Three months of drawing, 220 pledges, and 3,012 commissioned segments later, artist Ben Redford emerged with what is possibly the largest crowd sourced drawing ever to be created by a single human being: Internetopia, a 6.5′ x 5′ illustration of the Internet. He then spent the next three months coloring the massive pen and pencil sketch.

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30 January 2015 Art & Design, Entertainment

UK illustrator Steve Berrington has created a series of fun digital art posters, re-imagining R2-D2 from Star Wars in various superhero costumes. The iconic Star Wars droid is seen “dressed” as popular comic superheroes like Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman.

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20 January 2015 Art & Design, Entertainment

The 12 basic principles of animation were developed by the ‘old men’ of Walt Disney Studios, among them Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, during the 1930s. Of course they weren’t old men at the time, but young men who were at the forefront of exciting discoveries that were contributing to the development of a new art form. These principles came as a result of reflection about their practice and through Disney’s desire to use animation to express character and personality. This movie is my personal take on those principles, applied to simple shapes. Like a cube.

20 January 2015 Art & Design, Entertainment