Thread 150817374

I’m particularly inspired by artists that worked on shows like Ren & Stimpy and SpongeBob, people like Jim Smith, Stephen Destefano, Chris Reccardi, Aaron Springer, also Eddie Fitzgerald especially, I’m very fond of expressive animation, Bob Clampett, Jhonen Vasquez. and Pat Ventura were also big inspirations to me.

the only inspiration you need

>>150817420
Retard

I'm inspired by the anonymous meme artist who drew this frog

>>150818357
Rebeltaxis art is shit anon, it looks amateur as fuck, it’s clear he just takes influence from shit like Panty & Stocking and 2000’s video games without learning the basics in art like construction and appeal.

>>150817374 (OP)
Jim Tyer, the odd drawings in Smiling Friends too

>>150818319
Kys

>>150817374 (OP)
Can we see some of your work that they've inspired?

>>150817422
he's right tho, it worked for James Joyce

>>150817374 (OP)
johnen vasquez and eventually john k

>>150817420
>>150817422
/co/ exchange of the year

>>150817420
Based

The fact that this thread got so little replies in a few hours and most of said replies are shitposting tells me that most /co/ users never touched a sketchbook in their life

>>150817374 (OP)
>one of the very last What-a-Cartoon shorts that aired
It’s like CN looked at it and said "no way we’re going to give this shit a full show, but might as well play it as filler."

>>150822749
Which is odd, because it was featured in promos from 1994, all of these shorts released in 1995. Same thing with Malcolm and Melvin.

>>150822749
It probably was never picked up cause it would've been kinda a bitch production wise, Ren & Stimpy already was quite expensive, and while CNs classic shows did look good, they didn't have animation on the level of it.

>>150824218
Or maybe, the fact you can't make a show out of a fucking worm that gets squashed all the time.

I really like the Soviet-era works of Kievnauchfilm where the animators used both paper puppets and animation cels for their films. Would be cool to see more shows use paper puppets aside from the absolute kindergarten-level travesty that is South Park.

>>150817420
Based

>>150817374 (OP)
I have a massive list of artists/animators that i got inspired by my art, most of them are online artists or anime illustrators, but here ya go.
>minus8/chtkghk
>lottie/canihavepromo
>akio watanabe/poyoyon rock
>diives
>miscon
>ukinojoe
>eromame
>hiro hanzaki
>627ajuka
>Kei Garou
>Akatsuki_Gomoku
>hiroyuki imaishi
>Noizi Ito
>ben jones
>gary doodles
>joe murray
>friz freleng
>john k
>vivziepop
>kouguchi moto
>sleepykinq/twisted-doctor
>toromi
>nemlei
>hideyuki tanaka
>hajime ueda
>douman seiman
>bayachao
>negiwave2000
>vdru7
>korie riko

>>150822604
I bet you feel dumb now after seeing this >>150825032 shit
you should probably kys

>>150825032
faggot

>>150822604
tells me /co/ is unemployed, the artists are all at their barista jobs

Probably Lewis Trondheim, creator of Kaput and Zosky. The show and comic were a bit formulaic, but it was pretty charming and had a wonderful sense of style and surrealism. It probably has my favorite "generic space/sci-fi" style second only to Futurama, and I'm a big fan of its comfy simplicity. Also I'm a HUGE fan of characters with underbites and overbites.

(And no, I'm not that one guy who most people associate with this show when it's posted on this board, Birchy I think his name was.)

>>150824264
South Parks animation style was influenced by both Monty Pythons absurd cutout animations and Peanuts, it’s clear though that Matt and Trey were more writer guys and never planned on being animators in the first place.

Honestly thought South Parks early seasons had a charm to them with their crude paper cutout look and how clear they were trying to look stop motion, the artstyle gradually became less stylized over the years and their new seasons are lacking said charm.

I've been told my style looks like Genndy Tartakovsky's.
I don't see it.

