Creepy Yet Inspiring Character

The most creepy yet inspiring film character of my childhood was the Child Catcher from 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' (1968), played by the great Sir Robert Helpmann (1909-1986).

Another One Million Dollar Gift I Brought Home From Florence

My childhood's most, most, most favourite TV cartoon series was 'Vicky The Viking' ('Wickie und die starken Männer'). So, guess what Nemo Academy's art director Luca Chiarotti made me as a gift, last week? An animation drawing from the original 1970s production! Thank you so much Luca for this amazing piece of animation art. And a million thanks to Laura for having told Luca that I loved (and still love) this very series so much.

New Toys

Finally, the new workstation is set up. First warm-up sketch with the new toys...

One Million Dollar Gift

Uber-talented Disney artist Francesco Guerrini made me a one million dollar present in Florence during my workshop's lunch break, last Saturday. He presented me with two sheets full of original drawings of him. One sheet with Donald Duck all over it, the other one with beautiful versions of my own birds designs. I was really, really blown away. Francesco has no idea how big this is to me.

But Of Course...

I will again provide another Pixel art-battle piece for Pixel Vienna, this year. Here's the rough test sketch as an appetizer...

Another Four And A Half Weeks

This is just a little reminder that the Paperwalker show's still running for another four and a half weeks @ Kunsthaus Graz/Designforum Steiermark.

Batmen

Via (Thanks, Laura)

"This is Awesome!"

Small Plates: WATCH

As part of their Food issue, the New York Times Magazine sent six second graders from Brooklyn's PS 295 to dinner at Daniel, one of New York's fanciest restaurants. Each kid was served a seven-course tasting menu that goes for $220 a person.

Meet The Masters Workshop, Oct 18th, 2014

At Accademia Nemo's invitation I'll will return to Florence for a workshop @ Cinema Astra 2, next week. I'm so much looking forward to it: MEET THE MASTERS
(street view image © Google Maps)

InkTober: Speed Sketch

Two Rare Photographs Of Director Irvin Kershner On The Set Of 'The Empire Strikes Back'

Irvin Kershner (1923-2010), legendary director of the best of the Star Wars movies, 'The Empire Strikes Back'.

The Boxtrolls: Dressing For Success (Featurette)

Amazingly beautiful. No more, no less.

© LAIKA, Inc. World rights reserved.

Pixel Vienna Conference, November 7th-9th, 2014

Over the past few years, Pixel Vienna presented stunners like Robert Blalack, Mario Ucci, Eric Goldberg, Bruno Bozzetto, Oscar Grillo, Andreas Deja, Harald Siepermann, Jakob Schuh, Saschka Unseld, just to name a few.

This year, my pals Jose Lopez, Alex Orrelle and Andrei Riabovitchev will continue the grand animation and VFX talks feast, scheduled for November 7th - 9th, 2014, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna:
WWW.PIXELVIENNA.COM

(images © WB/MPC/DC/Desoluz Inc.)

Close-Up

InkTober 2014

Jake's InkTober became an international art phenomenon. These are my first attempts at "InkTober-ing" and I'm sure these will be not the last ones. WWW.INKTOBER.COM

#inktober

Inspiration: Saul Steinberg

Again and yet again, Saul Steinberg, sovereign. See also...

Drawing In Photoshop

Since I draw mostly digitally, I try to avoid the kind of sterile vibe to it by putting high-res photographs of real paper and pencils on a background layer in Photoshop, at least for the rough process. I even add image noise to the background...

Mordillo

I didn't blackmail him, in all honesty. I'm just heavily boasting here about that Mordillo had sent me a friend request on Facebook, completely out of the blue. And do you know what, I accepted :-)

"We're Nine Years Old Today" (Disneyland 1964)

This is an item which was given to cast members who were working on July 17th, 1964, Disneyland's ninth birthday. Plus instructions on the backside for placing the flower in. (via Stuff From The Park)

Paperwalker Journal's Most Favourite Reference/Inspirational Photos, Part 11

Tourists ride horses past a life-size Apatosaurus statue in Dinosaur Park, near Rapid City, South Dakota, c. 1955. (via)