Mindfock » Art http://blog.mindfock.com Flash and ActionScript for the masses. With a little Python thrown in. Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:07:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Art of Pixar http://blog.mindfock.com/the-art-of-pixar/ http://blog.mindfock.com/the-art-of-pixar/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:21:04 +0000 John del Rosario http://blog.mindfock.com/?p=53 I happened on this site today. It is a ” fan-curated gallery” of all of Pixar’s publicly available conecpt artwork. It’s not very extensive right now, but it still is a great source of inspiration.

The Art of Pixar

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Today is 6-7-08, the day selected by some people as Drawing Day. The people on the site want to reach 1,000,000 drawings online, and I would love to be a part of that. I have marked this day on my calendar, but somehow I forgot about it and I haven’t drawn anything! But no worries, the day isn’t over yet and they say it might go on for at least a week, and besides, it still isn’t June 7th on the other side of the world. ;-)
So, if you haven’t yet, start drawing and upload it on anything, anywhere! I’ll porbably post it on this blog, and my DeviantArt account too.
Happy Drawing Day everyone!

On a completely unrelated side-note, I’ll be changing themes often over the next few days until I find one I really like, so expect  some changes.

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I’ll be out for a few days on vacation again, so here’s something that might keep things interesting around here.

Have you ever wondered how those O’Reilly books got their covers? How did they choose the animal for a specific book? Why did they even choose animals in the first place?

Their website posted an article answering those questions, with a step-by-step image on creating one of the animals (a pelican).

Read the article.

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to be good at it, practiced creating some abrigrams for friends, and
designing stuff using free fonts, but I failed at it. So I decided to
just drool over some of the work other people have done.

Here are links to some of the galleries, blogs and images of type that I just needed to share.

http://ilovetypography.com

Awesome title and awesome posts. A blog about typography (duh!). I check it out everyday.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

Another blog. But not just for typography. But their “Free Fonts of
the Month” posts are worth having a look at. And so are their other
posts. ;-)

http://www.typographykicksass.com/

Flash experimental site where you type in text, and it gathers type
images from Flickr and displays the text using those images. Really
kicks ass.

And now for a some images:

Comic Sans town map by denzmixed from deviantart.

That’s Comic Sans by the way.. COMIC SANS! There are more nice typography images in his deviantart page.

Spam one-liners Flickr gallery

Awesome idea about using spam email titles for art. Genius!

Ambigrams

Back in highschool, I was addicted to ambigrams. I lost all my links
to galleries of it though, but I still remember two of my favorites.

John Langdon’s gallery

Punya Mishra’s wordplay gallery

Trivia: The main character from “The Da Vinci Code” was ‘based’ on
John Langdon. He made all the ambigrams of the other not-so-famous
book, “Angels and Demons” by the same author. Check out his gallery for
those ambigrams. They will fock your mind. -P

And last but not least, kinetic typography. My favorite of the bunch.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syf8olcM0z4&hl=en]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7WQGrZUdb0]

Just search for ‘typography’ on YouTube and you will be in Kinetic Type heaven.

Well, that’s it for this post. I have a LOT more to show you guys,
especially in the kinetic typography front, but I need to sleep. Hope
you enjoy this post.

EDIT: I almost forgot! Dropclock. Free screensaver for Windows and Mac OSX.

Check out this demo video.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoZmBjaFWto&hl=ja]

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