Link Round-Up: January 4, 2011

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21 stunning video game concept art that make you say "wow"

23 pieces of arcade game inspired furniture

Four Color Process is a blog which reposts magnified details from old comic book panels. The images become semi-abstract and very striking (and surprisingly non-Lichtensteinian). Some favorites: Ruined City, Steranko's Strange Tales, Ghouls, Swirl Lamp, Kirby's Silver Surfer, Romance, Novelty Magic, Ditko's Dr. Strange, Man at Conference Table, Homo Comicus, Easy to Do and finally a comparison of contemporary printing with the old four color process.

Top 20 Photoshop Disasters of 2010

Welded Steel Cylon toilet paper dispenser Battlestar by supertrone

Short Film: Train of Thought

Train of Thought is a short film in paper by Leo Bridle and Ben Thomas. Although it used digital compositing software, all the animation and models were done by hand, not with CGI. The film took approximately nine months to complete, from storyboards through to the final edit. [HD on Vimeo] If you enjoy it, don't miss The Making of Train of Thought.

Link Round-Up: January 3, 2010

Source: Pigtails and Combat Boots

An artist imagines what the first response to Cthulhu's awakening might look like

Idiot Duck has a gallery of the Most Amazing Sand Sculptures in the World

Jeff Nishinaka creates amazing 3D paper sculptures

Lawrence Person has posted a gallery of Awesomely Wrong Watchmen 

Minimalist Boba Fett design by Daniel Buechter

Space Project from photographer Vincent Fournier. “Playing on the stylised notion of a sci-fi utopia, Fournier’s otherworldly photographs of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah and the Atacama Desert Observatories in Chile – alongside a series of surprisingly stringy trainee astronauts – offer an alternative view of the world, unseen by many and known by few.”

Under the Sand is a vintage Cthulhu postcard

Papercraft: The Office

"The Office" papercrafts by the Russian People Too (Alexei Lyapunov & Lena Ehrlich)

Mash-Up: Peanuts / Star Wars

Charlie Skywalker by Tom Torrey

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Tom Torrey writes: "This is a mash up sculpture i did for a friend as a Christmas gift. This is Charile Brown/luke Skywalker after he arrives on dagobah. He is staring at his sinking x-wing with a good grief look on his face. It is sculpey over a charlie brown action figure. The first attempt at the head was a huge failure. The plastic of the head was too thin.and it melted into a weird shape. I had to make the head from scratch. I like this version it's much better than i envisioned it. I based the color and look on some vintage peanuts music boxes my mom has as a kid."

Diorama: Miniature Apocalypse

Lori Nix's Stunning, Tiny Dioramas Depict an Abandoned World. For some reason, human beings can't get enough of imagining our own destruction. From REM and Roland Emmerich to National Geographic and NASA, the apocalypse never goes out of style. Now fine-art photographer Lori Nix is adding her eerie vision to the mix with an exhibition called "The City"

The twist is that Nix's photos aren't Photoshop manipulations -- they're real images of tiny, painstakingly detailed dioramas that Nix has designed just for these photographs. She built the 3-D scenes in her living room on nights and weekends with the help of an assistant, with each one taking anywhere from two to fifteen months to complete. Nix then shot the dioramas on normal 8x10 film, making her minuscule creations -- about 20 x 24 x 72 inches small -- appear nearly indistinguishable from full-size scenes.

Check out the article and photo gallery at FastCoDesign

Mash-Up: Street Fighter / Tron

Street Fighter TRON by Kode Logic

Artist Kode Logic added three more Street Fighter / TRON Photoshop remixes into his already rad collection. Check out more: AbelTRON, CammyTRON, or VegaTRON