Three of my favorite artists

As part of our work and study we have to identify three contemporary practitioners whose work attracts, repulses, interests, intrigues, or otherwise engages us and writing a bit about them. So after a long time thinking which 3 artists I might write here they are.

1) BRYAN KONIETZKO
Bryan Konietzko is one of the creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Legend of Korra and a writer of Avatar comic books. He is an American animator that works in U.S.A., still working in the Avatar series. I choosed him because the cartoon series of Avatar are one of my favorite animated series, I like the creature and character design that he has created, the story of the cartoon that even is a Nickleoden series it has not so childish stories, so even boys and girls of different ages can watch it. He mixes american animation with some japanese animation, and you can see it sometime on the facial expressions but without exaggerations.

references:http://www.animevice.com/bryan-konietzko/20-64545/ ; http://comicsalliance.com/?submit_button=&s=Bryan+konietzko

2) GENNDY TARTAKOVSKY
Genndy Tartakovsky is born in Russia and when he was 7 years old he moved with his parents to Chicago, and now he is an animator who works in U.S.A. . He created different famous cartoon series like Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls and the 2D animation of Star Wars: Clone Wars for Cartoon Network. I like how he draws with that poor style of drawing but that gives great expressions to the characters, how he is good to write stories changing from humouristic to more serious and sad stories. Furthermore I like how he uses colors for backgrounds. Recently he directed Hotel Transylvania.
 

references: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tag/genndy-tartakovsky ; http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/GenndyTartakovsky ; http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-09-27/film/genndy-tartakovsky-hotel-transylvania/full/ ; http://animatedtv.about.com/od/samuraijack/p/tartakovsky.htm
3) NEIL GAIMAN

Neil Gaiman was born in Hampshire, UK, and now lives in the United States near Minneapolis. He is not an animator, he is a writer of books, comic books and script of movies and tv series. Some of his most famous works are the comic book Sandman, Death, the book American Gods. From his novels they did two movies, one is Stardust with actors like Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer and the second is Coraline, a stop-motion animated film directed by Henry Selick. I like this writer for how he writes stories for children and for adults and because he is able to write adult fairy stories, one of my favorite book written by him is The Graveyard Book.

references: http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/About_Neil/Biography ; http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ca-Ge/Gaiman-Neil.html ; http://www.mousecircus.com/MeetNeilGaiman.aspx ; http://www.famousauthors.org/neil-gaiman