson (The Snail and the Whale, What the Ladybird Heard, The Troll) and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.

The first look has a bit of a Maurice Sendak/Where the Wild Things Are feeling to it. The story in its simplicity has a playful tone, and the animation is quirky. It's rare to come across design that strikes the exact same cords as the rest of the cues, especially on TV.

The character designers listed in the credits include Max Lang (he has a lot of storyboards from the short), Jacob Schwinn, Harald Siepermann (Tarzan, Mulan, Enchanted), and no other than the awesome Uwe Heidchötter. It's kinda hard to tell who designed what, but very clear that they definitely made a wonderful team together.

Andy J. Miller - Character A Day Blog

Andy J. Miller creates a cute effing character a day here innod.tumblr.com. What did YOU do today? Oh...really?, thats pretty impressive, never-mind.

Aurélie Neyret Updates

Aurélie Neyret Updates

Natasha Allegri

Natasha Allegri runs a hilarious blog named PANCAKE PANCAKE PANCAKE (named after her beloved cat). She sometimes works at Cartoon Network and can draw like a MF. I especially enjoy the cat comics.