Plans for world domination: A look back at 2008….

I like the spirit of  a New Year Resolution, but as everyone knows that has ever made one, they usually don’t last more than a week or two at most. Especially resolutions to do with quitting part of your regular routine.  To stop doing something takes immediate work. Which I’m not good at anyway.   [...]

Stranger Than Fiction – Title Sequence

Just got word back from one of my instructors that he is planning a tutorial based around the Stranger of Fiction title sequence. If you haven’t seen it yet, ArtofTheTitle.com has it posted. Its extremely cool, setting up Will Ferrell’s retentive character by animating details around him as he gets ready for work… UPDATE: That [...]

FlashBooty.com’s Annual Holiday E-card!

Our good friends at FlashBooty.com have continued their streak of holiday e-cards with this 2008 edition.  And if you’re new to the blog, FlashBooty does excellent web & Flash development (and they are for hire of course).  They also recently did a massive site makeover, so click the image below for their e-card, and visit [...]

Back from ze dead!

Phew! CartoonSmart.com  looks to be totally switched over from our old dedicated server to our newer dedicated server. So thanks for bearing with us. If you visited this blog yesterday you might have noticed none of the images loaded. Whoops! We (meaning, I )   forgot to re-upload all our WordPress stuff.

Lazy Weekend Linking…

Here’s a week’s worth of internet-coolness that I dragged to my desktop for possible bloggery, and for the sake of cleaning up my workspace, here they all are at once…. Excellent CG of some people battling over something or other  (be sure to switch to the HD version). Before you get bored with it, and [...]

My Most Used Blambot Fonts

Just got an email asking where I get my fonts, and that shouldn’t be a secret. Most of the ones I use in logos come from Blambot.com , illustrated by the great Nate Piekos (proof of illustration greatness here).  The ones I use most are below… Click the pic to land on Blambot’s Super Scroller-ific Page [...]

iPhone Application Tutorial!

This is probably the most excited I’ve EVER been for a tutorial launch. My friend & neighbor, Ian, put together this awesome 2 hour lesson on creating iPhone apps. What’s so cool about it you ask?? Well duh… if we (me included) learn this whole app thing we can cash in on that iTunes Store. [...]

What not to wear…a HUGE © WORD!

So this WAS going to be an artist profile type article. Not that I do much profiling with those ever, I usually just repost the artist’s work, say “this is cool” and link to their site. But today’s will be link-only. Take a look at Jeff Miracola’s site, and browse through some of the images [...]

Pay for stuff in a Flash game?! Waaaahhht.

I don’t know much about this company Whirled, but they’ve got some serious prize money for Flash games ($7500 for first place!!)   And if that wasn’t enough to get you coding,  they’ve got a development kit for incorporating micro-transactions into your game. So for example if you made some kind of Conan type game, [...]

Dynamic Text in Flash Video

By now you’ve probably seen one of the Flash movies where  you enter someone’s name, hit play, and then magically see that name inside a video. Not sure what I mean?  Here’s an example. Well if you want to know a bit more about how that’s done, here’s a recent blog post by Michael Coleman [...]