Animation in videos be it small or big

Back in the days i used to love to watch different music-shows on MTV like Headbanger's Ball, YO! MTV Raps and a dutch music channel where you could just text through the number of your favorite song by phone and it would get played within 5 minutes.
That channel was a good feeding ground for the latest videos and the ones that always stuck to me were the ones where some animation was involved.
I'm not on a quest here, just want to show you what i dug/dig :)

First up is Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer, always was intrigued by the whole stopmotion and how much time it would've cost to create it:


Tool 'Sober' was always playing on Headbanger's Ball and every time i saw it it gave me the creeps but i kept watching anyway because i was intrigued. I think that is what Tool also is , creepy yet intriguing.


Sick of It All 'District', i remember seeing that one late at night in a dimly lit room and it exploded from the screen. You always see hardcore-bands doing tough-looking videos but SOIA upped the ante to do an animated video which sets them apart. And to this day i still love them for doing something else than the rest.


Company Flow 'End to End Burners' with the flying tags which blew me away when i saw it for the first time. It always makes me grab some markers and tag the sh*t out of everything haha


Also can't forget Gorillaz with 'Clint Eastwood'. Such an awesome animation by the hands of Jamie Hewlett. Still love it!


There are more out there but these ones are the first to pop into my memory.
If i think of more i'll definitely post them :)

Kwills Goose Crew tells you what's up

Kwills 3.0 is on the way so i took the 2.0 offline and replaced it with this picture of Guido & Guiseppe Goossucci telling you what's going down.

On the 1s & 2s

Finished this design for a mate of mine who asked me to design a slipmat.
Elements to use were his favorite beverage and a cartoon character of him.
Mixed that one up the the Oakland Raiders/Sal Barbier style type of head and voila.

Vectors & skateboards

As always i was browsing the internet again for random pictures to archive when i stumbled upon 30 cool vector illustrated skateboard decks .
It shows a nice small collection of vector-created designs that the writer has selected.

It also includes some very handy tips regarding how to handle vectors in Adobe Illustrator but also how to screenprint or to set up your own little designed skatedeck shop.

Skateboard graphics book

Got this book in yesterday: New Skateboard Graphics.

The book has some very nice photos of decks and cool interviews with some designers and they're also more up-to-date with the boards of recent years and not focusing on boards from the 1980-1990s (which had a lot of good graphics too don't get me wrong).
Really love it and i'm hoping for a book 2 with more art to oogle at and reminisce over.

Their site is here and while you're at it, just order it you won't regret it.




































My next goal is to do a deck-design ;)

Favorite Artist

Well my my most favorite Artist finally has a site! (could be there for a longer time than i imagined though hehe).

I capslocked artist because he simply draws the coolest stuff, has terrific line-work and amazing detailing going on plus everything looks clean yet gritty.
Oh and the ladies are looking hawt as well!

Check Chris Bachalo !

How to paint digitally

This video was very helpful on learning how to paint digitally, i applied most of it on the Carla-piece below.
Still need to work a lot of things out though.

Learn how to paint digitally Albert Einstein