Batman The Animated Series - The Heart of Batman Documentary

Cornell Univ: Powerful Image Morph Technique (SIGGRAPH 2017)

// Visual Attribute Transfer through Deep Image Analogy

Jing Liao, Yuan Yao, Lu Yuan, Gang Hua, Sing Bing Kang

'We propose a new technique for visual attribute transfer across images that may have very different appearance but have perceptually similar semantic structure. By visual attribute transfer, we mean transfer of visual information (such as color, tone, texture, and style) from one image to another. For example, one image could be that of a painting or a sketch while the other is a photo of a real scene, and both depict the same type of scene. Our technique finds semantically-meaningful dense correspondences between two input images. To accomplish this, it adapts the notion of "image analogy" with features extracted from a Deep Convolutional Neutral Network for matching; we call our technique Deep Image Analogy. A coarse-to-fine strategy is used to compute the nearest-neighbor field for generating the results. We validate the effectiveness of our proposed method in a variety of cases, including style/texture transfer, color/style swap, sketch/painting to photo, and time lapse.'

Colour In Storytelling

Here's a nice general breakdown of the use of color in filmmaking. 

Model Sheets for 'Wander Over Yonder'

Check out these beautiful model sheets for Wander Over Yonder (via On Animation)

 // Behind The Scenes: "Wander Over Yonder"

Designing An Animated Short Film with Kathy Zielinski

Former Disney animation supervisor and current DreamWorks animator Kathy Zielinski talks about the development process of her short film 'Hide And Seek'.  (the interview starts at the 1:30 mark)

Armand Serrano - The Power of Thumbnails

Visual Development Artist Armand Serrano shares why he uses thumbnails and why they are so powerful in the creative process.

Also check out Armand's website here: ARMAND SERRANO