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Life.Turns: Animating a Cast of a Thousand Strangers

(Click this image to see the eight required poses for contributors) There’s a collaborative animation project gathering momentum at blipfoto during the Edinburgh Festival. The idea is that thousands of participants upload photos of family and friends one by one, posed in one of eight poses that together make up an animated walk cycle. The [...]

Sylvain Chomet’s Sale of Key Drawings at Arludik

Follow this link to see a gallery of drawings from “The Illusionist”. (You might find that these drawings and paintings move into the tab marked “Artists” when the current exhibition is replaced. Look for the thumbnail image for “L’Illusionniste”) The site uses Flash, so give up all hope of good navigation. Here’s one of the [...]

Sylvain Chomet Interview With Matthew Sweet on Radio 4

(Click to enlarge, as usual) Still from Django Films “The Illusionist” “The Film Programme” on BBC Radio 4 featured an interview with the show’s presenter, Matthew Sweet, and the director of “The Illusionist, Sylvain Chomet. Here’s the link to the programme – the interview is the first item on the agenda.  You can listen to [...]

Art & Design in The British Film – The Last Chapter

The last in a survey of thirty British Film Art Directors, whose careers were summarised in a book published in 1948, and re-presented here in Articles and Texticles, with all the original text and pictures optimised for high quality presentation on the web,by Michael Hirsh

The New Yorker Magazine Cover for 5th July 2010

“After Escher: Gulf Sky and Water” by Bob Staake (Please click this image to enlarge it) More New Yorker covers here.

Second Day of Gobelins Student Films at the Annecy Festival

The second film to be shown at the Annecy Animation Festival, made by the 2nd year students at Gobelins school is called “Soapy Trip”. Here’s a sequence of screenshots. You can enlarge by clicking on them.- The crew were: Théo Boubounelle, Chloé Bury, Jean Baptiste Cumont, Claire Fauvel, and Vincent Nghiem. See the movie in [...]

Gobelins Student Films at 2010 Annecy Animated Film Festival

For the past eight years, the second year students at the Gobelins School of Communication in Paris have worked in small teams to provide the opening shorts for screening sessions at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival & Market that takes place every year in early June. This year’s opener is a short called M.Eustache, [...]

Art & Design in The British Film #30- Lawrence Paul Williams

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 Lawrence Paul Williams (1905 – 1996) Compressed charcoal sketch for “So Well Remembered” RKO Pictures 1947 (Please click these thumbnails to enlarge them) he became the prime mover in [...]

Transformations Through Light – Photos by Helmar Lerski

There’s an interesting reference resource for all you CGI modellers and lighting artists looking for new ways to build on the standard three lamps setup. Take some time to study an exhibition of eighty-eight photographs by Helmar Lerski (1871–1956) currently showing at the Ubu Gallery in New York and running until the 25th of June, [...]

Stills From Sylvain Chomet’s “The Illusionist”

(Please click these images to enlarge them.) This is a random assortment of images in no particular order, so please don’t read it as if it were a storyboard! ‘The Illusionist’ premiered some time ago, at the Berlinale Film Festival (February 16th, 2010) I love the art direction of these images. They are centred on [...]

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