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

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

interview

Once again CGHUB caught up with the talented artists at Steambot to learn about their latest work on Tron: Legacy. Steambot Studios creates world class visual content for international clients in the feature film, videogame, advertising, broadcast, graphic novel and publishing industries. Read the full interview here...

TRON animated

Tron: Uprising will begin airing on Disney Xd during the Summer of 2012. Directed by Charlie Bean and Art Direction by Alberto Mielgo. There's also a 10-part micro-series in the works that will premiere in the Fall.

Animation, Games, VFX and Interactive Media

Stuttgart will play host to three incredible events in May, becoming the animated capital of Europe! FMX, the 16th Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Interactive Media will take place May 3-6. The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film - May 3-8 and showcasing the latest international animated films and the Animation Production Day - a business platform for the industry - May 3-4.

Art of Tron

The 160-page high-end book takes fans inside the art and design of the upcoming film Tron: Legacy. The book showcases concept illustrations, set designs, character bios and images from the film, including an afterword by the film's director, Joseph Kosinski. See review at Parkablog

conté animated

“Thought of You” unites figurative works, EFX animation, and contemporary dance in one beautiful piece of animation. Ryan Woodward, the artist behind all this, is planning to release a book about his techniques in spring 2011.
conteanimated.com

Cars II

Disney/Pixar just made public the first film stills from Cars 2, opening in theatres on June 24, 2011. Itsartmag.com has some new character designs in high resolution on their page.

pixar.com, unofficial pixar blog

TRON

With Disney's remake of TRON coming forward, it'sartmag has realeased a few more pieces of concept art for the film. More of this will soon be released in 'The Art of Tron: Legacy' shipping from Amazon on November 16, 2010. Check out a high res preview of David Levy's city environment 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

DreamWorks’ first personal art publication, Moonshine, was conceived as an opportunity to highlight the breath of artistic talent at the studio. The Visual Development department championed the project and partnered with Production Designer, Christophe Lautrette and Art Director, Pierre-Olivier Vincent to co-edit the book. The studio’s educational partnership with Scott Robertson, chair of Entertainment Design at Art Center and owner of Design Studio Press let to a natural selection of Scott’s company to publish the compilation of works. The team wanted the book to be accessible to students and treated like a annual publication. The plan is to publish additional volumes. For more Information visit the blog.

The book is now available for pre-order at DesinStudioPress.

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

Kubrick's concept art

The Kubrick Corner deals with exploring the works of Stanley Kubrick, one of the most widely praised yet continuously misunderstood film directors of the 20th century. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange - to mention just a few - have become milestones in film history. See some of the rare concept art pieces here. kubrickfilms.tripod.com

"He created more than movies. He gave us complete environmental experiences that got more, not less, intense the more you watched them."- Steven Spielberg

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.

trailer released

The trailer for Tron 2 - now called Tron Legacy - previously released at Comic Con 2009 has been officially released. The sequel is scheduled for release in the US on December 21 this year. The cast includes Jeff Bridges, John Hurt and Michael Sheen. Here’s the official website with more info and preview pics.

Perspective

Perspective Magazin is the bimonthly journal of the Art Directors Guild - the international union representing employees in the entertainment industry. The Magazin takes a look behind the scenes and the creative process of film making with a focus on Production Design. Featured articles introduce the leading artists in this field today and applied techniques such as concept art and storyboards. A free download as PDF-file of the journal is available on the web-site at www.artdirectors.org
design sketch by Stuart Craig, Production Designer for Harry Potter

AVATAR

James Cameron’s long-awaited follow-up to Titanic, the most successful film to date, is immense in every way: from the ambition and scope of its vision, to the ground-breaking technological wizardry, to the staggering size of its budget(...)

Scott Patton started working on Avatar 3 years ago and was part of the group of artists that designed the Na'vi characters. Some of his images are posted @zbrushcentral. He explains the way he works on his tutorial DVD available at Gnomon Workshop.

Robin Hood Trailer

Universal has just debuted the first international trailer for Ridley Scott's Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett (via ComingSoon). The first official photos from the film are postet at couriermail.com. More information on the movie and a plot summary has comingsoon.net. Some more photographs and behind-the-scenes footage can be found on this blog.


RobinHoodthemovie.com

international trailer for 'Prince of Persia'

From the team that brought the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy to the big screen, Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry BruckheimerFilms present Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, an epic action-adventure set in the mystical lands of Persia. The Film was shot on location in Morocco and Pinewood Studios London. It is based on the well known videogame created by Jordan Mechner who previously considered producing an animated film based on the games, but could not resist Disney and Bruckheimer's offer. Finally, after a couple of reshoots in London two official trailer were released by the Walt Disney Company. One seems to be for international use showing much more footage than the other released previously. The film is scheduled to be released on March 28th 2010

trailer 1, trailer 2

The Lighthouse Keeper

The Lighthouse Keeper is one of the student films produced this year at the Gobelins School of Animation in Paris. It shows excellent animation and design throughout the picture. Some conceptual work, cg-models and animation-tests are posted on the blogs of the team members here, here and here. Watch the film here.