It’s been really hard trying to figure out who exactly has inspired me a great deal. Actually, not quite, I know who has inspired me. I know who I love and who I admire, but I don’t know how to completely put it down in words how what aspects of their artwork that I admire.

I think everyone that knows me or has talked to me knows that one of my all time favorite artist is Gustav Klimt. I even tried to do an earlier project based off of his work (it didn’t quite turn out). I just love everything he has accomplished, the colors, the design, the feel of all his pieces are just so incredibly there.

The ability to mix patterns into his work is something I want to be able to do. I don’t think it’s been fully explored in an animation’s world and to be able to get this Gustav Klimt feel in motion would be so immensely powerful. I think it could make for something spectacular.

He’s been my favorite “fine arts” artist that I’ve ever had the pleasure of learning about. I know that a lot of my artwork has been inspired by him and his color palettes. I have yet to achieve anything that looks remotely like his things but I would love to be able to incorporate patterns and art nouveau style into an animated piece.

And it’s funny how my likings differ so drastically, but looking at my favorite animated pieces, Tim Burton’s artistic direction as lured me in time and time again. Even if it’s for Live Action movies, he’s maintained a feel that is just so completely his own.

And I think Nightmare Before Christmas contrasted with something like Corpse Bride (another stop motion movie) is even grittier and has a better feel to it. That’s another thing I want to introduce into animated pieces, a stop motion feel without actually using stop motion. I don’t know if it would be in 3d or traditional.

I just love the use of neutral colors and then a small dash of colors in his films to really contrast between two worlds. Since I’m still adamant about continuing on my first idea about the maid getting sucked into another world, I thought this would be incredibly useful.

If I were to do a traditional animated piece, I would love to have that very sketchy feel to it to add to the staccato nature of a stop motion feel.

I really don’t know what to say, I mean honestly, I don’t know what to really say. All of my favorite artists are so very different from each other.

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