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MeLoyal readers. This is me. I am the owner / lead instructor & designer at CartoonSmart.com .

http://www.redhotpawn.com/ If you want to beat me at chess, go to that website and sign up. Its free, and the games are correspondence based, so expect a typical game to take a couple weeks of back and forth play.  The player to challenge is “jaydyke” . But I only keep 15 games going at a time, so if I’m at my max, try again in a week or so.

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http://www.mows.com/ About 2 or 3 times a week I’ll post up a webcomic. These are Flash-made but exported out as jpg. So a lot of the same artwork is used over and over again. Which I’d recommend to most webcomic artists.

And my regular email is…

16 Responses

  1. Edwin, on March 8th, 2009 at 3:33 pm Said:

    hi there

    i’m an art student and wants to know if you can give me an academic discount for all your FLASH courses. don’t have alot of money but i’m really interested to learn so i can start working on my own.

    really appreciate if you can reply soon since i really need the help!

    thanks man – e

  2. Justin, on March 13th, 2009 at 11:13 am Said:

    Email me. =)

  3. mehinaRV, on April 17th, 2009 at 10:00 am Said:

    Hi, there! I am now using your free tutorials and I love it!!. Then, I am planning to purchase some of your tutorials and use credit card to purchase directly instead of paypal. I don’t have enough money in paypal.
    Is it OK?

  4. Justin, on April 17th, 2009 at 3:55 pm Said:

    Yep, thats what most folks do. Paypal is really just a credit card processor like every other. Thanks! Glad you like the freebies.

  5. Wayne Wilson, on May 14th, 2009 at 7:23 am Said:

    Hi. Your free Animate lessons were just wonderful, and were instrumental in my switching from Studio to Animate.
    I did some animation on Studio 4.5 and put it on Youtube if you’re interested.
    I love this blog. Please keep up the great work. It’s a fantastic place where we can all meet!

  6. Wayne Wilson, on May 14th, 2009 at 7:24 am Said:

    I forgot to tell you WHERE my stuff is on Youtube.

  7. Justin, on May 14th, 2009 at 10:11 pm Said:

    Very nice! I’m only a minute in too. Solid animation!

  8. Wayne Wilson, on June 1st, 2009 at 4:12 am Said:

    Hi Justin,
    Great info and advice on Animate! We’re all eatin’ it up out here!

    New animation at:

  9. Tal, on June 27th, 2009 at 1:56 pm Said:

    Hi,

    I think your lessons and artwork are great, I bought one and am planning to buy more.

    One question I have is, I really like to draw on paper, but I hate using the mouse. Do you use some touch pad or light pen or whatever tool to actually draw rather than use the mouse? Any advice will be most welcome.

    Cheers mate, you rock.

  10. Justin, on June 27th, 2009 at 2:33 pm Said:

    I use the mouse mostly, but for the lessons you could use anything. Mouse, pen, etc.

    Thanks!

  11. Tal, on June 27th, 2009 at 2:40 pm Said:

    I guess my question is, can you recommend any hardware tool? I have no idea what’s good enough for drawing, using the mouse just physically hurts.

    thanks again!

  12. vishal, on July 17th, 2009 at 12:04 pm Said:

    Justin,

    Have you ever been on a Virgin Atlantic flight. They have some really cool animated safety videos.

    Here’s one on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDEPmqaJwpc

    What do you think, created in Flash?

    Vishal

  13. Justin, on July 17th, 2009 at 12:44 pm Said:

    I hadn’t seen that Vishal. Thanks, I’ll post an article on that shortly!

  14. vishal, on July 28th, 2009 at 10:47 am Said:

    Justin,

    Have you seen the new TRON Reboot trailer on YouTube?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HcsDc_9LX8

    This is one of the most beautiful previews I have seen in a long time.

    What do you think the light bikes were done in? Maya?

    Vishal

  15. Jesse, on September 25th, 2009 at 9:08 am Said:

    Ha, look at you man , wow, this is what its all about. I ve been using your tutorials since day 1. ive been away awhile , new job, and i just stopped by , and well .. talk about expansion. I remember when u had like i freebie (green bouncy head) and maybe 5 tutorials for purchase. Dude, you kick ass, nuff said. True inspiration.

  16. Tammy Moore, on October 10th, 2009 at 7:53 am Said:

    I am a volunteer that teaches high school physics online in a free course to home school students. In my biology and chemistry classes I have been creating biomysteries and chemysteries for the kids to enjoy. I wanted to do something fun for physics too, but it is a subject that doesn’t lend itself well to the mystery format. I came across a college level course called animation physics yesterday. I think that blending animation and the study of physics is just the ticket to take a dry, mathy subject and make it interesting and fun for the kids.

    I have been following your blog/tutorials since January when I got my Adobe Flash. I wanted to learn to create interactive science activities for the kids and you had quite a bit available on that subject. An over-committed volunteer schedule to date has slowed my progress in learning Flash, but I felt I could trust you to give me a good recommendation as to what animation software would be the best to use with these kids for the animation physics projects. It would need to be free or have a trial version that would be available to the kids for the duration of the course. It would need to be easy enough at the beginning levels to dive right in to animating simple ball drops, projectile motion, etc. I would love for this class introduction to be a door that leads them into a passion for animation, so it would be nice if it was good enough that if they could go further with their learning to a commercial edition of something they could grow in.

    By the way, should this spark interest in an animation class at the VHSG, which I think would be so much fun, do you see any problems with us basing a course off of your tutorial products? We teachers volunteer for free and the courses are free, but the families do buy any curriculum that the courses are based on.

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