Dorian Iten (website, youtube): Great art teacher with "Crystal-clear drawing tips"
Galneryus: Awesome j-metal band who know how to make some kick-ass music
George Bridgman: The guy who's sketches confuse most novices. Love his rough sketches and how he simplifies things into more dynamic looking objects
J.C. Leyendecker: 20th century commercial illustrator. Paintings look real yet shapes are planned so purposefully to make it as appealing as possible
James Baxter: Traditional western animator. Makes 2D characters look like 3D models, with movements so smooth it makes butter jealous
Kirby Ferguson (youtube): Most known for his Everything is a Remix documentary series, great editing & writing
Kouji Wada: Singer for early Digimon and a childhood legend (RIP)
Mamoru Hosoda: Directed Wolf Children, Summer Wars, Our War Game, and others. Love the animation style of his films and the fun yet at times heart-wrenching and bittersweet stories told within them
Mark Manson (youtube): No-bullshit life advice, most known for his book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Meychan (youtube): Awesome japanese singer, found them through their cover of buriki no dance
Mogoon (モ誰): Japanese illustrator with solid drawings, dynamic compositions, and a stylistic choice of rendering that's very much grounded in real world principles. Also love that subtle painterly texture in his illustrations
Noah Bradley (twitter, youtube): Painter most known from Dungeons & Dragons, Magic the Gathering, and his Sin of Man project. Fantastic landscape painter in particular, with a large and deep sense of space and very appealing brush strokes
Norimitsu Suzuki: Basically the japanese Richard Williams; nice shapes, fluid motion, solid drawings, and absolutely mind-boggling perspective shifts
Richard Williams: Most known for animating Who Framed Rogger Rabbit and The Thief and The Cobbler. Smooth motion, insane perspective shifts, and kind of a hardhead
Ruan Jia (twitter): Chinese painter who spends an ungodly amount of time painting characters and scenes with so much dimension and detail it makes a 3D engine look flat in comparison
Shigenori Soejima: Main artist for the Persona series. Love how graphic and appealing his drawings (and character designs) are but also the way he draws his shapes and paints light and shadow that give his drawings that extra dimension
Shinichiro Watanabe: Directed Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and even some Animatrix episodes
Studio GAINAX: Personal favorite anime studio. Over-the-top stories and endings with, at times, some of the greatest animation in anime
Taran Van Hemert (twitter, youtube): Editor, "macro king", and tree-house and lego builder. I like how he talks and explains technical things
Tetsuya Nishio: Animator and character designer for Naruto, Ninku, Sky Crawler, and others. Smooth, realistic animation with slick character designs
Toshihiro Kawamoto: Character designer for Cowboy Bebop, Kekkai Sensen, and others. His character designs are appealing yet have a realistic vibe to them
Wolpis Kater (youtube): Japanese singer, stupidly high notes
You Yoshinari: Veteran GAINAX animator, directed Little Witch Academia, and character designer of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. A personal favorite of mine. Especially love his dynamic and appealing shapes, the awesome texture his paintings have, and his killer animation with all their amazing effects
Yuusuke Murata: Artist of Eyeshield 21 and One-Punch Man. Absolutely inhuman. Dynamic compositions, realistic yet appealing characters, and oh lord the details...
nujabes: "Godfather" of lo-fi hiphop. Music that make you feel like your floating in an ocean of kickass beats
the pillows: Japenese alt-rock band most known from FLCL (Fooly Cooly)
Works
Children's/Our War Game
Eureka Seven
FLCL
Golden Boy (OVA): Hilarious and insanely well animated
