Art

Animation, Art, Film

Sunday Animation: Twelve Principles of Animation (Squash & Stretch, Anticipation)

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/04/2015 • Comments

Alan Becker has a video series based on the twelve principles of animation of animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. These principles, and Becker’s series about them, show how much thinking goes into even simple animated films. Here are the first two principles, as Becker presents them – Squash & Stretch Anticipation

Animation, Art

Sunday Animation: Something from Studio Ghibli

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/20/2015 • Comments

Animation, Art, Cartoons & Comics, Film

Sunday Animation: Glen Keane Draws in Virtual Reality

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/13/2015 • Comments

2015 Future of StoryTelling Summit Speaker: Glen Keane Animator, The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast, and Duet Keane’s VR painting is created in Tiltbrush: www.tiltbrush.com Over nearly four decades at Disney, Glen Keane animated some the most compelling characters of our time: Ariel from The Little Mermaid, the titular beast in Beauty and…

Art, Nature

Bees Help Sculpt a Tea Pot

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/04/2015 • Comments

"Thousand Years" by Tomas Libertiny from Studio Libertiny on Vimeo. Artist Tomas Libertiny partners with over 60.000 bees to create this splendid teapot wax sculpture. Libertiny made a teapot-shaped hive that the bees then colonized, building a hexagon comb around it and the Bees make their almost mathematically precise honeycomb structure around it. Just an…

Art

Hand-Drawn Logos

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/11/2015 • Comments

Hand Drawn Logos from Seb Lester on Vimeo. Seb Lester works in Lewes, East Sussex, as a type designer, illustrator and artist. He has created typefaces and type illustrations for some of the world’s biggest companies, publications and events, including the likes of Apple, Nike, Intel, The New York Times, The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics…

Animation, Art, Film

Sunday Film: A Crash Course in Internet Art

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/10/2015 • Comments

Crash course internet art from Vera Tan Hoveling on Vimeo.

Animals, Art

The Unchameleon

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/08/2015 • Comments

Animals, Art, Nature

An Animated Chart of 42 North American Butterflies

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/11/2014 • Comments

From Eleanor Lutz @ Tabletop Whale, a beautiful, animated chart. Here’s how Ms. Lutz describes her creation: I checked out six butterfly field guides from the library and picked out some of the species I thought were the most unique and beautiful. It’s meant as a chart of decorative species illustrations rather than an educational…

Animation, Art

Sunday Animation: What is Art?

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/24/2014 • Comments

What Is Art? from Stanley Ka Chun Chan on Vimeo.

Art

The Power of Simple Drawings

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/30/2014 • Comments

Perhaps not so simple at all: Long dismissed as a waste of time, doodling is getting new respect. Recent research in neuroscience, psychology and design shows that doodling can help people stay focused, grasp new concepts and retain information. A blank page also can serve as an extended playing field for the brain, allowing people…

Art

An Eiffel Tower… on the Tip of a Pencil

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/19/2014 • Comments

Art

Calligraphy

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/26/2014 • Comments

Animals, Art, History, Nature

The Imagination at Work

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/18/2014 • Comments

Long before they saw animals from faraway places, European artists imagined what they might look like, from tales they heard from others. Vincze Miklós writes about the art of the unfamiliar — See, How Europeans Imagined Exotic Animals Centuries Ago, Based on Hearsay.

Art, Poll

Friday Poll: Life in a Giant Hamster Wheel

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/07/2014 • 7 Comments

Today’s poll question: would you live in a giant hamster wheel for ten days? Living in a Giant Hamster Wheel As performance art, two men are living in a giant hamster wheel for ten days: Think it’s tough living with a roommate? These two fellows are sharing a house that spins like a hamster wheel—one…