In an ongoing series, artist Thomas Kurniawan imagines which celebrities might play some of your favorite Disney characters in real-life versions of the animated classics. Kurniawan takes the concept one step further, using actual images of the celebrities and photoshopping them into realistic looking movie posters. On his blog Kurniawan also provides the source…
Most logos aren’t designed in fifteen minutes, but most designers aren’t Aaron Draplin. Aaron’s a Portland fixture by way of the Midwest, the owner of Draplin Design Co., and an advocate of “blue collar” design: design that works. Here he takes lynda.com’s logo design challenge, creating a dozen iterations of a logo for a…
Art student Kincső Nagy designed an amazing glow in the dark version of the Harry Potter books, complete with interactive illustrations throughout. The Hungarian designer created simple covers for each book in the series, and the laser-cut illustrations come to life once the lights go out. Inside, readers will find illustrations that pop-up, fold…
Brian Edward Miller is an artist and illustrator based in Erie, Colorado. In the digital illustrations below we see Brian’s unique, ‘art deco-inspired’ style. The four artworks below are a celebration of the great outdoors and were from three different commissioned projects. #1 was an illustration done for the Tarsus Group’s Label Expo in…
Watch this brilliant 60-second, award-winning CG animated short by House Special. The short film is based on an original story by Allan Turner and Kameron Gates. Director: Kameron Gates Creative Director: Kirk Kelley Executive Producer: Lourri Hammack Producer: Zilpha Yost
It’s been three years to the day since Alan Becker released Animator vs. Animation III. After a successful Kickstarter campaign last August, the fourth installment is here and it’s awesome. If you’ve never seen the series before, I’ve embedded the previous installments below. Enjoy! Part I Part II Part III…
Rodney Pike is an artist, illustrator and Photoshop ninja. The artist specializes in caricature, photo manipulation and political satire and his work has been featured in countless publications both printed and online. In an ongoing series of hilarious photoshops, Pike skillfully blends Mr Bean/Rowan Atkinson’s face into famous paintings by artists like Da Vinci,…
Digital artist Alexey Zakharov imagines what television show Futurama might look like in 3D. In the two amazing videos below, Zakharov uses 3dsmax, Nuke, Photoshop, After Effects, Multiscatter plugin, Ghost Town script and Poly FX script to recreate the animated world in a more realistic 3D environment. Also included is a gallery of stills…
Dutch artist Telmo Pieper recently found his old childhood drawings and decided to revive them some 20 odd years later. In a series entitled Kiddie Arts, Pieper digitally illustrates his own childhood drawings. The artist remarks, “I designed these creatures at the age of 4 and now reincarnated them with digital painting”. Telmo is…
Inspired by the work of Albert Seveso, South African artist Chris Slabber blends faces with high-speed photographs of ink dropped into water. The double-exposure like digital artworks were recently exhibited at the Art Karoo art gallery for KKNK 2014. The project was recently featured on Behance where Chris explains: “The idea behind this series was…
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