“I thought I wanted to be a graphic designer, a politician, a children’s book illustrator, a visual development artist,” she recounted in an interview with Concept Art Empire, “until I realized that I was awful at making finished drawings, hahaha! But also that storyboarding was my favorite aspect of the animation pipeline.”

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She might be selling herself short. When it comes to animation, Chiu has worked so far for the biggest names in the industry including Marvel Animation, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Netflix. Now working as Director and Story Artist for Warner Bros., Chiu has carved herself a niche, often referencing her love of manga and anime.

In fact, it was her love of manga that would ultimately spark a creative interest, leading her into the field of animation. “I always doodled as a kid according to my parents,” says Chiu. “But I didn’t really pick up the pencil and draw every day with the intention of getting better in some shape or form until I was 10.”

“It all changed when I started reading manga,” she admits, adding that though she considered art as a career when she was in high school it wasn’t until sophomore or junior year of college when she narrowed down her career path. Having developed her skills throughout school and college, she landed on storytelling after experimenting with comics and film.

Currently based in LA, we can’t wait to see more of her work both online and on-screen!

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The post This Story Artist is Inspired By Manga appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

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Based in Sydney, Liang graduated with a Bachelor of Design at UNSW Art and Design and has no formal training in animation. As such, her animation, often experimental, pushes the boundaries of more traditional forms, incorporating mediums like drawing, painting, and paper cutting with digital programs like Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Aero, and Processing.

Liang explains that the elements that make each animation piece have all been hand-drawn or handmade frame by frame, which naturally takes a lot of time and patience. Using kraft paper cutouts, she arranges her pieces in the visual form of a diorama “The objects in my work have hundreds of layers down to the shadow under window pane,” she explained once in an interview with Brown Paper Bag.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Nancy Liang (@under_over_themoon)

“For me, everything must be separate. That way I can move or redraw single elements frame by frame rather than create hundreds of finished collages frame by frame”. In order to do so, she draws, cuts, pastes, and shifts all the elements around. “It is a reiterative process,” she admits.

After playing around with the different pieces, she then scans all of her finished layers into the computer, arranges them in Photoshop, and only then proceeds to animate. The end result will most definitely mesmerize you.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Nancy Liang (@under_over_themoon)

The post What Is This Sorcery? It’s Nancy Liang’s Animation Art appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

According to Lester, this early introduction to illustration proved to have a huge influence on his career choice. Now a full-time designer, animator, and yes—illustrator—his work is often clean and minimal, cutting straight to the chase.

Having studied fine art in college, in turn, had led him to illustration at the university. “These two steps helped me progress more naturally into animation,” he explains. “If I’d have gone straight into animation I’d have missed out on improving my visual style and writing skills.”

Some of his more viral work include the world’s smallest portfolio and his character buildings (where he animated architectural landmarks, adding them some quirky personalities). “Personal projects allow you to steer your career,” says Lester, “it’s much more difficult to control where you are heading if you only do client work.”

See some of his more recent work in the gallery below:

The post Michael William Lester’s Designs are Simply Neat appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

The relationships with his family and friends, social anxiety, and his fear of being rejected from the people that surround him are manifested by contorts, melting, rippling, dripping, and swirling clay faces on human bodies. To make the faces, which were roughly double life-size, the creators used more than 1,100 pounds of plasticine.

“When making this film, it was really important to me that you could see the fingerprints, and even more than that, each drip of the film is the size of a thumb that kind of tactile filmmaking is something I really wanted to incorporate,” the artist shared on Vimeo. “Making this film just made me really excited about future possibilities. I feel like this was such a leap into the unknown that really got my mind going with other crazy things we can do.”

If you are interested to see his award-winning film, check it out on Vimeo.

The post Check Out a Remarkable Animation Film Made With Plasticine appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

It was during this time that he also taught himself some animation. “Everything I’ve learned so far is from free YouTube tutorials and forums,” he told Juxtapoz. “There are so many resources for people starting out in CGI and I owe a lot to the people who make that content… Coming from a design background and working in that area, I think its easier to teach yourself. Of course, there are certain jobs in CGI and animation, in general, where teaching yourself probably won’t cut it.”

Now, working primarily with Cinema4D, Zbrush, Sculptris, and the Adobe suite, his clients include giants like Spotify, The New York Times, Google, MTV, and Lazy Oaf – proving he’s definitely the cool kid on the block.

