Saturday 14 May 2011

Red Nose Studio

One of my favourite contemporary illustrators is Chris Sickels, AKA Red Nose Studio. I love everything he does, especially his second book Here Comes The Garbage Barge. His hand-made figures have a special charm, and the world they inhabit has just the right blend of weirdness and beauty.

The wire armatures in the puppets are the reason for the thin bendy limbs on his characters, I love how the process has so directly influenced the design to give the characters a unique appearance. Everything about them is quirky and primitive but yet extremely sophisticated.

The photography also adds a lot to the work. I’m not entirely sure what the process is, but it looks like the puppets are either photographed with a large-format camera, or with a digital camera shooting through a view camera, because the depth-of-field seems to have tilt-shift effects visible. Maybe it’s simply a tilt-shift lens, I’m not sure. There is also some grunge added in post, which gives some grit and texture.


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