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Gallery1988 has provided us with another exclusive look at one of the many art pieces which will be on display at the third annual pop culture art show Crazy4Cult 3D. Jeff Boyes has done a nice piece inspired by Luc Besson’s 1994 film The Professional, which starred Natalie Portman as a 12-year-old who is taken in by a Professional assassin (Jean Reno) after her parents are killed.
Click on the image above to enlarge. Gallery1988 will be selling limited edition prints of this piece at the show, which opens on July 16th and runs until August 8th in Los Angeles.
What if The Simpsons creator Matt Groening had animated Ghostbusters? Artist Dean Fraser runs a blog called Springfield Punx where he parodies some of his favorite stars and characters in the style of The Simpsons. Last week Fraser took on The Ghostbusters, and I just love the cartoon renderings of the classic film characters. Check out more, including the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, after the jump.
Cool Stuff: Jim Horwat’s Back to the Future Tribute
Posted on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Our friends at Gallery1988 have provided us with an exclusive high resolution look at Jim Horwat’s awesome tribute to Back to the Future. Horwat created the piece fot the upcoming Crazy4Cult 3D pop culture art show, which takes place from July 16th to August 8th 2009. Above is just a zoomed in section. Check out the full thing after the jump.
Anyone who reads the site regularly knows that I’m a huge Back to the Future fanatic. Not only do I own a Flux Capacitor, a Hoverboard but I was born on November 12th — the same date as the infamous Hill Valley Thunderstorm.
This piece of art has so much wodnerful detail. I really hope that Horwat considers making one of these for Part II. And maybe there is a chance that Gallery1988 will make some limited prints of this piece of awesomeness available? We’ll keep you updated!
Cool Stuff: Lou Romano’s Color Script For Pixar’s Up in High Resolution
Posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Earlier this month we featured some of Pixar artist Lou Romano’s amazing color script for Pete Docter’s Up. But at the time it was very low res, a broad overview of the color board. Romano has now posted high resolution scans of all of the panels of the Up color script on his official blog. I’ve included some of my favorite panels after the jump. As a color script is an overview of the entire movie, be warned that it not only contains spoilers, but is a giant spoiler.
Dan Meth has created a movie timeline for futuristic movies, proving that the future presented in sci-fi classics are rooted in alternatie parrellel universes. Check out the full timeline after the jump.
Cool Stuff: A Preview of The Art of Tim Burton
Posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Yesterday we told you that New York’s Museum of Modern Art was going to have an exhibition of the art of Tim Burton. The exhibition will include “over 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, and includes an extensive film series spanning Burton’s 27-year career.” This event also coincides with The Art of Tim Burton book that Brendon wrote about in April. Read the the full press release here.
MOMA has finally granted us access to a sampling of the pieces you can expect at the show. Eight more images, available after the jump.
Cool Stuff: The Autumn Society’s 80’s POP! Art Show
Posted on Thursday, June 4th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
The Autumn Society is holding The 80s POP! art show which will feature a collection of artwork inspired by movies, cartoons, and video games from the amazing and imaginary era of the 1980s. From Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles, Mario Bros, and many others, this show is bound to delight and spark great memories from this magical time, filled with memorabilia, long haired superheroes, and candy colored good times.
80s Pop! will premiere on Friday, June 5th, starting at 6pm. The show will feature 65 original pieces of artwork and a visit from The Philadelphia Ghostbusters in full suit and with unlicensed nuclear accelerators! I’ve included some of the art (some of which has been featured in past Cool Stuff and Page 2 columns on the site) after the jump.
Cool Stuff: Tim Doyle’s Godfather II Inspired “Full of Grace” Art Print
Posted on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Some of you may remember that The Alamo Drafthouse released a poster by Tim Doyle for The Godfather. The poster, which can be viewed here, featured a shot of the Statue of Liberty from the wheatfields, and was titled “Leave the gun… take the cannoli.” Doyle has created a second art print in his Godfather series.
“Full of Grace” measures 12×36, is 4 colors, and is signed and numbered by the artist. Nakatomi is selling the print on paper for $30 or on a limited edition wood print for $100. Check out the full print after the jump.
Cool Stuff: Lou Romano’s Color Script for Pixar’s Up
Posted on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
For every Pixar movie, a color script is created, which is essentially an at a glance look at the color keys and tones for the entire film. A color script gives you a good look at how the color arcs in a film relate to the story. Lou Romano created the color script for Pete Docter’s Up, which you can see after the jump. As a color script is an overview of the entire movie, be warned that it not only contains spoilers, but is a giant spoiler.
Artist James Clyne has posted a lot of the concept art he created for JJ Abrams‘ Star Trek. The art includes a lot of different views of the inside and outside of Nero’s Romulan spaceship, some darker views of the planet Vulcan, and a early grittier design of the bridge labeled “Iowa Bridge”, which we assume might be the Starfleet Academy test bridge where Kirk cheats on the Kobayashi Maru. Unless that is the USS Kelvin? All this incredible art makes me wonder why Paramount didn’t release an “Art of Star Trek” book. I’ve included a bunch of my favorites after the jump.
Cool Stuff: Dapper Dan’s Back to the Future and Ghostbusters Art
Posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Canadian animator Dapper Dan has created this awesome Back to the Future fan art, titled “Do Not Open Until 1985″, for the Autumn Society of Philadelphia’s 80’s Pop! Gallery show in June. Anyone who reads the site knows I’m a Back to the Future fanatic, and this piece perfectly captures the Twin Pines Mall scene from the first film. I wish Dan was selling prints of this thing… I really love his animated-style. Dan has made the art available as a computer desktop background.
See the full piece after the jump, as well as a couple amazing Ghostbusters-inspired pieces.
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Cool Stuff: Blade Runner and Fifth Element Video Game Renderings
Posted on Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Steven Chagnon, Alina Gal, and Ilya Nedyal collaborated to create screenshots for a Blade Runner video game using CryEngine 2 for a Movie-themed Game-Artist.net competition. After the jump I’ve included another notable submission is this Fifth Element rendering by Robert Dukes. I’ve actually made the above Blade Runner screenshot my desktop background.
