Purrcasso

Here at Ghostbot, we're very happy to have donated a few pieces to Purrcasso this year! The event is an art and craft auction that benefits the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society, held Nov 7-8. Check out the Purrcasso site for more information as well as samplings from some of the amazing work being donated.

"Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty" by Roque:
























"Catch Me if You Can" by Brad:


















I am super proud to present this next piece in particular, donated by my 7-year old daughter Nadha! She was excited to hear that we were doing paintings to benefit animals in need and absolutely had to join in. Awesome!!


"Miniature Daschund" by Nadha:

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And to top off our week of peeks: Ghostbot Limited Edition Hand Screen Printed Shirts! We had a lot of fun making these so hopefully they will find some good homes. We've got a limited run (because we're slow screen printers) so make sure you grab one while the grabbing is good.

We're super excited to have a table at this year's APE Convention. Please come stop by and say hello! Booth 543

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See you down there!!

Ghostbot Con bound....

Little Lost Ghost will be making her San Diego debut! We'll be at booth #4203 from 07/22 to 07/26. Come by and say hello!

Masters of the Universe Art show

Here is some Ghostbot original art from Double Punch's "I HAVE THE POWER" art show:





The art show lasts from June 20 to July 19th at:

Double Punch
1821 Powell St
San Francisco, CA 94133-2809

All art pieces are for sale here.

The Agency

Last November, we were asked by the Kenwood Group to come up with a teaser opener for the Day 2 Keynote speech of the Adobe MAX 2008 conference.

Kenwood already had a tongue-in-cheek spy/James Bond theme in mind for the whole presentation (called "The Agency") so they wanted us to inject that into the opening. After a few brainstorming sessions, we all agreed that the phenomenal credit sequence of "The Incredibles" would be a great stylistic reference to draw upon because it matched the tone and flare of what we were trying to accomplish.

We started by creating a couple of style frames to try and capture the look and feel of the piece:

Definitely the biggest challenge of this project was the aspect ratio we had to work at. The presentation was taking place in one of the main halls of the convention center and the video was going to be projected on 3 huge HD screens at the back of the stage.

Inside the conference room before the crowds.

Needless to say we've never output anything that big before so it was both a daunting and exciting challenge. One thing the client emphasized was taking advantage of the scale and width of the screens. So as we were laying things out, we tried to plan out sequences that had dramatic horizontal movement. The whole process was like plotting out a mural on a postage stamp.

Backstage it felt like NASA...

The best part was that we got to go to the actual presentation and see our work projected HUGE. Here's a video that was taken by someone in the audience. You can see the scale of the screens. They were so big the whole image couldn't even fit in the shot.



We also created the techy screens that appear at the beginning of the movie as well as the "virtual set" of the headquarters that is behind the speakers.

"Agent" Buntell getting his orders from "The Chief"


Final design for the virtual set

For those of you interested, Adobe posted the whole keynote presentation online, shot with wider lenses and multiple cameras. Our work starts at about 1:43.

Ghostbot Shop

After our crash course in merchandising for the con, we decided to open up our goods to the rest of the world through the newly launched Ghostbot Shop! Thanks to the magic internet elves, everything we were selling at the con is now available online and hand-shipped out of our humble studio (some products are more limited than others).

Check it out and feel free to email us with questions about any of the products. We're obviously new to this so we just want to make sure anyone who is plunking down money is satisfied (you'll need a Paypal account).

Finally, a lot of people have been asking us what the book looks like on the inside. Here is an exclusive pre-cut preview of some of the spreads:

Mmmmmm...smell the ink...