DENNY KHURNIAWAN.

Denny Khurniawan is a student currently at the Art Center College of Design in sunny Californian. His work uses lighting and exciting angles to a dead professional standard to create tension and angst  in his pieces. I love how he mixes 2d as well as 3d together make juxtaposed compositions. He's worked with Dart on the Yuki 7 : Femme Fetale book and captures emotion of the characters used so effortlessly.

 

A KISS FROM TOKYO.

Pretty interesting interview with Kevin Dart about A Kiss From Tokyo.

http://www.artofthetitle.com/2009/07/13/a-kiss-from-tokyo/

FUTURE AMBITIONS.

Recently I've been getting pretty excited by a lot of animations and massively curious about how they've been made. After looking into process a bit more it seems that most of them have used AfterEffects and hand drawn elements. Ideally over summer I'd like to get stuck into making a short animation or ever a few depending on how smooth things go. Below are a few that have really tickled my pickle.


"A Kiss From Tokyo" Theatrical trailer from Stephane coedel on Vimeo.

A Kiss From Tokyo - Kevin Dart
I'm a massive fan of Dart's illustrations anyway so to see them moving is even better.


Between Bears from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.

Between Bears - Eran Hilleli
Winner of best animation award at Vimeo's first film festival, amazing use of music and characters.

MIKE GIANT.

Absolute inspiration and idol.


Neighbors: Mike Giant (Trailer) from Agency Charlie on Vimeo.

DANIEL DANGER.PART 2.

A massive influence for my current work concerning the children's illustration book is Daniel Danger as I've mentioned before. I wanted to ideally screen print my finished pieces and found a set of very helpful photomographs and video showing how Danger makes his textured and luminous backgrounds. I presumed it was all done digitally but take a look at the vid at the bottom and you'll see differently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuSs_LUgBqI&feature=player_embedded

DANIEL DANGER.

Recently stumbled across Daniel Danger on a blogg and pretty much fell in love with him and his work. His work seems to represent a love for graphic novels, comics and video games taking the dark subject matter and drawing styles and throwing them into his own masterpieces. They work really well as individual pieces as well as part of short narratives. I'm a massive fan of printing one outline layer on top of a background built up of tone creating depth quite simply. I've done some previous work like this before when screen printing and really enjoyed the working process.I presume he uses pen and ink and then subsequently screen printed it himself but recently it seems people are managing to create hand drawn looking work digitally and making a good job of it. I'd rather stick to using wet media. After checking his work out I think I might go back to basics and dig out my old nib pen and have a go scribbling with it again and see how that works out.

KEVIN DART.

 After talking to a fellow designer about the amazingly talented Matthew Lyons (who I've posted about many times before) he recommended that I checked out Kevin Dart. After doing a little research into Dart I've come to find that he is in fact a huge influence of Lyons and its quite evident in his work. I've chosen a few of my favorite pieces from his site but most are from a series of images from Sym-Bionic Titan which have been done insanely well and work for the 2008 Bejing Olympics. They all generally mind me of highly polished concept art for sci-fi/thriller esq films but when they look better then the film does. His work is an absolute inspiration and really spurred me to experiment more with compositions and lighting.

 

 This is the final for the Bejing Olympics by Dart and Lukasz Pazera can be seen here!

OLLY MOSS.

British poster artist Olly Moss share my stupidly huge geeky love for Star Wars and shows it here in a trio of  insanely well thought about posters he created for collectible art house Mondo. The posters made up of various vehicles, landscapes and characters form the original trilogy cleverly make up well know faces from the film.  The subtle colour use complements themes in each  of the film incredibly well and the slight textured shapes add a real feel of the process used and give it tons of character. If I had the money I'd definitely snatch these up without thinking twice.