Lunatic Anima

Jordu creates amazing sculptures of monsters and aliens, mostly for pre-production use in movies. His credits include Hellboy, Aliens vs. Predator, Planet of the Apes, Men in Black, and Avatar.

Above is a demo he created for Dreamworks. He is conducting another workshop this July. For more information click here

Bad Ass...

The Pixar: 25 Years of Animation exhibition is at the

Oakland Museum of California from July 31st to January 9, 2011.

This game reminds me of my Oddworld days.
The art is so kewl!

Joel Trussell

I love this guy's work

This post is for Jamie Oliff and Mike Polvani!

Coraline

"Art of Coraline" panel at the Nucleus gallery

My sister from the other mister!
Coraline Jones

I cannot say enough good things about this movie.
It's the Modern day Alice in Wonderland!

Not only is the story rockin, the animation is to die for and every single stop mo artists on the show deserves MAJOR kudos.

Massive Black and Concept Art.org have put on an amazing
Art Workshop for the past three years.

It all started with

INSOMANIA - 2006 - San Franciso
http://www.conceptart.org/insomania

then came...

REVELATIONS - 2007 - Seattle

And next,

PHOTO THANKS TO PHIL FX

Marama 2008 - Wellington

There is no video from this show yet,
but then again it just happened in November.

My excitement is the new announcement from
Jason Manley about the next workshop on conceptart.org!!!
It's in Dallas! I can afford to make that and am planning and saving already!
I just have to let the folks at Zoic know I will be gone a few days...
But it's my birthday weekend anyways soo Happy Birthday to me!!!

Read ON my friends!!!

ConceptArt.Org International Art and Design Workshop: DALLAS TEXAS - March 28-31 2009

The next workshop is coming hard and fast. Are you ready? We are.

Conceptart.org and Massive Black have put together a stellar list of instructors, great sponsors, and a fresh program covering aspects from the games, toy, film, and fine art industries. The venue is beautiful. We are right next door to a gorgeous museum full of world class art, and have more planned than ever before. When I say we have more planned, I am saying we are pulling out all the stops. Art, jobs, culture, music, performers, training, and even more will be happening. We have a great list of sponsors including Google, SMU, the Guildhall, ReelFX, the prestigious AFI film festival, Corel and many others. This is going to be a big show with more art than ever before.

Time is short. Much to do. The official announcement will come this week and all info will be released then.

Tuition is 600 bucks and we will have an early bird offer which includes free downloads, cheaper tuition, and more. All the info will come this next week. Start getting ready folks...we are going to Dallas and will be shaking the art world from the top to bottom.

We chose Dallas as it is central to everyone here in the US and is a very affordable city to travel to. Of course, the local sponsors are world class too. This is going to be a great show.

The Shanghai show is still in the works but has been moved to late 2009 in order for us to find addtional sponsors. Dallas will be the only workshop we do in North America in 2009.

See you all soon!!

Jason Manley

Charge, diptych
Oil Painting on Canvas
96” x 36”
2008
Angela Jones

Visual Amalgam Show: The Film Industry Artist Gallery Event.
James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station
Sunday, October 5 2008, 5:00pm - 9:00pm
2525 Michigan Ave Santa Monica, CA

The event will provide the public with a rare opportunity to see some exceptionally talented film industry pros exhibit their personal work. I personally invite anyone reading this who will be in Los Angeles on the 28th, to please come by. This is my first show where I will be displaying my new work, and there are many other talented artists in the show. Consider this the artist spotlight posting for September! Many, many artists here doing something creative on the side!

Click the links below to see more.

Exhibiting Artists
Albert Brenner
Angie Jones
Ash Beck
Be.Ritt
Ben Radcliffe
Daniel Abramovich
Danny Dimian
Darren Lurie
Diana Walczak
Eric Hanson
Eric J Robertson
Evan Jacobs
Greg Downing
Joe Strasser
John Swallow
Karen Murphy-Mundell
Ken Ralston
Kevin Mack
Loic “e338″
Zimmermann
Owen Demers
Pam Hogarth
Patrick Finley
Shannon Blake Gans
Snow Mack
Vincent Serritella

Visual Amalgam Show

Visual Amalgam dot com
Visual Amalgam on Facebook
Topix Announcement
FX Guide
AWN

I am so in love this illustrator/designer's work I cannot stand it!

