Disney short designed and directed by the crazy genius Ward Kimball, featuring loads of great characters playing instruments in interesting ways. JM

Customizable Rig

http://journal.joshburton.com/2010/10/morpheus-release-candidate-v2.html

This is meant to be an easy to customize rig

its not the final version but people have already been doing 11 second club and stuff with it


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Rockstar Rig

http://animationbuffet.blogspot.com/2008/12/rockstar.html
Just in case if we do go for something a bit rocky here is a rockstar rig

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Lots of free Rigs

Here is a giant collection of free rigs. There might be some that we can use for the band stuff in here

http://animationbuffet.blogspot.com/

:P


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Colour Script tests

Without too much focus on character design I just set out to enjoy playing around with colour, texture and atmosphere and will hopefully start a process of roughing out lots of characters and styles... it's a start!

Click them to enlarge & see properly like. 
 - JS

And some more Sax ref, poses and styles from a bit of research (I didn't draw these).

Pixar's One Man Band

This was actually never one of my faves as Pixar shorts go, mainly as I wasn't overly keen on the styling, but it has some great examples of characters playing multiple instruments and is worth seeing again.

Hop Teaser (Cheers Alex!) - Rabbit setting up and playing drums

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