“My main advice for people still studying is not to be hung up if you don’t know exactly what you want to make,” he says. “I think it’s healthy not to have preformed ideas of exactly what you’ll do when you leave art school, but it’s still super daunting.”

Follow his progress on Instagram.

The post Jack Sachs’ 3D Art is Too Cool For School appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“Creativity was really valued in our household and I always felt the arts were a viable career choice,” he told Lecture in Progress. “I was a late bloomer in school and art was the only thing I really excelled at, so I always felt it was central to my identity and sense of personal worth.”

Now based on the South Coast of England, his artistic career has included leading campaigns for clients such as BBC, Channel 4, Droga5, Disney and Google; and his work has achieved numerous accolades including a Children’s Bafta win and Lovie Award.

“I create children’s content for the most part,” he says. “The bulk of my work is around game design – making landscapes, characters, rigging and animating them and working with an art director and development team to make it all work. I also do linear animation work, or what’s termed, ‘explainer videos’, and sometimes I’m called upon to create sets of short looping gif animations for Facebook sticker sets to promote the release of a film or TV show.”

His animations, quirky, funny, if a bit wonky, have also drawn the attention of more than 26k followers on Instagram. “The most satisfying part of my job is creating something tangible – experimenting with ideas, overcoming technical constraints and ending up with something fun that is seen and used by people.”

Here are some of our favorite characters by him.

The post Enter the Wonky World of Laurie Rowan appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“At this point I can’t not make things!” he admitted in an interview with Working Not Working. “I usually have 3 or 4 project ideas floating around in my head and I don’t feel quite right unless I’m making progress on one of them. I feel really lucky that I’ve been able to convince people to pay me to make things for them and I’m going to ride that out as long as possible. I also get excited about being part of a creative community that is overwhelmingly positive.”

Keeping his style intentionally fluid, so as to connect better with each client, his graphic illustrations and short animations have a spontaneity to them. “I like to keep my personal style pretty fluid while connecting each project with recurring imagery and themes,” says Simpson.

As for his inspiration, he’s naturally drawn to artist and musicians that don’t limit themselves stylistically. “This includes people like Heinz Edelmann, Toro Y Moi, Wayne White, and Flying Lotus just to name a few. Stylistically I have been really influenced by the drawings of Ken Price and paintings by Stuart Davis over the last few years.”

Check out some of his work in the gallery below.

The post Jimmy Simpson’s Artistic Style is Intentionally Fluid appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I like to take things or ideas that are familiar and then spin it until it feels ‘right’ — not a definite kind of right, but a forgiving, ever-shifting, strange kind of right that might have been made up with all kinds of wrongs,” said the designer and animator in an interview with Creative Mornings. “An intended response to my work can be something like, ‘Hmmm..that’s weird, but I kinda like it.”

It’s hard not to “kinda like” his work, which, in its repetitiveness, has a somewhat soothing effect. “You might find that your work is a little weird, different, or unconventional, but that’s a unique quality which sets you apart from other people,” said Keeree.

Take a look at some of his unconventional work and follow his Instagram page for more.

The post Jay Keeree’s Surreal Animations Have a Calming Effect appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

With collaborations with the New York Times, Apple, and Google, and a following of almost 20 thousand fans on Instagram, the artistic duo is clearly a success.

“We care about diversity and female empowerment and we joined forces to create a world of playful yet strong characters, full of energy and positivity,” their website reads.

“From the beginning, we have applied a ‘don’t look back’ approach,” they said in an interview with Inky Goodness. “Because of the repetition of the character style, we are accumulating details which are improving with each illustration. The clearest example of this is in the body shapes. They have changed from a geometric beginning to having a more realistic, stronger structure, which is more in tune with our message of depicting real women.”

Take a look at some of our favorite characters of theirs.

The post These 3D Characters Are More Fashionable Than We’ll Ever Be appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

It tells the story of a hedgehog who lives in the woods, defending the honor of his home against animals that make fun of him. Like most fables, this one carries a strong message about being modest and taking care of what you have.

The movie has won several awards, including the Best Film Award at the KIKI International Film Festival for Kids in 2017, Honorable Mention at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2017, and Best Children’s Film at the GLAS Animation Festival in 2018.

Watch it below.

