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Archive for November, 2008

TV Monster

Posted in Digital painting, Paintings, Photoshop Painting, Sketch, Work in progress, character design, illustration, tagged , , on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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The digital TV monster out to destroy old antenna based TV delivery? No. Just a quick sketch I did a while back and I recently painted it. I have no idea what it’s about. Actually, I have a story in mind now, once I started to tighten it [...]

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No one saw it coming…yeah right.

Posted in economy, tagged , , on November 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Sorry for this off-topic, topic but I find it hard to believe that among all the well manicured, blue suited CEO’s, Federal Banking officials and Hedge Fund dictators ‘no one saw this crisis coming’.
Plenty of people did. Many economists certainly did. And us regular Joe-Starbucks certainly did. When houses started costing so much that it [...]

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Presidential Election

Posted in Barack Obama, Blatherings, Sketch, doodle, quick sketch, sketch book, tagged , , , on November 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The election is over. Thank god. It’s a relief to stop searching the news sites and blogs for election stories and checking the polling sites 50 times a day. Minnesota is still out. That’s a bummer. As a former Minnesotan I find it hard to believe that in the 20 or so years I have [...]

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Hans Bacher – Blog

Posted in Animation Artists, Design, Digital painting, Disney Feature Animation, Dreamworks, Visual Development, animation background art, tagged , , on November 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I am adding a link to this blog and I recommend everyone interested in animation art/backgrounds/production design and art direction for film check it out. This is a terrific site. It’s put together by a marvelous artist named Hans Bacher. I own his book, Dream Worlds and it is filled with great Dev. art and [...]

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Quentin Blake

Posted in Illustration Techniques, Illustrators, illustration, informational, tagged on November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Another of my all-time favorite illustrators is Quentin Blake (I bet the headline gave the topic away?) I’m providing a link to his website as there is some useful and interesting info there. It’s got a Flash preloader (ugh..) and my first visit there I was kind of confused. As in, ‘I just want to [...]

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