Book Review: 'The Ballad of Rango: The Art and Making of an Outlaw Film'
Director Gore Verbinski and ILM give us a hefty volume crammed with full-color behind-the-scenes photos, production art and final renders.
Category: Art
Cartoon Art Museum Celebrates 20 Years of Image Comics
The Cartoon Art Museum celebrates the 20th anniversary of Image Comics with an exhibition running February 4 through April 9, 2012.
In Event, People, Places, Event, People, Places | Art, Headline News | Geographic Region: North America
Cartoon Art Museum to Host Edward Gorey Birthday Party
The Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore will host a special event in celebration of the anniversary of Edward Gorey’s birth on February 22.
Puss in Boots at the Cartoon Art Museum
Puss in Boots, the Academy Award® Best Animated Feature nominee from DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. is the subject of a new art exhibition at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum.
Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention Speakers Announced
The Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention will be held on March 4, 2012, with special guests Tom Felton, Eric Walker, Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Sara Bechko, Mike Kazelah and Vernon Wells.
Jeff Plotkin Meet & Greet at the Cartoon Art Museum
The Cartoon Art Museum hosts artist Jeff Plotkin on Saturday, February 11, 2012 from 1pm to 3pm as part of its ongoing Cartoonist-in-Residence program.
mono Taps CRASH+SUES for Cross-Platform Initiative For Parsons
CRASH+SUES was tapped by mono to provide editing, color correction and graphics for SoundAffects, Parsons The New School for Design’s multi-platform exploration of the relationship between music, design and technology.
Fest Anca Call for Entries
The submission deadline for the fifth edition of Fest Anca, the international animation festival in Slovakia, is March 30, 2012.
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Encounter with Japan Part 4
There are many impressive aspects of and qualities I now associate with Japanese people, their ways of lives and their culture with. However, what sets them apart in minds of those who have had a limited exposure to, or those who have never been there, are Anime and Manga, and to a lesser extent a mysterious Geisha.
Society of Illustrators Presents Comics Out Loud in NY
The Society of Illustrators Presents Comics Out Loud on January 28 in New York City.
In Books, Event, Illustration, People, Books, Event, Illustration, People | Art, Headline News | Geographic Region: North America
Artistic Image Creates an Interactive 2D/3D Projection Mapping Show for The Chattanooga RiverRocks Festival
Artistic Image creates an interactive 2D/3D projection mapping show for The Chattanooga RiverRocks Festival that interacts with The Hunter Museum's neo-classic façade.
Syd Mead Retrospective at Forest Lawn Museum
A retrospective of Syd Mead's work, Progressions, will be on exhibit at the Forest Lawn Museum January 27 through April 15, 2012; artist reception to be held on January 26, 2012.
Dickens in London: A Cross-Platform Celebration of Dickens’s Life
As part of Dickens 2012, Film London, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Drama have come together to commission five films and five radio plays – Dickens In London – to be broadcast simultaneously during the week of 6-10 February.
In Anime, Cartoons, People, Television, People, Television | Art, Headline News | Geographic Region: Europe
Paul Sahre Designs 18-foot Model Hearse for They Might Be Giants Video
Musical group They Might Be Giants celebrate the announcement of their 2012 US tour with a dramatic video set to their track "When Will You Die?"
The Crossroads of Art and Technology: Creating The Creators Project
The Creators Project, founded in part by Vice Media, was started to showcase innovative artists and enable them to realize new artwork. When The Creators Project launched in 2010, Vice used a variety of media -- including television, print, online and mobile outlets -- to document the work of more than 100 creators to date, hailing mostly from seven countries (Brazil, China, France, Germany, South Korea, United Kingdom and United States).
Encounter with Japan Part 3
Now, having observed Japanese society, the way it was taught to control their emotional and physical demeanor, I am un-startled by their adamantly unshaken, orderly, ongoing trust in authorities. It leads to a polite, restrained, reverently subdued reaction to what ensued due the corporate negligence, and a secretive, cunning cover up that continues to define what is being done to them.
Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art Winter Classes Begin January 9 & 23
Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art(LAAFA) winter classes begin January 9 & 23.
Students Learn to Tell Compelling Visual Stories at Broadview Entertainment Arts University (BEAU)
BEAU to offer BFA in Comic and Sequential Art for students who want to create cartoons, comic books, storyboards, graphic novels and animated features.
Keith Knight and Stephan Pastis in conversation at Cartoon Art Museum
The Cartoon Art Museum welcomes Keith Knight, creator of "The Knight Life," and Stephan Pastis, creator of "Pearls Before Swine," for a discussion of their comics and careers in celebration of CAM’s latest exhibition, "Black and White and Read All Over: Comics of the New Millennium."
In Books, Event, Illustration, People, Places, Books, Event, Illustration, People, Places | Art, Headline News | Geographic Region: North America
The Devil in the Details: Technical Artist Julian Love on Diablo III Part 1
Lead technical artist Julian Love is a nine-year Blizzard veteran. He’s been working on Diablo III almost as long as fans have been waiting for the game. We spoke to Love about the long-gestating project, Blizzard’s approach to making games and the role of the technical artist in development.
Encounter With Japan Part 2
As I reflected in my previous blog, Japanese are true perfectionists, in all they do. Thus, when it comes to political correctness, over centuries, and elected isolation from the external world, they turned it into an art form, a nature, but at what cost? Bowing projects a wonderfully charming sense of politeness and respect, but it does not end on just one bow, it goes on, and on. It is very carefully and skillfully choreographed and, as such, not spontaneous.
Olly Moss Designs New My Neighbor Totoro Print
Mondo, the collectible art boutique arm of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, is excited to announce their first-ever print for a Studio Ghibli film, from living legend Hayao Miyazaki and his incomparable classic MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO.
In Films, Illustration, Licensing, People, Films, Illustration, Licensing, People | Art, Headline News | Geographic Region: All
Encounter with Japan Part 1
"Are you insane?” "Have you lost your mind?" "Are you not afraid?" "Don't you realize this is the worse time to go there?" This is just a sampling of the polite examples of reactions and comments my plans for a trip to Japan had triggered. And yet, based on my own life’s journey, I understood early on that, sometimes the worse time could be the best, the most raw, sincere, revealing and insightful.
CTN-X: A Student's Perspective
CTNX is for the young and hungry, boasting a crowd of current students and the recently graduated, who are looking at an angle into their beloved, but notoriously tough, contemporary animation industry. There’s no doubt the event will keep on drawing in professionals, studios, and students, but it remains to be seen whether it can live up to high expectations. Seeing young talent engage with their idols, and feeling their way into a field they are clearly passionate about, is where CTN truly shines.