The post Watch “Hedgehog’s Home”, the Adorable Needle-Felted Stop Motion appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I thought I wanted to be a graphic designer, a politician, a children’s book illustrator, a visual development artist,” she recounted in an interview with Concept Art Empire, “until I realized that I was awful at making finished drawings, hahaha! But also that storyboarding was my favorite aspect of the animation pipeline.”

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Alex Chiu (@alexmchiu)

She might be selling herself short. When it comes to animation, Chiu has worked so far for the biggest names in the industry including Marvel Animation, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Netflix. Now working as Director and Story Artist for Warner Bros., Chiu has carved herself a niche, often referencing her love of manga and anime.

In fact, it was her love of manga that would ultimately spark a creative interest, leading her into the field of animation. “I always doodled as a kid according to my parents,” says Chiu. “But I didn’t really pick up the pencil and draw every day with the intention of getting better in some shape or form until I was 10.”

“It all changed when I started reading manga,” she admits, adding that though she considered art as a career when she was in high school it wasn’t until sophomore or junior year of college when she narrowed down her career path. Having developed her skills throughout school and college, she landed on storytelling after experimenting with comics and film.

Currently based in LA, we can’t wait to see more of her work both online and on-screen!

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Alex Chiu (@alexmchiu)

The post This Story Artist is Inspired By Manga appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Nancy Liang (@under_over_themoon)

Based in Sydney, Liang graduated with a Bachelor of Design at UNSW Art and Design and has no formal training in animation. As such, her animation, often experimental, pushes the boundaries of more traditional forms, incorporating mediums like drawing, painting, and paper cutting with digital programs like Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Aero, and Processing.

Liang explains that the elements that make each animation piece have all been hand-drawn or handmade frame by frame, which naturally takes a lot of time and patience. Using kraft paper cutouts, she arranges her pieces in the visual form of a diorama “The objects in my work have hundreds of layers down to the shadow under window pane,” she explained once in an interview with Brown Paper Bag.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Nancy Liang (@under_over_themoon)

“For me, everything must be separate. That way I can move or redraw single elements frame by frame rather than create hundreds of finished collages frame by frame”. In order to do so, she draws, cuts, pastes, and shifts all the elements around. “It is a reiterative process,” she admits.

After playing around with the different pieces, she then scans all of her finished layers into the computer, arranges them in Photoshop, and only then proceeds to animate. The end result will most definitely mesmerize you.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Nancy Liang (@under_over_themoon)

The post What Is This Sorcery? It’s Nancy Liang’s Animation Art appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

According to Lester, this early introduction to illustration proved to have a huge influence on his career choice. Now a full-time designer, animator, and yes—illustrator—his work is often clean and minimal, cutting straight to the chase.

Having studied fine art in college, in turn, had led him to illustration at the university. “These two steps helped me progress more naturally into animation,” he explains. “If I’d have gone straight into animation I’d have missed out on improving my visual style and writing skills.”

Some of his more viral work include the world’s smallest portfolio and his character buildings (where he animated architectural landmarks, adding them some quirky personalities). “Personal projects allow you to steer your career,” says Lester, “it’s much more difficult to control where you are heading if you only do client work.”

See some of his more recent work in the gallery below:

The post Michael William Lester’s Designs are Simply Neat appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

The relationships with his family and friends, social anxiety, and his fear of being rejected from the people that surround him are manifested by contorts, melting, rippling, dripping, and swirling clay faces on human bodies. To make the faces, which were roughly double life-size, the creators used more than 1,100 pounds of plasticine.

“When making this film, it was really important to me that you could see the fingerprints, and even more than that, each drip of the film is the size of a thumb that kind of tactile filmmaking is something I really wanted to incorporate,” the artist shared on Vimeo. “Making this film just made me really excited about future possibilities. I feel like this was such a leap into the unknown that really got my mind going with other crazy things we can do.”

If you are interested to see his award-winning film, check it out on Vimeo.

The post Check Out a Remarkable Animation Film Made With Plasticine appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

It was during this time that he also taught himself some animation. “Everything I’ve learned so far is from free YouTube tutorials and forums,” he told Juxtapoz. “There are so many resources for people starting out in CGI and I owe a lot to the people who make that content… Coming from a design background and working in that area, I think its easier to teach yourself. Of course, there are certain jobs in CGI and animation, in general, where teaching yourself probably won’t cut it.”

Now, working primarily with Cinema4D, Zbrush, Sculptris, and the Adobe suite, his clients include giants like Spotify, The New York Times, Google, MTV, and Lazy Oaf – proving he’s definitely the cool kid on the block.

