HELLO I AM FELIX COLGRAVE AND YOU ARE FOLLOWING ME ON TUMBLR. You Were Previously Following Feeldix.tumblr.com

HELLO I AM FELIX COLGRAVE AND YOU ARE FOLLOWING ME ON TUMBLR. You were previously following feeldix.tumblr.com but I changed the url to my real name because I am a real person HELLO DON'T GET CONFUSED ok that's all bye

drew a lil tigre for La Tigre Forte

Have any of the characters or settings in your animations been inspired by dreams? Alternatively, have any of your critters ever appeared in your dreams after their creation?

I don’t recall ever taking a character from a dream, but when I close my eyes to sleep and my mind starts wandering, I’ll initially see lots of strange characters and faces and settings. Once in a while a good one flashes past, and I’ll have to jump out of bed and sketch it out so I remember.Here’s a cleaned-up version of one such frantic night scribble from a few weeks back:

Hey friends! Me and all the DUMB IDIOTS I share a studio with made a collaborative loopdeloop with all our DUMB FACES in it! Our studio space now also has it's own Tumblr, so follow that to see all the DUMB WORK we make in this room together.

Our La Tigre Forte studio loopdeloop-blog group-de-loop for the theme FACES.

How does one find animation style? I'm starting to get into animating and would draw, but I just don't feel it properly voices individuality. Being a professional, do you have a solution to this?

"Style" is just an artist making things the way they like the most, which is something that they figure out over time. Don't try and force it- you'll be giving yourself unnecessary restrictions and arbitrary motifs, based on your underdeveloped relationship with what you want to be making. Having a style may function as a 'brand', but that's secondary to you developing a strong, personal dialogue with your creative self and satisfying it as best you can, and that's not something you can fake by artificially inventing and sticking to a style. Just make exactly what you want to make, no wrong answers, and as you become confident and familiar in your processes, your particular artistic sensibilities will gradually become more and more prominent and distinctive, whether you like it or not.

Finally went to that life drawing thing that happens at No Vacancy Gallery. It was really great, if you live in Melbourne you should check it out.