Inspirations
Its kind of hard pinning down my artistic inspirations since I don’t usually think about where I’m drawing from. However when I really sit down and examine how I draw and the directions I’ve pushed myself in two sources seemed to really stick out.
The first being Hiroyuki Imaishi, the animation director behing Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (pictured above), a crazy fast paced anime about the the a group of the few remaining humans on Earth revolting against the opressive beast men after being driven underground. His style is very frantic and dynamic in both coloring and linework. There used to be some videos of rough key animations on youtube but I’m guessing they’ve been taken down since I’m unable to find them again. The best I can come up with as an example is this anime music video.
My second biggest influence is the artisti style of the manga Hellsing by Kohta Hirano.
I’ve come to enjoy his style because of hthe way he pays such close attention to detail one page while breaking shapes and forms down simply to convey dynamic motions the next.
I suppose my ideal animation style would be a clever blend of the elements I like about these two artists, a nice mixture of rich detail, functional lively abstraction of forms, and dynamic movements and actions.
