Heh.

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Tags: Animation, Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, video

BlackYard is an illustration and design collective from Bern, Switzerland comprising Jared Muralt (whose work is shown here), Silvio Brügger, Philipp Thöni, and Christian Calame.

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Watch Chris Piascik draw an improvised drawing from start to finish. Chris explains that these doodles start with him randomly scribbling out a loopy pattern and then filling it in. I’m quite impressed with the quality of production in this video; I’d love to see a whole series with all sorts of artists.

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Tags: artcast, Chris Piascik, Drawing, video

In honour of Remembrance Day / Veterans Day, Rauch Brothers Animation has posted Germans in the Woods. The animated documentary illustrates a recording of WWII veteran Joseph Robertson who is haunted by the memory of killing a young German soldier during the Battle of the Buldge. The short was created with Photoshop, AfterEffects, and scanned pencil drawings.

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Tags: Animation, Rauch Brothers, video, war

Work In Progress is a blog that shows comics pages coming to life from initial sketches to finished piece, with various stages in between. The images are all in Flash, and we see them blend seamlessly into each other, which makes for an interesting effect. The blog is in Spanish, but you certainly don’t need to be able to read any of the words to appreciate the work here.

Shown here, the work of Enrique Fernández.

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Tags: Comics, Drawing, How-To, process

In this video artist Tommy Kane combines video diary with travel sketchbook as we follow him through the streets of Beirut, Lebanon to watch him draw.

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Tags: Lebanon, sketchbooks, Tommy Kane, travel

Jamie Tanner (The Aviary, Adhouse Books) is asking people to pledge money up-front to help fund his next graphic novel. Pledges of 50 bucks or more get a page of original art. So far he’s raised over $6k.

Interesting…

Check out the rest of Jamie’s short comic , The Squid (above), over at the Kickstarter blog.

Also:

The Aviary [Amazon Link]

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The prolific Chinese artist has a massive gallery of gorgeous artwork as Robinart on Flickr

Robin Yangge’s website

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Love love love. Paul Rogers’s Name That Movie series. With brilliant simplicity and use of black and white, they are like little movie haikus.

And note how he achieves his blacks here. The drawings themselves are simple line drawings without any blacks; the contrasted areas appear to just be selections in Photoshop, inverted digitally. Deceptively simple, and highly effective.

Paul writes:

I started a series of drawings in my sketchbook, it’s a kind of visual quiz of great movies. Each series is a sequence of six drawings of shots from classic films (in the order they appear on screen.) No portraits of movie stars, just iconic images from the film. When I finish 100 movies, I’ll see about getting them published as a book. A book like this could sell dozens.

I will be first in line to buy such a book.

(via Austin Kleon)

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Tags: Drawing, movies, Paul Rogers

Drawn!: Tell me a little about your involvement in the production of Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Christian DeVita: I was the lead storyboard artist on the movie. I was drafted in early in the production (Sep 2007) along with other 6 artists.

We went through a few passes of the scenes, based on some thumbnails that Wes drew, before he decided he wanted to work closely with one of us in Paris. The animation studio and sets were in East London’s Three Mills studios.

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Read the rest of An interview with Fantastic Mr. Fox storyboard artist Christian DeVita

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Tags: Animation, Christian DeVita, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Interviews, stop motion, storyboards, Wes Anderson

How much more fabulous can it get? There’s a whole website devoted to the magazine Jugend (19th century and early 20th century), with galleries of covers, ads, and histories.

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Tags: art nouveau, arts and crafts, jugend, jugendstil, Magazine, publishing, Victorian

In the mid-’50s Mitch (and a few others) revolutionized the look of paperbacks by montaging brash graphic images together and rendering them in unorthodox mixed media techniques that tipped their hat to abstract expressionism.

Its easy to be blasé about punk rock design in today’s visually overloaded world where everything’s been done… but in the Leave-It-to-Beaver America of 50 years ago this was pretty wild stuff!

There are some remarkable collections of vintage paperback covers on Flickr. One of the best has been compiled by collector/archivist UK Vintage. Recently, he assembled for our viewing pleasure a tidy little set of 1950’s Mitchell Hooks covers ( with a promise of more to come).

If UK Vintage’s Mitchell Hooks set leaves you hungry for more (and I don’t blame you one bit) then drop on over to Kyle Katz’ Mitchell Hooks set and satisfy your craving with even more hot dames, cool dicks and sizzling art, design and type that’s as fresh and inspiring today as it was half a century ago.

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Tags: 1950s, book design, detective, Mitchell Hooks, noir, paperback covers