Mike Ollerton Blog

Andreas Deja (a legendary and renowned artist and animator in his own right) has an amazing blog where he share Disney animation treasures and history with the world. He offers wonderful insights and thoughts into these amazing artists, mostly the nine old men as well as his own works and a few other artists he is fond of. http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/ Since discovering it back in 2017, it has been one of my favourite places on the internet, a small oasis or island paradise  in this often overwhelming sea of information that is the internet. It has also been the inspiration for me starting this blog. Continuing in his own blogging style let’s have a look at some of his beautiful drawings from Lilo and Stitch. These were shared on his blog here which I will linked where he talks about them himself… https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2012/08/more-lilo-stuff.html You can really see how he picks up Chris sanders style but is still recognisably his work. Early exploration sketches of l...

 Thinking of picking this blog up again. I know it’s still kinda an old format and no one really uses it but I still love looking at Andreas Deja’s blog and felt inspired to maybe give this a go again. When I first started this blog I had just started working in the games industry and was really wanting to improve as an artist in the areas I was rediscovering my love for, particularly the Disney animated style. A lot of time has passed since then and I’ve improve a fair bit and made a lot of art. Here’s a few of my 3d work from the past few years that I still like… Study of the Chris Sanders character “Nani” from “Lilo and Stich” Study of Lara Croft based on a illustration from Dylan Ekren. Sculpt of Chel from “Road to Eldorado” Model of Chun Li of my own design. Same as with my older posts I still continue to work on and try to improve my 2d drawing skills and I’m working on a few personal projects that I’ll share more of as I progress with them. For now here’s a few 2d pieces to ...

Spent a weekend doing these 2D animations.

So I've decided to start this blog because recently started feeling more confident in the direction i want to take to progress as an artist, so i thought i would be a good idea to try a document it as much as possible. Starting with a few Life drawing pages.