Outer Transport is a new blog by Nicholas Bouvier, exclusively dedicated to his 'space related images'. Nicholas Bouvier, also known as 'Sparth' is a senior concept artist for the game industry and his work recently got published in a book called Structura. For an extended biography and for a massive gallery of Nicolas' works please visit the artist website, Sparth.com, sparthconstruct.blogspot.com or outertransport.blogspot.com
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.
James Gurney is an artist known for his plen-air landscape paintings, as well as his award-winning illustrations of fantasy and historical subjects. He is also known as the author and illustrator of the best-selling illustrated book series, Dinotopia. On his blog, Gurney Journey , is an introduction to his technique and the way he achieves his "Imaginative Realism".
Philippe Faraut is a figurative artist specializing in life-size portrait sculptures and monumental stone sculptures. His media of choice are water-based clay and marble.
From his extensive research of the human face he developed a technique of modeling the portrait that he shares with his sculpting students during his numerous sculpting classes and seminars taught throughout the US. In order to assist his students, Philippe has created a set of sculpting supplies, an instructional sculpting video series and two sculpting books detailing his process for portraiture in clay. Artists in fields such as sculpture, forensic reconstruction, illustration, art education and film and theater utilize his three-dimensional masks as reference for the aging process and in-depth studies of expression.
The Academy celebration of Milt Kahl featured an insightful analysis of his animation drawings, rare film interviews with Kahl himself, and clips of his work from such Disney favorites as “Mickey’s Circus,” “Pinocchio,” “Bambi,” “Peter Pan,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Jungle Book” and “The Rescuers.”
Illustrative is the leading international forum for contemporary illustration and graphic arts. Established in Berlin in 2006, Illustrative has been held twice in Berlin (2006/2007), once in Paris (2007), and once in Zürich (2008).
CGWorkshops are online courses that run for eight weeks at a time and are designed by professional artists for the creative computer graphics industry. Students are drawn from all around the globe and can participate from the privacy of their own home. All you need is a web connection. Run securely over the web, CGWorkshops give everyone the opportunity to learn specific skills and be tutored by leaders in all areas of CG design. The forum environment allows direct communication and assists students and Instructors to collaborate at any time anywhere in the world.
The Art of Guild Wars 2 is a hardbound book packed with 128 pages of eye candy by award-winning artists. The vivid collection of concept art offers a long-awaited glimpse into the world of Guild Wars 2. A trailer for the game can be found on youtube.
Café Salé and Ankama Editions have released another book in the popular series of the CFSL-artbooks.
"His work is experimental architecture in its most powerful, and politically provocative, sense."(BLDGBLOG)
And yet another community for digital artists has emerged from the abyss of the world wide web. The initial idea behind Art Squared was to produce an art book that was free to enter and provide a platform for artists to showcase their work. Now that this idea had proven itself to be successful, subsmissions were opened in regards of a second volume. www.artsquared.co.uk
A group of artists from a major video game developer gather to share
Not quite an official movie trailer but a concept test created by the people at Digital Domain to give Director Joseph Kosinski an impression of what they are capable of. First presented at ComicCon 2008 now the trailer can be found on the Apple website.
Stanchfield’s work has influenced the top talent in the industry. For many years he taught an after-hours drawing class at Disney. Now his handouts are collected in a two-volume set of books released by Disney Producer and Animation Author Don Hahn. Sample pages and reviews can be found on Mark Kennedy's legendary blog and the books are now available at amazon.com:
Concept Art World is a blog and a directory dedicated to concept art. Displaying the work of leading artists from all over the world. Tutorials show the process of how the artwork is created and where to buy a printed version of your favourit piece. www.conceptartworld.com
The guys from Biart Studio LTD. in Moscow have published some new concept art on their official website. U-Wars is a sci-fi tactical shooter for PC and Xbox360 with the action taking place in the near future. www.uwar-game.com
From the Academy Award®-winning director and world-renowned Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki comes PONYO, a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid.” Already a box-office success in Japan, the story of a young and overeager goldfish named Ponyo and her quest to become human features an outstanding roster of voice talent, including Cate Blanchett and Matt Damon
Paint your own music video. soytuaire.labuat.com is a beautiful designed interactive website. Hit 'play' and give it a few seconds to load, then move the curser as you wish. Enjoy!
Exodyssey is now available at DesignStudioPress. The book contains 176 pages filled with art and concept, created by six artists from Steambot Studios. For more information and preview pictures visit their website steambotstudios.com, the blog, exodyssey.com
Two visual books for the movie Terminator Salvation were released on April 28th: The Art of Terminator Salvation (read review) and Terminator Salvation: The Movie Companion.(read review)
conceptships.blogspot.com is an animated online aircraft art magazin. Containing probably the greatest collection of spaceships on the internet. The site is related to conceptships.org, a forum dedicated to sci-fi-fans and a platform for posting pictures concerning the subject.
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