While Sipping my Mocha

things that i like at a particular moment.

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Rosa de Jong

Dutch designer, illustrator and art director Rosa de Jong creates, among other things, wonderfully intricate landscapes inside glass cases. Her ‘Micro Matter’ series shows fragments of tiny forests and buildings, often intertwined, that leave the viewer wondering about who built these structures and dwells inside them. With her attention to detail and atmospheric lighting, Rosa creates other worlds for us to disappear into.

Discover more or Rosa’s work on her Facebook Page and Dribble

There’s plenty more visual candy at our Facebook Page and Twitter! | Posted by Falco

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This is a test that I did as a demonstration lecture two days ago. It was the last in a five week series on quadrupeds at Dreamworks. The focus was on animating a four-legged animal in a free-flowing way. After we had gone through anatomy, different gaits, and gait transitions in the previous weeks, this was a demonstration of how to put it all together and just animate a dog just being a dog. It’s easy to get bogged down in the technicalities of quadruped gaits, but if you know it well enough you don’t have to overthink it and can just animate freely.

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beautiful visual with really catchy music.

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Star Wars poster issued by 20th Century Records.

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Watch Beach flags! 

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the making of 

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 A short interview with the cosgrove hall production on stopmotion puppet making. would love to see the whole programme if there is one.

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Conceptual Art By Eugene Soloviev

Eugene Soloviev (aka apachennov) is a creative digital graphic designer and illustrator from Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. Specializes in photo manipulation, surrealism and graphic design. For more check out his SaatchiArt profile.

Enjoy taking photos? Check out the Cross Connect Flickr Group.

posted by Margaret

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‘Yamasong: March of the Hollows’, A Fantasy Puppet Film Featuring a Star-Studded Cast

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Watch everyframeapainting’s video essay on the poetry of details in the films of Lynne Ramsay.

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quite beautiful. can’t wait to see it

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a stop-motion marvel. 

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Here’s a background tutorial that was intended to hand out to the painters on Over the Garden Wall…I’m actually not sure if I ever did (maybe German or Levon can chime in on this) Anyway, I whipped this up super fast in the early days of pre-production and it might be of interest or help to some aspiring digital painters out there. 

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Animation techniques and effects from the classic era. For more vintage movie geekery, check out my Old Hollywood Special Effects, and my Early Color Film Processes posts! (And while you’re at it, take a look at my art blog, why don’t ya?)

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papercraft awesomeness~