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 Maurice Carter.
His work on colour films also showed him that colour gave him ‘an extension of the designer’s normal descriptive power - a sort of fourth dimension that could claim [...]
There’s one really great advantage to all this living in the future, and it’s the appearance of programs like Celtx, a super cool tool that will wrap all your screenwriting formatting and storyboarding into one neat package that’s free to download. It does a lot more besides….
Celtx (pronounced “Keltics”) is such a useful collection [...]
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 Edward Carrick, who said:
“I believe that the film in the hands of the artist could be the greatest medium of expression of all time”.
( I have to say that I [...]
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 the remarkable JOHN BRYAN.
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Blanche Fury 1948
John Bryan’s work shows him to be a designer of the romantic school.
His drawings are always full of [...]
This is the sixth chapter in the ongoing series about Art Directors and Production Designers in British Film up to 1948, and the featured artist in this excerpt from the book is RALPH BRINTON
“In its widest sense I would say that my favourite medium as a designer is the moving picture provided by [...]
There are many people who misuse the term Matte Painter these days, when what they more frequently want to describe is a background painter.
Mind you, just to add to the confusion, even the term `background´ is now being eclipsed by `environment´. I suppose that sounds grander and more important than `background´. [...]
What I particularly enjoy in the work of André Andrejew is nicely explained and highlighted in the text commentary that appears below the fold:-
Andrejew is essentially a film man and his drawing matters little to him; for many years Ferdinand Bellan* collaborated with him as his sketch artist.
Bellan supplied the brilliant drawings so [...]
Michel Gagne has posted some of his FX animation on his website.
He shows work from Iron Giant:
This one has to be a masterpiece of composition with it’s incredibly exaggerated wall of water.
It doesn’t make physical sense, but boy, does it work well!
Look at the Lake Tidal Wave clip. (5.7Mb)
Here’s some intricate work Michel designed for [...]
Real, Or ILM?
This will probably be stale news to all you hip Visual Effects people that visit this site, but I post it anyway, because it might intrigue you as much as it did me.
Industrial Light and Magic’s microsite for Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest reveals some nicely presented nuggets about the [...]
Kitchen Emperor’s New Groove Concept Art
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Robh Ruppel is an artist who produces beautiful concept art for animated films, digital plein-air paintings and also finds time for teaching. He adds to this versatility by creating a wicked line in retro/tiki/pinup stylee illustrations and prints.
Some of his output moves through [...]
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