Make your own comic strips

Here are a couple of sites where you can go to make your own animations. We have been playing around with them for days at SH. They require next to no prior knowledge of this sort of stuff. They work quite simply on a drag and drop system allowing novices and experts alike to create what they want.

Go Animate

Strip Generator

Old Skool Games Meet Nu Skool Games

Think of a computer game where the main playthings are boxes, and platforms, a game were you can jump into a hole and magically reappear at another part of the level almost instentaneously. Think you know what game i'm talking about, eh? That's right, 1985s Super Mario Bros!

What? You weren't thinking of Super Mario Bros? You were thinking of Portal? Well yeah, that's a good game too but it doesn't have a fat hairy italian in it though, but it does have a really cool gun. *sigh* if only there was some way we could combine the two...

Fake or Foto?

Today we're presented with images in movies, on TV, and in the press that are of such good quality we don't even think to consider whether the picture is of something that exists in reality or if it was generated by computer software. Movies can be considered as being at the high-end of the range of uses for computer generated imagery that mimics real-life, but there are many more day-to-day examples that challenge our ability to tell what's real and what's not.

Spend a few minutes with our reality check and see if you can tell the difference...

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National-Animals

This doesn't really have very much more of a explanation than a T-Shirt design.

Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes The Governator

Now say what you will about Arny, Body builder

Turned Actor

Turned Governor.

Now turned cartoon superhero!!!! Check out this article from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12968599

Superman Red Son

What if Superman had landed in the USSR? That is the question Mark Millar's Superman Red Son examines.

The plot stays away from shifting Superman to the role of villain which is a wise move in our eyes. Instead he is the hero of the Soviet Union fighting for Stalin, socialism and the international expansion of the Warsaw pact. He grows up on a farm on a Ukrainian collective farm and his human name is a state secret.

Matt Kohr : Ctrl + Paint, Digital painting Simplified

This website provides digital tutorials to any one using Adobe Photoshop. The site, run by Matt Kohr and is updated with a new video weekly and has an impressive downloads section. The tutorials are easy to follow and cover advance techniques like the Automate function. To anyone using Adobe Photoshop these free online tutorials really are invaluable.


Digital Painting - Painting With Two Windows from matt kohr on Vimeo.


Photoshop Painting - Pen Tool Selection Pt. 1 from matt kohr on Vimeo.

To see the rest of the site check out Ctrl + Paint, Digital painting Simplified,also see Matt Kohr's concept art website www.mattkohr.com, or if you like go to see Matt Kohr's Vimeo Channel

To see some of Matts Concept Art hit the jump, Enjoy!

This post was researched by Nathan Jones

Abe's Exoddus

Proof that a disability is not always a hinderence. This video shows gamer Terry Garrett playing GT Interactives Abe's Exodus using only sound as a tool for navigation.



The original game appeared on Playstation (One) and PC format and is a two and half d puzzle game. Exoddus is a sequel to the amazing Abe's Oddessy. True classics, both are now available from Steam.

Going Postal : Fantasy Royal mail

This month the Royal mail have released a commemorative fantasy range of stamps to the UK public, There are 8 in total, read more on the Guardian website. Whilst Stamp collection is normal out as a hobby these stamps are truly ace. The Royal mail website states "Myths that arise from history, language and landscape have shaped our literary and artistic heritage, and popular culture. The stories chosen for this issue are the myths and legends of King Arthur, the Narnia stories of CS Lewis, JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series and the Discworld of Sir Terry Pratchett. " For more information on each individual character in this run of stamps, starting on the 8th of March visit the Royal mail website.

Threadless Tees : Nude No More

Ever had a really good idea for a T-Shirt. A slogan that just stick's in your head or an image that would just work. Threadless is an online voting and posting site for your designs, upload your concepts or rate other peoples. If you like the below image by Aled Lewis, The Horde check it out HERE


"Aled Lewis's : The Horde"

This model, this concept of a community based T-Shirt design business then take time to check out Threadless, Enjoy!

David OReilly's animations

"Autoportrait"

David OReilly's animations are colourful and entertaining, however they do posses a slightly dark element. The animations feed from a mixture of global pop culture and perhaps David's own twisted sense of humour. These videos posses a slightly cynical out look by embracing some of the darker elements of this pop culture, quite similarly to the works of Chris Ware in "The Acme Novelty Library" Just as a fore warning some of the videos contain material some viewers may find offensive. To Check out more of the Video's from David OReilly either follow the jump or click the link to David's Vimeo page, or check out his personal website at www.davidoreilly.com.

This Video is named "The External World" my favourite moment in this one is at 2:25 Enjoy!



