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My Flash skills have increased slightly and flashman has been able to start wooing his ladyfriend.
Here are some of the German wunder kammer (wonder rooms) examples i have been looking at to help me design my hybrid pets animation backgrounds…
more info on wunder kammers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities
Anonyme, Le Cabinet de Calzolari (ou Calceoloari) à Vérone
1622, gravure, Bibliothèque Estense, Modène.
Anonyme
Le cabinet d’Ole Worm
1655, gravure, Bibliothèque Estense, Modène.
Here are some examples of the hybrid animals that might be shown in Wunder Kammers …
gneau monocule à deux corps (agneau ensomyshalien cyclophage)
Bordeaux, muséum d’Histoire naturelle.
Tetrodon flascoparo (Tetraodon hispidus)
Bordeaux, muséum d’Histoire naturelle.
bird fish Etching by printmaker Briony Morrow-Cribbs
spider with human arms Etching by printmaker Briony Morrow-Cribbs
Uni-horned winged rabbit with fox legs from the Haus der Natur (House of Nature), a natural history collection in Salzburg, Austria
Squirrel with bat wings from the Haus der Natur (House of Nature), a natural history collection in Salzburg, Austria
Duck fow with horns from the Haus der Natur (House of Nature), a natural history collection in Salzburg, Austria
My flash book arrived today… (-:
Im finding it much much easier to learn from this than the net tutorials.
So far chapter one has been stuff ive already covered… i drew this little flash man. The book didnt really express that i should draw him but he just happened.. maybe he will become animated in chapter two.
Graham my boiler man visited today. Ive now seen the insides on the two boilers in my house and they have inspired me to try and build my hybridizing machine in photoshop.
Im going to call her the HYBRIDIZER 2000.
Here are a couple of the inspirational pics of my two boilers:
I created this in the maya workshop…
