As I've written before, I spent much of the summer and fall doing character designs for new episodes of 3-2-1 Penguins!, an animated series on NBC from the company behind VeggieTales. It's a goofball comedy about four penguins and two kids who travel the universe ala "Star Trek". Each week's lesson is based on a verse from the book of...
Thanks to the Drawn! blog, I've just learned that Wacom, Inc. is manufacturing a smaller, portable version of the Cintiq. To that I say "Yipee!", "Awesome!", and "Woo hoo!" Earlier this year my studio went all-digital. I traded in my traditional drawing board for a Cintiq, which lets me draw and paint directly onto the computer screen. It's greatly simplified my...
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, the magazine industry has seen better days. Overall readership is on a slow decline, resulting in lower subscriptions and lost advertising revenues. It looks like C. F. Payne is not the only artist being affected by it. I just learned that Disney Adventures, the snazzy comic-book magazine, is officially no more. The November issue...
(Art by C.F. Payne. Copyright © Reader's Digest.) For the last four years every issue of Reader's Digest has featured an illustration by award-winning illustrator C. F. Payne on the back cover. Payne is an exceptional illustrator, and his charming pieces for Reader's Digest hearken back to the spirit of Norman Rockwell but with a modern twist. My wife and I...
(Artwork by John Nevarez. All rights reserved.) John Nevarez is an extraordinary talent in the animation industry. He currently works as a storyboard and visual development artist for Disney television animation. His work is energetic and appealing, and I know more than a few people who list him among their favorite modern animation artists. To drool over his artwork,...
Since this is a holiday weekend, here's a fun time waster: Somebody's been keeping a record of the entire internet. Go to the Wayback Machine, type in the URL of any webpage, and see what it used to look like. Don't ask me how it's done, or why. I can't imagine how much server space this takes up. But it's fun...
