Animators

                                                                     Guldies


                            



                                                               Wallace & Gromit

ParaNorman by Lead Animator and Producer Travis Knight

           





                                                       Cinderella (1949)

                                                                Lion King (1994)


                             


                    The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) Dir. Peter Lord & Jeff Newitt

 


             

Clay Sculptors

Egyptian cat sculptures

Egyptian sculptures 

Ron Mueck

James Peniston 

Auguste Rodin

Bernini’s Terracotta

Sculpture Artists

Tomohiro Inaba

Lucy Billingsly

Andreas Deja

These wonderful and interesting sculptures get even more interesting when you realize that they are made entirely out of chicken wire mesh. This innovative artists create a series of exquisite sculptures, including popular artist portraits, a koala bear, a monkey, lion and more.

 Ivan Lovatt 

Ivan Lovatt

Kendra Haste

Independent artist

                                Marta Klonowska

                                              Dog
  

 Cat

Cat

Rabbit

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Using carefully broken shards of colored glass, Polish artist Marta Klonowska assembles translucent animals in life-like proportion and size. Almost all of her sculptures are based on animals found in baroque and romantic paintings by such artists as Peter Paul Rubens or Francisco de Goya next to which they are often displayed. Her work appeared most recently at European Glass Context 2012




                                                         


                                      Travis Pond

Tiger

Husky

Deer

Deer

Pond uses all mater of scrap metal from motorcycle parts to old gears, steel handles, and other found hardware to weld these imposing, well-armored birds, fish, and other beasts. Watch the time-lapse above to see how he works.

                                      John Piccoli

John Dilnot is a man after my own heart. Using clipped illustrations of birds and months he arranges them to create beautiful dioramas within wooden boxes. Dilnot frequently lines the interiors with antique maps and arranges the birds in small flocks, setting them on perpetual cartographic journeys. You can see an archive of John’s work here and some boxes that are still available here. He also sells prints and postcards.

Lauren Ryan

California-based artist Lauren Ryan skillfully constructs life-like animal sculptures using nothing more than pipe cleaners (also known as chenille stems). The bent, curled, and woven into one another to produce these remarkable figurative structures. The fuzzy materials also add to the believable texture of each creature, mimicking the respective animal's fur.

Nick Mackman

''Observing lion cubs sleeping on their backs 

with their legs akimbo shows the security they

 gain from being part of such a large strong 

family'' When it was time to sculpt them, Nick

wanted to show the cubs in this vulnerable 

state. 

Sean Avery


In his mixed media sculptures of animals and insects artist 

Sean Avery creates fur and feathers using meticulously layered fragments of broken CDs.

Reptiles, Birds and Insects

For this assignment I had to do research on birds, reptiles and insects. I picked the best few I liked ad printed them out to later use as source material to draw from. The pictures I chose are all in high definition because I wanted to be able to see the details on the creatures so it's fun and a challenge for me when I draw from these.