My Valentines Day gift made me work.

My wife got me probably the most excellent gift ever. I had seen the first version of this that came out a while back, and for whatever reason didn’t get it. Then totally forgot these cabinets existed until yesterday. So my head pretty much exploded when she gave this to me. Quick review: It is [...]

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…  

All of CartoonPaint’s tutorials for $25 AND another new app!

My friend Chad just told me all his site’s lessons are on sale in a big ol’ Holiday bundle for only $25… Also Jeremy Hicks, who taught a lot of our After Effects courses and one of our first iPhone tutorials, has just released a VERY fun Yo Yo app. And this was made using [...]

Today’s amazing illustrator is…

…Ramon Pla . I found this guy’s interview over at Web Design Shock , which has a lot more on him but I’ll swipe a few images for here. Really unique style… Or is it? Anyone know of some similar illustrators?

Great Time Lapse Illustration

Now if only there was instruction to this as well… All hail rubble! ….

Latest pieces from Pumpkineer (is that a word yet?) Andy Gertler

You all might remember my  friend Andy. Many years ago I ran my freelance business using FlashBooty.com and when CartoonSmart took over, I gave that site over to Andy to run. Kind of a Dread-Pirate-Robert’s-thing. Well Andy is still in the reigns at FlashBooty, but he’s doing a lot of non-computer art  these days. And [...]

Nobody destroys a YouTube page like Flash…

I gotta admit, I’m not sick of these yet. Still pretty creative to me. I like the fake comments too…

The Mirror effect, when isn’t it cool? And why isn’t it a Flash Filter?!

Check out these ad campaign photos from an airport in Germany. Pretty brilliant use of the floor’s natural reflection. It makes me think some modern-day Mad Man got a free trip to, well the airport, to “take in” the space for inspiration and just happened to notice they kept the floors all nice and polished. [...]

I need a book to try this with.

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. 

A very cool Flash movie poster / motion poster

      Just goes to show ya, sometimes the simpler, the better. This “motion poster” (click below to see the actual motion) feels fresh to me, and ALL it is really is looping fire and a fade in. The interactivity is only at the bottom, almost unseen,  so this keeps the feel of a [...]