Seen- another amazing japanese popper.. His style is very similiar to popping taco from breakin.. really sick waves and animation style!! : D

pencil test

really talented popper! Kite from Former Action Crew in Japan~ best footwork I've seen yet in popping.. including some OGs. He is on screen right..

boppin andre.. Legendary pioneer and creator of bopping/robot.. doing some sick animation!!

more life drawing~ ^_^ cuz I can't use any stuff from work..

Cool Western girl in Bob Kato's costume class..

Where Popping and Animation come together!

Always loved the comics and even the anime/american animated version of it!

two of my favorite bboys of all time~ alien ness and katsu from zulu kings! This is a good example of moves vs movement.. it's all about entertainment and timing ^_^
(alien ness and katsu on the right)

FINGER TUTS~ some fresh tutting concepts.. sick! ^_^

Some quotes from a interview with Milt Kahl in the book Walt's People.

Dr Moritz: Did you do those model sheets where they have six poses of the character?

Milt: They'd take a lot of drawings from my animation and make a model sheet of thosee.. It was much better that way because the model department.. they couldn't really draw that well anyway.. When something gets into animation, it forces itself into a different design. Especially heads. Faces. Because to articulate them, there were certain things that just didn't work.

Dr Moritz: That's true with the beginning of Snow White. They had a lot of problems articulating her.

Milt: Yes. That's just inability to draw. The judgement of how not to draw something. .

Those quotes just confirms how important having a hand drawn animation ability is so important in doing character designs~

Jihyun in korea! ^^

jihyun working at karaoke ^^

Robot Prince~ This man is amazing! My friend Jules had a chance to talk with him- he is another super OG~~ watch at -8 sec (the move is layered in two motions- his jaw action and him going back all robotic like) must see clip!

http://www.westcoastpoppin.com/playvideo.php?id=341

really awesome japanese mime!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HanD2FsbMsc&mode=related&search=boppin%20andre%20botting%20popping%20hitting%20hit%20pop%20bot%20robot%20funk%20west%20coast%20og