This week, Justin Gerard is in Altoona, PA for IluXcon. In preparation, he’s done some new oil paintings. You can see the work in progress on his blog, but here’s one of the new finished pieces.
Justin and I will also be attending the first annual CTN Animation Expo next weekend in Burbank, CA. If you’re out there, come by and see us at half-booth 37. Justin will also do a live demonstration and a Q&A session. I think it’s going to be a great show all around.
I’m so glad I have an excuse to share this video. I represent Aaron Greene’s commercial photography, and he’s come up with a concept he calls Moving Portraits. He shared this video of his 2 year old daughter Lola this last week. I think it’s a wonderful and unique idea.
Of course, my real reason for sharing this is that Lola stole my heart the day she was born. I got to visit her in the hospital when she was just a few hours old. I’ll never forget her eyes…they were wide open.
Moving Portrait: LOLA from Aaron Greene on Vimeo.
Most illustration fans will probably be excited to see this interview. Bobby Chiu from Imaginism Studios has started to do live interviews with some great illustrators. This week, he interviewed Peter de Seve. Peter has worked on movies like The Prince of Egypt, Mulan, A Bug’s Life, and Ice Age.
It’s starts out a little slow because of some technical difficulties, but here it is:
Cory Godbey’s Terrible Yellow Eyes online gallery as well as the physical show at Gallery Nucleus is starting to gain some buzz. Here are a few links:
Campus Circle (The guy pictured isn’t Cory Godbey, but it’s still nice to see people picking up the story).
UPDATE 10/2/09:
Vice Magazine’s blog is featuring artwork inspired by Where the Wild Things Are, and a few days ago they featured Terrible Yellow Eyes. Spike Jones, the director of the upcoming film is the creative director for their online video website VBS.TV.
And now a true story from Chris Koelle:
I just got back from Los Angeles, where Gallery Nucleus is exhibiting a selection of original pieces from Terrible Yellow Eyes. It was a great venue, and a very impressive turn out. I heard several people who have attended many shows at Nucleus say it was one of the best they’ve seen.
For those of you who were unable to attend, there’s a great online gallery available here.
Three cheers for Maurice Sendak for providing the inspiration, for Gallery Nucleus for allowing more people to enjoy the work, and of course Cory Godbey for dreaming this thing up.
Here are more pictures from the show:
Chris and Annie Koelle are 1/3 of a unique show starting tomorrow through October 2nd. The Showroom in downtown Spartanburg, SC will be displaying artwork by three couples. It will definitely be worth a visit if you’re in the area, and the opening reception will be tomorrow night from 7 – 9 PM.
Some of the illustrators I work with were very busy on their blogs this week.
Justin Gerard has been doing a series called “Portraits of Monsters,” and this week he posted a gem. You can follow this series here on his blog.
Cory Godbey has been writing about his oil painting process, and he’s almost finished with this piece.
Zach Franzen’s blog is fun to read on a number of levels, but recently he posted this portrait of Abe Lincoln.
Also, don’t forget to check out Terrible Yellow Eyes today for Cory Godbey’s latest updates.
Over the last few years, Portland Studios has partnered with Ligonier Ministries on two picture books written by best-selling author R.C. Sproul. Both The Lightlings and Prince’s Poison Cup were illustrated by Justin Gerard.
Last year, Ligonier approached Portland Studios about creating an animated version of the two picture books. Taking artwork from a picture book and translating that into animation was an interesting challenge, but the end result is really nice. This style of animated, moving-pictures is becoming more and more common, so I think Ligonier is definitely on to something. You can see the trailers that Ligonier created below.
The main animator for this project was Danny McNight from Portland Studios. Zach Franzen also helped with storyboards and animation.
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