animation — VISUALOUNGE

Silent Wildness, Illustration by Kaining Wang

Kaining Wang, a Los Angeles visual development artist raised in Shanghai, draws on nature for the series Silent Wildness.

Leon Lee is a Malaysian-born illustrator and designer in Los Angeles who paints watercolours outdoors.

Flat illustrations of a figure walking a magenta dog and two diners at a table, from Chen Winner's graduation film.

Driftwood, gold chains and a soap bubble, staged as still lifes by Madrid art director Juanma Mota.

Noam Sussman designs funny-looking characters, from flat-coloured crowds to loose pencil studies.

Dave Prosser is a London-based animator and art director, a BAFTA-nominated director and a graduate of the Royal College of Art.

Gary Hustwit's documentary on Dieter Rams: the designer at his desk with a pen and drawings, and a film funded on Kickstarter.

Fifty-two storeys above Tokyo, the Studio Ghibli Expo centres on a room of airships and an illuminated replica from 'Castle in the Sky'.

Minnesota animator Anna Taberko's kaleidoscopic loops morph flowers, seed pods and butterflies into self-sustaining cycles.

Amélie Tourangeau's Dear Montreal postcards draw the city in vermilion, turquoise and deep green, from a cyclist to a café terrace.

Selected illustration work from New York's Cari Vander Yacht.

Selected illustration work from New York's Angelica Alzona.

Tumblr user 1041uuu turns everyday Japanese scenes into looping GIFs with a soft, nostalgic palette.

Recent work from New York illustrator and animator Jimmy Simpson.