October 17, 2011 - Comments Off on Messages and Morsels

Messages and Morsels

Many Monday meetings means many Monday sketches (is there a synonym for doodle that starts with an 'M'? Alliteration is key here).

How would a fish wear flip flops?

Many interesting finds to share from over the weekend. For our inspiring line art of the week I bring you the intriguing work of Andrew Zbihlyj. His inky works should be familiar to anyone who has read a major magazine in the past few years. What is truly interesting about his work is the combination of the unfinished pure black ink lying in direct contrast to the chosen sections of detail. The abstract ink hints at motion, form and structure while the detailed faces and characters within these monochrome microcosms give us reason to pause, linger and digest the work as a whole. I would love to see him attempt more colored, filled out works as opposed to these fantastic sparsely dense works.

House of Cards

On the tech side this great little tool will help you move into the CSS3 era with ease by simplifying and consolidating all those annoying new prefixes due to all the different browser standards/capabilities out there. It's called PrefixFree and looks to be very hand. Smashing Magazine did a great little intro article.

And lastly, for our inspiring video of the weekend we have this beautiful animation for Twining's Tea of all things. However the animation itself is simply gorgeous. It reminds me of those great United Airlines ads that looked to be paper-cut animation mixed with digital. However this takes 3D animation in a direction I thought was nigh impossible. The entire thing is almost a watercolor or pastel drawing. Simply amazing. I'm willing to bet some of the elements (the white caps on the waves, the birds and other subtle beautiful water effects) were done in 2D by hand and comped in. Regardless, this will take your breath away (watch in HD!).

Published by: benchirlin in The Sketching Mechanism

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