Richard Merritt has been busy working on a commission from Walt Disney Pictures, as costume illustrator for the Steven Spielberg film 'Lincoln', starring Daniel Day Lewis. Richard is the artist of choice for the exceptional costume designer, Joanna Johnston, having previously worked with her on a number of films. His task is to visualise her designs and bring them to life, and we think he does this with great aplomb and style. The drawings have recently been showcased in People magazine in the US, and the film is being tipped for multiple Oscar nominations, so we've got our fingers crossed for costume!
Joe Wilson has been commissioned by Arrow Films to create the official poster for the new film "RAY HARRYHAUSEN: SPECIAL EFFECTS TITAN", the definitive Harryhausen documentary.
Joe was honoured to work on the poster for such a great documentary about an incredible talent, the father of stop frame animation and special effects.
For those who don't know, Ray Harryhausen is a visual effects creator best known for his work on Jason and the Argonauts and the original Clash of the Titans.
A version of the poster will also be used for the DVD and Blu-Ray packaging. You can read more about the Ray and the film on Ray's website, along with screening dates.
Jonny Duddle has been working as a character designer for director Peter Lord at Aardman Features Studio in Bristol for the last three years on the animated adventure The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists which is now on general release in cinemas. Jonny share's his experiences working with Aardman in an interview on The Pirates!Band of Misfits Crew Vlog:
"Peter Lord briefed me for the Pirate with Prosthetics during my first work visit to Bristol. He described him as a particularly unlucky pirate, with a variety of prosthetic additions, and that was about it. So I started off with a very scrawly sheet of ideas, from the practical (like a ‘fishing rod attachment’) to the downright silly (erm, ‘ship biscuit ear’?). Then Pete and Jeff looked over the first sketches with their wonderful eyes (the lucky blighters have more than one each which is testament to the relative safety of animation when compared to pirating), and sent me an email with lots of feedback, such as “Wooden teeth are a great idea”, “I wonder if you could design a head that has both the innocent simplicity of the first head, with some of the craziness of the second” and “I like his hook and the sort of wooden hinged arm that goes with it. No idea how it’s meant to move, but somehow I don’t think anybody’s going to worry about that! I read the feedback and got on with another sheet of drawings. This time I could pick the bits I liked from the first sheet, mix them up, and work with Pete and Jeff’s feedback and what they liked to create something which gets us a bit closer to a suitable design. Pete looked at the new sheet, and said the body was looking good and his favourite head was the one in the middle. So then I did a colour one in Adobe Photoshop, combining the body and the head that Pete liked. The proportions are a bit awry, and the colours changed for the finished puppet, but amazingly the Pirate with Prosthetics was pretty much done. All that was left to do was a turnaround, showing him from the front, back and side, and then the drawings were sent off to the model-making rooms, where the sculptors work their magic to bring it all to life."
Graham Humphreys illustrates a new horror poster. Commissioned by Momentum and Hammer Films, for ' The Woman in Black' starring Daniel Radcliffe as part of the Hammer Classic Film archive collection.
Graham Humphrey has created film posters and Interior Design for the Fright Fest 2011.
Film 4's Fright Fest is the UK's premiere fantasy and horror film festival taking place at London's Empire Leicester Square Cinema.
Over a period of five days more 20 films are shown with special appearances and signings by cast and crew.
Chris King embraced the opportunity to illustrate the cover for the Guardian Guide last month, featuring Ryan Gosling. It's an illustration he is quite proud of and a striking one too. Chris says "It initially started as a piece about his new film 'Drive' but became more about the actor and his life rather than just focusing on the film (hence the dog/Hollywood star in the “Grand Theft Auto” inspired backdrop). Thanks to Stephen Jenkins (art Director at the Guide) who steered the ship."
Graham Humphreys has created this image for Total Film to illustrate an interview about the VHS horror film covers commissioned by Palace Pictures in the 1980s.
The columnist Sam Ashurst, is represented as the central zombie with an array of characters from his favourite films of the era. The layout is arranged to emulate a classic VHS cover.
