Saturday, February 18, 2012

Artist Profile #26: Avner Geller


Avner Geller is a recent Ringling grad, and has an amazing sense of style to his work.
His caricatures of figures are so expressive, interesting, and fun to look at!

His short film, Defective Detective (co-directed by another very talented illustrator, Stevie Lewis),
is a real treat to watch as well!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Artist Profile #25: Cory Loftis


Cory Loftis is a visual development artist at Walt Disney Animation.

A good illustration
(among many other things... but for the purpose of this post...)
hopefully, has a good balance of the following:
1) story
2) design
3) character
4) appeal

Cory's stuff has all of these!
There's a clear story, his design is exaggerated in all the right places,
the scenes are dripping with character,
and his appeal is unbelievably..... appealing!

Enjoy!

Meeting Minutes: February 10, 2012

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Meeting Minutes: February 3, 2012

Artist Profile #24: Matt Jones


Matt Jones is a story artist, and has worked for Disney, Pixar, and Sony on various projects.
Currently he's working on Pete Docter's (Monsters, Inc., Up) new "Mind" project.
(very exciting!) 
He's also worked on Arthur Christmas and A Monster in Paris.

What I love most about his sketches is how he captures San Francisco.
As artists, everything we put to paper is about our individual choices. So, more than likely you can see the artist in the art. And, to me, Matt's lines capture the city beautifully. They genuinely show the charm, complexity, and life that this city has.

Matt has such a clever way of capturing city scenes with only a marker.
That same cleverness is extremely apparent in his gesture drawings. Look at how much character and story is infused in such simple and fast scribblings.

And if his stuff looks like Ronald Searle, it's probably because Matt is a super fan of Mr. Searle's.
Check out his fan site here.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Artist Profile #23: Goro Fujita


This is Goro Fujita. He's a visual development artist at Dreamworks.
His illustrations are so playful, and full of character and color.
Plus, the color scripts he did for Megamind are amazing!