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Art News and Inspiration!
Iruka
Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
I've always wanted a thread around for dumping links to art blogs and art news. Paying attention to the art world in a broad sense isn't necessarily essential for doing good work, but I think having an ear out for things that aren't just in your corner of the industry is a good thing. It used to be the only "Art News" I knew about was ImagineFX and Juxtapoz, But the landscape has really changed with big sites tumblrs filling in the gap to give us different view points.
A few notes:
-Kickstarter links have a blanket ban on the forum, so don't link them.
-All tumblrs should be considered NSFW But you should not if one has a particular amount of nudity or whatever. Don't link to porn blogs, and if you are in doubt, ask
-Exhausting "is this art" conversations aren't really the point, share and be merry. Discussion is always allowed, but if you just haaate some media and someone posts it, relax bro.
Where Should I Look for News and Inspiration?
Links for you to get started
Illustration
gurneyjourney.blogspot.ca/
James Gurney's blog is pretty great. Lots of posts that prod the intricacies of painting and the archaic bits in field of picture making.
muddycolors.blogspot.ca/
Muddy Colors is a blog with a lot of contributors that deals with the illustration industry and the process of illustration.
Comics and animation:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/
http://www.booooooom.com/
http://spx.tumblr.com/
http://wannabeanimator.tumblr.com/
http://www.comicsandcola.com/
Comics, interviews, reviews
http://comicsworkbook.tumblr.com/
Frank runs a blog that has a lot of interesting stuff on it. His taste is very apparent, a lot of rough handmade stuff, very formalistic. He has a lot of opinions too.
http://www.inkstuds.org/
Good interviews, mostly alt, indie and underground comics
Contemporary, Gallery focused blogs:
http://artruby.com/
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/
http://supersonicart.com/
Inspiration Blogs
http://thisisnthappiness.com/
http://slapdashing.tumblr.com/
linesandcolors.com/
todaysinspiration.blogspot.ca/
Today's Inspiration focuses on digging up and posting things from the mid-20th century "the Golden Age of Illustration". A lot of old and interesting magazine and book cover illustrations.
illustrationart.blogspot.ca/
Illustration Art "Celebrating great art in humble places: the glorious talents of artists who illustrate stories, advertisements and comics." Another blog that deals in a lot of old timey art. It has a more comic content than Today's Inspiration.
Directories and Wikis
https://www.reddit.com/r/art/wiki/related
http://www.wikiart.org/
A few notes:
-Kickstarter links have a blanket ban on the forum, so don't link them.
-All tumblrs should be considered NSFW But you should not if one has a particular amount of nudity or whatever. Don't link to porn blogs, and if you are in doubt, ask
-Exhausting "is this art" conversations aren't really the point, share and be merry. Discussion is always allowed, but if you just haaate some media and someone posts it, relax bro.
Where Should I Look for News and Inspiration?
Links for you to get started
Illustration
gurneyjourney.blogspot.ca/
James Gurney's blog is pretty great. Lots of posts that prod the intricacies of painting and the archaic bits in field of picture making.
muddycolors.blogspot.ca/
Muddy Colors is a blog with a lot of contributors that deals with the illustration industry and the process of illustration.
Comics and animation:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/
http://www.booooooom.com/
http://spx.tumblr.com/
http://wannabeanimator.tumblr.com/
http://www.comicsandcola.com/
Comics, interviews, reviews
http://comicsworkbook.tumblr.com/
Frank runs a blog that has a lot of interesting stuff on it. His taste is very apparent, a lot of rough handmade stuff, very formalistic. He has a lot of opinions too.
http://www.inkstuds.org/
Good interviews, mostly alt, indie and underground comics
Contemporary, Gallery focused blogs:
http://artruby.com/
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/
http://supersonicart.com/
Inspiration Blogs
http://thisisnthappiness.com/
http://slapdashing.tumblr.com/
linesandcolors.com/
todaysinspiration.blogspot.ca/
Today's Inspiration focuses on digging up and posting things from the mid-20th century "the Golden Age of Illustration". A lot of old and interesting magazine and book cover illustrations.
illustrationart.blogspot.ca/
Illustration Art "Celebrating great art in humble places: the glorious talents of artists who illustrate stories, advertisements and comics." Another blog that deals in a lot of old timey art. It has a more comic content than Today's Inspiration.
