Posts Tagged ‘animation’

I saw Tangled on the weekend. I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed. I’m by no means a film reviewer, so I’ll leave that to the professionals. But do yourself a favour and go see the film, I say it in 2D (not much of a fan of the 3D) and had a great time! Another reason you should really go see it though is for the credits. At least the first bit, before it switches to standard credits.* Here’s a somewhat poor quality YouTube video of them:

I was blown away by the life in the drawings, the energy in the brushstrokes, though probably digital, are beautiful. I would watch an entire movie animated with those brush strokes as a model. So like I often do, I got momentarily obsessed and made it my mission to track down the illustrator behind them. Google don’t fail me now!

Who I found was Shiyoon Kim. Can’t find much out about him besides his love of animation and pop locking. But he has an art blog! And there’s a post featuring a few of the illustrations (which is where I linked the top illustration from. Go check it out!

*But from a typography and design perspective, the post illustration credits were really well designed too! The gentle undulating centre margin running down the screen did a really good job of evoking Rapunzel’s hair.