In a recent New York Times article Pixar announced its upcoming slate of animated films. (You have to register to read the article). The list includes: Wal-E (official site) — A film from writer/director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) that tells the story of a robot stranded on earth all-alone in distant future. Large chunks of the film will have no dialogue,...
United States copyright law currently goes a long way towards helping protect artists from those who would steal and publish their artwork for profit. (Unless Congress passes the Orphan Works Act, in which case American artists will be doing a lot of nail biting and hand wringing. But I digress.) Unfortunately once you leave American shores its another matter. Copyright laws...
This week's topic over at Illustration Friday is "Baby". This is an old doodle from my files, I just added a quick splash of color. It's part of a concept piece I did for a client project last year that never got off the ground. At the time our sweet, adorable daughter Anna was only four months old so I...
I'm still swamped with freelance work. Besides putting in long (but fun!) hours on a summer-long animation project, I'm designing toys for one client and designing a mascot for another. I've got a few other possible projects in the works as well. But I want to make sure I still post regular updates to this here blog. I've recently finished up...
A couple of years ago author Mark Simon released a terrific reference book for artists, simply titled Facial Expressions. The 256-page book contains over 3,000 photos of 50 male and female "models" (mostly friends of the author, I suspect) making a variety of facial expressions from various angles. There's also a section of mouth phonemes and a few pages...
Since July of 2007 I've been committed to posting something new every weekday. It's a lot of fun and I'm glad that so many of you have found my humble ramblings helpful. However, there are only so many hours in the day and lately I've been feeling the squeeze. I'm blessed with a lot of wonderful people and projects to fill...
