Yesterday I did not present you with a doodle, so to make up for it, here’s a giant doodle with lots of portraits, all taken from Firefly, one of the best sci-fi shows ever.
I’m kinda new to this marker medium, so all I do with it is pretty much sketching around, trying to grasp the workflow. These doodles are far from good, technically speaking, but I’ll just keep drawing…
A great week it has been. Lots of stuff has been done. I hope to upload the finished result of the last shot I made last week and a WIP of a new one I’m currently working on. In the meantime, here are a few things I found out about during this week that I would like to share with the rest of the world. You have here 2 trailers for horror flicks, some design work, some animation and more!
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Parkour Motion I love parkour. You must have a combination of superb physical strength and you must know how to use it to move around in an urban environment. And this little video brings another thing I love into this mix, which is animation, of course.
The Marionette Unit
A trailer for an upcoming Victorian sci-fi, or steampunk, horror movie. Check out the awesome website to see some artwork here.
Vladimir Rachev
Vladimir is a fantastic designer. I got to know him from a Kitsune Noir post from earlier this week. Vladimir does a lot of interior, industrial and graphic design, and shows a lot of stuff on his website. His works are usually minimalistic and have a very clean design. He likes to take one product and mix it with a design of another, which creates some interesting ideas (i.e. the shaver in the shape of the desk lamp below).
I love his website because it reflects his minimalist design.
City of Darkness
I found this article on Design Observer about Kowloon Walled City, and it immediately sparkled my imagination. This strange city block in the middle of Hong Kong was about 33m^2 big, and it was mostly made out of slums, apartments and garbage stacked together. It was a dense settlement under the control of Triads. There were about 33,000 people living in it back in 1987, right before the government decided to tear the place down. I can sum this place up by saying it was a low-life city within a city taken straight out of a cyberpunk story, only without the sci-fi hi-tech stuff. Once I get a few days with some spare time I really want to make some drawings, or even 3D scenes inspired by this magnificent place.
The Walled City is described in the book City of Darkness by Ian Lambot.
New trailer for Tony
Thanks to sites like Quiet Earth, I’m able to stay up to date with all the upcoming horror movies. One of them is Tony, a serial killer horror flick. There were a few teasers a couple of weeks ago, but now there’s a trailer. I don’t know why, but he really reminds me of a pissed off version of Kip (from Napoleon dynamite). I guess it’s the weird hair and big glasses. Anyway, check it out. Sweet stuff.
Opening title for a Tel Aviv documentary
The opening sequence for Tel Aviv Jaffa documentary series celebrating the 100th anniversary of the city. It’s a beautiful presentation of a miniature of the city inside a room (or a gallery). The windows outside show a typical Tel Aviv architecture, so it makes you realize you watch the entire city from inside the city, and both the miniature and the real world share the same sun coming from the windows. In this video you can see important locations in the city, like the fisrt kiosk in the city located on Rothchild blvd., Dizengoff Square and Azrieli Towers.
Angst I’ll finish with another short by Emiel Penders. I just love the animation and the mood here.
This was, strangely, quite an uneventful week, yet I have been really busy, so I’m only sharing two links with you this weekend. Enjoy!
LHC amazing photo gallery
Check out this awesome collection of photos taken at the LHC site. They have such a sci-fi look to them. It’s really inspirational.
Cars: Unifentified Flying Mater
Directed by Pixar’s John Lasseter, this is the 5th in the series of Cars shorts. Check it out, it’s pretty cool.
