QBN (newstoday) calls Horacio Salinas photography “100% inspiration”. The site was awarded Editors Choice on May 22nd, 2008.

Links
QBN
Horacio Salinas

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Renee and I have been a fan of Amy’s artwork and animations for a very long time and extremely excited to announce a solo exhibit and installation at the Gallery. I’ll follow up when we have more image because this show is going to be stellar. Here’s the press release:

Migratory Patterns - Amy Ruppel
Exhibition Dates // June - August, 2008
Artists Reception // Thursday, June 5th, 2008
6-9, Free and open to the public
Live Performance by Lets Go Outside

The Grassy Knoll Gallery presents “Migratory Patterns”, a solo exhibition and installation by Amy Ruppel — a unique opportunity to view Amy’s charming illustrations and hand-drawn details on a large scale. Graphic renderings form the stages where her iconic mixed-media paintings nest along side embellished wooden sculptures.  Even more exciting for those already familiar with Amy’s work or for the multitudes of crafters out there, “Migratory Patters” is a first time outlet for Amy to experiment with fabric.  Amy boldly moves into a brand new medium — handprinted fabric using a wood block technique, from which she’s offering one-of-a-kind pillows and fabric by the yard.

There is no denying Amy’s knack for capturing the essence of simple pleasures. Her pieces are tiny snapshots, glimpses into natural worlds.  With thoughtful lines and colors, she creates perfect homes for her woodland creatures to inhabit.  Whether it’s a surprised baby bird or a deer perched on a fine strand of wheat, her characters are nothing if not enchanting.  Each piece is a moment, beautifully uncomplicated, for the viewer to savor.

A Portland legend, Amy’s work has been seen in Target, Mercy Corps, design*sponge, Eleventwentyfive, Klutz, Vigo Cards, and many others.

Amy Ruppel was the 2007 US Artist for the Oilily Artisan Series (Netherlands).  She was also the artist/illustrator for the 2007 Holiday Season at Target. Her work is included in a book currently being published worldwide entitled “Pattern Designs: Applications and Variations”.Artwork by Amy Ruppel, 2008

About the Gallery
The Grassy Knoll Gallery specializes in the work of innovative illustrators and animators. The gallery is adjacent to Fashionbuddha Studio, located in the historic Merchant Hotel in Old Town, Portland Oregon.

Links:
Grassy Knoll Gallery
Amy’s Site

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The Annabell Lee is looking better and more complete every day. Here’s a color corrected screen capture of the whale. 

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We are extremely excited to launch the new portfolio website of NY photographer Horacio Salinas. I love Horacio’s photos and especially proud of the analog-style glitch patterns that we are dynamically creating for the transitions. There is a slider in the menu that allows you to increase or decrease the effect.

Links: www.horaciosalinas.net

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Our new animation is a 1:30 story in collaboration with Evan B Harris. Almost everything has been animated which leaves some color correction and lighting, credits, and most importantly an original score being arranged for piano and cello by a friend of Evans.

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We’re proud to have finished The Chow Raid in time for Larry Marder‘s presentation at the Stumptown Comics Fest this past weekend! The audience enjoyed it (or so they said to our faces) and it was so gratifying to see it projected onto a screen.

From start to finish, it took us three weeks to pull this guy together and it was pretty awesome to be working with a comic that all of us here in the Studio love. 

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Hey guys! Another sneak preview of our upcoming Tales of the Beanworld animation that we’re doing with Larry Marder.

Here we have Beanish dancing in anticipation of the incoming Chow. This film is my introduction to actually animating and though it was challenging I’m really pretty proud.



We’re so close to being done with the whole project! It should totally be ready in time for Larry’s presentation at the Stumptown Comics Fest for his spotlight panel. 

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Ain’t it Cool News featured a brief piece on this long-lost animation test, featuring work by pioneer Bob Clampett from 1936, as he was trying to adapt Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars stories as a series of animated shorts. I was just completely blown away by the quality of the character animation, evident even in just the pencil tests:

It’s boggling to think that he did this without rotoscoping, but that’s definitely the impression that his commentary gives. Anyway, enjoy!

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Great news! Our good friend Carlos’ short film Toumai, completed during his final year at the Art Institute of Portland, is a finalist for the regional Student Academy Awards. If you are in Portland, you can catch a free screening April 22nd from 6:00pm at Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum.

View the film

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Everyone knows we are comics nuts so it should be no surprise that we are huge fans of Tales of the Beanworld comic. We are incredibly happy to be working with Tales of Beanworld creator Larry Marder on an animation to help promote the upcoming book and hopefully a teaser for more animations to come. This animation introduces several key characters like the Boom’r Band above, and re-creates one of the more interesting and challenging scenes - a chow raid!

Larrys Blog

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Although primarily an animation studio, once in a while the rare project comes by that reminds us of why we love interaction design and is too hard to pass up. The Oregon College of Art and Craft is the only certified craft college in the United States, and currently celebrating its 100th anniversary with a major expansion and rebranding. Our friends at Ziba Design created an beautiful and thoughtful new identity system for the college. Fashionbuddha followed up with a complete website re-design, a modern all-flash site with a heavy emphasis a photography to show the materials and processes of making art.

Visit the new OCAC website.

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Wanted to share some of Evans gorgeous paintings for an animated short called The Fable of Annabel Lee. Each asset is hand-painted, taking hours as Evan has an eye for detail right down to the wood grain! Once the paintings are scanned in they are attached to planes and rigged in Maya, ready for animating.

More art by Evan B Harris

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A simple walk cycle for April, the main character in the ABPM animation.

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Here’s an excerpt of the completed animation. The final animation is exactly 2 minutes and continues to show the April, the lead character at the conference and inter-mingling with new friends at the afterparty and taking in a the chicago skyline at night.

Downstream handed off some great style boards and assets to get us started. Fashionbuddha spent the better part of 3 weeks creating the animations and experimenting with interesting and hopefully unexepected transitions between scenes.

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We recently collaborated with Downstream to create this retro-inspired animation for a conference in Chicago. Here are some stills from the finished animation. I have always loved the stylized title sequence to Catch Me If You Can and although we were not going for the same effect their are parts that remind me of it. Hopefully we can explore this style more in the future.

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