Who’s up for playing Presidential Bingo (or Lingo) this Thursday!? Bob Staake has create a set of 8 of these cards….
Here’s direct links to the 8 high rez versions in Set 1 and Set 2.
And click on the caricatures below to see more of Bob’s minimalist, but easily recognizable politicians and celebs…
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I swear I’m gonna finish this lesson TODAY! Its not that I’ve been putting it off, I just keep adding to it. So it looks like I’ll just add the word “Mega” to the title of the course, and people can expect oodles of teaching. I think it is possible to overteach, but in this [...]
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Hey all, I made a super small change to Primps.com. After your edit an image, and save it, you can now post it directly to your Facebook profile. The code is really simple too. Here’s an example…
http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.primps.com/images/ov40kj0.jpg
So basically this part… http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=
… just needs to be in front of the link to your image URL.
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Christian is a German illustrator, and does work for some big name companies, and plenty of books and magazines. I like his style because it has some elements of 1950’s character design, with a little twist / edge on that look. I’m guessing he draws in Illustrator, but it could be Flash too.
If you check [...]
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Thanks to member, boke, in the CartoonSmart forum for tipping me off to this amazing blog, ArtoftheTitle.com. Two guys Ian and Alex have posted some of the best title sequences from movies and TV shows. All of them in big beautiful Quicktime. Take a look at one of my favorites from recent times… Kiss, Kiss Bang [...]
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Adobe whole site is CS4 crazy now, but if you want to check out one of the new features in Flash that I’m most excited about, here’s a direct link…. Flash CS4 features. And once glance of that page, tells me I’ll be making many more new character animation tutorials for CartoonSmart. Inverse Kinematics changes [...]
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Wanna see a rotoscoped silhouette that isn’t spazzing out to an iPod?….
Cool, eh. Rent or buy the series if you haven’t seen it yet. Great art direction. And in case you don’t already know Mad Men = Ad Men (advertising gurus in the 1960s)
PS: I taught a Flash course on silhouette [...]
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Joel Trussell combines my favorite cartoon style, retro-Jetson, with my favorite subject, ladies! Plus he’s got a few other non-female characters in his portfolio. Oh and TONS of sketches, which I love to see in an artist’s portfolio. There’s something honest about seeing someone’s sketches. So to any artist that might be listening, post up [...]
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Here’s a trailer for a documentary about Syd Mead, long time concept artist/ futurist. You’re probably already familiar with his work from Blade Runner, but he’s done a lot more since then. Below is one example of how he sees Qatar looking in a few years…
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Here a flash intro actually worth watching. Its short, fast paced, has good music, and makes their hotel feel like a trendy place to stay. Hits all the marks. Check it out at BryantParkHotel.com
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