In an ongoing series entitled Flying Cars, artist and designer Sylvain Viau takes photographs of cars and then manipulates them in Photoshop so they appear to hover or fly. The idea of flying cars has long been a concept teased in science fiction and just the thought conjures up feelings of freedom and being…
No this is not an April Fools joke. These two-dimensional, cartoon-like bags are 100% real and are available in a variety of colors and styles. The bags are the brainchild of Chay Su and Rika Lin, two designers from Taipei, Taiwan who launched their lineup of cartoon bags in 2010 under the brand name,…
Artist Julien Knez created a series of nine retro VHS covers for modern television shows and movies including Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Guardians of the Galaxy. The covers, which were actually printed and placed into VHS sleeves, were made as part of an April Fools day prank for his blog, where Knez…
In ‘wolf & hoof‘ Russian artist Maxim Shkret creates incredible 3D animal artworks using programs and tools such as: Pixologic Zbrush, Vray, 3DS Max and Photoshop. This is the second part in an ongoing series of “geometric animals” by Shkret; the Sifter featured his initial series of “predators” last April. To see more art…
Earlier this week, Martin Le-May’s photo of a weasel riding a woodpecker went viral. The photo has been seen millions of times around the world since. Whenever an image like this—that is so unusual and hard to believe—spreads, the reaction images and photoshops are not far behind. BuzzFeed put together a great compilation of…
Artwork by ERIK JOHANSSON Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Prints “The Architect” is the latest photo manipulation by artist and photographer Erik Johansson (featured previously). According to comments by Erik on his official Faecbook page, the image was created over the course of two months and involves numerous individual elements photographed…
For those of us who grew up in the age of CGI, green screen is just “a thing that computers do”. But how did effects like this work before the age of pixels? With the help of some suitably shiny graphics, here’s a quick summary by Tom Scott. If you enjoyed the video above,…
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…
Photograph by Stephanie Alexis on Instagram In this 360 ‘tiny planet’ panorama by Stephanie Alexis, we see her and a friend appearing to sail on a tiny water planet. The photo was recently featured by GoPro as their Photo of the Day. The photo is actually a composite of two images: the sailboat pic,…
Awesome animated timelapse compresses 2 months of work into 60 seconds. Over 1000 Photoshop layers were cut from 27 panoramic photographs and then compiled and animated in After Effects to create this fascinating project overview.