November 18, 2006

CEREAL OBSESSION

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After old comic books and classic animated cartoons, the number #3 most influential art to aspiring animators has to be on cereal boxes. Especially old cereal boxes from the 1960s. The whole design of the packaging itself was/is inspirational. Just ask Thorsten Hasenkamm or Dan Goodsell or Ridd Sorenson. Their blogs are filled with modern interpretations of old packages (or the actual old boxes themselves).

Bob Staake is an incredible commercial artist and children's book illustrator with an obsession: breakfast cereal. To him, it's not what the flakes taste like, it's the box design and the groovy prizes inside. Bob is proposing his own line of cereal, centering his efforts around his iconic product characters. Check out his website for Freebies Cereal.

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And what ever happened to the project Von Kreep (of Kreepsville.com) was doing called Cereal Killers. He had asked illustrators and animation artists to do box covers of "scary" cereals. It was supposed to be out this past summer and I don't know what happened to it, but a lot of the art is online on various artist blogs, like: Rob Lilly, Johnny Yanok, Ben Balistreri, Kevin Schmid, Gabe Swarr, Brandon Scott, Saxton Moore. This stuff is mighty tasty.

UPDATE: Bob MacNeil sent me a link to a list of all the Cereal Killer artists and their contributions to the project.


Posted by JERRY at November 18, 2006 12:45 PM