Google vs. Martha Graham (via Drawn Blog)

Google - Martha Graham from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

I think from an illustration and animation standpoint, Google's animated logo doodle for Martha Graham's birthday (that would be yesterday, May 11) is worth pointing out, in case you missed it. Animated by Ryan Woodward, the gorgeous animation was a tribute to Ms. Graham's birthday and lasting legacy in dance.

And for those of you still on Microsoft Explorer that may have had your systems crash as a result of the animation and MSE's inability to handle it, well.... don't hate the player.

Out to lunch, Out of gas

This is another bit I did of an old character from my sketchbooks I named Helicopter Hal.

Observatory

So I found this site courtesy of Abduzeedo and fell in love over the weekend. It's basically a stripped down paint/sketch program. The really cool thing about this though is that not only does the site save the sketch for you, it also creates a little video playback of your process. My first one is right here:



...pretty cool, even if the final result is pretty rough. I like this for two reasons (I mean beyond the obvious Holy Sh@t!! this is so COOL! factor). 1) It's extremely helpful to be able to go back and see how your process worked like this and be able to edit the process itself. And 2) it's really cool to be able to go in and check out other artist's processes. Learn from their mistakes and successes.

Fun stuff. Expect to see more of these.