Adolie Day

I have posted here on the blog before about the big workshop Massive Black and Concept Art.org puts on each year. Could it be next year - the show is in Shanghai?

I got so busy as the new year came, I completely forgot about this show and dammit...I really wanted to attend. I am especially bummed since my old boss from Oddworld - Lorne Lanning - was the keynote speaker and it would have been fun to see him again. Note to Concept Art.org...might be good to create an email list for a newsletter for us, busy peeps?

Anyways, it looks like they did it again this year
with an amazing show!!!

The show seems like another Siggraph - BUT! there are NO computer programmers...just computer artists doing what they do. A real artist community using both traditional and new mediums. The show does have a "video game slant" of course since the creators come from that background...but that doesn't take away from the unique culture and talent that seems flocks there.

It sure would be kewl to have something like that for all of the commercial, television and film artists in LA. I know that Siggraph 2008 will be held here in LA, but the Siggrpah shows never seem to be geared towards the artists like the productions Massive Black puts on. I always feel like Siggraph is just there to show off new technology, not to inspire new techniques that artist have created for themselves outside of the tools. Below, is more about last year's show if you hadn't heard about it.

Last year, the same show sponsored by Massive Black and Concept Art.org was held in SF and was called Insomania...check out this video to see what that one was like.

Movie about the Massive Black Workshop INSOMANIA

I apologize for the lack of postings lately.

Keeping busy creating new content at work, and painting.

I foudn this guy's work totally by accident looking for some reference on google.

Mark Fearing

I dig it...maybe you will too?

Also here is my favorite Alien Trading card of his.

Carlotta Rotta

Greg Gunn contacted me looking for a few great 2D animators. I checked out his site and this lil studio has some great work! It's rare to find such unique creativity in commercials and I love how they have sketches, artwork and their entire process there for you to see for each project. I have worked on MANY commercial spots and rarely is there this much creativity and research put into a spot. Their tear sheets/style frames/storyboards alone, are visually stunning.

They even have a fun blog!

Kudos to The Legged Legs!

This was my favorite spot of theirs on the site,
but there are many others in their repertoire.

Imagination At Work

GE called upon BBDO and Three Legged Legs to create an animated fable for their Imagination Theater campaign. Our answer: Samurai. It's a tale of a pint-sized samurai faced with a seemingly impossible challenge as proposed by a behemoth Emperor and his wicked minions. Can you spot all the ninjas?

Client
GE

Agency
BBDO New York

Agency Creative Director
Don Schneider, Greg Hahn

Agency Producer
Peter Feldman

Agency Copywriter
Greg Hahn

Director
Three Legged Legs

Production Company
Green Dot Films

Post Production
Three Legged Legs

Post Producer
Lisa Houck

Creative Director
Greg Gunn, Casey Hunt, Reza Rasoli

Animation
Three Legged Legs

Design
Chuck BB

CG Artists
Jeremy Collins, Christina Lee

Music
Nick Faber

I have been pushed more and more at work to think outside of the box of what CG can be, how it can look, and how it should move. Below, is a collection of artists who's work would translate so well in CG, and frankly...be the most fun every to texture, light, animate...check them out!
~Angie

The Art of Travis Louie

Norman And Jenkins
8 x 10 acrylic on board

Norman lived in a small cottage outside of London that he shared with his pet Weta, Jenkins,( a large cricket-like insect native to islands in and around New Zealand) Unlike ordinary insects, Jenkins had the ability to control people’s minds. Did he use that ability for good or evil?, . . .no one knew for certain, . . .but Norman lived happily with his “pet”, He did find it curious that the local townspeople often addressed him as “King Norman” or “Your Majesty”, and when the town tax collector arrived at his home to make an assessment, he cried out that his eyes were on fire and leaped into the pond.

I love how he has little stories about his characters added to the paintings specs.

Jason Chan

Shawn Alan Peters

Willie Real

Scott Musgrove

Nathan Ota

His sketch book is amazing!

Amy Sol