Favorite Illustrative and Animation Artist of the Moment?

I gotta say, I stumbled across the website of Steward Lee, and his stuff reminds me of my own. I LOVE his ACTION DRAWINGS! I'd LOVE to work with him on something one day...

So yeah! I'm finally starting to have favorite artists who aren't just creators and character designers.

I'm finally starting to develop an appreciation for artists who fill the more so-called "obscure" roles in animation production. Storyboard artists, writers, producers, production designers.

Some of my current favorite Animation Artists and Writers...Feel free to Google and observe them. I do.

Writers:

• Yoshiyuki Tomino
• Jeffrey Scott
• Seth MacFarlane
• Matt Groening
• Mike Judge
• Michael Ryan
• Michael Reeves
• Seth Green
• Matthew Senreich
• Jhonen Vasquez
• Douglas Goldstein
• Hamid
• David Willis
• Thomas Romain
• Dai Sato
• Shinichiro Watanabe
• Chiaki J. Konaka
• Aaron McGruder
• Chris Prynoski

Production Designers:

• Syd Mead
• Ted Blackman
• Thomas Romain
• Corey Jackson ("Indigo")
• Jhonen Vasquez
• Katsuhiro Otomo

Storyboard Artists:

• Katsuhiro Otomo
• Steward Lee
• Thomas Romain
• Disney
• Bruce W. Timm
• Glen Murakami
• LeSean Thomas (or at least I'm pretty sure he storyboards)

Not gonna lie. They're pretty much all geniuses when it comes to their specialties. Highly innovative laborers.