Monday, December 6, 2010

Join The Dots

Found the video below produced by Aardman. 


Along with this great clip which is a short 'making of the movie'.




They have already won the award Best Animation at this year’s British Television Advertising Craft Awards and epic awards with this movie.  

Most interesting is that they drew inspiration from the application of the cell phone cameras use in the remote diagnosis of disease in third world countries.



Another cool technology is what was used to create dot.  I will look at that next time. 
 










Sunday, December 5, 2010

The Start




This is my first post on my first blog. I had a few false starts before this but I have a feeling this will a serious effort- until tomorrow.
I suppose I should set some agenda as to what will be the scope and content of this page. for the most part I am going to use this space to track my artistic efforts. I work full time and in the 'present economic climate' I should be glad of that but in the past 2 years I have put a bit of effort into developing my skills mostly in photoshop and oils and I want to push this further. I hope to use this space to document that effort and maybe some other folks will join in?

Big Bear Game Art

  I started creating a series of promotional art for a ficticious game.  This was to practice going through the design process.  I have foun...