Month: June 2007
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Brian Taylor
When I first encountered Brian Taylor’s work in 2001 it was in the form of a fascinating project called Rustboy (images above, top row), a web site created to chronicle the progress of his desire to create a CGI animated movie on his own, from concept sketches to final renderings, using only home computer level…
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Christophe Vacher
Before relocating to California in 1996, French artist Christophe Vacher worked for Disney’s Paris-based animation studio, painting backgrounds for features like The Hunchback of Notre Dame. (I want to know how the pitch meeting went for that movie. “Hey, I’ve got a great idea, let’s make a cheerful animated feature about… The Hunchback of Notre…
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J.J. Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gèrard)
How cool would it be if we could actually see the whole intricate pattern of the influences of one artist on another that make up the brilliant, if ragged, cloth of art history. The best any one individual can hope for is glimmers and flashes of interconnectedness where the pattern reveals a small portion of…
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Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School
Hey all you non-artists: want to know a secret? Shhhhh! Don’t let this get out, and I hate to spoil any idyllic illusions you may have, or that your artist friends have encouraged you to have, but… drawing nude models isn’t particularly sexy. There, I said it. Don’t look at me that way! It’s true.…
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Women in Art, a morphing history of women’s faces in paintings
OK, I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for well done “morphing”, in which one image is gradually changed until it blends with and evolves into another. I also love the intersection of classical art and modern computer tech (as in these animations of da Vinci’s drawings), and as both as both an artist and a…