Category: Animation
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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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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…
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Paprika
Despite the fact that mainstream American audiences associate anime (Japanese animation) with giant robots bashing each other about while they tramp hip deep in skyscrapers, Japanese directors have long been willing to tackle sophisticated subjects that producers of American full-length animated features would never even consider. American studios are still under the impression (perhaps unfortunately…
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Xiangyuan Jie
Xiangyuan Jie is a Chinese painter, born in Hunan province, now living in Florida. He originally studied theatre set design and graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing with a BFA in that specialty, to which, in a way, he would later come full circle as a background artist for animated films. He…
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October the Cat
Here’s an animation in progress that bears watching. I learned about October the Cat from Michael Hirsh’s always fascinating Articles and Texticles blog. The actual name of the film is October le Chat, but despite the French title, the film is being produced in Argentina, and the project’s blog, October the Blog is in Spanish…
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Ree Treweek (update)
When I first wrote about the delightfully original and idiosyncratic art of South African artist Ree Treweek back in March of 2006, I was a little disappointed in the lack of information about the artist and her work, and the limited number of her images available online. I was pleased when artist/blogger Siouxfire (Michael Curry)…