The Oscar-nominated duo talks to us why they wanted to make their latest project as an interactive storybook app.
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The Oscar-nominated duo talks to us why they wanted to make their latest project as an interactive storybook app.
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This week we celebrate the artwork of comics legend Paul Smith! The 600th issue of Uncanny X-Men hit the stands this week and I was very pleased to see that Smith contributed one of the variant covers for this landmark issue. X-Men was really the reason I got into comics as a kid. In fact the very first comic I picked up and read(besides the Bob’s Big Boy comics they used to give away when you ordered a kid’s meal..) was Uncanny X-Men #166 with that glorious Paul Smith cover of The X-Men battling the Brood!
A good friend of mine at the time(probably ’83/’84) had an older brother who collected comics and he had an big, old chest full of them(no bags ‘n boards, mind you..). So, when I’d go over there for a sleep-over, I’d get to rummage through his treasure trove of funny-books and then pull a few out for some late-night sleeping bag reading! Those Paul Smith issues of X-Men were truly magical, and always will be to me. There have been many great artists to work with Chris Claremont on his classic X-Men run, including legends like Dave Cockrum, John Byrne, Terry Austin, Bob Wiacek, John Romita Jr, Barry Windsor Smith, Arthur Adams, Alan Davis, Jim Lee, etc. etc, but for me, my favorite X-Men artist will always be Paul Smith.
Smith is mostly a self-taught artist. He worked as an animator on Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings and American Pop before working at Marvel Comics in the early 1980’s. After establishing himself on titles like X-Men, Doctor Strange, and Marvel Fanfare, Smith would go on to do more independent, critically acclaimed series like Leave It To Chance and The Golden Age, both with writer James Robinson. He continues to work in mainstream comics for special projects, and cover illustrations, while also staying very busy with private commission work.
The best place to get updates on what Paul Martin Smith(PMS) is up to and to see more art is on his website here.
For more comics related art, you can follow me on my website comicstavern.com – Andy Yates
Despite getting food poisoning the last time I ate at Chipotle, they remain among my favorite fast food joints (along with my other fave, In-N-Out). One of the reasons I like Chipotle is their emphasis on humanely raised animals. Whether raising meat can ever be as idyllic or beautiful as depicted in this new stop motion short called Back to the Start is open to debate, but it’s an undeniably attractive piece of advertising. It was directed by designed by London-based Johnny Kelly whose hand-made approach to the art form is a perfect match for Chipotle’s message. Like George Pal’s Puppetoons, Kelly knows how to animate stylized geometric forms with organic appeal.
Behind-the-scenes production photos on Johnny Kelly’s Flickr account. Credits after the jump:
Direction and design: Johnny Kelly
Production company: Nexus
Producer: Liz Chan
Production manager: Claire Thompson, Alistair Pratten
Executive producers: Cedric Gairard, Chris O’Reilly, Charlotte Bavasso
Client: Chipotle Mexican Grill
Advertising Agency: CAA Marketing
Copywriter: Jesse Coulter
Art director: Ricardo Viramontes
Coordinator: Todd Hunter
Agency producer: Liz Graves, Jay Brooker
Director of photography: Matthew Day
Camera assistant: Max Halstead
Electrician: Aldo Camilleri
Filmed at Clapham Road Studios
Set production designer: Graham Staughton at We Are The Art Department
Art department: Gordon Allen, Joe Kirton, Ben Côte
Puppet production: Artem
Puppet wrangler: Joe James
Rigger: Gary Faulkner
Set animator: Matthew Cooper
Character animator: Gary Cureton
Compositing: Alasdair Brotherston, John Taylor
Additional Compositing: Sonia Lev
3d previs: Mark Davies, Wayne Kresil
3D animation: Christian Johnston
Music: ‘The Scientist’ by Willie Nelson
Foley artist: Sue Harding
Sound design: Barnaby Templer at Fonic
Sound Mix: JM Finch
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