This is my friend's friend Marth Dinosaur. He is a cool dude who doesn't afraid of anything.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Inspiration - Bad Machinery
Bad Machinery is a webcomic by John Allison. I love his art style, it looks really sketchy, and really refined at the same time. His characters are wonderful.
Inspiration - Natasha Allegri
Natasha Allegri (character desihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifgner for the cartoon series Adventure Time) is my favourite artist ever. The cartoony way she draws characters is fucking awesome, i love the spaghetti arms and crazy faces.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Inspiration - The Lost Thing
The Lost Thing is a story book by Shaun Tan. It's full of AMAZING illustrations, and the story is really well done too. It was also adapted into an award-winning animated short.
Inspiration - Adventure Time
This is one of my favourite shows ever. It's about the adventures of Finn the Human, a 12 year old boy, and his best friend Jake the Dog, a 28 year old magical dog.
I love the animation style and facial expressions. It's all so wacky and surreal.
Inspiration - Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes is one of the most successful syndicated comic strips ever created. It's about the life of a boy and his pet tiger, who seems to be a stuffed animal to everyone else, but alive to Calvin.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Project 2 - Major Project
We got the Major Project today. This is where we plan what we are going to do next semester. I think I'm going to do a make a storybook, or a web comic mayhaps.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Animating the Posthuman v1
Concept Art and Storyboard for the first Posthuman project idea I had. However upon re-examining it, I don't think the idea really fits that well with the theme, so I am going to make another one.
The basic idea is that a man wakes up in a laboratory, with no memory of how he got there. He is unable to move apart from his eyes. As time goes on he becomes aware that something is unsettling the scientists present, and he sees momentary flashes in his mind of an explosion. He becomes increasingly anxious and wants to know what is unsettling them all. Eventually he wants to see what he looks like, so they turn him around and he sees that he is a cyborg, and that the flashes he keeps seeing was of the explosion that killed him.
The basic idea is that a man wakes up in a laboratory, with no memory of how he got there. He is unable to move apart from his eyes. As time goes on he becomes aware that something is unsettling the scientists present, and he sees momentary flashes in his mind of an explosion. He becomes increasingly anxious and wants to know what is unsettling them all. Eventually he wants to see what he looks like, so they turn him around and he sees that he is a cyborg, and that the flashes he keeps seeing was of the explosion that killed him.
Cyborg Skeleton and Human outline
Top Left - Lead scientist; Top Right - Military General
Bottom Left - Female scientist; Bottom Right; Soldier
Bottom Left - Female scientist; Bottom Right; Soldier
Cyborg
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Posthuman Categories in Fiction
I have identified four loose categories of Posthuman used in fiction.
Evolved/Altered Humans - Humans that have evolved from humans, or have been genetically altered from humans. [Splice, Space Marines from Warhammer 40k, Eloi/Morlocks from The Time Machine]
Cloned Humans - Humans that have been cloned from other humans (duh). Different from the first category because these are specifically created as a copy of a human. [The Island (2005), Clone army from Star Wars]
Cyborgs - Beings made from a combination of a human and machine parts. [Stalkers from Mortal Engines, Necrons from Warhammer 40k, Toclafane from Doctor Who]
Artificial Intelligence - Machine programming that has developed sentience. Most often this is far more advanced than that of humans. [Machines from the Matrix, I Robot by Isaac Asimov, 9 Planets Without Intelligent Life]
Cyborgs and AI appeal to me the most. I like drawing machines forms, and they have a nice opportunity for narrative expression.
Evolved/Altered Humans - Humans that have evolved from humans, or have been genetically altered from humans. [Splice, Space Marines from Warhammer 40k, Eloi/Morlocks from The Time Machine]
Cloned Humans - Humans that have been cloned from other humans (duh). Different from the first category because these are specifically created as a copy of a human. [The Island (2005), Clone army from Star Wars]
Cyborgs - Beings made from a combination of a human and machine parts. [Stalkers from Mortal Engines, Necrons from Warhammer 40k, Toclafane from Doctor Who]
Artificial Intelligence - Machine programming that has developed sentience. Most often this is far more advanced than that of humans. [Machines from the Matrix, I Robot by Isaac Asimov, 9 Planets Without Intelligent Life]
Cyborgs and AI appeal to me the most. I like drawing machines forms, and they have a nice opportunity for narrative expression.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Man of the Million Year
In 1893, H. G. Wells wrote an article titled "Man of the Million Year", in which he speculated on the possible outcome evolution of humans by the year 1,000,000 AD. He thought that as technology became more and more advanced, it would replace the functions of the body, placing more importance on the brain. This would basically have the end result of all muscles becoming useless, leaving humans as huge brains which walk on hands, and developing machines which digest food. This results in the digestive system devolving into little more than an intestinal parasite which absorbs nutrients from liquid.
Interestingly, this is similar to the way Wells described the Martians in his classic novel "War of the Worlds", which are also implied to have evolve from humanoid forms.
This is an intriguing possibility for human evolution; evolving to the point where you are essentially nothing but a massive brain. Would they still count as humans? A radical change of form would seem to mean a departure from being a human. But what about the way they think? I don't think it's a particularly great assumption that a greatly increased brain size would result in drastic changes to the way their view and interact with the environment. At what point in their evolution would they be distinct enough from as we are now to be called a different species?
If their brains get that big, is it possible that some sort of telepathic communication method could evolve, or would they still use their mouths/vocal cords? Would they use hand signals? Or some other method that we don't use now?
This has definitely born some thought on possible paths I can take for my posthuman.
Interestingly, this is similar to the way Wells described the Martians in his classic novel "War of the Worlds", which are also implied to have evolve from humanoid forms.
This is an intriguing possibility for human evolution; evolving to the point where you are essentially nothing but a massive brain. Would they still count as humans? A radical change of form would seem to mean a departure from being a human. But what about the way they think? I don't think it's a particularly great assumption that a greatly increased brain size would result in drastic changes to the way their view and interact with the environment. At what point in their evolution would they be distinct enough from as we are now to be called a different species?
If their brains get that big, is it possible that some sort of telepathic communication method could evolve, or would they still use their mouths/vocal cords? Would they use hand signals? Or some other method that we don't use now?
This has definitely born some thought on possible paths I can take for my posthuman.
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