My two cents for an indie comics artist…

Occassionally I get an email that I can’t resist writing a long reply to. If any of you have emailed me, you know I try to help ya out, buuuut with all the email I get I like to put people in the right direction as quick as possible. Hey, I got work to do. [...]

Using stock photos in a project?

Yay or nay? Anyone feel like thats a cop out or what?  Well I’ve used some stock illustrations in my apps. I’m not the worlds greatest illustrator, so at times I’ll go search a site like iStockPhoto for “inspiration”. And if I find its easier, and affordable to buy the art that inspires me, I’ll [...]

Force Perspective…Backwards.

Wanna know what that looks like. Check out this amazing video. Give it 20 seconds, and your brain will start to melt a little. And no, there’s no CGI trickery here… Here’s how its done…  

Ancient Aliens Comic Strip Tutorial and TONS of Vector Art!

  Brian Zaikowski is back with another great tutorial. Again covering Comic Strips, but if you liked his last tutorial, I’m sure you’ll dig this one too. AND as an added bonus he’s including an entire poster’s worth of royalty free vector art. That means you can do whatever you want with it! Put it [...]

Noteworthy update to the Wave Attack Game Template….

…you’ve already been emailed new links if you bought this Starter Kit or the iOS Development Series . The second Xcode template is now a spaceship type shooter game. So it adds a scrolling background, particle effect, more enemies, and a few other slight mods to the code. Also I JUST found out (like 10 [...]

Another student app makes it to the store!

Alright seers, CartoonSmart student Gabriel has gotten a great looking new app into the store! Congrats. Hopefully he used his own app to foresee a future where this sells well. Good work!

Ebook Starter Kit now available as a standalone purchase (or free if…)

If you’ve already bought my iOS 6-Session tutorial course, your download link page now has a new zip for this Starter Kit. It includes many overview videos explaining how to setup this ebook (which you already knew if you watched the previous session courses) but it also includes some extra videos which cover sound fx, [...]

Optimizing Flash for the iPhone or Android

So I guess all I talk about on this blog is how to make apps now, but hey, that is kiiiinnnda the future of things for us illustrators, animators and web developers. And I’m sure I’m not the only one steering you toward app development, if you aren’t already, so by now hopefully you’re getting [...]