Around a year ago a good friend of mine (Andrew Campbell of Monkey’s Inc.),  recommended a couple short YouTube clips to me by LeSean Thomas (animator/illustrator/director/etc).
I found those vids pretty inspiring and have since subscribed to his channel on YouTube. He’s now in Seoul working on his own graphic novel. Somehow he still manages to find time to create nice short clips to motivate budding artists and fans.
His dedication and effort stand out as massive driving forces toward his success. What takes this beyond the informative value of a tutorial …

I stumbled across this artist around 2 years ago on one of my trips to Forbidden Planet @ Tottenham Court Road Branch . Unknown to me at the time, this artist had an affiliation with another of my favourite artists Tanaka Tatsuyuki via STUDIO4℃, a Japanese animation studio.
This animator mainly works freelance these days making music videos and other shorts. He has worked with the Wachowski Brothers to direct “Beyond”, a segment of The Animatrix and is said to be working on another short movie ‘Sachiko’, his second feature-length film.
I …