Posted in Adobe Flash, Design, Digital painting, Illustration Techniques, Internet, Photoshop Painting, character design, childrens books, illustration, kids books, online cartoons, picture books on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This was the cover art for an online book I did. It was put together in Flash, and you could click through each page. It was a ‘circle’ story, sort of a mind exercise where you start with macro items on earth and go smaller and smaller until you are back where you started. I’ll [...]
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Here’s a promotional postcard that went out for President’s Day. The front and back as seperate files. All painted in Photoshop.
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Last week got kind of crazy, huh? It was Friday when I realized I had only posted once. I hope to get some new material posted this week.
Here’s a great site I bumped into a few years ago, and visit as often as time allows. It’s called the Prelinger Archives. It’s not all animation, but [...]
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Animation Monday. Where I spend at least 30 minutes looking through my bazillions of bookmarks to find unique animation to post. Or not so unique…sometimes just scary.
I think this is older, and popped up on Cartoon Brew a while back, but some very odd and funny animated shorts at this site. Bunny-things, who seem to [...]
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Posted in Digital painting, Illustration Techniques, Visual Development, Work in progress, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, character design, childrens books, illustration on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some work-in-progress here. It’s a HUGE painitng, so this reduced size is a little less effective. It is a double page spread. And the design of this story has me thinking of an animated short based on it as well.
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Posted in Adobe After Effects, Animation Artists, Digital painting, Illustration Techniques, Photoshop Painting, Trash, You Tube, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, character design, collage, illustration, mr. shrimp, online animation on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
The clip above is the opening 13 seconds or so from an animated project I art directed and animated…that never saw the light of day. Heck, it didn’t even see a light bulb swinging back and forth in the wind on a lonely front porch.
It was based on an idea from a very funny writer [...]
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Posted in Amazon.com on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
So I ordered some stuff from Amazon.com. And my order ‘qualified’ for their Super-Duper-Super-Saver-Shipping. That means FREE. And as I didn’t need this stuff in a hurry, I figured ‘”Why Not?”. Ordered on January 5th I think.
On the 8th I got the email that it shipped. Not so bad, 3 days to throw stuff [...]
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This week, I’m not linking to a clip, but to a great animation artist named Lou Romano. For those involved in animation you already know his work. If I can introduce a person or two to him, all the better. Inspiring, amazing, fun and funny. Recently he has also been showing up in the [...]
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Posted in Animation Artists, Digital painting, Visual Development, Work in progress, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, farm painting, illustration, quick sketch, sketch book on January 11, 2008 | No Comments »
I seem to have a thing for farms. Well, drawing farms anyway. And rural landscapes in general. I have done a few animated shorts set on farms, and a graphic novel (with agent, but I’m not sure it will be picked up) that has a rural setting (truth be told, it is half farm/half outer [...]
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A quick doodle from my notebook. And it says “Story is King” on the other side of that page. I like the brevity of this, even though it is drawn with way too many lines.
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