This is probably the coolest technology I’ve seen in years. And its hard to imagine that in a few years every artist wouldn’t be using one. Enough of a tease? Just watch….
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Anyone wanna learn some iOs App Development this weekend? Particularly Cocos2D! My new 6 session course has begun. Right now only session 1 is available to download, but early next week I’ll have session 2 recorded and hopefully available. Originally I was planning to get session 1 and 2 finished before making the course available for sale, but since I JUST got an email from someone asking to get this out already, I’ll go ahead and do a pre-release for you weekend warriors… Ta-da. It has a logo….
Cocos2D will be used a lot during this course, which is basically a coding language to make things much easier (I think) to program with in Xcode. Memory management is much less of an issue and for any of you coming from an Actionscript background, you’ll love this language. Also like my previous 6 part iOs course, I’ll be releasing these sessions over a few months and if you purchase now, you will get an email anytime a new zip file is available to download.
Session 1: 2 Hours -Available now
Video 1 – Introduction to the Series
Video 2 - Getting Started – Installing XCode and Cocos2d
Video 3 - Getting Started – Quick Xcode Tour and Adding Sources to Your Project
Video 4 - Getting Started – The App You Will be Building
Video 5 - Getting Started – App Identifiers and Provisioning Profiles
Video 6 - Cocos2D – The Basics , Bringing in Images, Scheduling Methods (Game Timers) and Much More
Video 7 - Cocos2D- Accelerometer, Touches, Actions
Session 2: – Available Next Week Creating an iPad or iPhone E-Book / Children’s Book Starter Kit. This video will teach how to build what essentially will become an ebook template. This will teach Cocos2D Scenes, Layers, Singletons, as well as in-App purchasing.
Sessions 3-6: To be announced.
As always the finished project files will be included, and the videos are in High Definition.
The entire course (which will probably be around 12-20 hours) is only $40! Click here to purchase. UPDATE: Here’s the official sales page!
Sweet graphic right? Chest of Draw ‘ers Design/Illustration Studio is a new collaboration of Neil and his friend Marlon, so I’m sure they’d love some fresh eyes on their work…
And if you forgot which awesome courses Neil did for us, here’s his latest tutorial!
I should say, our “latest” and only recent Comic Strip Illustration tutorial! Its been a while since we’ve tackled this topic. This time Brian Z lends us his talent in a lesson covering Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, comics, art, and life in general!
The discount price is $10 for the entire series and Available TODAY!
How fun is this…
There are some good tips though.
Just kidding, I don’t really rank favorites. But I did stumble onto Brandon Ragnar’s Deviant Art portfolio, and love his stuff. Here’s a few choice pieces…
Two people in two days asked me to help them find animators, so if your speciality is Flash animation, feel free to leave a quick shout-out about yourself in the comments section. Just your name and where either one of these companies can find your work.
Back soon with a new lesson!
Dangit. None of my books are pulpy enough. Check out this work by Thomas Allen, photographer and prolific scissor user. He cuts up the covers of pulp books and makes them into art. Or I should say, makes them more artsy…. Click any below to see a whole lot more. 
Well this is darn easy to use. I just downloaded it and within a couple minutes moved an image around a bit and saved it as an HTML5 animation. All you do is hit Save and you’ll get a whole slew of files .css, .js, .html, some Edge include files and an Edge project file ( the only thing you wouldn’t need to upload to your server when you’re done).
Well worth checking out!
Its no secret I love these quick pointless polls here on WordPress. But I really am curious what my students/readers are up to this summer. I’m STILL training myself, but thats usually what I do in the summertime, although if it feels like I’m taking my sweet-ass time, I guess I kind of am. I heard someone say once, “if you want to really know the material, teach it”. Which is true, but I’d like to know the material a little bit more first. Anyway, what’re you doing?…
