'Ascent of Man' by Bruce McCall with Smiley Guy Studios

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Bruce McCall's May 14, 2007 cover of The New Yorker is about man's obsession with progress and technology. The artwork features an ape on a rock who evolves into a cave man, an Egyptian, a soldier etc. and along with these evolutions come the technologies of each new civilization. McCall's original art is animated by Toronto's Smiley Guy Studios.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Bruce
• McCall
• obsession
• progress
• technology
• ape
• rock
• evolve
• man
• cave
• Egyptian
• soldier
• escalator
• smiley
• new
• civilization
• ithentic

[ruinovato]

Hmm, where's the age of discoveries and the space conquering?... It's not very well scripted.

[kareemie]

Our generation loses hard...

[denfilade]

Our generation wins!

[funkspiel]

Bruce is the best.

[Pallzballz]

I like it! Very cool

[Lockerr]

This is amazingly clever. Excellent job!

[fortherabbit]

Nice social commentary! well done.

[stopwhistling]

This is so simple yet brilliant. I wish i had thought of it first!

[RichARich]

This is the best thing I have ever seen.

[caladozinho]

Excellent work!!

interesting style to animate on too! must of been quite a challenge!