Some shameless cross promotion... but its for a 20% off sale so it's cool!

Hey everyone! It's time for a small dash of shameless cross promotion! There is a big sale and some other news going on over at Creature Revenge Monster Studio that you should check out... here is their post about it...



Now through midnight tonight the entire Creature Revenge Store is on sale! 20% off your entire purchase and every item in the store is eligible! Enter coupon code WALP2012 during the checkout process!


We also have a new mask now in stock! We are now taking orders for "Stitches"! Give this creepy little bastard a good home and be the first of your friends to own your own stitched together hell beast! You know it's always been one of your life long dreams...

This piece was designed and sculpted by Creature Revenge's own Greg Duffy. Each piece is cast in heavy duty latex and is made to order and hand painted in Creature Paint. The stitching is all hand sewn with jute twine. It is available as a wearable mask or an unwearable uncut display head. Blank, unpainted copies are available for you do-it-yourself folks out there! For mask and display head ordering information head over here...


http://www.shop.creaturerevenge.com/Stitches-latex-mask-STCH01.htm


For unpainted blank copy inquiries e-mail us at info@creaturerevenge.com


Don't forget to take advantage of the 20% off sale ending tonight (Stitches is eligible for the discount as well!)


http://www.shop.creaturerevenge.com


Also don't forget to check us out and like us on Facebook for more update, studio news, appearance info, and other treats and tricks!


http://www.facebook.com/creaturerevenge


-- Greg
Creature Revenge Monster Studio
www.creaturerevenge.com
creaturerevenge@aol.com

Vote for my design "Obsolete" over at Threadless.com!

Howdy all! Time for some shameless self promotion! I have a shirt design over at Threadless.com with the hopes of it being printed... but it aint gonna happen without some votes! If you wouldn't mind heading over to their site and giving it some love I would be much appreciative! They have some other amazing art and design there too... you should buy something... I bet you'd look sexy in it!

 

Thanks in advance! If it wins I'll throw you all an online pizza party... well you know... you can order yourself a pizza and we'll all sit around at our computers an eat pizza... I mean, theres no way to know that we're all eating it at the same time... or all listening to Jock Jams 4... but you know... it's the thought that counts and stuff... ok so thanks!

-- Greg

Animated Art!

Theres no question that animation is a for of art. That's not even something that can be debated. Even going all the way back to Gertie the Dinosaur, one of the world's first bits of animation, it has take patience, a keen eye, and an awesome amount of artist ability to pull off a truly amazing piece of animation.

This is Gerite the Dinosaur from 1914 by Windosr McCay.

Much of today's animation is done in as CG thanks to the technological advances from companies like Pixar. And while that is the new norm, there is still a number of animators who work in the traditional, 2D hand drawn style.

The first full length animated film in history was Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. Disney estimated he could do the film on a budget of $250,000... ten times the budget of the animated shorts he had been doing up to that point! Though subject to repeated attempt to be talked out of it, he charged ahead. The final budget for the film ballooning up to over $1,488,400. He even had to mortgage his house to finish financing it. The film was incredibility well received and won an honorary Academy Award that year. Since then, animated films have become much more cost effective and easier to produce, which has paved the way for independent artists and animators to use the medium to create more and more artist productions without having to worry about any technical limitations. People like John K., Peter Chung, and countless others, have taken great strides in furthing the artistic level in animation. As a result, we end up with mind blowing animated sequences like this one posted below by artist Anthony Schepperd. Bearing in mind that in every second of film, there is 24 individual frames. So for this 5 minute + animation, Schepperd had to illustrate and color at least 7680 images. Thats nuts.

Please to enjoy "The Music Scene"! Music by Blockhead, animation by Anthony Schepperd.

Movie Posters!

To kick off the blog, I though it would be fitting to do an article on one of my favorite forms of every day art... movie posters! Often overlooked or taken advantage of by moviegoers, movie posters are beautiful (sometimes) pieces of graphic art that most times get discarded after a film has it run. That's a damn shame (sometimes)! There isn't much more I love in life then seeing a great film for the first time in a movie theater! And poster are most commonly the first thing at a theater that greats you. So with that in mind, it would seem logical that they should all be different and really individual and really pop out and define what the look and feel of said movie is going to be... well, in theory anyway. Over the years, however, there has grown a few reoccurring cliches. I have to take a second to thank a friend of mine, James, for finding this other posting online that sums it up quite nicely. They have it broken down into 10 categories...

Now, there's nothing much wrong with a lot of these posters (except for some of the featuring Vince Vaughn), it really comes down to unimaginative designs resulting from WAY overused design mechanics. In this case, imitation is NOT a form of flattery, it is a form of laziness. If studio want posters to catch our eye more, they should try something different. They should move from the world of overly comfortable graphic design firms, and work with some of the amazing independent freelance artists who are so desperately trying to get work now a days. No, I'm not trying to drum up work for myself, my point is that there are some really incredible artists out there who LOVE movies and have really brilliant artist minds that could come up with a billion different ways to advertise them. Posters like this...

Dracula poster by Aaron Horkey

Or this one...

Tansformers: Dark of the Moon by Jesse Phillips

And this one...

House by the Cemetery poster by Jeff Proctor

And one of those would have caught my eye MUCH faster than Matt Damon's giant head floating in the sky while Gary Busey strolled on the beach below him screaming obscenities at the ocean because he thought the ocean stole his sandwich (sorry Matt Damon... I really do like you!).

So in the end, is there really anything wrong with the posters show at the top of this article? No. But like all things, it only work in moderation. A side note, the 3 posters I just posted up for Dracula, Transformers, and House by the Cemetery were all produced and sold by Mondo press in Houston, TX. They are an amazing company and do gorgeous work. I highly recommend picking up some of their prints if you can. They sell out quickly, but are worth getting your hands on!

Is awesome art really awesome?

Yes. Yes it is. In fact, it is the awesome-est. Why? Because it is everything! Everything in the world is or has on it some form of art or design. Some of it sucks, but it's okay, because crappy art can be awesome too! And the best kind is truly, truly awesome art. In this blog I will share and discuss all types of art and design, why it works and doesn't work, how it both reflects and drives pop culture, and most importantly, why you should care! If you have or see any art that you want me to share or post about (good or bad) please let me know! I would love to see it! Especially bad art! Bad art can sometimes be the best! Also, please don't be offended by anything I may or may not say is bad, or poke fun at or have a laugh at. The most important part of all art is to not take it too seriously! Otherwise you become one of those uppity, fine art snobs, and those people suck... and not in a good kind of sucky way... they just suck... and are NOT awesome... because they suck.

This is an art snob... he sucks.