http://www.beefyblimps.com/

(If there’s any video, er, experience, you need to view full-screen, this is it.)  Bravo Laika.

Back in 2009 I fell in love with contemporary illustration art magazine HiFructose, a relatively new endeavor, named ostensibly as a hat-tip to the visually-saturated and colorful progeny of “Under the Counter Culture” art it showcases.  Initially I was drawn to it hook line and sinker one night at a NYC Barnes & Noble scouring for inspiration, when lo and behold poking out from the rack, what do I see? A young child’s face wreathed in tangled hair, sans body, floating in a bleak winter space.   What’s not to love?   Aye, a Mark Ryden, the pleasure of whom I had not yet been acquainted.

Some Featured Artists:

The displaced flora and faunae habituating cross-sectioned environmentalism of Josh Keyes

The downcast violence-possessed bears and bunnies of Luke Cheuh

The tongue in cheek chibi manga girls of Yoshitomo Nara

The Francis Bacon + postmodern soft core horror of Chet Zar

The spooky see-thru bubble people of Jinyoung Yu

The psychedelic spaghetti-western disemboweling characters of Charles Immer

And the soon-to-be-timeless Mark Ryden.  (Who, incidentally will be showing in NYC in a few months)

Next time you’re at the magazine rack, I highly recommend you flip through a few pages. I dare you not to fall in love.

Beary Happy Valentines Day. First illustration under my new alias, Grizzly Whisperer, for the back log of gay / bear / man-themed art I’ll be trickling out over the coming months. Hope your V-Day was as fun as mine. Cheers, Aaron

I decided to write this after succumbing to the gnawing pang once more, of finding an auto-generated links page where one of my favorite few websites once lived, and feeling empty, as the depressing truth sets in… the site, and its mother organization, are no longer. Plunged forever into the abysmal netherworld with only a tacky redirect page as its headstone, leaving the faceless few who remember its happier times mourning in front of their silent, cold, LCDs. (or CRTs). And that is why I write today. To plead for you to support the sites and organizations you hold dear, for without us and our ever-guarded pocketbooks to support them even through this bleak economy, may all be quietly in danger of disappearing like the dodo.

In this collection:

• If it Makes You Happy
• Infiniti Styleboard
• Shervin Photo Splash Image
• Hog Heaven
• Wish U Were Here
• Shout It Out Loud Styleframe

Below you can find these 6 new pieces, and a reel update.  Enjoy!

Best,

Aaron

Infiniti is just one of those brands that everyone should have in their portfolio.  So I decided to do a board for fun. I know, where do I get the time. Anyway, Enjoy.

Quick thingie / site intro graphic for photographer friend, Shervin Lainez.

Musclebears with hogs and big guns. I don’t know about you, but I’d love to go here when I die. Illustration, 2009

I was actually here. In my dreams. Illustration, 2009

Storyboard for Shout It Out Loud music website intro animation.

Nuff said. Music by Junior Boys.  Loading too slow?   View in Vimeo.

Rebranding of demo reel for Vectorform. Shinies and glossies galore. Proverbial living glitter. 2008, Vectorform.

Website intro video for Microsoft InfoSec. Very satisfying to work on.  Got to flex much needed 3D+2D muscles. Completed 2008 at Vectorform.

Reel intro animation for Vectorform. Roles: Concept, direction, lead compositing. 2008.

Site intro video for a Microsoft Live@Edu multimedia campaign I art directed. 2008, completed at Vectorform. If the website companion to the campaign is still online, it should be here.

Internal show piece as part of our work with the Microsoft Surface.  Roles: Concept, direction, animation, audio. 2008, Vectorform.

Alternative style study for Microsoft User Experience video. 2008, produced at Vectorform.

Style study as part of a pitch to Z100 New York.  Done at Vectorform, 2008

Squishy squashy, grungy grimy, B&W result of a 24-hour animation competition. Co-directed with Martin Thoburn.

Here’s a ditty I cooked up for the new Vectorform brand experiments.

Poster for Carmina Burana concert for the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra. 2007

Poster as part of a multimedia campaign I art directed at Vectorform.  If the website companion to the campaign is still online, it should be here.

Poster design as part of my annual art direction of the spunk-infused youth theatre group, Purple Onion Productions. Memories…

Photo, 2007

Zbrush, 2007

Wallpaper as part of an internal design competition at Vectorform, using the Surface DJ theme we built as part of our involvement with the Microsoft Surface.

Splash page as part of an initiative to incorporate the human element into Vectorform’s brand image.

Poster as part of a multimedia campaign I art directed at Vectorform.  If the website companion to the campaign is still online, it should be here.

Maya, 2006. I swear I’ll get back into 3D environment modeling one day.