Pinup (by Matthew Houston)
“The Warhol Foundation announced this month that it had settled a deal with Christie’s to liquidate all of its remaining art holdings, aiming to raise money for more grants. Christine J. Vincent assesses Warhol’s philanthropic legacy. [The Art Newspaper]” via Art Fag City.
Hey look, Lewis Trondheim is on Tumblr.
About a dozen Google Maps illustrations by Christoph Neimann, all of them pretty damn brilliant. (via Abduzeedo)
A Comic about Looper, I guess. Or something. (We haven’t seen it yet)
I’m enjoying Haiko Hörnig’s & Marius Pawlitza’s extremely funny Tumblr comic Selektive Erinnerung.
Reblogged from Selektive Erinnerung.
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Live2D
Japanese software technology turns 2D drawing into interactive 3D content for use with touchscreen devices - via DigInfo (video embedded below):
Live2D, developed by Cybernoids, is the world’s first drawing technology to enable 3D rendering of 2D images. This technology supports a variety of portable consoles and smartphones, and Live2D is already being utilized for games that take advantage of the unique characteristics of hand drawn artwork.
“In 3D, the unique attractions of 2D art like Osamu Tezuka’s can’t be rendered properly. But with Live2D, we’ve worked to enable smooth 3D motion using entirely the original 2D drawings. So, this system makes the graphics appear exactly as the creator intended.”
“When the face turns sideways, you can show perfectly how the eyelashes and eyes move. You can also use the tools to work more easily and efficiently. This can be done in all kinds of ways, with all kinds of emphasis, depending on what the creator wants to do. This technology is an extension of drawing, so it works best if the creator has a good artistic sense.”
More at DigInfo here
oMG ;A;
So cool O.O
Omfg
I don’t understand what’s going on here because I’m old and crotchety, but I suspect it’s the future and it’s leaving me further behind than I already thought I was.
Never Say I Love You Animation (by CBCWireTap)
Check out this great short animation by James Braithwaite and Stephen Evans with audio from CBC’s Wiretap.
Also by Mr Braithwaite: I Met the Walrus
Sam Hiti’s stuff is always so uncompromising and awesome and now he’s got a kids’ book out - Waga’s Big Scare (Lerner Books).
I’ve read the book - and it’s creepy and funny and it’s full of Hiti’s big bold brushstrokes and nightmarish monsters; I wish more kids’ books were like this.
Know who this is? When? Where? What? Why it matters?
There has never been a proper textbook on the history of illustration. It’s important, not just for training students but for representing the field and its legacy to the world.
In order to help get a textbook going, I have written a SURVEY to help determine the content, scope, format, and tone of a potential textbook. Whitney Sherman, an instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, co-authored the SURVEY, and it was checked over by a range of qualified people. We don’t have plans to write one ourselves - we just see the need for information for whoever does. The New York Society of Illustrators is sponsoring this SURVEY.
Now it’s YOUR turn - have your say, as a teacher, student, collector, or scholar:
Oh, and it’s Arthur William Brown, circa 1945, New York, unidentified model, and it’s important because Brown was one of the biggest promoters of illustration in his day and a big influence on the evolution of sexualized beauty standards, for better and worse. Original on file at Society of Illustrators.
If you’re not looking at Marlo Meekins’s drawings and comics yet, you need to catch up! Check those Tumblins!
some of my exaggerated hands
Oh jeez, just look at this poster by Joe Lambert for Cartoon College, the documentary about the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont.
A fantastic book trailer for Marion Deuchars’s Let’s Make Some Great Fingerprint Art, the sequel to her fantastic book Let’s Make Some Great Art.
(Source: vimeo.com)
Tyler Hutchison has built a fantastic online jam comics application called We Draw Comics that allows you to draw jam comics with friends and/or strangers. It’s been in private beta for the last year, but for today only, and since it’s his birthday, Tyler’s opening up the beta to the public. Registration will be open for anyone to join, but at the end of today, registration closes up again.
Shown here: a jam by Joe List, Joe Decie, Tyler Hutchison, Evan Dahm, Tyson Hesse, and Nate MacDoanld.
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