Star Wars Rebels Premieres Tonight! - Shorts & Character Art

A round-up of character design/concept art - plus the four Star Wars Rebels animated shorts to get ready for tonight's premiere of the 1-hour pilot episode on the Disney Channel.

Meet the Rebel Heroes!

The Empire

 

Concept designs/art via Star Wars Rebels.

And here's some very cool loose concept paintings via StarWars.com and SlashGear.

New "Star Wars Rebels" Cartoon Extended Trailer

OK - I'm officially looking forward to this series.
 I've always preferred my Star Wars to be focused on scrappy underdogs and
hidden/rare Jedi - so this new trailer pushes all my nostalgic old school Rebel buttons.

Obi-Wan!

'Batman: Strange Days' 75th Anniversary Short by Bruce Timm

A Retro-tastic tribute by the master of animated storytelling - Bruce Timm.

Awesome! Guardians of the Galaxy Groot & Rocket Animations

Making their way around the web as "concept animation" clips...

...but more likely a stealthy viral peek at next weeks GOTG trailer. 

100% awesome in either case!

Des Taylor Superman Art Stars in a Fleischer Homage Animatic

By/via Des Taylor

Terrific "Tales of Metropolis: Bizarro" - DC Nation Animated Short

One of the super inventive little short series from the DC Nation/Cartoon Network Block...

...again with just that right touch of Retro.

Happy Father's Day! - Star Wars LEGO Style

New 'Space Pirate Captain Harlock' CG Movie Trailer Rocks

New English version trailer is as gorgeously rendered as the previous peeks, but features a lot more of the
character designs - and of course - an appropriate Pop-Rock ballad. The English dub version was just announced
and there will be more info on the film as well as the tie-in Action Figure and Toy lines @SDCC 2013 in July.
via Anime New Network

Oh My Harlock! Epic New "Captain Harlock' CG Film Trailer

Rad Retro Batman & Robin by Thomas Perkins

Thomas Perkins via Project Rooftop

Behold The "Space Pirate: Captain Harlock" CG Movie Teaser

Swoon. The anime character that made me believe in love a first site.
via GAS

 

 Photo via Anime News Network

Paperman - An Utterly Charming Disney Animated Short Film

via Disney Animation

Behold FRINGE's Trippy Terry Gilliam Animation Homage

BRAVE - Concept & Production Art Gallery

BRAVE is available on DVD Blu-ray today.
And a lot of beautiful concept art was generated in it's making of process.

 

Much more concept and production art can be found in the Making Of Book The Art of Brave.

Toy Captains of Industry - "City of Possibilities" Train Ad

This animated ad for Norfolk Southern Train Transport is one of my favorite commercials right now. 

It's fantastically well done - and the industrious toys make Woody, Buzz and the rest of the  

Toy Story gang look like a bunch of slackers.

Gloam - An Eerie & Enchanting Dark Forest Fairy Tale

Gloam from We Are The Forest on Vimeo.

 Haunting experimental animated short by by David Elwell & Gareth Hughes via io9.

The Animated LOOPER Trialer is All Kinds of Awesome

Totally cool.