Welcome to the 7th sketches entry. Today we have sketches from Bruce Alcock, Nathaniel Akin, Michael Mann and Justin Longoz. Enjoy them because it’s one of the few things in life that’s that simple:
|
||||||
|
CONGRATULATIONS YOU GUYS! POWER COUPLE OF THE YEAR! Animation in a field driven by deadlines: Everything has a due date, from bidding through rough sketch work to final delivery. As much as I curse this structure I know that without it, every project would be lost in a never ending spiral of revisions, second guesses, and self criticism. Nothing is ever really “done” unless it has to be. A wise artist once told me that he was like an oven: If you left something in his hands for too long, it would eventually get burnt and end up tasting like shit. Enter the art opening. Same idea, different medium. I recently finished some sculptures for a couple of shows at Soho Billiards in Vancouver. My buddy Arin Sieber has been putting up group collections there every few months, so she’s been a good motivator for me to [...] Recently, Chris Mckinlay (the other half of 1998) moved into a soon-to-be-destroyed house on Knight Street. He and his roommate James have fixed the place up quite nicely since they moved in, but you should have seen the place when they first got it. This should give you some perspective: I believe the only rule that his landlord gave them was, “No growing or selling drugs. Other than that, I don’t care what you do”. So Chris took that very seriously and we went to town thinking of some fun things we could do in his house. The first idea we had was to paint all over the walls. We thought it’d be fun to do a big mural in his kitchen. So I designed a mural idea (giant blades of grass and their root systems) and Chris and I just kind of went for it. I drew on the [...]
1998creative was recently interviewed for the studio spotlight on vancouveranimation.ca! They talked to them about the 10 commandments shorts and the future. Click on the link above to read the interview. Congrats you guys! After weeks of making a series of big messes in the studio and on our laptops and big-shot computers, we’ve finally sorted out all of the mislabeled files and come out the other end with the production stills from our most recent 10 Commandments short, No. 7: Thou Shalt Not Steal. This shoot was a little bit more hectic than other shoots. First of all, animating bananas is one of the hardest things to do besides maybe animating water without something to hold it. So we had to get creative. Also, bananas are soft like apple sauce. They wilt quickly under hot lights. Not pretty (As you can see from one of the photos where the banana goes brown on us). Furthermore, we spent quite a bit of time making the set this for this short; almost as much time as we spent shooting the film. But in the end, [...] Hey again, Welcome to the 6th SKETCHES installment. It’s been a while since our last illustration posting. We’ve been busy making short films and updating the global mechanic website. In any case, we’re back with more drawings from Bruce Alcock, Michael Mann, Nathaniel Akin and Justin Longoz. Please, I beg you, enjoy these: We’re very happy with our gorgeous new site. It’s basically a video asset presentation device, so we wanted to make it as fast, uncluttered and easy to navigate as possible while still communicating that we’re a sophisticated but friendly design shop. The design and palette are pretty neutral, with all the color and fanciness left to the clips. That’s why we went with two shades of light gray for backgrounds: it sets off the images without distracting. The site is all about showing off our lovely work. The headline font is called Gotham Rounded, part of a great font family by Hoefler & Frere-Jones. We’re using another one in that family – Gotham Narrow – for our print communication. It’s a little friendlier and less ubiquitous than Helvetica, but still informational, reminiscent of clear signage. For the body copy on the site, though, we’re using Verdana (for typical [...] We seriously struggled with whether or not to post these photos on our blog. Will people think we’re idiots? Yes, probably. Do we care what people think? No, we obviously don’t care what people think. Otherwise we’d probably be more careful about this kind of stuff. But at the end of the day, these nonsensical fridge magnet phrases crack us up. ESPECIALLY the goon poem bat shit one. I have no idea why. It’s just a great set of words lined up one after the other. So please, join us in our stupidity as we take a trip down da da lane. WARNING: SOME WORDS NOT SAFE FOR WORK, ENLARGE PICTURES AT YOUR OWN RISK: Note – These were the best of the best of the last 6 months. I know. It’s that bad over here. We make more of these every day [...] |
||||||
|
Copyright © 2010 global mechanic blog - All Rights Reserved |
||||||