After Effects “Arrivals Board” Tutorial!

Confession time. Teachers are not always the best students. If my software knowledge were a swimming pool, the Flash side would be the deep end, with lots of inflatable toys and a kick ass slide and diving board. But it would be clearly roped off from the shallow side of the pool which would represent [...]

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial on Designing Animals!

The masterful Mike Macnerland is back teaching another Adobe Illustrator tutorial for us. This time on animal character design, with more focus on the sketching stage. I loved Mike’s last Illustrator lesson, but my favorite part was just watching him draw. So for this second lesson I asked him to spend more time sharing his [...]

Artist Profile:Pascal Campion

San Francisco must have some tractor beam that attracts all the best illustrators. What is going on out there?! Maybe I need to visit. So anyway, Pascal has a staggering amount of illustrations on his blog. Since 2006 he’s been posting about every other day, usually with a polished illustration or sketch, and get this… [...]

A Juggernaut-a-Day!

A few days ago I did a quick artist profile on Steve Lambey’s work, but he caught my eye again with a recent pet project. For the past week he’s been drawing a different re-design of Marvel’s Juggernaut. Click here or the image below to jump to the blog post with all of them ( [...]

Character Designer: Ben Balistreri

Wowsers! Ben won an Emmy for character design! I didn’t even know you could win Emmy’s for something that actually involves creativity. Check out the project he won one for, and TONS more work at his blog. Brew some coffee though, Ben has postings going back years and every month is full of excellent illustrations, [...]

I thought my poster buying days were over…

…guess not. I just bought a poster from eBoy.com. I don’t know a lot about the artists at eBoy, but its pretty clear they love pixel art. Heck, who doesn’t. Their entire site is worth checking out, but if you want to skip to their massive pixel posters, go here… I bought the London one, [...]

A poll: When will you upgrade to CS4?

Casino Royale title sequence….

I saw Casino Royale once in the theater, and parts of it about 20 time on cable, but I must not have seen the opening any of those other times. I forgot the cold open was in black and white too. And I definitely forgot how amazing the title sequence was. ArtofTheTitle.com has it posted, so [...]

Cool look back at Peanuts cartoons….

Worth checking out! Click here for the retrospective by CartoonBrew.

Artist Profile: Cristian Turdera

There’s something about Cristian’s work that leaves me wanting more. But in a good way. I want to be shrunken down and exist in these tiny happy worlds. And I’d love to see them moving around me. There’s always some element in what he (possibly she) draws that craves being animated. Give yourself 10 seconds [...]