Category Archives: Illustration

Art & Design in The British Film #29 – Alex Vetchinsky

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 Alex Vetchinsky ( 1904- 1980 )
He is an artist of the cinema and does not pretend to be a painter of pictures. His work is never self-conscious and he has [...]

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Art & Design in The British Film #28 – Duncan Sutherland

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 Duncan Sutherland. (Born 1905 – )
Sutherland is another of those robust and jovial artists; like Vetchinsky, he bothers little about his drawings as such and depends for so much of [...]

Two Colour Keys From “Snowballs”

A little explanation: “Snowballs” was the original working title for “Balto“.
These two keys show the interior of a gold dredging machine in Nome, Alaska.
The quality isn’t great because they are from colour copies, but the vision is spot on.
Click ‘em to enlarge ‘em folks!

Workshop interior.

Gold dredger interior.
Production designer Hans Bacher turned out hundreds of these [...]

Colin Stimpson’s Panoramic Header Picture

I’m really happy that my friend and (near) neighbour Colin Stimpson, has kindly sent a panoramic picture from his forthcoming book, Germs!, and it’s now joined the randomised collection of pictures in the header of this blog.
If you were a patient sort of person, you could repeatedly press [Ctrl] 1 + F5 to [...]

Art & Design in The British Film #26 – Paul Sherriff

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 Paul Sherriff (1903 – 1960).
It was in 1943 that Sheriff made his most memorable contribution to film decor when as Art Director for Laurence Olivier’s `Henry V’ he experimented with [...]

Tatsuyuki Tanaka – Cannabis Works

(Click all these small images to enlarge them, please….)
Tatsuyuki Tanaka, the animator from 4c Studios whose first major job was key animator on Akira (1988), has a folio of work from his 2003 graphic novel / manga “Cannabis Works” on view at Digik Gallery.

Aside from enjoying the masterly draughtsmanship evident in all his work, I’m [...]

Art & Design in The British Film #22 George Provis

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 George Provis.
After starting work in a solicitor’s office George Provis found that his heart wasn’t in it and so set out to learn architecture and the building trade.
(Please click these [...]

Wall To Wall Wallpaper

If there’s any truth in the slugline of this blog: “The Art that feeds animation“, then I think these images of historic wallpapers are excellent examples of the aesthetic river that has flowed uninterrupted into the deep pool of animation art.
Paper Panoramas
This post focuses on a small but important product of the wallpaper [...]

David Macdonald – Illusions and Illustrations

David Macdonald got in touch recently to discuss developments in Satori FilmFX, the film painting software that we both use.
He added a link to his personal Photoshop illustration work that shows some amazing illusionistic work.

(Click this thumbnail to reveal the whole picture, please) The Terrace

(Click to reveal the whole BIG picture) Peregrination
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