“My main advice for people still studying is not to be hung up if you don’t know exactly what you want to make,” he says. “I think it’s healthy not to have preformed ideas of exactly what you’ll do when you leave art school, but it’s still super daunting.”

Follow his progress on Instagram.

The post Jack Sachs’ 3D Art is Too Cool For School appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“Creativity was really valued in our household and I always felt the arts were a viable career choice,” he told Lecture in Progress. “I was a late bloomer in school and art was the only thing I really excelled at, so I always felt it was central to my identity and sense of personal worth.”

Now based on the South Coast of England, his artistic career has included leading campaigns for clients such as BBC, Channel 4, Droga5, Disney and Google; and his work has achieved numerous accolades including a Children’s Bafta win and Lovie Award.

“I create children’s content for the most part,” he says. “The bulk of my work is around game design – making landscapes, characters, rigging and animating them and working with an art director and development team to make it all work. I also do linear animation work, or what’s termed, ‘explainer videos’, and sometimes I’m called upon to create sets of short looping gif animations for Facebook sticker sets to promote the release of a film or TV show.”

His animations, quirky, funny, if a bit wonky, have also drawn the attention of more than 26k followers on Instagram. “The most satisfying part of my job is creating something tangible – experimenting with ideas, overcoming technical constraints and ending up with something fun that is seen and used by people.”

Here are some of our favorite characters by him.

The post Enter the Wonky World of Laurie Rowan appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“At this point I can’t not make things!” he admitted in an interview with Working Not Working. “I usually have 3 or 4 project ideas floating around in my head and I don’t feel quite right unless I’m making progress on one of them. I feel really lucky that I’ve been able to convince people to pay me to make things for them and I’m going to ride that out as long as possible. I also get excited about being part of a creative community that is overwhelmingly positive.”

Keeping his style intentionally fluid, so as to connect better with each client, his graphic illustrations and short animations have a spontaneity to them. “I like to keep my personal style pretty fluid while connecting each project with recurring imagery and themes,” says Simpson.

As for his inspiration, he’s naturally drawn to artist and musicians that don’t limit themselves stylistically. “This includes people like Heinz Edelmann, Toro Y Moi, Wayne White, and Flying Lotus just to name a few. Stylistically I have been really influenced by the drawings of Ken Price and paintings by Stuart Davis over the last few years.”

Check out some of his work in the gallery below.

The post Jimmy Simpson’s Artistic Style is Intentionally Fluid appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I like to take things or ideas that are familiar and then spin it until it feels ‘right’ — not a definite kind of right, but a forgiving, ever-shifting, strange kind of right that might have been made up with all kinds of wrongs,” said the designer and animator in an interview with Creative Mornings. “An intended response to my work can be something like, ‘Hmmm..that’s weird, but I kinda like it.”

It’s hard not to “kinda like” his work, which, in its repetitiveness, has a somewhat soothing effect. “You might find that your work is a little weird, different, or unconventional, but that’s a unique quality which sets you apart from other people,” said Keeree.

Take a look at some of his unconventional work and follow his Instagram page for more.

The post Jay Keeree’s Surreal Animations Have a Calming Effect appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

With collaborations with the New York Times, Apple, and Google, and a following of almost 20 thousand fans on Instagram, the artistic duo is clearly a success.

“We care about diversity and female empowerment and we joined forces to create a world of playful yet strong characters, full of energy and positivity,” their website reads.

“From the beginning, we have applied a ‘don’t look back’ approach,” they said in an interview with Inky Goodness. “Because of the repetition of the character style, we are accumulating details which are improving with each illustration. The clearest example of this is in the body shapes. They have changed from a geometric beginning to having a more realistic, stronger structure, which is more in tune with our message of depicting real women.”

Take a look at some of our favorite characters of theirs.

The post These 3D Characters Are More Fashionable Than We’ll Ever Be appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

It tells the story of a hedgehog who lives in the woods, defending the honor of his home against animals that make fun of him. Like most fables, this one carries a strong message about being modest and taking care of what you have.

The movie has won several awards, including the Best Film Award at the KIKI International Film Festival for Kids in 2017, Honorable Mention at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2017, and Best Children’s Film at the GLAS Animation Festival in 2018.

Watch it below.

The post Watch “Hedgehog’s Home”, the Adorable Needle-Felted Stop Motion appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.