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Best Use of Exploitative Tactics by Curtis Baigent and Sean Dekkers. Never has animated fruit been so, er, uh, evocative.

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Enjoy this short promo for yesterday’s Challenge Your World event in Montreal. Created by Yann Benedi and Céline Desrumaux, I like the combination of 2D and 3D techniques, and the nod to An Inconvenient Truth.

Check out Céline’s blog for some process drawings.

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Designer and illustrator Ty Wilkins (founder of Type Theory) has a small (but hopefully growing) collection of animal illustrations made up of a nice mix of vector shapes and hand-painted textures.

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One of the most eye-catching books in the bookstore this season is The Red Shoes [Amazon Link] – illustrated by Sun Young Yoo. The book is a re-telling of the classic Andersen fairy tail with lush linework. It’s dark illustrations evoke Edward Gorey with a touch of Manhwa (Korean comics). Definitely check it out if you can.

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Totally check out these amazing drumskin paintings by Aimée van Drimmelen. And Etsy shop!

Here’s another…

Before you watch this insane music video by Jérémie Perin, note that is totally not safe for work. Its video-game inspired animation contains pixellated 8-bit depictions of both sex and pooping. The YouTube description reads “Think Spielberg’s Duel + Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat Kill Kill! and Marc Dorcel’s wildest fantasies.”

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Wonderful little visual essay by Christoph Niemann in the NY Times using only leaves to illustrate his ideas.

via Kottke

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Back in 2005 John Martz posted the work of Brian Despain. Johnny loves robots and lamented that there wasn’t more of Despain’s robot artwork available. Well now there is! Despain has a current exhibition at the Roq La Rue Gallery (with John Brophy) running until Dec. 5, 2009.

… and now you can even watch the artist explain why he loves to paint robots:

Brian Despain’s website

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Another awesome animated music video from Montrealers, Fluorescent Hill (Previously on Drawn). Slick, highly stylized, fun + Tom Waits as a toxic cloud tormenting an urban landscape.

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A convincing argument that the Trajan font has somehow come to dominate movie posters of the world.

Also see: Helvetica is the movie font.

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Congratulations to Janice Nadeau, the wonderful Montreal artist who just won a Canadian Governor General’s Literary Award for her illustrations in the children’s book, Harvey.

I am loving the simple, abstracted and almost screen-printed look of the work of Jean-Manuel Duvivier. Be sure to also check out his horoscope and mythology series:

I am probably late to the game when it comes to sharing these, but Cheeming Boey’s Sharpie and Coffee Cup art is just great. Who needs fancy art supplies? Here’s how he does it:

And if you seen the cups, but haven’t been to his website to read his cute little journal comics, you are missing out:

Animator Mike Scott sends in this ridiculously fun music video he created for the Capetown, South Africa band Goldfish and their song Fort Knox. Made using Photoshop, Anime Studio Pro, and Final Cut.

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The combination of silliness and simplicity of Luke Butler’s series of Star Trek paintings, Enterprise, is right up my alley. His paintings seem to capture both the campiness and the pure spirit of adventure of the original series.

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Continuing with the Gobelins animation (which I’m sad to say I’ve only now heard of!) comes this little gem from four students. It’s 3-D, but made to look as if it weren’t– and it really succeeds. I want to make every person working on 3-D blockbuster movies watch this. It doesn’t have to look like Shrek or Madagascar or any of those other copy-cats!

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The latest short to come out of the Gobelins animation school is The Lighthouse Keeper, and it is stunning. So much suspense and beauty is packed into this three minutes of traditional 2D animation.

It’s the work of Gaëlle Thierry, Jérémie Moreau, Rony Hotin, Baptiste Rogron, Maïlys Vallade, and David François.

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Chris Appelhans has posted some lovely concept art for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. So great!

And if you missed it, check out my interview with Fantastic Mr. Fox storyboard artist Christian De Vita.

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Expozine – Montreal’s greatest 2-day zine fair and one of our favourite art events is kickin it this weekend.

I can’t make it this year, but Drawn-editor and cartoonist John Martz will be there along with cartoonists, Aaron Costain, Billy Mavreas, Kate Beaton, and many more.

This year there will also be workshops and panel-discussions including Peggy Burns (Drawn & Quarterly) and Nadia Moss ...

A documentary about Ed Embereley and the impact of his book Make a World? Yes, please!

Ed Emberley’s books were an integral part of my creative childhood — and my creative adulthood. I can’t wait to see this: Ed Emberely’s Make a World: The Film.

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Heh.

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BlackYard is an illustration and design collective from Bern, Switzerland comprising Jared Muralt (whose work is shown here), Silvio Brügger, Philipp Thöni, and Christian Calame.

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Watch Chris Piascik draw an improvised drawing from start to finish. Chris explains that these doodles start with him randomly scribbling out a loopy pattern and then filling it in. I’m quite impressed with the quality of production in this video; I’d love to see a whole series with all sorts of artists.

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In honour of Remembrance Day / Veterans Day, Rauch Brothers Animation has posted Germans in the Woods. The animated documentary illustrates a recording of WWII veteran Joseph Robertson who is haunted by the memory of killing a young German soldier during the Battle of the Buldge. The short was created with Photoshop, AfterEffects, and scanned pencil drawings.

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