>>150819049
You first

>>150827433
My issue with the South Park style began after the style devolved from the original charm into the pseudo-realistic tripe. It's bizarre seeing the original characters who don't even have a proper walking animation co-existing with these relatively realistic-looking background characters and props. At least with the Kievnauchfilm paper puppets, the animators at least tried to animate the characters walking, with their Alice cartoons having a wonderful scene that has the paper cutout characters running in a 3D-appearing area. Hell, the animation for the paper cutout bits are great and show a great amount of care being put into animating everything (even if Alice looks...special).

>>150827596
Do you draw in a thickline UPA-like artstyle by any chance? Maybe that’s why? Normalfags tend to group stuff like Dexter and Powerpuff girls into the same exact style cause of this despite their stylistic differences.

>>150817420
Retard

>>150817422
>>150830277
Newfag

>>150817420
Same

>>150824264
Didn’t Blues Clues used to use cutout animation?

>>150822604
most animation fans probably consume it instead of contribute to it
same thing for movie fans, music fans, book fans, whatever

>>150817374 (OP)
I know they aren't animators but they are an Art Collective, The Residents. Got into them from the X board, they helped wake up my drive to draw and create more. Seen them live twice. everything they do it's just a giant art piece they're human muppets.

>>150817374 (OP)
Bonus Shout-out to PFFR, John Lee sent me this storyboard of an unmade Xavier episode. My buddy who runs a fan account for them helped set it up cuz I drew a poster for his AMA with the BEAT KIDS from Wonder Showzen

>>150817374 (OP)
I remember watching that worm cartoon as a kid and feeling nothing but disgust.

>>150817374 (OP)
I'm not an artist, but I am a diehard fanboy, and I love all those guys too. Tales of Worm Paranoia is one of my favorite short films ever, and I have to assume Eddie must have really bad people skills or something if he never got to direct another one.

>>150833382
There’s actually an interesting interview with him where he explains around the 3 hour and 32 minute mark why he never made another pitch
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QwGM51ogEtw
I’d recommend watching the whole vid though if you’re a fan it’s pretty interesting, he also explains how odd it was to work on The Wacky World of Tex Avery

>>150825032
this is just a list of artists you jerk off to

>>150825032
you sound like a pedophile

You know what? I'm bored. Y'all self-taught artist taking request?

>>150834026
you sound like a glowie

>>150834657
Wait... Who is glowing here?

>>150833741
This faggot jerks off to Joe Murray?

Glen Murakami and Derek J Wyatt

Not that I have ever been able to replicate either artist's style, I just use that as North on my personal art development compass.

>>150817374 (OP)
As another fan of expressive animation, the work of board artist Eddie Trigueros inspires me a lot

>>150832832
>>150832680
supremely based

>>150817374 (OP)
Cy Young, Frenchy de Tremaudan, Jun Arai - Itsuki Imazaki, and Dino Ignacio.
Jun Arai hasn't worked on anything western to my knowledge, but Imazaki was one of the AEon Flux guys and their way of handling lustre is visual crack for me.
Cy Young was the Disney effects animator and handled a lot of technically impressive scenes. Frenchy was a guy who handled a lot of great background animation for some Mickey shorts.
Sadly, both of them are mostly forgotten and only Young has a Wikipedia page.
Dino Ignacio is an internet oldhead (see: Bert is Evil) who's done 2D and 3D stuff, but his Skyflakes music video has such an odd "2D designs in 3D" look that I really love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqamdiSHlx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fnmabt0TUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf-RcFX2BDc
https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/931c7f01844f0d5b100e2f65f74b4faa.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQCpyHmvB6Q

>>150833708

Eddie is hands down one of the best Spumco artists, you can tell when an APC scene was his cause of the distinctive professional way he draws hands and posing

>>150817374 (OP)
>trooncoded

>>150817374 (OP)
>I’m particularly inspired by artists that worked on shows like Ren & Stimpy and SpongeBob
wow, how unique

>>150843756
It’s very rare to see Spumco-influenced artists these days, I respect anon, I can respect whatever makes anyone happy as an artist as long as efforts put into it

You guys draw right?

>>150827396
very fun aesthetic

>>150817420
...

>>150817420
No