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Archive for May, 2008

Animation Wednesday!

Posted in Animation Artists, Animation Monday, animated short, animation on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Great song, and an animated video for it that has a lot of style and a good retro vibe. It uses simple animation very effectively.

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Whose a chicken?

Posted in Digital painting, Photoshop Painting, Sketch, Work in progress, character design, illustration, tagged , on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I started with drawings on this general topic for a picture book manuscript I am working on. Then I turned this one image into a design for a t-shirt. I just kept working on it and now it works pretty well as a one off illustration which I turned into a promo-postcard for myself. Done [...]

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Very cool…scary cool animation

Posted in Animation Monday, animation, tagged on May 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Wow. Great real-place animation.
Click Here to Watch the embedded Vimeo video on their site.

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Bubble Gum

Posted in Digital painting, Photoshop Painting, Sketch, Work in progress, illustration, tagged , , on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Work in progress. I am working on paintings for a series of children’s t-shirts and I am casting a wide net to start. Painting things that interest me or at least make me laugh from very rough quick sketches. From these I will pick out the ones people like the most to go the t-shirt [...]

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Animation Monday

Posted in Animation Artists, Animation Monday, You Tube, animated short, animation art on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

An interesting short from Russian animator Ivan Maximov. It’s surreal in that Eastern European surreal way.

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monster kids illustration

Posted in Photoshop Painting, Sketch, Work in progress, character design, illustration, kids books, picture books, tagged , , , on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is nearly finished, but not quite. This is part of a two page spread from a kids book story I wrote. But, I don’t like the story anymore, it just doesn’t work. So the manuscript is taking a long overdue holiday in the bottom on a cabinet. But I wanted to finish off at [...]

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words in picture books

Posted in SCBWI, childrens books, illustration, tagged , on May 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I just attended the Washington State SCBWI conference. It was interesting and helpful and overwhelming in equal parts. See I didn’t say depressing! Overwhelming is a better description.
One topic that came up often was the focus on picture books having limited word counts and what part words play in a picture book. Mo Willems, [...]

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