04 Dec To Infinity And Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios
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03 Dec 3-2-1 Penguins! Character Designs
On Saturday morning NBC aired another episode of 3-2-1 Penguins! for which I did some character design work. The episode was a lesson in gluttony, so I had to design an alien race of overweight pig-like characters. The primary character is a slobby, pizza-chomping Ambassador, but there were a few quick cuts to scenes with other misc. alien families all...
30 Nov Shameless Self-Promotion
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...
29 Nov New! Portable Cintiq Is Coming…
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...
28 Nov “Disney Adventures” Magazine Shutting Down
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...
27 Nov C. F. Payne Ends Reader’s Digest Run
(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...