Minimalist Superhero Posters

I've seen various minimalist posters doing the rounds, covering classic book, disney films at many more. This series has made me smile, another super hero theme for the blog. The posters have been designed by student Calvin Lin & are available to buy. It highlights how iconic are favourite super hero's are. I've posted 3 of my favourites above, I think the Batman one is really clever. Great work! 

Images taken from Hi Consumption

Game of Thrones

Image from Art of the Title

Image from Art of the Title

Image from Art of the Title

Image from Art of the Title

I was a bit of a couch potatoe over the weekend and watched the entire first series of Game of Thrones. I loved it and have become addicted to the second series. I thought I'd share with you the amazing title sequence, its a magical animation/render that tells the story of the different lands within the programme, with each new episode the map expands. If you like the sound of it why not watch it here, enjoy.

The Fox is Black

Logo from the website

The Fox is Black is a design led blog which covers everything from Graphic Design & Animation to Office Space, inspirational people and Product Design. Definately one for a god daily read.

To Do List

Meet More People - Stop being an unsocialable hermit

Travel More - Definatley

Take a Class - I could think of a few inspiring ones

These images are from a beautiful 2 min animation by Motion & Graphic Designer Yaniv Friedman. The short video called "To Do List" highlights all of the things that we should or shouldn't be doing to live a more rewarding & inspired life, I may have to take him up on some of the points - especially "Travel More". I couldn't embed the video so click here to see it on Vimeo.

James Gulliver Hancock

Prize Winning Pies by James Gulliver Hancock

All the Buildings in New York by James Gulliver Hancock

Josh Pyke Only Sparrows by James Gulliver Hancock

 I keep spotting illustrations by James Gulliver Hancock around the web and I really like his style, I love pen & inky drawings with quirky lines and hand drawn style fonts. He brings a lot of character to simple things like maps, its like jumping into a Mary Poppins map. He is really versatile too and covers areas such as typography, advertising, animation & exhibitions to name a few, you can even buy his prints. Wouldn't mind one of them hung on my wall. 

The Puppet Master

I love a bit of culture mid week and so I took myself of to Creative Calderdale in Halifax on Wednesday night to listen to Barry Purves talk about his Stop Frame Animation (SFA). I didn't know who he was until I saw the talk advertised and I'm really pleased that I went along. 

Barry showed us a selection of his work from over the last 20 years, explaining the detail, time & cost that goes into a short SFA. The image above is from a recent piece called Tchaikovsky, a 13 minute film about the life & music of the Russian. Below is called Next, a 5 min animation showcasing all of William Shakespeare work. Watch the film here. 

Barry is clearly very passionate about Stop Frame Animation and he brings his puppets to life no matter how small the budget. He talked about the craft of SFA compared to CGI and computer generated animation and how animators shouldn't forget the skill and quality of SFA. He teaches now and a few of his key tips are; Learn how to tell a story, learn how a character performs and then apply the technical detail, you have to feel the emotion and feelings of the characters to get the most from them. I hope you enjoy the animations (a couple are a bit rude).