Jupiter - Full Rotaion

Observe the graceful twirl of the Solar System's largest planet. Many interesting features of Jupiter's enigmatic atmosphere, including dark bands and light zones, can be followed in detail. A careful inspection will reveal that central clouds rotate slightly faster than clouds toward the poles. The famous Great Red Spot is visible at first but soon rotates out of view, only to return near the movie's end. Other smaller storm systems occasionally appear.

As large as Jupiter is, it rotates in only 10 hours. Our small Earth, by comparison, takes 24 hours to complete a spin cycle. The above high-resolution time-lapse movie was captured over the past year by the one-meter Telescope at the Pic du Midi Observatory in the French Pyrenees. Since hydrogen and helium gas are colorless, and those elements compose most of Jupiter's expansive atmosphere, what trace elements create the observed colors of Jupiter's clouds remains unknown.

Claude Smith (1962)

Mars & Beyond!

Notes from Renowned Drawing Instructor - Glenn Vilppu

1. Never underestimate the power of life drawing
2. Let's sketch on location
3. The thumbnail sketch
4. Organizing and creating space
5. Light and dark patterns
6. Texture as planes in space
7. Pencil Technique
8. Drawing Groups of Figures
9. The quick sketch
10. The Silhouette - Positive and Negative Shape
11. Three dimensional figures
12. Atmosphere
13. Using photographs
14. Gesture
15. Spherical Forms
16. The Box
17. Introducing material and proportion
18. Drawing ellipses
19. From the general to the specific
20. The Landmarks of Anatomy
21. Seeing anatomical masses
22. Seeing the figure as a 2D Object
23. Using tone to draw
24. Getting a handle on direct lighting

The Art of Studio Ghibli - Part 9

The Layout Artist is one of the most highly skilled draftsman amongst the entire animation production team. They are often the unsung heroes of this industry, so here's the last post in my 'Art of Studio Ghibli' series honouring this often unseen part of the animation process. This week is a continuation of the layout design collection from several of Ghibli's films.

I always found one of Studio Ghibli's main strengths lied in how Miyazaki made excellent use of foreground, mid-ground and background. Rather than showing all of each character all the time, very often characters are blocked by objects in the foreground and middle ground, helping to place the characters within the situation, making them part of their environment and the story.

 

Click on any of these pics to get the high resolution version.
Below are the links to the other 8 posts, they include concept art, model sheets 
and hundreds of background paintings from most of the Studio Ghibli films.

See Part 8. 

  See Part 7. 

See Part 6.
See Part 5. 

See Part 4.  

See Part 3. 

See Part 2. 

See Part 1.