Hemingway & Gellhorn

Director Phillip Kaufmann, the man behind The Right Stuff, probably the best pilots and astronauts related movie ever done, is back together with film editor Water Murch. With who he colaborated years ago in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Hemingway & Gellhorn will be released on HBO as a TV movie in the States, but we will likely be able to see it on cinemas all over the world. Hear Walter Murch speak about the film on last octobers Boston SuperMeet

Ralph McQuarrie Dies at Age 82

Today one of the best concept artist of all time, Ralph McQuarrie  passed away. His work is his legacy. Rest in Peace Ralph.

When Star Wars still was a bunch of written dialogues and George Lucas was fighting with studio executives to make his cinematic vision come true. There appeared Ralph McQuarrie and made George's vision visible. The rest is history. The importance of a concept artist in the very first days of a project such as Star Wars is dramatically important. What those guys draw establish the atmosphere, the characters, the colors and the overall tone that the movie will likely had, if its ever done. Because those are the artists that start to work when there is almost nothing done yet, the ones that have to translate words into images for the first time, the ones that have to imagine it all.

COMIC | Archifreaks 'Mezquita'

Ian Nose is preparing a new series called Archifreaks. He is so lazy I really don't know when is going to be released but meanwhile he does small pilots to warm up, I guess. This one is a very special one; to celebrate that Miguel Beloqui and Sergio Ramos from studio cr3am have finished their final project in Architecture School.

It is special GIF version that show three stages of the creative process of the comic. The image changes every 10 seconds. So, be patient.

Toriyama Today

The japanese seem to be concerned about the future. At least that is what it seems looking at this Biosphere project I just found surfing the net. You don't need to know japanese to get an idea of what is this about. The cute drawings of Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball and DrSlump comunicate it amazingly well.

Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars

Star Wars is being re-released in 3D starting with Episode I The Phantom Menace on February 10th. I was looking on YouTube for a featurette that would explain the making of the conversion of the two dimensional film into 3D but I found out something even better.

This video explains how they made the computer animated graphics of the Death Star as seen on the original  Star Wars from 1977. The work was done by Larry Cuba in the 70s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois in Chicago.