Not new, this. But i hadn’t seen it and i just did and it was smashing and i love Air. It reminds me off old sesame street (y’know, the pinball…12345, 6 7 8 9 10, eleven twelve) it also reminds me of the Yellow Submarine Beatles animation and Rene Laloux. Enjoy.

Hajime Sorayama is amazing!!! Fact!!!! and slightly perverted!!!! Jokes!!! No, but really… he is a little perverted.
Hajime is obviously famous for his ‘Sexy Robot’ series from the 70′s, for which the term was coined for, but i didn’t want to put those images here as they are widely distributed on the net, as are these above, but slightly lesser known images. The guy is straight up amazing at figure drawing yes, but even more amazing at drawing women…c’mon…these women are amazing and the painting beautiful…pure male fantasy, but so realistic looking they could be photographs…true talent at work…if a little perverted. In saying that though, to be truly honest, if i could draw and paint like Hajime i’d be painting sexy women all day too, in fact its one of my aspirations, to be able to draw women like this, not necassarily with all the bits hanging out and stuff but…there is a definite lineage back to the old illustrators of the 40′s, 50′s and 60′s here where illustrations of beautiful women were in all the magazines and advertising and this is part of what i love about that style and what i think has somewhat influenced our man above…that and sci-fi porn.

Belief Design – Chain Reaction from Alex Fuerst on Vimeo.

This may be said a lot at the moment and i’m sure these images will pop up a lot too but there is no denying how much we designers/illustrators and certainly any of those of us who’ve done any concept illustration, owe to Ralph Mcquarrie.

To have even been involved at an even miniscule level in what was to become Star Wars (in fact this goes for numerous film projects that RM was involved in) would have been every boys dream in the 70′s/80′s, but to have come up with the concept look for iconic characters such as Darth Vader is pure genius.
Lets give him a round of applause boys and girls (probably a few more boys) nerds and geeks for a life that helped make our lives, certainly mine, more enjoyable and more full of exciting and imaginitive images that are positively burned into our memories and imagination.
May the force be with him (ahem).

This is my favourite poster of 2011…created by Tom Hodge(AKA Dude Designs).
There is so much to love about this poster…i love the Art Nouveau decorative elements that frame the illustration and kind of flow into the image of the ghost bride and he has the two main characters spot on.
The Balance in the imagery is great and the typography is really nice to adding to that turn of the century vibe that gives you a little insight into some of the elements involved in the story, along with the ghostly bride…which doesn’t really give anything away because this is part of the story you find out from the beginning of the film.
The film though, is so much scarier than this poster gets across, there truly are some creepy moments in the film and i guess the fact that the poster doesn’t include all those moments could be seen as a good thing, though i do think the poster comes across as a little…i suppose teenage friendly is the right word…more the Goonies than the Crazies…but that doesn’t take away the fact that this is an awesome poster.
Whats also great is the poster does invoke those posters from the eighties for films such as the Goonies, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones and the… etc, so i guess its pretty Drew Struzan in style which is so a good thing cos if i was a kid of today this is exactly the kind of movie i would be smuggling into the house to watch when my parents were in bed instantly putting it into the ‘classic cult’ movie category along with its poster, which also puts it into the Evil Dead, Night of the Living Dead and the general batch of awesome horror movies from the eighties that i used to watch unbeknownst to my Mum & Dad.
But the thing about all those old horror movies that got me excited to see them in the first place was seeing the artwork for the posters or video covers first and thinking they just looked so cool and scary…just from the artwork…and thats the power of the art right there…and truth be told, sometimes the artwork was better than the films.
In this case (The Innkeepers) the poster fed my desire to see it and the film didn’t let me down either so you get both…which makes a change.

Can’t wait for this movie. Looks really cool. Don’t know much about the director but he has an eye for making shit look cool, reminds me of 2001, Dario Argento, Alien, you know what i mean. Looks good though eh!?!?!
Lets not forget the poster…can’t seem to find the designer but its a wicked poster…love the red and pink colour palette and whoever designed it caught the whole 80′s poster/video cover vibe extremely well. I haven’t seen the movie yet so i can’t comment on the way the poster illustrates the plot of the film but i’ve heard rumours that it misses the mark by a mile…still…style wise i love it.

Making of…

Making Of “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Titles from Motionographer on Vimeo.

Contact Sheet.

“Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Contact Sheet from Motionographer on Vimeo.

Really cool title sequence from the guys at Blur Studio.
Its really cool that the studio have also released the making of video and a video contact sheet, both show how much hard and undoubtedly brilliant work on all fronts went into this amazing sequence.
It seems the guys at Blur are more known for their work on the games side of design so its cool to see them breaking into other areas…i look forward to seeing more of their titles stuff.
This is apparently an illustrative motion piece based on the mind of Lisbeth Sander…i haven’t seen the movie yet but if its as good as the title sequence then i’m gonna love it.
I love the use of liquid in this piece.
Lets not forget the wicked version of ‘Immigrant Song’ by Trent Reznor and Karen O either…awesome.

“(…) the film is based on the idea that there is an underlying unchanging synchronisation at the centre of everything; a sync that was decided at the very beginning of time. Everything follows from it, everything is ruled by it: all time, all physics, all life. And all animation.” (Max Hattler)

Now the other reason i painted the monster in this way is because i wanted those who had seen the film to question what it is the monster is reaching out for…is it reaching out to Kill, to save a life?, to touch life, for friendship…i chose , which was intentional, an iconic image of boris as the monster as reference for the face, as i feel that image was quite expressionless so the viewer can project his or her own emotional imagery upon it, so as to capture that…terrible innocence…like that of a child (which in many ways, at first, the monster is) innocent and emotionally driven. I also wanted the image to engage with the viewer which is why i tried to force the perspective slightly and have him almost reaching out beyond the confines of the poster to ask of those who had seen the film the very questions above and for those who have not seen it and are not aware of the story to perhaps feel a little frightened by the image.
It was hard to get the balance of these elements right but i think i managed…it seems and looks like a simple image but i thought about it a lot.
The typeface is a modern serif and in line with what i thought should be the font, i did not want a typeface that had metal and all sorts on it…it seemed wrong here.
My aim, at the beginning, just to illustrate the process, was to create a poster that was more illustrative in terms of showing certain scenes from the movie…but i thought it started to become a bit style over substance and my loyalty to both the story and the film pushed my in another direction
This design (the monster) was digitally painted.

1982
Awesome!!!!!
Oh my…this is classic…i aspire to this kind of work!!!! Haha!!!
Actually, this falls into the category of being so shit its great!!!
I think i see the guy from the warriors in there too!!!
I love the guy in the army gear and helmets face…he’s thinking exactly the same as you and i!!!
I want a silver jumpsuit just like this.