Character Design in Cloudy 2

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is by Sony Animation Studios and the designs of the food monsters, I think, are incredible. I love the way they've manipulated the foods to create creatures, and they've also given them hilarious punny names (Watermelophant, Shrimpanzee, Tacodile...) The way they've created hybrid's between foods and animals is inventive, interesting and generally awesome. The story is okay, it's not the best but overall it's a really good film, from an animation point of view. The lighting and background designs are also really well done. 

Agent Bob studios

Agent BOB is a studio based in London that specialise in CGI, illustration, animation and VFX for the global entertainment and advertising industries. They've been in business for about 20 years and work with some of the largest advertising agencies and brands in the world.

I love this advert for Sony Ericsson that  they did. This music monsters campaign is fun, adorable and comical.

http://vimeo.com/53942278

http://vimeo.com/53942278

http://vimeo.com/agentbob/spiderman

These vimeo vidoes show that their work covers a wide range of styles and for a variety of different companies and adverts for different audiences.

The LEGO movie

The Lego Movie came out recently and it is amazing. It's the first feature length Lego movie. It looks like it could be done in stop motion, which would have been a seriously huge task with the amount of individual pieces involved in the movie, however it is done almost entirely by computer animation. The way the characters move and the back grounds and everything perfectly embodies the idea of real lego blocks. This is because the animators made sure they included aspects of real Lego pieces when creating the characters and the backgrounds. 
Some parts of the Lego movie were created using stop motion, a total of 3,863,484 unique lego bricks are seen in the movie, however to create the movie only using Lego it would take 15,080,330 bricks which would have cost far too much to create the whole movie in stop motion.

I think the movie was beautifully done and even though a lot of it wasn't stop motion, they've really made it look like it's stop motion, and it makes the idea of the Lego movie story being a children's game more authentic looking like stop motion.