Author: adarabi

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2D Animation Art Illustration La Boca Design Parachute Ending Steve Scott Surreal Will Sweeney

Steve Scott

I have been exploring the work of this illustrator/animation director recently and really taking a liking to his bold, colourful, surreal style. This is just one of his many illustrations. What I really like is the way he exaggerates certain aspects of the human form and also the way each of his paintings is almost a microcosm of narrative. Above is a prime example of this, entitled Abrah Ka Dabrah. Again I urge you to check out the rest of his work at www.stevescott.au if you like this kind of style also check out Laboca design house and Will Sweeney who all share the technique of using stark, bold lines and colours to depict slightly mind-bending subject matters. Also check out the latest music video for Birdy Nam Nam produced by Scott and Sweeney! It really is quite mental, but a brilliant rendition none the less, encorporating many different forms of animation from 3D to hand drawn. I really love the concept aswell!

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Amanita Design Czech Jakub Dvorský Machinarium Point and Click Samorost

Samorost

Luuurved this animation on the BoomTownFair homepage. It also reminded me slightly of the planets created by Jakub Dvorský aka Amanita Design, who compiled photos taken from forest woodland to create the tiny microcosm/home planet of the main character from the story. I actually saw Jakub give a talk at the Bradford animation festival, describing how he went about this and the process of making the point and click game Samorost. which if you haven’t played already, definitely check it out! He has also made a few new games since, including Samorost 2 and Machinarium. The music in this is absolutely brilliant aswell as the artwork and originality. Here is the planet I was talking about:

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Character Character Design Iron Giant Kryten Mechanoid Metal Robot

Rob

Meet Rob, he is an old skool robot I designed and built from polystyrene. Despite his outward appearance he is actually abit of a softy (in his old age). There is something about the antiquated look of heavy humanoid robots that highlights the inadequacies of machines and their stupidity, in that they cannot perform any task by themselves. Rob is designed around a mixture of influences from the Iron Giant, Kryten from Red Dwarf and Terminator. The watercolour technique I employed was meant to give the impression of a hard, reflective surface in contrast to the bold, dark outlines.

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Post Apocalyptic Cityscape

These concept drawings are part of a Sci-fi story I have recently come back to, having laid out the foundations of the idea a few years ago. The first was made using Oils and the second using Inks. The inks helped to portray the clouds alot more effectively and eerily, but the oils did a better job of showing the ground details and tones. See what you think anyway, and don’t be scared! its just a story 🙂 The black cloud in the second image is meant to be a swarm of killer robots (nano robots) that fly! A scary concept if I do say so myself. Hopefully it will never take shape, unless its more like the robot Eva from Wall-e, who is awesome! 🙂

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More Place, London Bridge

Here is a quick sketch I made of More Place, right beside the new Shard building in London Bridge. The street has a small river running down the centre of it. I really loved this idea, conceived by Townshend Landscape Architects, and when I noticed Tower Bridge at the end of the street I knew that the bridge had to be the inspiration for the stream, as well as being inspiration for most of the architecture, whereby it is meant to compliment and enhance its surroundings aswell as providing a functional space. I am currently planning an event to be held on this street. Although ambitious, I think it would be a fantastic way of encouraging new and raw talent to the engineering community. Thats all I can say for the moment, but watch this space¬! The finished drawing will reveal all! Reference photograph: More Place, London Bridge

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Art British Colour Communication England Link Red tardis Telephone Booth Telephone Box

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A homage to post boxes and the bright red colour they brought into our lives! I used a combination of watercolour and illustrator to produce the effect of the red colour being displaced by the heavy looking phone-box. It is also perhaps playing on the idea of the Doctor Who tardis (Time And Relative Dimension in Space, police-box) probably actually closer to the Bill&Ted time machine! Excellent!