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I found this using Stumble. It's a fun (though bizarre) animated short by Pascal Campion about a man trying to open a very unique cartoon door. It appears to have been done in Flash. The timing is sharp, the animation is fluid, and the concept is delightfully simple. There is no sound or dialogue, just pantomime done very effectively....

Warning: This post is way off-topic. Please indulge me. I just finished listening to today's Focus on the Family radio broadcast. The broadcast is an interview with a man named Bill Kennedy who is currently serving a twenty-year prison sentence for white collar crimes. The problem is, a few years ago new proof surfaced to prove his innocence and so far...

Announcing a new feature coming to Cedric's Blog-O-Rama!: "Ask Mr. Artist Guy" I love writing this blog, but sometimes it's a challenge to come up with fresh and interesting topics to write about five times a week, every week, all year. My friend and fellow illustrator/blogger Tom Richmond actually blogs more frequently than I do (I don't know how he does...

Here's an old blog post from 2005. My blog audience has grown since then so I thought it was worth re-posting: (Sketches by Pixar artist Tom Gately) Walt Stanchfield started as a Disney clean-up artist in the 60's, and by the 1990's he had become one of Disney's premiere drawing instructors. Now, thanks to the folks at Animation Meat you can download...

I love a good book. My wife and I have five large bookcases filled with books and four more boxes of books in a hall closet. A surprising number of them we've actually read. But life gets busy and I've got less time to read than ever. Thankfully, there are audiobooks I can download and listen to while working on client projects. Of course as a professional artist I usually can't listen while I'm in the conceptual or sketch phase of a project because it is too distracting. Building the structure of an illustration requires my full concentration. But once that foundation is laid I can relax a bit and listen as I do the inking or coloring. Audiobooks can be more expensive than their paper-and-binding counterparts, but I don't mind. Personally I'd rather spend $25 on something that I will actually listen to rather than $15 on a book that I will never get around to reading. Reading means carving out time to give a book my full attention, whereas listening to an audiobook can be done in the background while I'm simultaneously working on something else. Ah, multitasking! I don't buy novels, I'm more of a nonfiction guy. Here's a few of my favorite audiobooks (in alphabetical order):

Here's a neat site I stumbled upon recently. Illustrator Dani Jones has compiled a list of fifty nifty Illustration links. I've only briefly visited a few of the links so far, but it looks like a good list with lots of informative and/or inspiring stuff dealing with various aspects of illustration. I'm looking forward to browsing more of the links...