The Best 150 Animated Gifs. Really. Gifs.

I gotta admit most of these are pretty fun to look at in a “wait for it” kinda way. And I haven’t given animated gifs much thought since oh, like 2002 or so, but hey maybe they’ll make a comeback. WebDesignShock is calling the worthy ones “cinemagraphs” , and many of these do deserve the [...]

Does my close-to-final game design need anything? More cowbell?

Long time no post. I’ve been…er, obsessing just a wee bit over this pinball game I’ve been working on. I’ve been simultaneously designing and programming this game, which can be a really good thing for forcing yourself to learn new code to facilitate your design, but it can also make the design phase go on [...]

Mellow Brick Road Animation

Here’s a very groovy, very shadowy version of the Wizard of Oz. Cool song too…

A super glassy animation and super non-glassy animation

This is a gorgeous bumper piece (only 42 seconds, so take the time to press play)…. It feels like the designs could be used in a game somehow. Like a glassy Q-Bert board. And then for comparison something conceptually similar but very stylistically different (only 20 seconds…)

Exploring Adobe Illustrator- 24 Hour Mega Course AND Discount Coupon!

      Yep you read that title right! This is CartoonSmart’s first 24 Hour Course. But fear not, this is 111 awesomely separated videos, exploring about a bazillion things in Adobe Illustrator (and yes you read that right too, 111 as in one hundred and eleven!)  A list of each course is on the [...]

How to Draw Faces E-Book by Justin Cook!

  Just got word that Justin Cook’s first e-book is now available. I just got done flipping through it and it looks fantastic! Best of all its only $4.99, so for the price of a Grande Latte or whatever at Starbucks, you’ll get this amazing guide. The pic below jumps straight over to Justin’s site [...]

Two free Adobe Illustrator CS5 Tutorials

I’m currently prepping this fantastic new Adobe Illustrator CS5 course for sale, and since there’s, oh, like 84 videos in this HUGE tutorial series, I think we can give plenty away for free. And I’ll add a few more in the next couple days. Here’s a 14 minute tutorial on the Tool Panel And a [...]

Caricatures for sale! By the Great Justin Cook

Come one, come all! Justin Cook just told me today he’s now selling high quality caricatures over at his site, SeenCreative.co.uk . So you can be the first in line to have your stylistically-similar self drawn up. All he needs is a few photos to work with and you can have a groovy version of [...]

Free Coloring Tutorial for Photoshop

As a thanks to all the cool buyers of Neil Phyfer’s latest CartoonSmart tutorial, he’s done a quick coloring lesson for our free collection… Hd-ify at will. And Thanks Neil!

Monster Digital Painting Tutorial

Jimeny Crickets!  I knew I forgot to do something yesterday! We released a new Photoshop tutorial on Digital Painting and you can still get it for $5 less using the coupon code 1603NK71  (which also works all over the place on CartoonSmart.com). Click the awesome pic below to check out our latest tutorial, taught by the great [...]