Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Motion Graphics & Flash

  • Line Rider

    Did you ever find yourself doodling and daydreaming that a line you were drawing was something physical, like a hill you could slide down? Perhaps you found yourself imagining that the line would become reality, á la Harold and the Purple Crayon, and you could roll or slide away from whatever it was that you…

  • Esao Andrews

    Esao Andrews’ work fits loosely into a branch of contemporary fantastic art called “pop surrealism”. His work often involves portrait-like images of young women in conjunction with odd elements, such as objects that are combinations of plant and animal forms, apparently intended to be a bit disconcerting. Some of his paintings are more straightforward, almost…

  • Bermuda Shorts

    Bermuda Shorts is a UK animation firm that lists itself as the first animation company to represent individual animation directors in the commercial animation arena. Their site is organized that way. In addition to showcasing new work, the reels are organized by director and designer. You can also browse them organized by type: commercials, broadcast,…

  • NFCTD (Caleb Johnston)

    Any of you who are familiar with Dover Books, know what a great resource they can be of public domain images from previous centuries, particularly from the 19th century when thousands of engravings were published for novels, texts, catalogs and periodicals. Many artists have used the Dover collections of these images as reference. Other artists…

  • Campaigntoons

    By now we’re all acculturated to being sold things by way of animated cartoons. They start us early, dazzling our just-out-of-babyhood eyes with bouncing, sparkling bowls of chocolate-frosted, sugar-coated imitation food-like substances that are “part of this nutritious breakfast”, and move on to toys and games and even later to cars, insurance and everything else.…

  • tokyoplastic

    I wanted to recommend this site to you because of its terrible navigation system (he said, grinning). If you actually want to find something, like a simple “About Us” or “Press” page, the navigation on tokyoplastic is abysmal. If, on the other hand, you want to be amused and delighted by series of clever and…