Chase @ March 16, 2010 5:04 pm
Yesterday we finished up an interesting project for our friends (and family) at Elite Flooring in Charlotte. You may have seen Rudy’s post last week about a little character he did for this as well. They are working on a new trade show booth, and asked us to help them with some graphics. The inspiration for the booth is ‘Monsters, Inc.’ and they wanted a series of large illustrations to create faux factory walls. The kicker… they needed to be done quickly. 7 illustrations in all.
The panels needed to have the feeling of 3D renderings, but there wasn’t enough time to actually model the environment. Instead over 4 days each panel was done with layers of texture in photoshop as well as a healthy bit of copy/paste to save time. Here is an animated layer by layer of a ‘computer module’ found on one of the panels.
The talented folks at Ferguson Design in Charlotte are constructing the booth, which will include large over size gears and a working door. The final booth should look something like this.
More details on some of the panels. click the image to see it larger
More images of the actual booth will be coming soon. The panels are being printed this afternoon.
Rudy @ March 11, 2010 8:06 pm
Done for a project Chase is working on. Inspired by Monsters INC. Pencils and inks.
Rudy @ March 10, 2010 11:31 am
Well — here is a cool new drawing application. I admire the creation of the code. These were done in about 20 seconds. Artsy. I heard some prominent photographers speaking once on the topic of digital photography. While they could appreciate the steps being taken in new directions concerning their medium — they were also discouraged by the proliferation of bad photography simply because the process had become much easier and quicker. Slowly but surely the need to actually think about composition, value, hue, repetition, development of skill and technique, etc. — the soul of an artwork, prior to snapping the shutter– was disappearing. The resulting creative process was this: take a thousand photos — one of them must be good. Everybody can do it. I am by no means implying that the dedicated artist, one that thinks and sees and works with patience is on the verge of extinction just because of technological advancement in the arts. I am simply advocating critical thought when it comes to handing out acclaim. Am I the inventive artist of the images above? Or did i just scratch out some lines and let the code do the rest. There are so many more thoughts that go along with this topic — too many to write out here. I can even see some areas wherein i wish to argue with myself. Regardless — discuss.
Application in question: Harmony
