Cartoon Characters is a collaboration by three Dutton brothers: Mike Dutton (the artist), Henry Dutton (the music creator) and lastly, David Dutton (who master-minded the whole project).
David explains that he started off the project by raiding "all of [Mike's] sketchbooks; getting scans or shooting the more awkward pages" with his Canon 7D camera and that's the great thing about this video, you can see the personality and ever-changing tone in Mike's sketchbook as it gracefully animates frame by frame.
AndHeDrew (@AndHeDrew) / 11/21/2011 @ 9:33pm /
What a strange, eclectic mix of doodles! the music fit perfectly. Very cool!
Boris Melgarejo (@montig) / 11/21/2011 @ 11:37pm /
I feel sorry for the sketchbook and the characters in it. They were digitally manipulated, chopped, expanded, and taken out of their pages. They're beautiful as it is.
Boris Melgarejo (@montig) / 11/21/2011 @ 11:42pm /
All I'm saying is if these characters were made to be animated in the first place then that's cool. But looks like it wasn't. Anyway, good job.
Juan Navarro (@JuanNavarro) / 11/22/2011 @ 9:48am /
GORGEOUS!