Artist of the Week #21. Glenn Anderson

Glenn Anderson is an established multidisciplinary artist and illustrator. His work spans large-scale murals and spaces through to illustrations, character design and commissions for a range of large to small clients.

The works below are various commissions for commercial clients and art galleries. Glenn's techniques include layering aerosol, acrylic, pens and all sorts of found and recycled materials to create dynamic art works.

Duck it's Donald! ... A year without Disney

Rather interestingly a US family has recently pledged to go an entire year without exposing themselves to the Disney corporation in any way. You might think Mickey and his pals would be easy to ignore if you looked the other way when passing the Disney store and making alternative cinema and gift buying decisions. However when you actually start realising just what pies the disney corporation has its white gloved hands in, you begin to realise that for a US family, this is going to cause some difficulty.

The exercise is being carried out by the family,  not because there is particular bad feeling towards Disney as an organisation, as ultimately they do provide hours of entertainment to many thousands of families and children and have created an enviable legacy. It is more a question of avoiding the automatic default to Disney, that is commmonplace in the US and asking the question, if I don't buy Disney, what are the choices?

There are real echoes of Dave Gorman's crusade to cross the US using only independent businesses. It didn't end in total success for dave! We wish the family all the best and hope Disney can struggle through without their investment next year..



To give you an idea we have listed some of the businesses, products and organisations that the Disney corporation is involved with.



Online
ABC.com
ABCNews.com
Abcsports.com
aetv.com *
biography.com  *
celebrityparents.com
clubpenguin.com
Disney.com
Disneychannel.com
disneyfairies.com
Disneyshopping.com
ESPN.com
ESPNdeportes.com
Family.com
Familyfun.com
Go Network
Go.com
historychannel.com  *
Historytravel.com  *
incrediblebabynames.com
iparenting.com
militaryhistory.com  *
NASCAR.com
NBA.com
NFL.com
Oscar.com
Playdom (2010)
Soccernet.co
thehistoryhcannelclub.com  *
Toysmart.com
Wondertime.com
www.disneysgamecafe.com
hulu.com *
Publishing
ABC Daytime Press
Cal Publishing Inc.
CrossGen
Disney Editions
Disney Global Children’s Books
Disney Libri
Disney Press
Disney Publishing Worldwide
ESPN Books
Global Continuity
Global Retail
Hyperion eBooks
Jump at the Sun
Marvel Comics
Michael di Caupa Books
Miramax Books
Theia
Volo

Magazines
Automotive Industries
Biography (with GE and Hearst)
Discover
Disney Adventures
Disney Magazine
ECN News
ESPN Magazine (distributed by Hearst)
Family Fun
Institutional Investor
JCK
Kodin
Top Famille – French family magazine
US Weekly *
Video Business
Quality
Wondertime Magazine

Music
Buena Vista Records
Disney Music Publishing Worldwide
Hollywood Records
Lyric Street Records
Walt Disney Records

Television
ABC Network

Stations
WLS – Chicago
WJRT – Flint
KFSN – Fresno
KTRK – Houston
KABC – Los Angeles
WABC – New York City
WPVI – Philadelphia
WTVD – Raleigh – Durham
KGO – San Francisco
WTVG – Toledo

Cable Stations
A&E *
A&E International *
ABC Family
Biography Channel *
Crime and Investigation Network *
Disney Channel
ESPN *
ESPN Classic *
ESPN2 *
ESPNEWS *
ESPNU *
History Channel *
Jetix Europe *
Jetix Latin America
Lifetime Movie Network *
Lifetime Network *
Lifetime Real Women *
Lifetime Real Women *
Military HistoryChannel *
SOAPnet    Cable
Toon Disney

Radio
ABC Radio
ESPN Radio (syndicated programming)
WDWD – Atlanta
WMVP – Chicago
WLS – Chicago
KESN – Dallas
KMKI – Dallas-Forth Worth
KRDY – San Antonio
WCOG – Greensboro, NC
WRDZ – Indianapolis
KABC – Los Angeles
KLOS – Los Angeles
KDIS – Los Angeles
KSPN – Los Angeles
KDIZ – Minneapolis – St. Paul
WKSH – Milwaukee, WI
WEVD – New York City
KDZR – Portland, OR
KWDZ – Salt Lake City
KIID – Sacramento
KMKY – Oakland
KQAM – Wichita
KKDZ – Seattle
WSDZ – St. Louis
WWMK – Cleveland
KMIK – Phoenix
KDDZ – Denver
WWMI – Tampa
KMIC – Houston
WMYM – Miami
WBWL – Jacksonville
WBYU – New Orleans
KDIS – Little Rock
WWJZ – Philadelphia
WWJZ – Philadelphia
WMKI – Boston
WDZK – Hartford
WDDZ – Providence
WDZY – Richmond
WGFY – Charlotte
WDYZ – Orlando
WMNE – West Palm Beach
WEAE – Pittsburgh
WDRD – Louisville
WDDY – Albany, NY
KPHN – Kansas City
WQUA – Mobile
WBML – Jacksonville
WFDF – Detroit
WFRO – Fremont, OH
WDMV – Damascus, MD
WHKT – Norfolk Radio Disney

Film
A&E IndieFilms
Buena Vista
Hollywood Pictures
Miramax Films
Pixar
Studio Ghibli (North American distributor)
Touchstone Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures

Parks
Disney Cruise Line
Disney Vacation Club
Disneyland Resort
Disneyland Resort Paris
Hong Kong Disneyland
Tokyo Disney Resort
Walt Disney Imagineering
Walt Disney World Resort

Miscellaneous
AETN Consumer products
Baby Einstein Company
Club Penguin
Disney Apparel, Accessories and Footwear
Disney Consumer Economics
Disney Food, Health and Beauty
Disney Home Furnishings and Decor
Disney Interactive Studios
Disney Live Family Entertainment
Disney on Ice
Disney Stationery
Disney Theatrical Productions
Disney Toys
ESPN Zone
Muppets Holding Company
Tapulous (2010)
The Disney Store
Walt Disney Internet Group

Olympics latest...

