March 31st, 2008 Discussion {0}
In the decade since Toy Story (1995), Pixar’s work has continued to dominate the computer animation medium, and the studio is often given credit for leading the industry …
Something from earlier in the year. Now I look at it I really want to use it as a guide for a painted version on canvas, a couple …
Another image, early 2007, from my notebook. This one was very unplanned, which is quite obvious compositionally. I think it works in places for texture and a sense …
June 19th, 2007 Discussion {0}
Establishing a Romantic perspective on computer animation requires a deep and critical understanding of its basic principles and origins, as well as a framework of its artistic history …
Tree Trunks with Ivy, July 1889. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” …
June 12th, 2007 Discussion {0}
Abstract
Computer animation today faces many challenges. Dominated by visually homogenous commercial content, obsessed with realism and simulation, and unduly beholden to the conceptual and visual limitations of its …
So often with the art that I find really fascinating, there’s a great sense of light and space that seems to exist more deeply somewhere within the image. …
A work I created from a single photograph of a tree, cut up, layered, coloured, repeated.
May 23rd, 2006 Discussion {0}
- Talk Notes, 23.05.06
Introduction
I’m Neal Ellis, and this morning I’ll be talking to you about the Honours research I’m doing this year, on the application of Romanticism to …
I’ve finally started to shift the creative block that’s been getting in the way of my ideas and progress. Looking through a few books of Romantic painting, I …