Ship on Grain of Sugar, mounted on Pinhead (Click on thumbnail to enlarge.)(lol) Willard Wigan is a microsculptor whose work is normally only about 0.005mm tall. He discovered his talent at the early age of 5, and nowadays he often takes months to complete one of his sculptures, working between heartbeats to avoid hand tremors. [...]
Categories: Art
Refugees, A Credit To The Country Amnesty International have been going through a revitalisation of their campaign graphics. The work above was produced for the recent Refugee Week campaign, and using a credit card analogy, aimed to educate the British public about the contribution made to Britain by refugees and their descendants. The cards highlight [...]
Categories: Graphics
Self Portrait in Mirror 1910 (Click on thumbnails to enlarge) To tell the truth, I had heard of William Orpen, but not really opened my eyes to him and his paintiings. He always seemed to me to be somewhere out on the Irish sidelines of all that was exciting in European art early in the [...]
Following my post about the “Pyrats” film, another of the teams responsible for the opening shorts at Annecy International Animation Festival has launched a website. Béatrice Bourloton, Sébastien Piquet, Eléa Gobbe Mevellec, & Benjamin l’Hoste each have their own Making Of movies online, as well as a gallery of pre-production art.
Categories: Animation,Art,Production Design
When they say Cartoon Database, they mean Press Cartoon Database. UPDATE: The Cartoon Database now boasts a new URL (http://www.cartoons.ac.uk) and a less arid interface. The website itself contains enormous quantities of cartoons, but the clunky (think Old Skool Web “1990′s stylee”) interface makes them difficult to get at. The Search box is only available [...]
Categories: Politics,Visual Research
[Quote:] Police have appealed to people to return thousands of pounds which was thrown into the air on a pedestrian crossing in Aberystwyth. Passers-by and motorists rushed to pick up around £5,000 in cash on Monday, seconds after a man was heard to shout: “Who wants free money?” Sorry, I just couldn’t resist that headline!
Categories: Icles
Every animated film deserves a good “making of” book, and Cars is getting a beauty. Michael Howe at o-meon.com writes: Michael Wallis and wife Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis, authors of numerous books chronicling the history and cultural impact of Route 66, the famed “Mother Road,” The Art of Cars is a tantalizing behind-the-scenes look at the [...]
Categories: Animation,Art,Production Design
