One of the sight gags planned in the World Without Photoshop video was to make MacBook Pro’s look like shiny aluminum “CopyBook” scanners. We needed to replace the keyboard and trackpad with the guts of a flatbed scanner. The image you see above is straight off the camera. The illusion of a scanner bed is […]
The Chop Shop iconic series of designs continues — and is going ape. Okay, so maybe “ape” is taxonomically too specific. Let’s just say the design features a bunch of chimpanzees, monkeys, gorillas and even a few human-ape hybrids to please the sci-fi crowd. That is a total of celebrated simians from various sources of film, television, […]
CHOP (preview) from Peter Buchanan-Smith on Vimeo. Via notcot.org.
Last week we set forth upon the internets (YouTube) a fun little short film/project envisioning what the daily life of a creative team might be like if Photoshop had never been invented. The project started off the exact same way the video does: with somebody, as designers or photographers frequently do, asking: “Can you imagine […]
I kicked off the start of the fall teaching semester a little differently this morning. When it comes to drawing, writing and telling stories, there are few places more humbling & inspiring than SVA’s Illustration as Visual Essay Graduate program. This year, in addition to the Digital Portfolio class with the 1st year students, I […]