January 10, 2009
Rejection slip
Travel and Sing - The art of Linda Sarah
Disney Rejection Letter, 1938
Patterns of Doctor Who Scarf
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November 12, 2008
The flow of creativity
Animation tutorial from Dermot O' Connor:
Most sane people have a fear of animating walk cycles. Many events are happening at the same time, and it can seem overwhelming. A single mistake on your first drawing can wreck the rest of the scene. However, the process can be broken down into a series of steps which can go some distance in simplifying the process.
A walk cycle can be described by four distinct poses:
CONTACT, RECOIL, PASSING and HIGH-POINT…
Honda's Assisted Walking Device
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Also, How Disney Used To Do It. (Click to biggify)
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July 21, 2008
10622 Kimberly Avenue
Rob Richards is the House Organist at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood. Animation Backgrounds is his blog about Animation Backgrounds
In 1947, Life magazine asked comic strip artists if they could draw their famous characters (Dagwood, Dick Tracy, Steve Canyon, plus more) blindfolded
Boy meets girl at Exterminus. Previously-blogged by Kieron Gillen - Busted Wonder
A visit to Jerry Siegel's old home on 10622 Kimberly Avenue in Cleveland
Re-post: Many of the 10,400 images that I posted on grow-a-brain since 2/03
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June 15, 2008
Mix Charles Addams with B. Kliban & what do you get?
Unknown Worlds: A Collection of Paranormal Cartoons, by my friend Revilo.
You can buy the book at Amazon, or elsewhere.
Also: Look! A shark fin in the distance!
Happy Father’s Day, everybody
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May 07, 2008
Never gonna give you up
The things that Rick Astley would never do to you
Middle Dog Gets Angry by George Gendi
Román Cortés' Homer Simpson in CSS, animated
The Candy Cane Project - "Youngna and I traded candy canes to strangers for their portraits"...
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April 18, 2008
Hair of the Downward Dog
RingTales animates print cartoons for The New Yorker and others. (From Tilzy)
Cyclops by Israel Sanchez
Some odd Japanese Peanuts Puzzles. (From Kevin Church’s Peanuts In Japan)
The Amazing Color Label Wheel. Where does “Blue” end and “Red” begin?
Ze Frank’s YoungMe NowMe
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today, from Northern England, Soubriquet’s Grit in the Gears. Submit yours for consideration.
(No Time to blog tonight. Sorry)
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March 17, 2008
Look Abbott, if you're the coach, you must know all the players
14 other motion typography (or kinetic typography) videos, including Typolution, rythmé par la chanson «Nostrand» du groupe Ratatat réalisé par Olivier Beaudoin, designer graphique
The greatest image mankind has ever seen
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today - Laura Zinger is a documentary filmmaker from Chicago, and producer of Proceed and Be Bold about Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., a printing press artist. Submit yours for consideration.
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February 28, 2008
Hoogerbrugge Stickers
Hoogerbrugge Stickers For Sale: 67 Hoogerbrugge peel-off stickers on 8 sheets. You will get each sheet twice: a total of 134 peel-off stickers for just 13,50 €
Dr. Seuss Collection Organized by Spectrum
Emmeline, the Little Girl Who Was Forgotten (Flash)
Political hacking with The Wizard of Whimsey
The Simpsons opening sequence on wikipedia
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December 21, 2007
Pixar's in-jokes
Comic Strip Classics a series of postage stamps , honoring the centennial of the newspaper comic strip. (Click to biggify)
A definitive list of where the in-jokes & self references in Pixar's feature films & shorts are located
The world of Matt Furie
Merry Bluesy Christmas to all. (Thank you Joe Truck!)
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December 03, 2007
Candy Killer
Robert Crumb explains how there's no hope via flow chart
Office Space in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies
In the early days of comics, codes were sometimes used. And sometimes not
Re-post: When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, great riches follow, but for how long? Rabbit by Run Wrake
Brian Taylor’s blog Candy Killer
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November 09, 2007
Quilt Face
"You can do more evil if you stay on the right side of the law" by Brad J. Guigar. (From Flutterby)
Persepolis, a new movie based on a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi
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October 10, 2007
When the Circus Comes to Town
The circus comes to town: Busted Wonder by Charrity Larrison and Kieron Gillen
How I Met (and Almost Layed) the Foxiest Chick Ever. (Previously by John Ralston - The entire senior class of Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1925, each drawn in one hour a night)
Nad Shot - Comic book panels depicting people being kicked in the nuts
72 scenes from various episodes of The Simpsons, each one beside the movie scene to which they refer. Also, The Birth of The Simpsons
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September 07, 2007
Clark Kent's Identity
Terry Gilliam’s first short, Storytime (1968. YT)
Blablabla Claymation by Patamo
Superman’s identity revealed, 20 times
French Army Knife and other, new animated cartoons from The New Yorker
Also, “Have you considered writing this story in the third monkey rather than the first monkey?” The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest
Polygon (Firing Range), an animated film by Anatoly Petrov (1978. YT)
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August 07, 2007
Basic Instructions
How to listen to other people’s problems
A guide to the major characters on The Simpsons. (Written by Christopher Bahn)
1958 Singapore Planned Parenthood Comic
Cover Browser - every piece of jacket artwork ever made
Art Crimes: Best Graffiti Sites
Yannick Puig’s I lived on the Moon
Elsewhere: Police seek 'professionals' who removed St. Paul man's testicles
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July 12, 2007
兔斯基
What does it smells like? From Creature Comforts
1,469 Russian and/or Soviet propaganda & advert posters [1917-1991]
The Simpsons' rendition of the Powers of Ten
As near as I can tell, it's impossible not to love the work of Gahan Wilson, (From I’m learning to share)
These bunnies known as Tuzki (兔斯基), are the latest to steal the hearts of Chinese netizens
Illustrated History of Dutch Comics
In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold
Steven Weissman’s Chewing gum in church
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