Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
May 27, 200910:49 PM

In honor of the mindblowingly cool move The New Yorker made this week by running one of Jorge Colombo's awesome iPhone paintings on this week's cover, I decided to delve back into the Brushes app, which Jorge used to paint his cover illustration.

One of the coolest features of Brushes is the ability to download ".brushes" files from your iPhone via wifi and load them into the companion Brushes viewer program on the Mac. The .brushes file isn't just a flat image, it's a data 'recording' of all the strokes you made AND it's resolution independent, so you can render the image out at up to 6x the iphone's 480x320 resolution. And you can render out movies of your painting coming to life.

Jorge now has a regular weekly spot on The New Yorker's website to post his Brushes movies. Pretty damn cool...

So here's a movie of a painting I did of some bearded dude (sorta 300 Leonidas I suppose)..Enjoy!

Posted by: kurt (67 posts)
June 28, 2007 3:10 AM

this a mock-up of an animation i'm working on.

Posted by: pa (190 posts)
June 2, 2007 5:08 PM

This is an illustration done in flash for a Wall Street Journal Online infographic highlighting the big business behind superhero movie franchises. It was really fun to work up some old friends in a comic book style, though I was lobbying for Hellboy to be in there rather than the ninja turtle. Alas I was overruled. Jon Keegan and Mei Lan Ho-Walker worked on the awesome animation and design aspects of the infographic. Check out the handywork here (Safari's popup-blocker might thwart this link).

Posted by: kurt (67 posts)
March 4, 2007 6:51 PM

Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
November 19, 2006 9:31 PM

This is an old animation I did for the Outdoor Life Network a few years ago. They used it as a little animated bug that ran across the bottom of the screen during Thanksgiving week programming promoting some turkey shoot show.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted by: bz (54 posts)
June 27, 2006 2:35 AM

day 1. here i am in lovely aspen. here's an image (still) from some randomly generated art (dynamically via action script) which i did today. the color palette resulted from this ink drawing/image (previously shown on invisibleman a few months ago) and then refined in photoshop.

PS i saw the milky way tonight. awesome. highly recommend it.

Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
April 19, 2006 5:00 PM

I just completed this illustration for The New York Times (Thurs. April 20th, Style section), dealing with women and A.C.L. (anterior cruciate ligament) knee injuries.

The reference came from Eadweard Muybridge's classic "The Human Figure in Motion", which is an invaluable resource for how the body moves.

I couldn't resist whipping up a quick animation of these nine frames from the illo.

Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
January 20, 200610:30 PM

Whoa. PA and I walked out of the Pixar exhibit at MoMa today (Thanks Susannah!) fully humbled, delighted and inspired. There was so much to take in...I'm at a bit of a loss. All I can say is MAKE SURE YOU SEE THIS SHOW! It goes untill Feb. 6, so you still have some time to catch it.

Some of the highlights: The gorgeous, glowing pastels by Dominique Louis; Lou Romano's unbelievably luminous / slick / tight gouache paintings; the flawless grey resin macquettes of all your favorite Pixar charcters (especially Violet and Mr. Incredible's different expressions)....and then there's the zoetrope.

There aren't many words that I could use to convey to you the sheer delightful joy you will experience when you lay your eyes on the spectacular Pixar 3D zoetrope. Once it starts to spin, and the strobes turn on, you will giggle with joy and you won't believe your eyes. It is a miracle of illusion, motion and animation. Possibly the highlight of the show. Go now. And by all means get there early. This show gets mobbed and you should really see this with as small a crowd as possible.

Pix by : mnemo, fudj and hseikaly .

Posted by: kurt (67 posts)
July 23, 200510:41 AM

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June 30, 2005 9:19 AM

Posted by: pa (190 posts)
March 29, 2005 1:47 AM

"Break out the rocket-belts while I go through Dr. Norman's notebooks!"

A phrase exclaimed by Dr. Quest in the Adventures of Jonny Quest episode #20 The Invisible Monster. It immediately brought to mind Wes Anderson's 'A Life Aquatic' when Alistair Hennessey says something like "Fetch me my elephant gun and fill it with buckshot!"

Posted by: keegan (155 posts)
March 7, 200511:04 PM

I had been working on an animation of people riding the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan for the past several years in spurts. Sadly, after my Powerbook was stolen in San Francisco in this summer, almost all of the files were lost. Probably a good thing, as it will force me to make some new stuff. So here's all that remains of the sample near-finished footage. This is all using After Effects and scanned drawings. Also take a peek at the rough animatic that shows more of what I had planned. Some more of my animations...

Posted by: pa (190 posts)
February 3, 200512:54 AM

The cable network Boomerang has recently been airing episodes of the show Challenenge of the Superfriends which originally aired in 1978-1979. I can still recall the anticipation I had on saturday morning as 7:30 approached and the best half hour of the week would ensue (and the feeling of despondency when all that goodness was over). The villians were so badass: Black Manta, Lex Luthor, Gorilla Grodd, Bizarro and the Priscilla Rich - The Cheetah! who I had an early crush on (see picture - hubba hubba). The plots of the episodes were completely far out as well. Seeing some of these episodes I realize now how influential they were to my young mind.

Posted by: pa (190 posts)
November 11, 2004 1:05 AM

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