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From the 1927 book Negro Drawings, by Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957). Great suggestion of movement.

Miguel Covarrubias ( José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud ) - drawing - Mexican Artist

neighbours norman mclaren  1952  “i was inspired to make neighbours by a stay of almost a year in the people’s republic of china. although i only saw the beginnings of mao’s revolution, my faith in human nature was reinvigorated by it. then i came back to quebec and the korean war began. (…) i decided to make a really strong film about anti-militarism and against war.” — norman mclaren

Illustration of Greta Garbo by Miguel Covarrubias, 1932

Lindy Hop, 1936

Miguel Covarrubias

 "…he became friends with the intellectual elite of the Harlem Renaissance. His drawings and caricatures were featured in Vanity Fair, Vogue and Fortune magazines. In 1927 he illustrated Negro Drawings, which presented a more dignified image of African Americans to mainstream America. In the following years, Covarrubias also depicted Afro-Mexicans, Afro-Cubans and West and North Africans.“ 

https://player.vimeo.com/video/216245409?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&app_id=122963

1955-11-25 Cellbound (MGM cartoon)

Storyboards from the Tex Avery Cartoon “Deputy Droopy” from 1955

CUT IT OOOOOUT!!!

Puppet.

Not LAIKA Studios news, but recently pictures from Henry Selick (director of Coraline), with character designs, concept art and animation by people who work for LAIKA have been surfacing from the abandoned film The Shadow King. Which looks like it would have been amazing.

Should I post some more, or keep this blog exclusively LAIKA?

Again, not LAIKA, but here are sculpts of Hap (the protagonist) for The Shadow King (cancelled) by artist Damon Bard (Coraline), from designs by Heidi Smith (ParaNorman) and/or Tony Fucile.

Harold Whitaker - Halas and Batchelor

Lou Romano’s early character ideas for Mirage (and/or a Mirage-like character) from Pixar’s The Incredibles.

Walt Peregoy 101 Dalmations

Coraline Concepts » Tadahiro Uesugi » Charlie Jones & Other Father Concepts (?)

With the HA Laika auctions up, some high-res model images have surfaced. Perfect for details & cosplay references! The rest are queued up, along with some other Laika movie HQs too.

Sisyphus by Marcell Jankovics (1974).  If you ever needed an example as to how line weight effects mood and intent, just watch this.  Jankovics also did Hungary’s first animated feature Janos Vitez (johnny corncob) for Pannonia, the largest animation studio in Hungary.

The Owl Who Married a Goose (1974) is based of an Inuit legend.  The designs, bird sounds and dialogue were done by Inuits which the animator, Caroline Leaf, then animated with sand on a lightbox, a technique in which she pioneered.

another fairy’s sketch!

work in progress… a pond fairy

“(T-T-T-Time!)“.

Glen Keane’s rough animation for Disney’s Aladdin (1992).

Glen Keane’s rough animation for Disney’s Aladdin (1992).