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BAMAN PIDERMAN

07.14.08

By: Aaron Ray

This is awesome.

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Tags: Animation, Baman Piderman

Category: Misc.

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Co-writer and director of some of Pixar’s best flicks, Andrew Stanton, was interviewed today on Fresh Air about his newest film endeavor, Wall-E. The in-depth interview is fantastic, and touched on everything I really wanted to know about including color, design, squares vs. circles, storytelling without dialogue or facial features, and the film’s timely social commentary.

This interview is a window into the creative process of an extremely talented artist, and I’d highly recommend it to artists of all types as well as fans of the movie. And if you haven’t seen it yet, what the hell are you waiting for?

THE INTERVIEW

MY RANT

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Category: Art, Design, People

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STORYTELLING 101

06.30.08

By: Josh Holland

Pixar gets mad points for difficulty in their latest film endeavor, WALL-E. After watching the trailer the first time, I was intrigued how the technical animation would truly make or break this movie. With main characters that can’t speak (not much anyway) and have very limited facial expressions, the pressure was on to create lovable, emotional beings out of tiny scraps of metal sans dialogue. The end result was a beautiful experiment in visual storytelling, made more special by the originality of concept and a timely sociopolitical message.

Lips, eyes and eyebrows become luxuries of on-screen character development when your subjects are little more than spheres and cubes with wheels. The character design was amazing, with robots of all shapes, sizes, makes, models and personalities truly overshadowing the human characters who dully share an identical pear-shaped physique, and emotionally resemble… well… robots. in the end, the animators succeed admirably in creating living, breathing, emoting creatures out of those cold spheres and cubes.

The first part of the film is by far my favorite, with our gritty worker-bot hero Wall-E going about his everyday routine and unraveling a past of corporate consumerism gone awry. He soon encounters a sleek, sexy instrument of Apple brand death and destruction named E.V.E. and the duo form a complex relationship using nothing but flawlessly timed animation.

The film is a perfect abstraction of visual storytelling, utilizing only the most essential elements of motion, color, sound and symbols to do the whole job. Granted, there is a lot more dialogue in the film than I’ve indicated here, but those scenes are saved for the human characters who are ultimately a sideshow to the robots. So when you go see Wall-E (and you should), take notice of how much can be conveyed by moving shapes with the vocabulary limitations of a Pokemon. And ask yourself, how did they make me love a stupid cube with wheels so fucking much?

RIP Joe Ranft

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Category: Art, Design

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FWA THEATER

05.21.08

By: Aaron Ray

Finally a well designed, easy to use video site that features the best in Motion Graphics, Advertising, Animation and Short Films. This is pretty Awesome. From the FWA crew.
FWA Theater

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Tags: Advertising, Animation, FWA, short film, Video

Category: Design, Misc.

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MUTO!!!!!!

05.20.08

By: sAne

My friend Jason Kehl (Cryptochild) just passed me this great animation, I thought I’d share it with all of you. More of Blu’s Work can be found via his website and blog. Super Rad!

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

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Category: Art

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Happenings

09.30.08

Wes Winship of Burlesque does Obama. Poster will be available soon at Upper Playground, adding to their growing collection of Obamanalia. Keep your eyes peeled for it’s drop. Nice work Wes!

09.30.08

Artism-Art for Autism, is a book aimed to raise money for The National Autistic Society. Artism is currently seeking submissions until Oct 30th. More info here.

09.30.08

COPE2 @ Broken Bread Arts

October 3rd, 2008

Broken Bread Arts is breaking ground by introducing the legendary Bronx bomber and original subway graffiti art artist COPE2 for his first appearance in the Mile High City. COPE2 brings with him new work and creative pieces inspired by the graffiti art which has brought him international acclaim.

more info at http://brokenbreadarts.blogspot.com

09.29.08

Hyland and Malia, with RELOAD, will be hosting their first show in Amsterdam this October! Evan Hecox will be having his solo debut in Amsterdam at local gallery Chiellerie on October 24th. If you have a chance to swing by, give the Mathers a hi-five with love from all those they left behind.

09.24.08

Sweet interview with Scot Lefavor over at THE LUMPER™

09.23.08

Think Sarah Palin is qualified for the job? Weigh in here. Regardless, she was hot in high-school… that’s for sure.

09.22.08

The Denver Community Museum officially opens on October, 3rd 2008. Get all the info here.

09.20.08

Happy Birthday to TEE & CAKES! Stop by T&C on the 24th to help celebrate. Yay!!!

09.20.08

Super hot new custom Munny by Bryandrinkscoffee for Uberbot’s MUNNYOCALYPSE show opening tonight!!!

09.17.08

Applied Ideas
Talks on design
A Creative Conversation

Volume One
Advertising and Design
September 19
MCA Denver
7:30 - 9:00 pm

09.16.08

Christian Fundamentalism Permeates the Republican Party: Sarah Palin’s links to the Christian Right - read more here.

09.15.08

The crew at AnthemBranding just launched their all new online store. It’s chock full of all the fresh gear Anthem cranks out for themselves in between handling their client workload. Check it out!!!

09.10.08

Pictures of the unique and strange flora from the intriguing island Socotra

09.10.08

Nice insight on Matt aka MWM and his process.

09.10.08

ILLITERATE magazine is back!!! It’s been totally overhauled, redesigned, and the ILLITERATE crew has a fresh new site droppin’ soon. Keep your eyes peeled for the new mag in select locations…

09.08.08

The year’s best work in print, radio, television, design, interactive, and new media as selected by The One Club at MCAD gallery this Wednesday 10th, 5:30 to 7pm.

09.08.08

YouWorkForThem is looking for a designer, maybe you…

09.07.08

Scot Lefavor’s “Barack Obama For Change” posters are now available in Scot’s online store. The edition is only 75 - so move quick!

09.05.08

Scribe’s latest body of work, entitled Introvert Extrovert, drops tonight at Cardboard Spaceship in Santa Cruz. Scribe is comin’ up hard and fast, and he deserves it.