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Hello!
Hope you had a great week. Today is the LAST day to back the SPACESHIPS kickstarter. It ends tonight at 8pm PST. I'm doing a YouTube Livestream Hangout of the countdown. Stop on by: π΄ LIVE - Spaceship Kickstarter Countdown!β
Over 1500 backers at the time of writing this! I can't believe it. My hope was that I could match my DRAWINGS kickstarter, and now it's blown past that by 300 supporters. If you are one of those backers imagine me giving you a very firm high-five.
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Alright, read on, there's 5 things I thought you'd find interesting this weekend.
Enjoy!
1A) Spaceship Melange
From the Drawings Unit
Here's a bunch more spaceships I've been cleaning up and coloring for the book. A rough layout is finished for the book so now I'm going in and polishing each spread.
As I was making this image I had all the spaceships overlapped and I thought it looked kind of cool:
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I call it a "Spaceship Melange." This spacetime quantum anomaly used to happen a lot around super massive black holes until the invention and installation of gravitational vector alternators on most star ships.
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2) The unexpected life of a throwaway sketch
From the Film and Animation Division
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483 weeks ago I posted a little drawing of a robot on instagram. That's almost 10 years ago! It got 747 likes. I din't think much of it, and moved on.
Five years ago, CG animator and modeler Kiel Figgins ask for permission to make a rigged model of it and sells it in his shop. (I get a fair kickback of every sale)
This year, Lead Animator at The Mill, James Brown made an adorable PRO LEVEL animated short with the robot called "Love is a Dangerous Game."β
The internet really is a tool for connection and collaboration. I love that this happened, and it's a testament to just throwing stuff out there and being willing to let people roll with it.
3) Ghibliesque Star Wars
From the Illustrators Division
What if Star Wars was an early 80's anime for kids? Gop Gap's vision for that is absolutely perfect.
Gop Gap is a visual development artist working out of Thailand. They do some incredible character work, but also capture moments so well. Lighting and color is on point.
Check out the links below, there is A TON more work with Star Wars, Pokemon, Marvel, and Dragon Ball.
Artstation: LINKβ
Instagram: LINKβ
If you like this, also check out this post from way back: LINKβ
4) The Boulder Mobile
From the Office of Wheels
I'm in love with this little ride inspired by the Boulder Mobile from Wacky Races.
Japanese auto enthusiast Takamasa Segi bought a Ferves Ranger and converted it into this. Ferves was an Italian car manufacturer that made these tiny automoblies as an off-road alternative to the Fiats.
Farmers would buy them because they were easy to make tight turns on moutain roads and trails.
More pictures and info here: LINKβ
And here: LINKβ
5) On Potential
From the Inspirational Thought Unit
I've been pondering this thought from Photographer and writer Craig Mod as I make this Spaceship book:
He speaks the truth. At some point you have to make your vision a reality, and that's when you realize where all the holes are. The point here is that you can get really frustrated when reality doesn't live up to expectations. The key is to make a minimum viable version of it, and then build out from there.
Don't lose sight of that original vision though!
I let the vision guide me, but I don't let it derail me.
That's all for this week. Thank you for reading this newsletter and hope you have a great weekend!
-Jake
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