Davolio

Coming back from a beautiful time in Liguria I noticed on the train a tourist board Austrian (I think) magazine, most remarkable was that the back cover was almost empty apart from a small text on the bottom right corner. I could not resist filling it up with some sea snakes action!

Doctor Dolittle Title Sequence 1967

via the great Mid Century Modern Design blog

Erich Sokol

Info-graphics

London based illustrator Jing Zhang. The gorgeous illustrations are more poetic than informative, bearing the question how to design data in a visually captivating way and at the same time exploring the quality and associations to be made with the object/information in question.

'Come out'

Winter shivers, while waiting for the first kick...

Half time Break Drink

Stanley & Hardy

Short documentary on the surprising collaboration between, ehm...pretty self-explanatory....

Gun present

At Christmas I received a gun as a present...

Albert Hurter He drew as he pleased

I just discovered this beautiful book by Walt Disney artist Albert Hurter, he worked on Snow White amongst other brilliant creations. The book has been kindly shared by the excellent Michael Sporn Animation Studio, here is the link to part1, part 2, part 3 part 4, part 5, part 6 . Also worth checking out is the book by Ferdinand Horwath, another great Disney artist from the 1930's. There's enough inspiration here to keep you occupied for months.....

10 Storyboards

Selection of storyboards from big films across the years, here pictured is Saul Bass's sb for Psycho. Check out more storyboards here

Blade Runner Sketchbook

During the Christmas holidays the Bbc showed an excellent documentary on Blade Runner, and here is the sketchbook that compiles production work, also from Ridley Scott himself, a perfect compendium to a perfect film.

The Dazed brutality at the heart of Polansky's films

Excellent article from the Guardian's site about Polanski's BFI retrospective. Read it here

Intro scene to Basilio's observatory

First panel of my short graphic novel, title yet to be added.

Designs doc 'Poor us: an Animated History'

I have uploaded a compilation of my designs for the doc 'Poor us: an Animated History', produced by Submarine.nl and part of the Why Poverty series of documentaries.

Poor Us: An Animated History

In case you missed it on Dutch tv, here's the link to the documentary "Poor us: an animated history" I have collaborated (drawings above ready to be animated) shown last sunday on Vpro.

Part of the Why Poverty global event, the documentary mixes traditional animation, motion graphics and live action, this is a very inspiring project and I am delighted to have been part of.

The doc. will be broadcasted worldwide by 75 tv senders, amongst which BBC and ARTE.
Enjoy!