Grain Edit (again)

http://grainedit.com/

Ok, for those of you interested in 50's style/contemporary illustration, if you haven't already had a look at this blog site then you are a fool...

Their latest addition looks like it would've been useful to a few people on the 1st year part at least but I just love how you can stumble across various artists and the use of illustration in different contexts here :)

to name but a few examples..... (these are just on the first page!).....

Natsko Seki:



Belgian Co-Op postage stamp:


The Natsko Seki piece was actually linked to this Russian animation too:

Fyodor Khitruk - "Boniface's Holiday"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paVe4e2lkwk

Ah Vienna

This nifty little app called Vienna is a great way to manage your ever increasing list of blogs, it indicates if there are new posts and you can view them within the app.

Geektastic

someone, somewhere, may be interested in this

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/14/government-high-street-shops-grants

check it out.

Paul Klee

Well you learn something new everyday I had no idea that Paul Klee had made hand puppets. They are weird, wonderful and full of character. For those of you who like making characters these would be lovely to draw from or maybe make your own!

P.S This book is in the library

PoseManiacs

Online digital life models... male and female...
the site can generate random poses ranging from sitting, standing, running etc and also from various angles (above, below etc). There's also a feature to randomly change the models every 10 seconds etc helping you work on sketching faster.

www.posemaniacs.com

Digital Magazines

These are often free arts magazines available to download straight from their sites, ive seen some already like BeDifferent, Candy, Blanket etc and they often contain a range of different styles/mediums.. thought people may like to know of these.. :)

(not all are in english :( sorry, and some arent Pdf. theyre actually exe launchable files, which means PC only but if youre unsure bout launching exe's then jsut don

http://www.bedifferent.it/english.html
http://www.ths.nu/beast/
http://www.blanketmagazine.com/
http://www.destructed.info/
http://www.etelmagazine.com/
http://www.proteusmag.com/
http://www.molokoplus-mag.com/eng/
http://lokidesign.net/2356/category/2356-issues/
http://bajigurkreatif.blogspot.com/
http://www.artzmania.com/
http://www.daheim-magazin.de/index.php?n=46e2a21f&edition=0014_SCHEITERN
http://komma-mannheim.de/?ausgaben
http://www.txtnein.com/
http://www.designandlife.com/
http://mis.vlepvnet.bzzz.net/
http://www.codemagazine.be/en/numerosparus.html

(some of these i found via another blog so i take no credit for them)

You never know, could get some inspiration for our own magazine ;)

Damian Gascoigne

Animator / Illustrator / Lecturer
This Friday at 1.30pm in Lecture Theatre B
Don't miss it.