I wanted to pass on some sad and tragic news for those of you who are fans of VeggieTales. Longtime Veggie writer/director Tim Hodge has recently been hit with two crushing blows. This past weekend Tim's 17-year old son was in a serious car accident and is currently in a coma. If that weren't bad enough, I'm told that this...
For the last several years I've enjoyed being a member of the National Cartoonists Society. Our chapter (the North Central Chapter) covers several midwestern states but we manage to get together three or four times a year and I always have a great time. I spend so much time alone in my freelancing cave that I relish any opportunity to...
This afternoon I was designing a Bible character for a client project. This sketch was too exaggerated to meet the style the client needed, but I liked how it turned out so I decided to do a full render in Photoshop....
It's been a while so I thought I'd post some noodles and doodles from my sketchbook. I don't have a scanner with me at the moment so I thought I'd try snapping pics of the sketches with my spanky new iPhone 3GS. The results aren't as good as a scanner would have done but after adjusting the levels in Photoshop...
A mascot can be powerful. If you run a small business, work at an ad agency, or design product packaging, I would encourage you to think about the benefits of having a mascot to represent the product or service you are selling. A while back I wrote a post summarizing some of the benefits a mascot brings. That post has recently...
As I mentioned in my last post, this weekend I had the privilege of meeting animator and author Tom Sito. I just wanted to take a moment to plug his book, Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson. You are probably thinking it would be hard to come up with a more...
