found these inspiring Jules Engles clips. Jules was the former dean of Experimental Animation and was one of the founding members of creating the animation program at CalArts besides working at Disney and UPA. He passed away recently and I was lucky enough to get to know him while I was going to school. Enjoy! : )

(click on next story to see all the other clips)

http://www.peoplesarchive.com/browse/movies/3663/en/off/

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