Privacy Lost by Beeple

Mike Winkelmann is currently a graphic designer living and working in Neenah, Wisconsin, USA. Beeple is the pseudonym for his personal work that includes short films, live visuals, graphic design, music and drawings. Most of his current work focuses on ways to visual music through video. His work has screened at onedotzero, Siggraph, Optronica, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, and many more.

Visit Beeple website: beeple-crap.com

follow the black rabbit

Beth Cavener Stichter is a sculptor residing in the U.S. state of Washington. She has exhibited internationally and teaches workshops across the country. Her working method is unusual. The solid stoneware sculptures, often built up with 2,000 or more pounds of clay at a time, are cut into pieces and hollowed out before reassembling again for firing. A slideshow and a brief introduction of this process can be seen on her website under the Materials and Techniques section.

Beth Cavener's website

Evyind Earle

Eyvind Earle was an author and illustrator, best known for his contribution to backgroundspainting and styling of Disney animated films in the 1950s. Finally, EvyindEarle.com goes online with many images of his oil paintings and serigraphs.

 EvyindEarle.com

Brian Wood's free artbook

Brian Wood, creator of the beautifully rendered graphic series DMZ, now offers a free download of the entire 132-page 'Public Domain 2' artbook on his website. For those who are not yet familiar with the series, there is a free download of DMZ issue #1 available at Vertigo/DC.

More of his work, including links to other comics can be found on his website, brianwood.com.

Sergio Toppi

Italian cartoonist, Sergio Toppi, often gets referenced as a source of inspiration by artists all over the world.

After starting out in animation and advertising he began doing comics in the 60's. Toppi's works appeared on a host of titles in Italy and abroad: an incomplete list could include Linus, Corto Maltese, Sgt. Kirk and Il Giornalino in Italy. His strips were collected in several books.

He is currently working with the French publisher Mosquito, with which he has made 22 books since 1994.

A nice collection of his work on flickr

Toppi at Editions Mosquito

Exhibition

The Fondation Cartier in Paris presents MŒBIUS-TRANSE-FORME, the first major exhibition devoted to the work of Jean Giraud, known by his pseudonyms Gir and Mœbius. An icon of incomparable stature in the world of comics and film. The exhibition presents the first 3-D animated film directed by the artist, La Planète encore, along with the stories from the original comic boards. With landscapes and characters in perpetual transformation, his drawings explore the boundaries of the unconscious and reveal an imaginary and fantastic world. Read more...

October 12, 2010 – March 13, 2011
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, boulevard Raspail 261

The Colony

Mesmerizing, delicate sepia toned images throughout from renowned, award-winning artist, Viktor Antonov - production designer and co-author of the French animated feature The Prodigies.


The story, taking place in 1875 traces the epic journey of Gabriel Duban in an era before space‑travel when worlds of mystery, danger and enchantment were still found on Earth. Viktor is a winner of the Visual Effects Society and a BAFTA award. In his 11 years in the entertainment industry he has designed and art directed projects such as the blockbuster Half Life 2.
Available now at amazon.com

free tutorials

Best known for his concept work on films such as Star Wars and Transformers, industry veteran Feng Zhu now teaches his skills at FZD School of Design in Singapore. Many of his demos produced during the classes are available for free. Check out the FZD youtube channel here.

Paul Felix

Best known for his visual development work, Paul Felix has been one of the leading artists on many Disney films in the 90ies. Although many of his paintings are published in the art-of-books, there are only very few floating around in the world wide web. Finally one of his former colleagues has taken the time to upload some of the treasures created at Walt Disney Feature Animation. Some more images are posted on this site and Hans Bacher's blog - always a great sources for everything related to animation.

unofficialpaulfelix.blogspot.com

free art book

Scatterhead Volume 01 is an online sketchbook created by the talented duo Adam Wesierski & Alan Blackwell. The compilation shows a number of rough and chaotic pieces as well as further developed and finished work. Both artist used the open source application Alchemy for laying down the initial sketches. Download the book for free here.

Iain McCaig workshop

Veteran Concept Artist Iain McCaig invites to an interactive workshop on Saturday, August 14th at the Art Institut of California. He'll be talking about the challenges a visual story artist faces when developing a new title for a major studio. Read more about the event here on Iain's blog. The lecture takes Place in San Bernadino, 674 East Brier Drive, Room 126. Starts at noon and admission is free!

www.artinstitutes.edu

Best of AH!

COVER RUN: THE DC COMICS ART OF ADAM HUGHES
208 pages, FC 6.75” X 10.25”, $39.99 US

Collecting the best of Eisner Award winner Adam Hughes’s spectacular, sexy covers for WONDER WOMAN, CATWOMAN and other DC series. This amazing collection features the best of Hughes’ work for DC Comics, along with commentary from the artist, rarely seen preliminary material and much more!

podcast: Iain McCaig

Iain McCaig is one of the most lauded and respected artists working in film today. He has worked as either a concept or storyboard artist on films like Terminator 2, Dracula, Interview with the Vampire, Star Wars and Harry Potter.This weeks podcast on SIDEBAR features tons about his background, filmwork, process and upcoming personal projects.

sidebarnation.com

Prince of Persia concept art

Behind the Scenes of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
immerses readers in the filmmaking process, recounting the saga that began with Jordan Mechner’s video game and culminated in a production of monumental proportions. Every grain of sand in the hourglass is examined—from horsemanship training to set construction to ostrich racing to the art of parkour. Also featured within are several spreads of photography by Jerry Bruckheimer and insider information about crucial props and weapons.

Concept illustrations from Lauret Beauvallet, Julian Caldow, Kim Frederiksen, Peter Popken and Neil Ross.

As usual, you'll find a review and preview pictures of the book on Parkablogs.

Drew's painting technique

Drew Struzan is one of the industry's most recognized talents, having provided artwork for over 150 movie posters, including many of the best-known films of all time.

For all those who have wondered about his secret painting techniques there are a few tutorials of the master online now. A DVD for the making-of the Hellboy Poster is available at Reelideas.com and a step by step for Star Wars here: page 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

www.drewstruzan.com

Imaginism Studios

Imaginism Studios is made up of independent artists specializing in publishing, television, and movie pre-production. They produce some of the most fun and upbeat designs, concepts, and illustrations around! The website features galleries of Jason Seiler, Stephen Silver, Bobby Chiu and Kei Acedera who are well known for their concept work on Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland'. More images and updates on the blog.

www.imaginismstudios.com

Robh Ruppel talks about art direction for 'Uncharted 2' at CGSociety. See more of his stunning art work on his website and follow the updates on his instructive blog.

Joe Ranft was one of the prime creative people behind PIXAR and a major contributor to Toy Story, a Bug’s Life and Cars. This animatic, created by Disney director John Musker, is a tribute to Joe who would have celebrated his 50th birthday this year.

Watterson interview

'Calvin and Hobbes' Creator Bill Watterson recently gave an interview to reporter John Campanelli. It's believed to be the first interview with the reclusive artist since 1989.

Australian Tour 2010

Syd Mead is one of the most celebrated concept artist in the world today. He was the artist behind some of the most influential science fiction of the 20th century such as BLADE RUNNER, TRON, ALIENS, STAR TREK and more. The tour is being organized in conjunction with the CG Society. On the night of Thursday the 18th of March, the premiere of the award winning film, Visual Futurist: the Art and Life of Syd Mead, will be screened at the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace in Cremorne. The screening will be followed by Syd Mead live on stage, interviewed by Jamie Leonarder. The second event will take place in the RMIT University, Melbourne. Tickets are now available.