As I mentioned a couple of posts back, one of my clients specializes in themed birthday cakes. They decided they'd like to manufacture little plastic trees to use on some of the cakes, and asked me to draw one up. Here's the concept sketches and final turnarounds I submitted. The tree could only be so tall and so wide. The grey...
On Saturday I was in a comic book shop and came across a real treasure of a book,The Artist Within: Portraits of Cartoonists, Comic Book Artists, Animators, and Others by Greg Preston (Amazon.com link). This hefty picture book features full-page photographs of over 100 prominent cartoonists at home in their studios. The long list of legends featured includes Jack Kirby,...
Some days it seems like everything goes wrong at once. A couple of weeks ago my computer started acting funny, and after several hours on the phone with five different tech support people, I was told I have to completely wipe my hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch. While I wasn't thrilled, my Mac is getting old (going on...
Cedric's Blog-O-Rama officially began three years ago today. I've sinced switched from Blogger to WordPress, and moved from a semi-daily to daily format and then back again. Readership has more than tripled. Besides just my Mom, I know of at least two other people who read my humble ramblings. A hearty thank-you to all of you!...
One week ago today Apple opened the iTunes App Store, officially allowing third-party developers to write software for the iPhone. So far over 500 apps and games have been posted for download. Most are inexpensively priced (around $5-$10 each), and a large number of them are free. During the first weekend over ten million apps were downloaded by iPhone users. The...
Following up on my last post, here's two more inspiring links related to Pixar: The first is a Presto, the new animated short that is shown before Wall•E in the theaters and will no doubt be included on the DVD. It's a zany little film animated in a style inspired by the classic Warner Brothers shorts. It's much broader and zippier...
