Kelly McNutt, a talented Minneapolis animator whom I mentioned in yesterday's post, has been working with Michael Jantze (creator of the comic strip The Norm) on some fun new animated shorts. The shorts are now viewable on the new Jantze Studios YouTube site: At Your Service is a cartoon created for a client in the hotel/hospitality industry. If only every hotel...
I'm super busy finishing up a client project, so today I'll just post a few miscellaneous links: • Calling Minnesota Animators. My friend Kelly McNutt is a very talented artist and animator in his own right. Check out his blog and website. He's currently looking for some Minnesota animation artists to help him out with a client project. • Disney's Announces Upcoming...
Last year I took a character design class online from Stephen Silver at Schoolism.com. One of the lessons dealt with memory sketching, which I've written about here. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhD_70XlG_o&feature=related] Here's a video of Stephen Silver doing a memory sketch and discussing it as he draws. Fun stuff. If you have an interest in character design I'd highly recommend taking Stephen's class. You'll learn...
Brad Howard of Doodlesauce.com writes: I have never been a website design person...
The freelance business can change rapidly. Most of last week work was winding down and I was getting ready to do some serious thumb twiddling. Now I've suddenly got five projects on my plate. Three are due this week. Without divulging too much, my current projects include: Designing a mascot for a retail company A series of marker comps for an ad agency Some...
As a character designer I'm fascinated with product mascots. A good mascot, when combined with a strong ad campaign, can be an enormous benefit when promoting a product or service. My favorite freelance projects are when clients hire me to design a mascot or character, either for advertising or animation. To help illustrate the power of a mascot I thought...
