I’m a child of the 90′s. Cartoons were a siren’s call to my imagination, and yeah, Disney was my pusher.

Digital animation these days is flat-out amazing (the things you can do with a computer – who knew!), but I have soft spot for the done-by-hand animation style. So, when I came across this pin and this pin on Pinterest, it took me right back to my Disney-influenced childhood.

The artist behind both works, and the Etsy shop BritSketch, is Brittney Lee, a Southern California artist and an animator. I love her style, her color choices, and her subject choices. Every piece is so fun and whimsical and lush that I want to plaster my niece and nephew’s walls with them, in a desperate attempt to ensure they have the same kind of animation-loving childhood memories I have.

I’m particularly taken with her Hawaiian Gods series (huge surprise, yes?) – the care and detail in each of those pieces is so dead on, down to the tattoos on Kane’s arm or the fishhook Maui uses. It’s awesome to see myths I feel connected to come to life in a respectful way. Sometimes Hawaiian-infuenced art can feel so kitschy that it becomes too much of a joke; Brittney Lee manages to sidestep that entirely and breathes life into a subject that can easily feel stale.

I vote she does an animated film about Hawaiian gods.

To see more, you can visit her Etsy shop or stop by her blog.

 

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