Aww … wubbsy. A cute seal, no?

Housemate is currently playing Assassin’s Creed 2 and Penny Arcade got it right – there is a lot of Italian in this game. I wonder if they’ll ever make a movie out of this? I guess if Prince of Persia goes well …

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11/23/

I read some early review which did not say nice things and so I stopped reading reviews about it. Holding up at 71% right now on Rotten Tomatoes though, so I’m hoping I perhaps read a bad review … rather than an accurate review of a bad movie. I’ve been waiting so long to see this that if it is terrible it just might kill me.

Adapted from the best-selling Where the Wild Things Are book, it has a lot to live up to (and it’s been a long time coming -- the book was published in 1963).

The file name Kelly gave this amazing image was 20 mattresses and 20 eiderdown but surely it’s all about the pea(s) right? I printed this as an art card yesterday on amazing paper and it looks great. Can you see this as an illustration in a book?

Yesterday I spent the day with my friend Jeremy Ley (amazing illustrator, check out his website and buy something from his shop) printing out art cards and other prints (he has a super printer from the future or something).

They look brilliant!

The paper is so thick and delicious I want to eat it. The images came out in incredible detail and range from beautiful to hilarious to awwww …

I’ll be putting up some images soon on here and on the main site for sale. I’m thinking of also sending the cards to advertising agencies and others who might hire my lovely illustrators.

Printing advice

Blah blah blah grid but Jeremy was right to give me a serious illustrator talking-to yesterday because the trading cards weren’t set up to a grid. A grid means less cuts when you are slicing them up. It means no cropping of edges. I means possibly fitting more images on a single piece of paper (cost-effective). Less cutting is important when you’re slicing slicing slicing all day. I finished up cutting out all the cards last night with bleary eyes and a sore back from leaning over.

I made some mistakes – the major one being distorting some of the images too much. What looks fine on my laptop screen looks just a little too narrow when printed out. I also didn’t leave enough bleed on some images which meant if I was a millimetre off when cutting out the prints, you’d see a white gap on the edge of the image. The easy fix is to add 3 – 5mm of extra image that sits outside the picture frame window.

Images up soon!

Erin @ On The Wall

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Game to movie adaptation that is guaranteed to suck. Watch the trailer and cringe.

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I laugh every time I see this image. What is the chicken thinking?

Kelly Abbott @ On The Wall