Category: Motion Graphics & Flash
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Eye candy for Today: Edward Redfield’s Winter in the Valley
Winter in the Valley, Edward Willis Redfield Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; original is in the Reading Public Museum. There is a downloadable version here, part of this article about a previous traveling show that featured the painting, but it seems overly saturated, I’ve color corrected that image for the images…
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Eye Candy for Today: David Cox – The Opening of the New London Bridge
The Opening of the New London Bridge, David Cox Watercolor, roughly 15 x 9 in. (38 x 24 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Yale Center for British Art. British landscape master David Cox, who I admire in particular for his watercolors,…
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Didier Graffet
Didier Graffet is a French illustrator, recognized in particular for his fantasy and steampunk themed work. Well known in his native France, Graffet is undeservedly less familiar here in the U.S. Graffet uses a keen sense of value relationships, a muted palette and a good amount of intricate, textural detail to create arresting images that…
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Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
Sita Sings the Blues is an award winning independent feature length animation by Nina Paley. The film combines an adaptation of the epic Indian story of Ramayana with a personal story from Paley herself. The film won the Best Feature award at the 32nd Annecy Animated Film Festival (see my post on student films at…
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Animated TV Titles
In the 1950’s 60’s and 70’s, a number of non-animated television shows had animated titles, something that was also common in movies of the time. Undoubtedly influenced by the film title mini-masterpieces of Saul Bass, the TV titles were usually much cruder and less imaginative, but still amusing nonetheless. Some of them were in fact…