Header Image # 21

This header image is a cropped region of a test render from the Aztec Escape blog. The house plants have taken over.

Header Image # 20 The Fly

What might this little chap be advertising? Click to reveal>>

Orgesticulanismus

(Or-jess-tick-you’ll-ann-is-muss) This is a celebration of the ability to move.
The animator Mathieu Labaye’s father, Benoit, had been a wheelchair user for 15 years before his death in April 2006
A slowish opening shifts into some amazingly fluid animation…. Hand drawn.

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Joseph Sharp (U.S.A.) 1859 – 1953 “Pasadena Bridge”

Continuing in a series of random selections of painters, I offer you the work of Joseph Sharp, an American plein-air painter who enjoyed a very long and fruitful life. Enjoy. (Click to embiggen.)

Disney’s Releases For Next 4 Years

One more reason to visit Animation World Network aside from their archive of 2,586 articles on animation, is to sign up for their weekly newsletters and stay up to date with events in the larger animation industry. Here’s a small part of their latest e-mail newsletter that outlines Disney’s planned animation feature film releases…

Header Image # 19

This springtime inspired header image is titled “Parkland”, by the Swedish painter Arvid Lindstrom in 1881. The whole image is below. (Click to enlarge)