Uncategorized

This blew me away. Big kudos to everyone involved. (Warning: May not be suitable for young children). From Cartoon Brew: Here’s something a little different for fans of violent anime: My Last Day, a nine minute animated short commissioned by The JESUS Film Project and animated by Japan’s Studio 4ºC – the production house behind The Animatrix, Genius Party, Tekkon Kinkreet and...

This past weekend I drove all the way to Omaha for the semi-annual meeting of the North Central Chapter of the National Cartoonists Society. In terms of square miles our chapter is by far the largest covering almost a third of the U.S. Our meeting locations rotate throughout the Midwest and almost always involve a long drive....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FPuqjjWDG8] Dream On Silly Dreamer is a low-budget but nicely done documentary made in 2006 by Disney animators chronicling the massive layoffs handed down by Disney management in 2002. It's a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the Disney studios following the massive success of The Lion King all the way down to the "official" end of 2D animation at Disney. Animators recall...

A quick study done on a Cintiq, based on a live model I photographed during a drawing session at the 2010 CTN Expo. Looking at it again its pretty obvious I made the hands too big and the legs too short, but oh well. What's the point of keeping a sketchbook if you never make mistakes? Happy New Year one and...