The MentalMirage Flickr Pool has now grown to be over 1300 wild and interesting photo’s, and a massive 500+ members!
If your still not a member, go join!
To celebrate this milestone, I have selected (what I feel is) the best 50 pictures in the group! This has been a difficult process, with several hundred pictures in consideration! To illustrate just how difficult the selection process has been, first it was Best 10, then Best 15, then Best 25, then Best 30, until I admitted to myself, I had to at least have a Best 50 to show just a fraction of the photo’s I thought were awesome. But a choice had to be made, and the following pictures is what I feel best illustrates creativity, individualism, new thinking, and general awesomeness! Read the rest of this entry »

I was cruising around Vimeo, and found some graphic show reels I thought I would share with you.
One thing that becomes evident when watching many of them, is however, that certain techniques are getting horridly overused, and you see them in every single reel. I wish people would try to be a little more original and creative, instead of just copying others. Heck, I even found a showreel, that showed an exact replica of a certain AE tutorial. Not cool.

Nonetheless, I do quite like these. So keep on reading to watch them!

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In this third installement of the “Inspiration” posts, we’ll take a look at 20 wonderful and talented digital painters!

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I have a good bunch of “Inspiration” blog entries ready, and will continue to publish those here to bring both inspiration to the people reading this blog, as well as some attention to some of the wonderful artists everywhere.

If you have an interesting piece that you think might fit on here, be that your own or someone elses, please send me an email at philip@mentalmirage.com. The headline should read “Inspiration” and contain a link to the picture, as well as a link to the maker of the picture.

Do note though, that just because its submitted, dosn’t mean it will be featured. Who decides what will be featured? That would be me, myself and I. But if its good, different and inspiring, the chances are high!

So the second “Inspiration” article is ready and good to go! This time we’ll take a look at 20 wonderful pictures from flickr! So if your looking to get inspired, keep reading!

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Or at least, about Honda.
I saw this linked on a different forum, and thought that I would recommend it to all of you! Its a wonderful short movie on how the company Honda came to be in existence, and I found it delightfully inspiring!

The actual movie

A backstage look at the production

Enjoy!

As you hopefully know, I feature a lot of my prints over at my RedBubble site, but of course I’m far from the only one there. In fact, there’s a lot of wonderful prints to be found!

I thought I would share with you some of the wonderful pieces I’ve found there… so if your looking for inspiration, read the rest!

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