More misc. links and news of interest from around the web: Mort Drucker Interview - Stephen Silver has posted his video interview with famed caricaturist Mort Drucker over at Schoolism.com. The video, part of his new "Maters Series" is over two hours long. For $39.95 you can have unlimited access to the video online for 30 days. (Sorry, due to piracy...
VeggieTales is the best selling direct-to-video series of all time. Phil Vischer, the guy who created VeggieTales, has partnered with Focus on the Family to create a new DVD project rolling out in March called What's In The Bible? The official website has just launched, including a video teaser. What's In The Bible? is a multi-part series that will walk through...
Today at 10:00am Pacific time is the start of the "Help The Hodges" art auction (ebay link). It's not only a chance to bid on some *fantastic* cartoon and animation art but you'll also be helping a good cause. The drummer pictured above is Matt Hodge, teenage son of animation writer/producer Tim Hodge (Mulan, VeggieTales). Back in August Matt was in...
Several times a year I am called on by local ad agencies to do marker comps. "Marker comp" is an industry term leftover from the days before computers. Back then if an agency wanted to pitch an idea to a client they would sometimes bring in an illustrator, plop him in front of a drawing board stacked with paper and...
Here's another concept I worked up for DecoPac, a local company that manufactures licensed toys for specialty birthday cakes. They told me they were working on a cake design for Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" and asked me to work up a couple of rough concept sketches to help them sell it to the folks at Disney. They wanted one...
One of my regular clients is a toy company called DecoPac. Among other things they create many of the fancy birthday cakes you see in the grocery store bakeries. They often develop fun themes using licensed characters to tie in with movie and TV franchises. On occasion they will hire me to develop toy concepts for some of the cakes....
