Art

Pixar Reveals Concept Art for Feature Lineup

Posted In | News Categories: Art, Films | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Art, Films
Pixar unveils concept art for its upcoming movies, offering up new images for “The Good Dinosaur,” “The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind” and the as-yet untitled “Dia de los Muertos” movie.

Book Review - The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation: Celebrating Fifty Years of Television Specials

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Columns: Fred Patten's Book Reviews | Site Categories: 2D, Art, Books, Cartoons, Films, Home Entertainment, People, Television
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Charles Solomon’s new book provides an extensive history of the beloved Peanuts franchise’s 46 year history of TV specials and theatrical features.

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Should current technologies motivate and dictate new innovative designs or can concept designs inspire novel technologies? Which one is better, wiser, more advantageous in a long run?

Curious Hat Announces Eye Paint International

Curious Hat announces a multi-lingual version of Eye Paint Animals which offers children a fun way to learn about the theory of colors, as well as encouraging them to explore the world around them.

MoMA Adds Games to Architecture and Design Collection

Posted In | News Categories: Art, Games | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Art, Games
The Museum of Modern Art acquires a selection of 14 video games for a new category of artworks in MoMA’s collection.

Five Artists Creating New Visions of What Animation Can Be

Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Site Categories: Art, CG, Commercials, People, Short Films
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Karl Cohen discusses the art of Ben Ridgway, Zeitguised, Max Hattler, Andrew Jones and PES as examples of a new aesthetic in animation.

Legendary Disney Designer and Concept Artist Mel Shaw Passes at 97

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One of the most versatile and talented visual development artists, designers, and storymen to ever work at The Walt Disney Studios passed away on Thanksgiving Day from congestive heart failure.

Gallery Nucleus to Host Guardians Artist Panel & Book Signing

Posted In | News Categories: Art, Books, Events, Films, People, Places | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Art, Books, Events, Films, People, Places
Coming Saturday, December 1, Gallery Nucleus is hosting an artist panel and book signing for DreamWorks Animation’s “Rise of the Guardians.”

Creative Workshops on “Gravity Free & Reality Independent” Ideation: Part 2

Posted In | Blog Categories: Global Perspective, Education, Diversity, Artistic | Site Categories: Art, Education and Training
This blog will clinch my reflection on the value of creative workshops arousing imagination.

Tyrus Wong Doc Gets Kickstarted

Posted In | News Categories: Art, Films, People | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Art, Films, People
A Kickstarter campaign is launched to fund documentarian Pamela Tom’s film project about artistic legend Tyrus Wong.