Pete Oswald

As a seasoned professional in the animation industry, Pete Oswald’s credits include traditional animation, CG and stop motion. Pete’s work as an illustrator and designer includes Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Madagascar 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, ParaNorman, and Hotel Transylvania.

I really love the textures in his work and how everything is sort of exaggerated to create this sort of wacky, fun world - even his observational paintings are kind of wacky!

Study Task 5: What is Illustration for?

Books:

 Specific audience - children

reverse side of book cover illustrates the spaceship the story is set in

A website that uses illustration:

http://costa.co.uk/experience/

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/promotions/favourites.html

http://makeyourmoneymatter.org

I really like how this website tells an introductory story as you scroll down, pretty neat

An agency/illustrator's website:

http://www.folioart.co.uk/illustration/folio/index
http://www.illustrationweb.com

http://www.centralillustration.com
http://www.heartagency.com

Magazine article with illustration:

Brummel

http://issuu.com/showmedia/docs/vip4-brumfeb14_single-209230

Not quite sure if the illustration here really illustrates the overall message of the article but I really like the aesthetic, the use of only black ink and the texture that it gives to the image. 

Digital illustration - I like the combination of text and image in this. Could also see the plants being used as a pattern for something else.

http://issuu.com/showmedia/docs/vip4-brum_dec13_single-197559

3D objects that contain illustration:

Bag I bought ages ago in Dubai

Propaganda promotional magnet

Study Task 5: Vector based illustration

The most important plus point of vector images is their power of scalability, this is why it covers such a huge range of things. Illustrations that are vector based can be used in and transferred onto other promotion, packaging, publishing etc because vector images remain smooth when scaled up and down. Below are examples of vector based illustrations that are used for different things:

Promotion:

Owen Davey - Benecol advert

Andrew Kolb - Billboard illustration

Stanley Chow

Character:

Blok Magnaye

Sequential:

Zara Picken - A narrative illustration featuring Mary Poppins using the London transport network until she can find a replacement umbrella.

Publishing:

Karoline Pietrowski

Stanley Chow

Malika Favre

Joey Chou

Aldo Crusher

Editorial:

Blok Magnaye

Packaging:

Adrian Johnson - National Trust Confectionery

Vicki Turner - RNLI Confectionery range

Ben Kirchner - Ted Baker