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Graffiti
Fan Art
February
25th, 2008
Martin
Spiers, from the
UK,
has taken the art of "Insanely Twisted
Rabbits" to a whole new scale. Here's
the email he just sent me:
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Dear Michel,
Here
is some fan art for you. It was spray painted with spray cans. I
started it in December, but
due to bad weather here in the UK, "rain,
fog, snow, hail stones", I finished it today. I hope it puts a
smile on your face.
All the best,
Martin Spiers
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A
New Search Engine
February
18th, 2008
I'm
happy as a clam! I finally figured out how to integrate a search
engine within my website (see right panel). I'm using the one offered
by Google and
it works extremely well. I have well over five thousands html
pages on my website so it's great to have a tool to access all that
data.
Just
for fun, I tried doing a few searches such as "Prelude
to Eden", "Insanely
Twisted Rabbits", "Andrew
Scott", "Paintings", "Sculptures",
and was surprised by how much stuff came up.
New
Piece for Nemi Magazine
February
12th, 2008
I
guess the editor of Norway's popular Nemi Magazine were
happy with the
illustration I did for them over a year ago because last week,
they commissioned another one. The theme, this time around,
was
"Bees"!
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for larger view.
The
Art of Making Pixar's Ratatouille
February
4th,
2008
Here's
an email I received a few days ago. I thought I'd share it here.
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Friends
and Colleagues:
Brad Bird’s highly anticipated second effort for Pixar, Ratatouille,
opened wide on June 29, 2007 and was immediately embraced by kids,
parents and moviegoers alike as one of the best films of the year.
The film not only offered the finest in computer-rendered animation
but also featured a rather innovative screenplay. That original screenplay
and the film as an animated feature were both recently nominated for
Academy Awards®.
The Art of Making Pixar's Ratatouille is an online article that covers
the film.
It also features three full length interviews: one
with the film's director and writer Brad Bird, production designer
Harley Jessup and director of photography/lighting Sharon Calahan.
The article and interviews include exclusive art from
Disney/Pixar that include the storyboards from the famous fixing
the soup scene
and concept art from Michel Gagné.
Ron Barbagallo
Director, Animation Art Conservation
www.animationartconservation.com
