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The Avengers Talk Candy, Booze and Hulk’s Childlike Fury
Joss Whedon, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr. talk about bringing the long-awaited Marvel Comics team-up to the big screen.
Animated GIFs Paint Breaking Bad Characters in DayGlo Pixels
TV actor Paul Scheer has a thing for AMC’s black-humored drama. To prove it, he’s turned his obsession into a series of animated GIFs that surround middle-class meth dealer Walter White with perky blasts of color.
Video: Beats Take Shape in Beeple’s Candy-Colored Animation IV.10
Drum beats emerge from the ground as turquoise mounds while synth washes take the form of neon rainbows in new music video IV.10, which illustrates musical notes with bursts of animated eye candy. Director Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, composed his own electronica score to pave the way for his peppy video travelogue, then made all the 3-D animation source files available for other filmmakers to remix at will.
Vintage Photos Enter Spooky Afterlife as Animated .Gifs
When Photoshop wizard Kevin Weir spots a somber, 19th-century Russian man in the Library of Congress’ Flickr archive, he sees more than a black-and-white photograph: He imagines a pagan who sprouts an outraged, bestial head when nobody’s looking, then resumes his pose as a solid citizen. That’s just one vivid vision Weir has turned into an animated .gif, part of his ongoing series of vintage images transformed into absurdist portraits for the internet age.
Gallery: Sci-Fi Concept Artists Conjure Alien Eye Candy in Art of Control-Z
Post-apocalyptic hellscapes, futuristic hot rods and insectoid space probes vie for attention in The Art of Ctrl-Z, a new exhibit at Los Angeles’ Gnomon Gallery.