Monday

Well it's Monday morning, the sun is shining and it's a balmy -10c. I hear it's going to warm up even more to -1c as the day/week goes on.
Below are a couple of doodles for yet another idea I've been working on. Above those are a couple of pics from an old cartoon called "Destination Earth" created by John Sutherland Prod. in 1956.
You can view/download this cartoon as well as many others at this fantastic site called
The Prelinger Archives.
When you get there just type in animation in the search bar.

Destination Earth 1 

Development 2 

Development 1 

Friday

Another great inspiration to many. Miroslav Sasek born 1916 in Prague, Czechslovakia, created a fantastic collection of books refered to as the "This Is" series.
Check out his site here, and be inspired.

Sasek Rome 

Sasek 2 

Sasek elephant 

Thursday

Below are some great images from a film called "the Pumkin of Nyefar".
This film was created by "Nobles Boys", A group of individuals who trained under famed Warner Bros. artist Maurice Noble. The influence is apparent in every way. Check it out...

The Pumkin of Nyefar

Nyefar development 2 

Nyefar Development 1 

Wednesday

Today we have a very cool site which has some very cool stuff from UPA. This site not only has all the classic Gerald McBoing Boing cartoons available to watch, but also has a few of their other classics such as Tell Tale Heart and Unicorn in the Garden.

Check it out here.

Gerald Mcboing boing 

Tuesday

I thought for today I'd share one of the best sites for variety that I know of. Studio AKA.What makes this commercial studio's site so cool is that they put up so much of their work it can keep you busy for hours. The images below are from their commercials.
Check out the SKY , NAT WEST , and DfT Road Safety commercials located under the commercials heading.
Also check out the PICA TOWERS clips under the Film heading.
When you get bored with those check out their Archives for tonnes more fun. Great designs and great use of multi media. Enjoy.

STUDIO AKA

Hedgehog 

Nat West 

Knight and Dragon 

Starting the week off with some Goat's, Pig's and Dragon's.

Oh... and one penguin thrown in for comedy. Not sure why.

Dragon's 

Friday 2

At long last. A fabulous trailer for Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride.
Check it out over at Apple's Quicktime Movies.

The Corpse Bride 

Friday

Let's start the day with some happy doodles.

Mr.Hideous

wide eyed kids

Nightmare's 

Thursday

Below are a couple more sketches form a while ago which I just happened upon and thought I'd share. The other,just below, is a still from a must see short film by Chris Harding. I file this and his other films under "Damn!!! I wish I did that!!!"
Also check out "Make mine shoebox"
Very simple,very appealing,very cool. Check out his site.

Self Defence 

St.Trinian's 

Heaven or Hell 

Wednesday

Well today I thought I'd share a few pics of my own. The first(starting from the bottom) is from a show I tried to pitch called Fox Hunt.
The second is another idea I had which was to be quite dark in humour and combinding Flash characters with painted bg's. Here the bg was designed by John Stewart and painted by The great Don Gauthier.
Last we have another pic from another project I'm currently working on in my spare(lol) time. Mixing media is fun.

A future pitch? 

Hello from Endingham 

A past pitch 

Tuesday

Just when you thought it couldn't get any colder....
I thought I'd share a few pretty paitnings inspired and or created by the spectacular Mary Blair.
mmmm I like blue's.
There are a couple of sites out there where you can learn more about this fabulous artist. Check out Bob Staake's site. Also you can pick up The Art and Flair of Mary Blair for a great collection of her work from Amazon.com.

Mary 4 

Mary 3