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Friday, February 18, 2011

Bruce Timm

Bruce Timm is a comic book artist. He is most known for his work with Warner Brothers on Tiny Toons, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Justice League and Teen Titans. He was the producer and co-creator for most of the shows and did character design for all.

Batgirl (Bruce Timm)
BatGirl

With The help of Paul Dini, Timm has also brought new characters into the Batman world, such as Harley Quinn. A little creation of Timm and Dini's that is now a big player in Gotham.

ilustración de HARLEY QUINN por BRUCE TIMM 7
Harley Quinn

Timm focuses mostly on female cartoon characters with the occasional male, drawing anyone from an old school Catwoman to a web slinging Spiderman to even a few drawings of Sailor Moon. He doesn't usually deviate from their original design, just draws them in his style. You can usually tell its his by the cat/slit like eyes, the "all one piece"hair, the pointy and delicate looking(for girls) hands and the lips which look the same on most character.


Zatanna
Zatanna

I always enjoyed Tiny Toons and Batman: The Animated Series and it wasn't until last year that I found out who the guy was behind most of the animation. I like his style and his use of highlights. It turns the complete black costumes into something more interesting to look at by using highlights like crazy. He makes it shine. Like the lips as I mentioned earlier. Every one has has a little spot of shine that brings your attention to that spot.

Except for Batman. He has no lips.
All pictures are property of Bruce Timm.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Takashi Murakami

This is Takashi Murikami


Murikami is an artists, sculpter and a digital artist. He uses a style called he calls superflat. Superflat pretty much means two dimensional. It focuses on the pop culture of japan and is influenced by the flatness of Japanese media.

Tan Tan Bo Puking - a.k.a. Gero Tan

Murikami's work has been seen through Louis Vuitton ads and Kanye West album art. Hes has exhibits in the MOCA.



I like this kind of style. Its very colorful, exciting and cute. I like how Murikami uses his many creatures in most of his art, and with the busyness of each of his pieces there is always something to look at.



Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Chris Sanders


This is Chris Sanders.
He is an animator, writer, director and voice actor, but I am going to focus on the animation part.


He has worked on many movies, mostly Disney, such as Beauty and the Beast, The Rescuers Down Under, Fantasia 2000, Lion King, Mulan, How to Train Your Dragon and Lilo and Stitch. For the last two he actually did the animation. He directed Lilo and Stitch and is also the voice of Stitch.


Most of his drawings are very rounded. Giving each character a very cute and innocent look and feel. Even though most of the time the women that he draws are not fully clothed. His drawings usually take place in a water or beach like setting, as seen in the picture below.


I chose this artist because ever since I saw the movie Lilo and Stitch I have been interested in the art work. It wasn't until I saw it again in How to Train Your Dragon that I actually looked him up.


All information is from Chrissandersart.com
All pictures are property of Chris Sanders