Illustrator 1. Phat. Concept-art. Photography 2. Illustrator 2. Illustrator 3. Illustrator 4. Illustrator 5. Illustrator 6. Illustrator 7. Illustrator 8. PostSecret. Karen Lloyd's Storyboard Blog. And we’re back! Here’s Part 2 of the interview I did with Pixar Story Artist Matthew Luhn. You can find Part 1 of Matthew’s interview here. Enjoy. So I animated a couple of the army men shots on Toy Story and it was very difficult. But the great thing about the experience was that in the room right next door was the story department. It was made up of only 5 storyboard artists and their Head of Story, the late Joe Ranft. That was the very first time I saw people actually drawing and creating story at a studio. Even at The Simpsons, they have a script first and then the storyboard artists (like most TV shows) just go directly from the script to drawing the storyboards. But what I was seeing at PIXAR was that there was no script.
I totally remember the very first pitch I saw which was the opening for Toy Story in storyboards with Joe Ranft pitching it. At the same time when I’m doing animation and learning how to animate on the computer, the Head of Animation was Pete Doctor. IntenseDebate comments system. Me on blog called sparkleshock. Today’s artist is another fun one – Luis Blackaller - and illustrator and graphic artist who’s work I’m really enjoying because it’s bold, somewhat seedy, and has a really neat comic style to it. It’s also pretty funny – case in point – Dr. Manhattan below… Blackaller has spent the artistic parts of his life doing everything from art direction and motion graphics in the Mexican film industry to teaching animation at MIT. He’s also held may exhibitions around the world that showcase his interest in culture, technology, and media through his artwork.
Blackaller is also an avid photographer, so be sure to check out his flickr account for the products of his experimentation with various films, locales, and techniques. The art of Luis Blackaller is another example of how awesome it is when artist love color. I think that’s what draws me into his images – they are eye catching, which draws you in…then you get surprised when you see all the details that go in his work…very nice!
Like this: Ciudad Juárez, en la sombra del narcotráfico. Ken Perlin's blog. Charlie's Diary - Being the blog of Charles Stross, author, and occasional guests. I am entranced by cause and effect. This probably has some direct bearing on my chosen career as a storyteller. The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a line around the incomprehensible largeness of reality and wrestle it into something learnable and manipulable. Existence is devoid of plot, theme, and most of all moral. And yet I can still be struck dumb when two facts I knew, but never really considered before, snap into synthesis.
The a-hah moment is incredibly powerful. Consider: wildfires appear to have been more common and more widespread during the Cretaceous period. (I've found a few references to a 2013 study that seems to indicate that Triassic oxygen levels may have been even lower, but that's a whole different era of the same eon. I knew these two facts in isolation for some time. Huh. Or more precisely, a-hah! One of my great joys as a writer lies in teaching. I love unreliable narrators. Diego Valle's Blog. Truly Free Film - Ted Hope. Nigel Tomm's Most Famous & Super Popular Art Blog. Mr.doob's blog | More and more Javascript. Seems like I'm still hooked to Javascript. For the last few months, on my spare time I've been toying more and more with it, creating little pieces that will serve as personal benchmarks for browser performance improvements.
For the next few links I recommend using a WebKit based browser otherwise your browser may crash. The first idea I wanted to try was creating a canvas using checkboxes as pixels. Then display animations with it. Similar to textmode renderers. I posted the link over twitter and minutes later Aaron was sending me a drawing done with the checkboxes by Valdean Klump. On firefox, the experiment didn't worked correctly and it just created a grid where anyone could pixelate in. (Press Shift for the eraser tool) Some days after, Joa Ebert ported a Strange Attractor code to Silverlight to compare performance with Flash. I believe the code can get some performance optimisations for the platform but my interests were to compare exactly the same code. 7 F/S seemed a good start.
Animation Backgrounds. Agence eureka. TOXICO CULTURA. Well-formed data. BunnyFish Adventures, Connie's Blog. Henry Jenkins III meets Wu Ming I. FecalFace.