Today I got to know the works from Augenblick Studios.

I've found their "Golden Age" Flash series hilarious. The series tell what happen to "famous" characters from the past after their glorious times. Very funny.

After winning the first FJORG!, where groups of animators were locked for 32 hours into Siggraph until some seconds of animation came out, Team Mocap gave two interesting interviews.

The first one, to Spline Doctors, has among other things a link to their funny Demo Reel which helped to get them into the challenge.

The oher one, given to Keith Lango, has some considerations from the interviewer.

For the Blender users around, if you watch the documentary about the competition there's someone there who used it in the production. All teams received workstations with commercial apps but someone preferred use Blender for some tasks instead.

Looking for some inspiration?

Go look at Peter de Sève's website. He is kind of a one-man band: character designer of animated movies like Ice Age and Finding Nemo, responsible for illustrating the covers of The New Yorker for more than 10 years, and he also manages to be a TV commercials director.

If you want to know more about him, there is a cool interview made with him in 2006.

Today I saw this post on Cartoon Brew telling about a 1991 interview with the master Maurice Noble and the news that Amazon has in pre-order a book about the life and works of this amazing artist. I want one!

I truly love his layout and background work, mostly his masterpieces done with Chuck Jones' crew in the 50's and 60's, like What's Opera, Doc and Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century.

Surprisingly, Noble's work wasn't that admired on his time, like Amid Amidi tells on this Cartoon Modern post .

In addition to that interview, there's this one, made with him in 1998.

Well... that shop exists in real life and is proud to be "killing rats for 135 years", as we can read in this article from The Seattle Times.