"The External World"

Carsten Nicolai

The work of German artist Carsten Nicolai blends the disciplines of mathematics, science and art. The piece above refers to Richard Buckminster Fuller's experiment concerning the packing of spheres in space. The Kepler Conjecture deals with the maximum density of differently arranged three-dimensional layers of spheres.

Nathan Jones Animator and Graphic Designer

Most if not all of the SalubriousHUB team were lucky enough to get to know and even work along side Nathan Jones at University. His Work is blessed with an intrinsic style of its own which carries remarkably well into animation. The precision and use of mark-making allows for some stunning imagery and provocative design. Nathan does contribute to SalubriousHUB as a researcher, finding the brilliant form the bowels of the internet to show you.

Nathans works are mostly pencil drawings, washed with water colours and inked, then illustrated with a Wacom tablet in Adobe Photoshop. In the case of the animations this same technique was used followed with the use of Adobe Flash in which some illustration was done to bulk out the PS work.

The first animation is titled "Creatures of the Deep", the second "Doritos Ad - Fishin" and the last which is after the jump is named "Army Ants by Tom Waits". To view or subscribe to Nathan's Youtube Channel click the link, HERE, or to find more of his work online check his Deviantart profile by clicking the link, HERE.

Take the Jump at the end of the post another brilliant animation and some more illustrations from Nathan. Nathan is one if the finest draughtsmen I have ever had the pleasure to meet and an awesome bloke to boot. Hope you enjoy his work and feel free to comment at the bottom if you have anything to say on any of the pieces.


"Creatures of the Deep"


"Doritos Ad - Fishin"

LED Solar-Powered Watch

The Solaris v1 is the perfect blend of eco-power and cool design. Running from a minimal solar panel and using low power LED's to show the time, this really is a step in the right direction. Also pushing this achingly cool design how could this watch not do well.

For more images and a full explanation of how the watch actually tells the time, catch the Jump below.

Colour Scheme Designer

http://colorschemedesigner.com/#

Choosing on a colour scheme for a website or any graphic work can be a difficult decision, what colours work with other colours and compliment and contrast?!

Color Scheme Designer, is an online interactive colour scheme maker, you choose the hues, saturation, contrast and brightness and it gives you a bunch of hex codes ready to use in what ever graphic or web design program you use. I am currently using it to help me colour my website which ill post on here at a later date when its finished!

Oooh and you can find the website here.

Daft Punk Firefox Skins

 

 

Tart up your Firefox. The link below takes you to get your own Tron Legacy Daft Punk Firefox Skins.

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Alexander Baynes Illustrations

Icons of London - sourced at www.artgallery.co.uk

Alexander Baynes uses simplistic color design twinned with a stylistic reductionist approach to create these artworks. His works often depict icons, whether these "icons" are architectural or physiological is more dependent on the work in question. His work is seductive to the eye in its simplicity and allows the viewer to respond and come to their own conclusions about the depiction, based on visual assumptions and the inherent semiotics within each piece.

The precise yet relaxed visual style of both the imagery and the mark-making found within his work is endearing to the viewer. This relaxed and gestural approach to the imagery allows for a less academic interaction between viewer and work which is often overlooked within contemporary conceptual art.

London 1 - sourced at www.startspace.co.uk

Alex Varanese's Graphic Design

act three

Alex Varanes is a Graphic designer working out of San-Fransico. His graphic style has a predilection towards earthy oranges and reds. With a geometric flair to accompany his aforementioned orange and red predilection, his work is very striking and recognizable.


ownership

To see more of Alex's works follow the jump or link to his website HERE all of the images were sourced from www.alexvaranese.com

Cabestan Watches

Image sourced from www.cabestan.ch

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If you happen to have $400000 knocking around how about this delightful watch. The Cabestan Winch Tourbillion comprises 1352 components driven by a 450 link chain and nickel silver drums in horizontal precision.

Each watch is hand made in Switzerland to the highest possible specifications and details by skilled craftsmen. Each watch is designed to the desires of the future owner. Cebestan's website states: "Cabestan promises to be a breeding ground of technical innovation, audacious design and authentic watchmaking at its finest."

Also any motoring enthusiasts might enjoy this creation:


Image sourced from www.cabestan.ch

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Create your own Data Visualisations

Global Life Expectancy click here for the LINK

Data Visualisations is something we have reported on before, particularity about David McCandless, to catch our previous post click the LINK. However this time we aim to show you how to use theses programs to make your own data visualisations like so you too could produce a image with the reputation of David McCandless's Billion Dollar-o-gram, click the LINK to see the full size image, hit the jump for the data visualisation website Url and David McCandless images.