The Science Project

Here is a great time-lapse animation of a series of screenshots showing one illustrator's work on a piece called 'Science Machine', which took about 40 hours to complete. I really like this because it shows the amount of work that actually goes into a piece and how much every detail needs to be carefully defined (in Illustrator, which is a vector-based drawing programme, you can see that even 'messy' shapes need to be defined precisely). I urge you to keep the video running even if you go and get a cup of tea or something in the middle; it is worth it to catch all the little details that are buried in the final piece. (Posted on Gizmodo, via Rebecca Cottrell).