Posted in Borders Books, Charles Reasoner, Illustrators, Internet, books, childrens books, illustration, kids books, picture books, retail sales on November 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Recently I went to my local Borders with my daughter. I was looking for more board books by Charles Reasoner - Inside Jolly Roger’s Pirate Ship (Story Book). My daughter LOVES his books. She spends hours sitting on our laps going through the pages identifying things. Great books. Anyway I ended up ordering them [...]
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Posted in Batman, Cartoonists, DC Comics, Digital painting, Photoshop Painting, Sketch, cartoons, comic books, illustration, superheroes on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, here’s good ol’ Batman. Dark, moody, full of bats. I think he has an electric toothbrush in his ‘utility’ belt.
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Posted in Blogs and Sites, Cartoonists, Comic Strips, Internet, Mark Evanier, Ovi Nedelcu, cartoons, cave bear and duck, comic books, comics creators, illustration, online cartoons on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
There’s been a discussion here about online cartoons. I do an occasional online panel cartoon, and have talked about the sad state of comic strips in newspapers. Some people have even wondered if there is a future with the typical format of strips. So I have spent some more time looking into online comics [...]
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A year or so ago I did paintings of my versions of superheroes. They lived for a time on my old website, and have been gone for a long while. I will post all the others if anyone is interested.
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Posted in Digital painting, Paintings, Photoshop Painting, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, farm, farm painting, illustration on November 28, 2007 | No Comments »
This is a really big painting, used in a long pan down. The foregorund elements are actually on a different level so you get a little bit of a multi-plane effect. This is the second shot in the documentary I have been writing about. I will have more news on that project soon!
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Posted in Animation Artists, Digital painting, Paintings, Photoshop Painting, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, farm, illustration, tractors on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is the ‘monster’ tractor from the animated segment I have been doing for a feature documentary. It’s the cleaned-up, final art in Photoshop, with my rough sketch in the background. It was extensively articulated in After Effects for animation. Wheels turn, arms reach out, hydraulics pump, smoke billows. I ended up having to [...]
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Last week I think I called this Great Animation Mondays or something. Well today, it’s Old Animation Monday. I was cleaning up and found an old project. It was shot on 16mm at UCLA, and I hadn’t seen a copy of it since my first semester. Anyway, I ‘reshot’ it using iStopmotion and threw some [...]
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A new sketch and some new blog upgrades. Trying to figure out the best way to have either Picassa (Google) or Flickr host the art, so it’s easy for blog visitors to get to updated galleries of work. I’m learning here, so hang on for a day or two!This is from my sketch book, done a short [...]
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Posted in Adobe After Effects, Animation Artists, Digital painting, Paintings, Photoshop Painting, Work in progress, animated short, animation, farm painting, illustration on November 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have been working on a really cool animated segment for a documentary the past 3 months now. Above is another background for it. I will post more as soon as I can.
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I am going to try and limit my animation blathering to once a week. We’ll see how I do.
The Pearce Sisters from Aardman Animation is a great little short. Two clips are available online and worth seeing. Wonderful evocative art/design. Great visual story telling. The site may load slowly due to embedded video cips. [...]
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