Archive for January, 2007
a collection of websites from famous comic artists
Posted in manga and cartoon on January 31st, 2007Very different in style, very different in humor:
Scott McCloud // you have to see that one!

Kyle Baker:

Robert Crumb:
http://www.zubeworld.com/crumbmuseum/

Mary Fleener:
http://www.maryfleener.com/home.html

Jim Woodring:

Peter Kuper:

Paul Pope:

Tom Gauld:

Chris Ware:
http://www.hammergallery.com/Artists/Ware/ware_chris.htm

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motion design technique: rotoscoping
Posted in animation, motiondesign, vj-ing and footage on January 31st, 2007a very interesting article on rotoscoping, a technique to generate drawn film from prerecorded footage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

Generally, the entry for traditional animation sums it up quite pretty:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation
Here the method of “cell animation” is explained

online game: fastr
Posted in games, interactive design, web 2.0 on January 31st, 2007fastr is an online game where you can guess for the tag of photos, these come from flickr, if your fast you get more points
http://randomchaos.com/games/fastr/

a fine list of graphic design books
Posted in graphic design, typo on January 29th, 2007a fine list of graphic design books, typo mainly
http://www.pingmag.jp/2007/01/22/toward-design-literacy/
*thanks rainer*

photography: tool for creating mosaics
Posted in film/photography, graphic design on January 29th, 2007a simple software for creating mosaics out of many single pictures
edit:
here is an online application for mosaics too:
http://www.adelaider.com/image-mosaic/

tutorials for motiondesign
Posted in motiondesign on January 29th, 2007you can find some interesting tutorials for expanding your software skills here:




