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Burning Safari & Curious George

Nettie — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:38:00 +0000

I’ve been watching Burning Safari and all of the making-of videos on burningsafari.com. I plan on using a similar quick animation style to keep the story toon-like and comical.

I’ve also been watching a lot of Curious George for movement and sound of a monkey in a cartoon. He’s so cute!

Jamie Hewlett

Nettie — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:00:21 +0000

Jamie’s most commonly known for his illustrations for the music group the Gorillaz. I admire his funky style and referenced his images when creating my characters. The following illustrations were done for the modern opera adaptation of the traditional Journey to the West monkey king story.

Adam Koford

Nettie — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:58:50 +0000

His monkey illustrations are halirious! Great reference for my main character, Max. He has hundreds of customized monkey illustrations, check his Flickr: Ape Lad and Blog

Monkey

Nettie — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:08:25 +0000

English translation of the story of the legend of the Chinese Monkey King. Extremely entertaining…my initial inspiration!

Luke Chueh

Nettie — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:03:48 +0000

“Chueh stylistically balances cute with brute, walking the fine line between comedy and tragedy”

lukechueh.com

Versus

Nettie — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:27:58 +0000

I love this french animation. It’s cute, sarcastic, and halirious.

Click here to watch