Photo of the Day - Untitled

http://vanderbeat.tumblr.com/, a photo by van derbeat on Flickr.

Polaroid Puke

Polaroid Puke, a photo by ChrisKoelsch on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
www.threadless.com/submission/381580/Polaroid_Puke

Created in Adobe Illustrator

Silence Television - Gianmarco Magnani

The work Silence Television by Gianmarco Magnani contains some amazingly detailed and realistic illustrations. The work is clean and professional. Visit the site here to see more and buy prints.

Ant Baena

I recently posted a design from Ant Baena without even knowing it (the CUNT one).  Now that I know who Ant is, I can honestly say he has some other great work on his site. Check it out here.

Monster Bash

I have always followed Grey Scale Gorilla's 5 Second Project but have never entered. Well I finally got around to finishing something for the contest.  This time the theme was "Monster Bash". Initially I had a few different ideas but I ended on creating an 8-bit video game end screen with a few dancing characters

After I was animating the video game screen I began to realize that it just wasn't enough. I then began the project of creating an entire arcade scene in Adobe Illustrator to house this little animation.

It may not seem like much and in the animation you only see it for 2 seconds but the background took the longest to make. Mostly because I created everything from scratch. Although it took a long time I had fun putting all the details into it, like creating the Monster Bash logo for my game:

In the end I put it all together in After Effects, added some ambiance with lights and music and voila:

Photo of the Day - Untitled

Untitled, a photo by William's Wish Wellingtons on Flickr.

Future

I created this piece for the Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration contest. I truly love mixing the old with the new. Space Angel was created in 1962 but in an amazing way I think their view of the future is not far off. One of war and games.
Footage taken from Space Angel
Music by State Shirt

Photo of the Day - Untitled

Untitled, a photo by marcoandresargüello on Flickr.

My New Magnet

The Rocktopuss

One of the really fun things about my place of work is that every new hire gets a portrait that is hung on our giant family tree wall.  Since my buddy, Dave,  just got hired I volunteered to do his portrait. This piece was inspired by Dave's air guitar persona, The Rocktopuss. I was really happy with how it turned out seeing as how I procrastinated and didn't start actually illustrating until the night before it was due. I think it has a band poster quality to it that really pushes the idea of his musicality even more.

Matthew Hollister

Found some very interesting work from Matthew Hollister. His work has a simplicity and bluntness about it that I really appreciate. Check out his site here.

Photo of the Day - monday night

monday night, a photo by Lisa Stang on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
onthewallphoto.blogspot.com/

And Then There's This

I really love the design for the cover of this book, And Then There's This. I think a design style like this could go far in animation....just a thought anyways.

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

Yet another Threadless submission. This one for the "create your favorite t-shirt contest". I mean seriously? You might as well not even make a theme. I would try to think my way out of tight constraints than have as broad a topic as this. Anyway I decided to not over think this one. I wanted to use the blob brush in Illustrator and sketch directly to the final design. No pre thought, just what my mind thinks of in the moment. In the end it created a pretty cool eye spy design and the more you look at it the more you find. Vote for it here.

Bowling Night

I was recently recruited to a bowling team with some of my friends on Monday night at the Interstate Lanes in Rossford, Ohio.  I'm sure you can picture its beauty already.  Tonight was team picture night and I decided to do it right. You can see all the photos on my flickr, but here are my favorites.

Photo Composed by Lisa Stang

Making of the "Holy Flying Circus" Title Sequence - A Rather Large Phonotrope

Some serious craftsmanship and time went into the making of this piece and it truly shows in the end result.

Danton Diphthong: Episode 1

This is an amazing piece of animatic awesome cartoon crazy times by Alex Varanese. Just watch the video and you'll get what I mean.

In Case of Emergency, Call Thor Part 2

Recently I posted a picture of an emergency exit label that I saw on a train. Needless to say, it inspired me to put my own spin on it. Below is the result. Check it out and vote for it on threadless here.

In Case of Emergency, Call Thor

Social Animals

Karsh\Hagan cre­ated Social Animals to help their client, American Crew, make the most of its redesigned social pages. The book out­lines time­lines, tone of voice, and best prac­tices for inter­act­ing on sites like YouTube, Flickr, Twitter and Facebook. I love this book for so many reasons. I love the clean design and the iconography that has grown so recognizable to our society.  I also really enjoy the layout of the book; the first page is a title in large bold letters and the second page dives deeper into the issue using infographics and icons.