I’m a big enthusiast for WordPress, the software that runs this site. The crew who write it (A company called Automattic) have just celebrated WordPress’s fifth birthday, and as part of their continuing success, they’ve recently expanded their software team by hiring Warwick Poole as a “Systemologist”. Nothing strange there, you might say, apart from [...]
Tagged: advertising, employment, staff
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published. This chapter deals with Oliver Messel (1904 – 1978) Messel was a Costume Designer and Art Director. He sometimes worked in the Art Department as well as being Production Designer for films. A [...]
Categories: Film,Illustration,Production Design
Tagged: art direction, British Cinema, production designers
Absolutely extraordinary. MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. Link to the artist’s website…
Categories: Animation,Architecture
Tagged: animated paintings, Argentina, blu group
While sorting through some papers recently, I discovered a few internal memos from the Richard Williams studio in the 1970′s. These were circulated among staff and freelancers (like me) with the aim of setting the highest standards, team building and flying the flag. The first of these – the Memo To All Artists – was [...]
Tagged: memos, Richard Williams
There are so many handy tips about obscure Photoshop techniques floating around, that sooner or later, some of the more arcane ones just float off, beyond the reach of memory. Well; my memory, anyway. The research I do entails a lot of scanning, and of all sorts of materials. Typescripts, books and magazines, and even [...]
I’ve just added a link to Paul Lasaine‘s blog in the blogroll. I remember Luc Desmarchelier telling me about him when he was working at Dreamworks back in the 90′s. If you don’t know Paul Lasaine or his work, here’s the link…. Click the thumbnails to reveal the big images, please. Those first two images [...]
Categories: Matte Painting,Production Design
Tagged: Visual Development
When you were very young, did you ever yearn for a great big paintbox like this? The 92 cake behemoth paintbox of my dreams, by Page of London. (Click it to see it bigger, please.) I remember wishing for a really big paintbox while using the piddly little 12 and 18 tablet jobs that were [...]
Tagged: Page of London, paintbox
