The Zodiac Squadron, and it's incredible nose art by Phil Brinkman

color images and story found on http://outsidethecubicle.tumblr.com/post/54295778417/birdspotter-the-artist-who-made-these-series-of#notes
Black and whites from http://www.philbrinkman.com/phil-brinkman-nose-art-paintings.htm

The 834th was known as the Zodiac Squadron for the 12 B-24’s which had the signs of the zodiac painted on their noses. The original artwork was done by CPL Phil Brinkman. None of the Zodiacs were lost during the 49 missions the 486th flew before transitioning to the Fortresses.

The artist who made these series of nose art paintings got pretty well known for it. This is one of the rare occasions where the name of the artists is still remembered. Phil Brinkman was a professional illustrator at the time.

Steam locomotive cake, with popcorn billowing from the stack

Found on http://www.steampunktendencies.com/

pinstriping that is unusually cool and artistic

animated gifs of some of Banksy street art

found on http://twistedsifter.com/2012/09/famous-banksy-artworks-as-animated-gifs/

making street art from street signs... very clever and innovative!

found on http://twistedsifter.com/2012/09/street-bar-do-not-enter-street-art-clet/

street art... clever use of a red light

found on http://twistedsifter.com/2013/05/oakoak-street-art-gallery/

Fox McCloud's Space Fighter, by Oriana Menendez

Found at the CTN expo, image from Oriana's blogpsot: http://orianamdz.blogspot.com/

A masterpiece I just learned of, from Norway, the Pinchcliffe Gran Prix

Made by the "Disney" of Europe, in 1975

The film was made in 3.5 years by a team of approximately 5 people. Caprino directed and animated, Bjarne Sandemose (Caprino's principal collaborator throughout his career) built the sets and the cars, and was in charge of the technical side, Ingeborg Riiser modeled the puppets and Gerd Alfsen made the costumes and props.

When it came out in 1975, The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix was an enormous success in Norway, selling 1 million tickets in its first year of release. It remains the biggest box office hit of all time in Norway (Caprino Studios claim it has sold 5.5 million tickets to date) and was also released in many other countries.

Clutchdog or Retread, tales of the American Road

Clutchdog Or Retread Trailer from Benjamin W. Burch on Vimeo.

Found at the CTN expo

Evolution of the Mechanic t shirt...

may only be at http://www.genuinehotrod.com/itemgroup/evolution-of-the-mechanic-t-shirt

thanks to Ronnie for Facebook sharing this!

the Zoom Zoo alphabet flash cards of Mike Yamada

you can buy a print of the poster, at http://eca-la.com/prints/

or buy the deck of cards at http://eca-la.com/books/zoom-zoo-alphabet-flash-cards

Found at the CTN expo, images from  http://mikeyamada.blogspot.com/  http://mikeyamada2.tumblr.com and http://www.notcot.com/archives/2011/11/zoom-zoo-by-mike-yamada.php#more
   Mike Yamada is an incredible artist and his work is in Dreamworks movies, like the Croods (I love that saber tooth cat!)

All the leetle feeshes in the sea, the art of Rachelle Reyes

found at the CTN expo, images from Rachelle's website http://www.rachellereyes.com/2013/11/all-leetle-feeshes-in-sea.html, more can also be found at http://leetlelines.tumblr.com/

M is for Mechanic Moose

I hear he can make magic with even the most messed up Mercedes.
from http://davedepasquale.blogspot.com/  found at the CTN expo

From the Drawmageddon art of Arthur Loftis

found at the CTN expo, images from his Tumblr http://drawmageddon.tumblr.com

paintings from Ivan Aguirre

found at the CTN expo, all from his site http://ivanaguirreart.blogspot.com/

a movie I want to see get made, Hullabaloo (Steampunk Animation) by James Lopez

Above images from http://hauntedmansion-northside.blogspot.com/p/steampunk-project.html



 here are a couple stills from the car race, followed by the video

above video from http://leoswindow.blogspot.com/

images from http://hauntedmansion-northside.blogspot.com/p/steampunk-project.html

above video and 2 below images from http://leoswindow.blogspot.com/ as he did the computer work to mold the images into an animated movement

found at CTN expo, while walking among the booths! I hope by helping to spread the word, to increase the number of interested people, and have a positive affect on the making of this!

https://www.facebook.com/SteampunkAnimation

"Between A Rock and a Hard Place" and I hope to see it as an animated short, soon!

above from http://hauntedmansion-northside.blogspot.com/p/60s-caper-film.html

James was an animator at Disney, and a prof of 2nd or 3rd year at Cal Arts (I'm piecing bits of info together here)

But here are some awesome things he's done I enjoyed immensely; Paperman, Flushed Away, and Lion King

I'm not the only one gushing over the project: http://hauntedmansion-northside.blogspot.com/p/steampunk-project.html

Agrona said...

Please, please, please say you have a Kickstarter. I would fund the hell out of this.

5:58 PM