Glen Keane's "Duet"

Glen Keane's "Duet"

If Game of Thrones characters were drawn by Disney

So if you missed out on Game of Thrones this week check out Fernando Mendonça fantastic illustrations.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Spider-Man Animation Shot Build

Big Hero 6 Teaser Trailer

21 Draw - Indiegogo (Finished & Successful)

100 (maybe more) artists showing character design, poses, hand and face poses. 

Each artist will supply 1 character in 2 reference poses, 3 action poses, 3 facial expressions, 2 hand poses.

Totalling 400 pages!

21 Draw Project

3D Total - Anatomical Female figure - Kickstarter (Finished & Successful)

3d Total are launching a kickstarter for their 2nd anatomy reference figure. You can also pledge to receive their previous male figure too. 

Female Anatomy Figure

Design Unscripted - Kickstarter (Finished & Successful)

Artists from Ringling College of Art and Design (students and alumni) are releasing "Design Unscripted", a collaborative art book filled with creative designs such as character, props, environments, vehicles, etc. 

Design Unscripted - Kickstarter

March of Robots - Kickstarter (Finished & Successful)

Last few days of this kickstarter to anyone who likes robots or design.

March of Robots - Kickstarter

Super Anatomy - Kickstarter (Unsuccessful)

Kickstarter campaign for anatomy reference book.

Book will contain 100 poses of live models shot from 24 different viewpoints. It also comes with a disc with all the photos. 

Should be pretty useful for any artists that use human figures. Hopefully there is some really dynamic poses, I think it will be a great reference for 3d animation. 

Super Anatomy Kickstarter

Peanuts Teaser Trailer

Incredibles 2 & Cars 3!

Disney have confirmed that they are planning a sequel to The Incredibles and another Cars Film.  Bob Iger (CEO) made the announcement during an annual shareholders meeting. It has been said that Brad Bird is working on story for the The Incredibles 2 but there is  no confirmation on who is directing it just yet.

IGN-Disney Officially Announces The Incredibles 2 and Cars 3 Are in the Works

Animation Backgrounds is back!

Rob Richards great blog site Animation Backgrounds has returned after a long hiatus.
Check it out!

Animation Backgrounds

Simpsons couch gag gets the Chomet treatment

Sylvain Chomet, director of Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist has recreates The Simpsons couch gag!
The piece was animated by Neil Boyle and Peter Dodd (along with the rest of the crew at th1ng) under  the art direction of Kirk Hendry. 



For a making of go to Neil Boyle's blog here