Tom Barkel, Father of Modern Western Sakuga | Animator Archives

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Tom's first known animation credit dates back to 2017 as an animation director on 'Oh Yuck!', a live-action/animation hybrid educational show for kids, at Flying Bark Productions! Just a year later, Tom would reprise his role once again on the titular 'Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' (2018-2020/2022) where he would truly start to shine! Barkel takes lots of inspiration from both anime and western animation and it truly shows from his squishy movements to spectacular impact frames, and exaggeration you would only expect to see in an anime production! He continues to bring his unique flair with additional on recently popular western cartoons such as The Owl House and Amphibia! As a director and supervisor, Barkel ensures that every project he is on stands out as a visual phenomenon as seen most apparently with the recent 'Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' movie which contains a lot more of his work that I was unable to find proper credit for, but nonetheless he has proven to be a true wondrous marvel in the realm of 2D animation in this new age of animation! Thank you for all your hard work so far, Mr. Barkel and behold the spectacle!!
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[@snowhunter7536]

I feel like Tom Barkel should be one of the legendary modern and post-modern animators with the likes of Yutaka Nakamura, Yuki Hayashi, Spencer Wan, and, of course, James Baxter.

[@ma3mc3mu-X]

It's not just Tom, Flying Bark Productions _always_ goes hard with the smears. It's almost as if staff from Studio Trigger was working there.

[@RavenMoodle]

here because ppl actually are confusing his work w James Baxter so dude is a legend

[@krajicsek13]

1:08 The new Hulk movie looks great

[@Broeckchen]

The arcs! The compositions! The weight and the dance between momentum and inertia! I hope I'll be able to give my animations this much dynamic one day!

[@JCAnimates22007]

omg i made a sakuga mad of his stuff recently. crazy

[@itstime662012]

Animation looks pretty smooth.

[@jakkdlaw]

This is amazing, this is the kind of animation we need. I hope we get to see more from him

[@Justice-sc9vx]

Awesome

[@kopsh9982]

wow hes really good

[@miwhitty8316]

God tier animation holy heck 🎉❤

[@user-js3sy1kf9m]

Nobody is gonna mention the fact that he's like the "Western" Ryo Onishi.

[@UltimateKeith]

Can you do the animation of Sonic for his birthday 🥳🎂 it's June 23th

[@shelbythompson10]

does anybody know the name of the song?

[@Vingu1K]

HEATS by Hironobu Kageyama

[@krajicsek13]

1:20 Show name?

[@RCUdeogu]

The Owl House

[@Crustymoon09]

Better than jjk

[@niji8164]

Spencer wan better