Just ran across this guy Sheridan Grad, 1 man animation band.
Breathing Space - Animated Short Film from Alexander Henderson on Vimeo.
His twitter is full of tons of matte background painting, which look great with the flat shaded animation.
He storyboards pretty tightly. Uses zbrush and mudbox for modeling, feel like he's able to recycle his models some to jump off to a new one. For rigging he uses Rapid Rig to do a lot of the heavy lifting, and has other auto rigger scripts that he hasn't named. (wonder what he does for faces), and then corrective blendshapes for big changes. VFX are a large part preset's he bought for aftereffects. All of those skills are a career in their own, it's impressive how well he does them all, he has commissions on his site for doing quick animate portraits and it seems fairly cheap to be making a new character all the time.
Pretty inspiring what's possible.
He's currently running a kickstarter for a short
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