With 729 days to go, the olympic site in east London is coming along nicely:

The London 2012 Organising Committee is calling on the UK public to start planning their Games. I'm gonna do the 100 metres me. Followed by that gymnastics thing with a ball and maybe the one where you get a stick with a really long ribbon on the end.

SoVibrant Architecture and Design www.sovibrant.co.uk 

Artist of the Week # 20 James Clyne

James is the creative designer behind one of the biggest disaster movies since Independence Day. 2012 is a film based on the well known belief that  the world will end on the 21st of December 2012 due to the suns destructive force. With blockbuster films like Armageddon, Deep Impact and The Core. James had an extremely hard job to create an original environment of a dying world.

This isn't the first film James Clyne has had the privilege to work on. In fact James has one of the best Resume's in the industry, working on such films as Minority Report,  A.I, Troy, Polar Express, War of the Worlds, X-Men, Transformers and Star Trek and many more. 

James Clyne has done a lot in his carrier since graduating in 1996. We hope to see more of his work in the years to come.

To see more of James work visit his sight at:  www.jamesclyne.com

 

SoVibrant / artist of the week

The Abu Dhabi Louvre

Due to my excitement for a trip to Paris this weekend, I thought I would blog a project with some relevance.

Although based in Abu Dhabi, the French architect Jean Novel has designed the Abu Dhabi Louvre Museum to showcase artwork from around the world. The construction is to be ongoing until 2012/13 and will amount to a massive 24,000 sqm complex of pavilions, plazas, alleyways and canals to create an illusion of a city floating on the sea. Its web patterned dome allows the sun light to filter through the building, almost forcing the building to become a piece of art itself, an idea stemming from sunlight passing through a date palm in an oasis.

Not only is the project estimated a huge 83million to 108million Euros, the use of the name ‘Louvre’ (for thirty years) is costing a massive 520million Euros!

Architecture, Interior Design, Art

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Artist of the Week #19 John Brown

John Brown has been a part of the Hollywood scene for several years. working on such films as The Scorpion King, Planet of the Apes, The Hulk, Species 2 and the biggest being Alien Resurrection. Whereas your traditional concept artist will create 2D visuals, brown sculptures character's from scratch out of clay, giving the director and producers a better understanding his design.

When Brown Isn't working on the concept stage he's helping to create some of the final detailed costumes and masks that make it on the big screen.

Sadly, His skills are one of the many traditional skills that will one day be lost due to the advancements in 3D character animation, the biggest example being Avatar. Let's hope that pyrotechnics, Prosthetics and other skills like these stick round for that little bit longer.


To view more of John Brown work Visit www.figuresandfocus.com

 To view John Browns Digital Lectures Visit www.thegnomonworkshop.com

Artist of the Week / Sovibrant

DuPont Corian

I'm sure we're all familiar with the seamless sculptural qualities of Dupont's Corian solid surface, but here are a few inspiring images of Amanda Levete's 'Super Surfaces' project. Based on ripples on a pond, these forms really push the technical capabilities of the product...

SoVibrant Interior Design www.sovibrant.co.uk

Artist of the Week #18 Vitaly Bulgarov

Vitaly is one of our first 3D digital artists to appear on our artist of the week Blogs. As a young guy from Romania his creative mind was always interested in film, fantasy and sci-fi, were he used these skills to become a freelance artist.

He now works all over the world from the US to Europe as a 3D Character artist using such software as Z-Brush, a 3D sculpturing and painting package

To view more of Vitaly visit his personal site:  www.bulgarov.com/

Pixologic's Z-Brush unlike most 3D packages uses their own technology known as pixols. Whereas the pixels on your computer screen are tiny squares of colour that define and image, Pixols are tiny squares of light, shadow and colour. This ables you to model and sculpture on a fully rendered 3D object.

To Find out more information about Z-Brush visit:  www.pixologic.com

Sovibrant - Artist of the week

Baby News!

SoVibrant would like to say a huge CONGRATULATIONS to our design associate Paul and his partner Mags on the arrival of their new baby boy!

Alexander Anthony Brook was born yesterday weighing in at a healthy 8lb 13oz. We are all looking forward to welcoming the newest and youngest member of the SoVibrant team!

If he takes after his Dad, god help us all!!


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3D Artist - Inspiration

Hi everyone,

This post is in recognition of the 3D Lightwave artist Neal Maccormack (Bearfoot). 

I have followed Neal's imagery and 3D artwork for many years and he has been the inspiration for many of my own visuals.

The main attraction to Neals work is his ability to retain a very conceptual style while still displaying an amazing level of detail in his images.

Below you will find a small selection of Neal's work and at the bottom of the post is a link to his CGsociety artist profile, check out his other artwork there.

Find more of Neal's work on his CGsociety artist profile.. Click here

- Mo

3D Visualisation & Media

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Sydney's Sails...

Brian Eno a musician, producer and artist has created an art installation to illuminate the sails of Sydney Opera House. The sails have become a canvas for the audio-visual work of 300 paintings, which are aimed at creating a “heightened calm” and “visual ecstasy”.

The aim of Eno’s installation is to tackle global warming. Instead of getting the public to sign petitions or attend meetings with the government, Eno takes a very controversial approach by creating masses of light and power, instead of turning every light and power supply off.

A very cool way to get attention ...

Art

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