Directories and Wikis
https://www.reddit.com/r/art/wiki/related
http://www.wikiart.org/
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gurneyjourney.blogspot.ca/
Muddy Colors is a blog with a lot of contributors that deals with the illustration industry and the process of illustration.
muddycolors.blogspot.ca/
Lines and Colors is a good inspiration blog that has introduced me to many a lovely artist.
linesandcolors.com/
Today's Inspiration focuses on digging up and posting things from the mid-20th century "the Golden Age of Illustration". A lot of old and interesting magazine and book cover illustrations.
todaysinspiration.blogspot.ca/
Illustration Art "Celebrating great art in humble places: the glorious talents of artists who illustrate stories, advertisements and comics." Another blog that deals in a lot of old timey art. It has a more comic content than Today's Inspiration.
illustrationart.blogspot.ca/
http://www.comicsandcola.com/
Comics, interviews, reviews
http://comicsworkbook.tumblr.com/
Frank runs a blog that has a lot of interesting stuff on it. His taste is very apparent, a lot of rough handmade stuff, very formalistic. He has a lot of opinions too.
http://www.inkstuds.org/
Good interviews, mostly alt, indie and underground comics
We can also use this thread for just dumping cool shit we see while browsing, like look at this fuckin anime I found:
Its not translated so I have no Idea whats specifically going on, but the music is fascinating. The soundtrack was an apparently sought after album for a 6 years while the musician acquired the rights again and could reprint it. Doesn't look like these shorts were ever subbed or fan-subbed anywhere. But the animation is adorable! reminds me of shin chan a little bit. I love the main characters expressions. @m3nace seems up your alley, too.
Here are a couple of tumblr blogs I've found really handy for locating paintings for master studies:
http://paintingbox.tumblr.com/
http://master-painters.tumblr.com/
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/before-and-after-shots-of-jogg
These are interesting. One of the things that I've been learning about from the caricature class is how malleable "Likeness" can be, and how important that you don't just choose a nice photo, but one that looks the most like the person to you.
These made me think of you:
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/resin-jewelry-britta-boeckmann/
Lots of pictures after the link
cross postin'
Inspirin' listening to Roberts history and looking at his workplace
In other news:
NYCC ’15: Dark Horse Announces The Moebius Library
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/10/06/nycc-15-dark-horse-announces-the-moebius-library/
I love these types of things. Augmented Reality is mostly just a cool toy right now, but seeing it in action is still pretty neat.
News article: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/views-home-earth-shines-apollo-mission-photos-n440826
Actual archive:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums/with/72157659383580161
http://www.fxguide.com/featured/going-off-model-hotel-transylvania-2/
Good article, the movie is pretty fun, and the posing is great. Off model animating and actual squash and stretch is becoming more common it seems.
Unfortunately most of the youtube behind the scenes stuff is just voice actors and trailers, that I can see.
@m3nace
Dude the 80s.
Which I saw on Muddy Colors
If any of you are in LA, you should go to this and tell me how amazing it is:
http://www.cinefamily.org/films/animation-breakdown-2015/
For those of us who aren't in LA, I've grabbed whats available on vimeo of the shorts being shown. Be warned, There's NSFW, poop, and ridiculously dumb/experimental stuff.
Life with Herman H. Rott (dir. Chintis Lundgren)
Swap Meet (dirs. Various Artists) (seizure warning)
First Date (dirs. Joseph Bennett, Matt Furie) (seizure warning)
Cody’s Positive Affirmations (dir. Joseph Bennett)
menagerie (dir. Julian Gallese)
Bartkira the Animated Trailer (producer Kaitlin Sullivan)
Sports Nuts (dir. Marc M. / Sick Animation)
Apple Pie (dir. Marc M. / Sick Animation)
Loop Ring Chop Drink (dir. Nicolas Ménard)
Bath House (dir. Niki Lindroth von Bahr)
Pentimento (dir. Remy Schaepman)
Amaro and Walden’s Joyride (dirs. Tim McCourt, Max Taylor)
Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit (dir. Wesley Louis)
An Emo Nose (dir. Wong Ping)
Weird Simpsons VHS (dir. Yoann Hervo)
Candy Power Dorothy (dir. Yong Hoon Joe)
is my go to spot for design and general art inspiration
omgposters.com
is where I go to fuel my crippling print collecting addiction. Yes I bought the Mondo poster that came out today.
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tech/toonz-software-used-studio-ghibli-futurama-made-free-open-source-138111.html
Twitter
I'm downloading this right now and.... oh dear... hm.
I fear it may be a while 'til there is comprehensive support for learning how to use it in English. May be some Muddling Along to be done.
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
may give this a few months to work out its kinks before giving it a shot
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
I'm going to download it and play with it, but I have a feeling the internet is going to be disappointed that this software didn't come out and make them Ghibli animators. Its open source though, so someone with the time will root through it.
https://wannabeanimator.tumblr.com/post/141756217410/note-this-will-be-updated-as-i-get-stuff-where
Sweet yeah I'm starting to see stuff like this float across my dash
Good ol' internet! Probably be a while till I really give it a shot thought just cuz the end of the semester is fast approaching. Would love to hear how messing around in it goes for you!!
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
Good animation.
good animation
The Turning Point 3:27
'The Turning Point' explores the destruction of the environment, climate change and species extinction from different perspective. Music by Wantaways.
Created in After Effects, Premiere Pro, Clip Studio Pro and Cinema 4D.
Written, directed and animated by Steve Cutts
edit:
I hope it will be okay if I start posting music videos or animation which I feel is really inspiring or well animated in here?
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
How to Start a Watercolor9:43
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully