analog artistry : Brian Dettmer

I've always been fascinated with the familiar made unfamiliar. Contextualization shredded and reformed.

Perhaps why I've always been interested in the works of Magritte.

And why Dettmer's works
really caught my attention.

Brian Dettmer is an artist whose work consists of altering existing media, such as books, audio tapes etc.

notebookism : a little bit of analog

As much as I love the digital medium I still hark back to the pen, pencil
and paper.
The summation pretty much says it all:

We all share a pleasant affliction - the urge to create on paper.

The smell of smooth creamy paper sends our hearts aflutter. The delicate tinkling of nib against inkwell accelerates our pulse rate. We stare endlessly at the first blank page.

You can find a link to the blog here.

Cartoon Art Museum

The Cartoon Art Museum is committed to fostering and promoting a greater appreciation of cartoon art.
This it achieves through collecting, cataloging, preserving and displaying the finest representations of original cartoon art as well as providing innovative educational programs designed to enrich the cultural life of our community.

Check out the site here.

SIGGRAPH 2007 papers

a link to all those presented at this year's conference

Page maintained by Ke-Sen Huang and Tim Rowley.

Internship :: Wrigley comp (cu)

 

A close-up view of the Wrigley comp.

Internship :: some early work

 

Notes:

The top piece is still a work in progress at the present time.
The intent here was to put together a clean, simple print-ready ad to showcase
certain technical capabilities of the studio.
My responsibilities : modeling and texturing the Vox bottle

The lower piece is a completed comp made for Wrigley. The illustration-like
style lends to its surreal, candy-like atmosphere.
My responsibilities : modeling and texturing the Wrigley brand candies

animation treasures : background composites from classic animation

animation treasures blog

One person's obsessively meticulous reconstruction of backgrounds from classic
cell animation pieces.

Beautiful stuff.

some great mental ray tips and tricks

Zap's tip site

LAmrUG :: LA Mental Ray User's Group - the mother of all sites