the illustratographer

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→ 23 Apr 13 at 12 am

So originally I had a line or two in Obey the Giant, but it got edited out (thankfully haha) but my character was supposed to be… mentally fucked up. I thought it would be funny for the critique scene for me to put up a topless “self portrait” like the one Annie Leibovitz took of Miley Cyrus, but with more side boob.

So I had my friend Ashton, who was a P.A. on the film, do a quick portrait of me (that’s him in the first pic that I took for reference)

The second pic is of that portrait hanging up on the kitchen wall at my old apartment. My friends, the current tenants of the apartment, look at it every day when they eat.

The last two photos are stills. I literally just woke up from a nap during lunch break just before they shot this scene and I was completely out of it, so me standing there motionless… that wasn’t really acting.

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→ 15 Apr 13 at 10 pm

OBEY THE GIANT is finally live!

It’s a short film based on the true story of Shepard Fairey in his RISD days and how the Obey campaign took off.

My role as the Production Designer was to oversee the visual development of this whole project

http://theillustratographer.tumblr.com/tagged/obey_the_giant

Please reblog and enjoy!

-update-

In just one day, Obey the Giant got over 50,000 views and was featured on The LA Times, USA today, Obey’s official site, kickstarter’s blog, and the Vimeo front page among countless other blogs and articles! Celebrating by running on the treadmill!

tags: obey the giant obey Shepard Fairey street art RISD Artists on Tumblr radarplz art film movies Providence Rhode Island 90s

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→ 13 Apr 13 at 12 am And the poster for Obey the Giant, put together by Julian Marshall. Portrait painted by me and Karen Sung:
http://theillustratographer.tumblr.com/post/17934196604

tags: painting oil film obey the giant Shepard Fairey street art poster movie poster andre the giant risd buddy cianci

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→ 12 Apr 13 at 11 pm

OBEY THE GIANT.

The short film I production designed is being released to the public this Monday, April 15!

reblog! reblog!

tags: obey the giant obey giant obey Shepard Fairey street art rhode island risd film providence andre the giant

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→ 08 Jan 13 at 12 am

Asked by Anonymous

tags: risd film animation movies art

How good is the film program at RISD?
It’s okay but not the best in the country. We have a couple of notable people to graduate from the film/animation department including Gus Van Sant and Seth Macfarlane (ugh). And a few RISD alum were a part of Beasts of the Southern Wild (Set Decoration, Construction Coordination, etc.)

And sometimes a director will shoot a movie in Rhode Island and they would recruit RISD students as P.A.s and interns. Last summer, Marcus Nispel shot a horror called Backmask, which I originally had planned to work on as a P.A.

A lot of what you get out of the program depends on how self-motivated you are and the quality of your peers and professors. In terms of the type of films that the students produce, it leans towards the indie side more so than a hollywood blockbuster, which can be refreshing, or be pretentious and totally go over the audience’s heads. I’ve also seen some neat documentaries come out of that department too. Most people go to the Senior Show at the end of the year to see the often-times quirky and hilarious animations though. They never disappoint.

this one was even featured on cartoon brew: http://vimeo.com/13036318

— I forgot about alum Robert Richardson! He does all the cinematography for Quentin Tarantino

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→ 06 Jan 13 at 6 pm
tags: crows blackbird raven birds animals drawing micron pen ink risd art

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→ 06 Jan 13 at 2 pm
tags: acrylic art cinematic color keys composition concept art film paint risd clouds plane colors skyscrapers rooftops birds eye suicide trees castle battle war

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→ 06 Jan 13 at 2 pm The clown salamander’s bioluminescent light gets magnified by its crystal anemone habitat to attract its prey, plankton flies.

tags: crystals rocks cave salamander animals anemone clown fish fireflies risd drawing graphite pencil art

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→ 18 Dec 12 at 6 pm
tags: adventure time art cartoon network risd

A RISD friend of mine in the illustration department has this older sister (Rebecca Sugar) who is fucking bad ass for making it on this short list among budding movie stars and viral youtube sensations on Forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-under-30_hollywood.html

If you watch Adventure Time, you’ll probably be familiar with her work, and apparently she’s also getting her own show on Cartoon Network called “Steven’s Universe.” Steven is the name of my RISD friend… I wonder if this going to be a show about him…? Maybe not but I can at least assume the main character is named after him! How exciting is that.

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→ 16 Dec 12 at 10 pm
Asked by Anonymous

tags: stop motion animation cameras lenses miniature models risd art

do you have any dslr camera/lens advice to fellow artists/stopmotion-ers? Your photos look rad man!
Thanks! Not really sure about the cameras (but a professor at RISD told me something about the Nikon d90 not being very functional for stop motion projects for some reason, which is what I had at the time. I’m not sure why, but she said she used one once and had to partially unscrew the lens to get it to work with the software…?)

You might want to consider different lenses for different shots. Portrait lenses with an 1.4 f-stop will have a very tight focus, good for close ups of characters. Macro lenses are meant to photograph tiny things so that could be used to focus on things even more up close. A wide angle lens for wide shots can give the illusion that the set is a lot more vast than it actually is.

The first pic is of a miniature set I built last year, taken with a wide angle lens. The second shot is taken with my portrait lens and doesn’t work as well because a lot of things had to get cropped out due to limitations.

You can see a picture of me next to the set to get a sense of the size too: http://theillustratographer.tumblr.com/post/20911331863#notes