27 Jan The Animation Learner’s Site
This site has been around for a while, but it has a lot of great tips and insights on the basics of art and animation. The Drawing lessons alone are pretty good. Worth a visit....
This site has been around for a while, but it has a lot of great tips and insights on the basics of art and animation. The Drawing lessons alone are pretty good. Worth a visit....
Wow! My blog has only been up for 6 months, and so far I've had 12,000 visits. That's unbelieveable to me. Since my fan club is only about three people, you guys have been awfully busy. Seriously, thank you all so much for checking back and leaving the occassional kind word. Since I work at home...
I just discovered a great new art blog, Story Boredom. Most of the contributors are anonymous, but the rumor is they are all storyboard artists who work in feature animation. It is known that one of the members is John Sanford (co-director of Disney's Home on the Range). Whoever they are, they are incredibly talented. Check...
Thanks everyone for the great feedback on my self-promotion postcard (two entries ago). Based on that feedback, here is a new version. Not sure yet if I like the background colors. I think keeping only two background colors helps unify it more, but it's hard to find two colors that will compliment each of the varied faces (which...
A friend just sent me a link to Artnatomy, a fascinating site using Flash technology to help artists study facial anatomy and expressions. It highlights the different face muscles and lets you push and pull them to see how they work to communicate emotion. This is way better than anything you might find in an "anatomy for artists" book. ...
It's time for a new "snail mail" campaign to promote my work. Here's a rough mock-up of a postcard idea (click the images for a larger version). I'm trying to market myself as a character designer, so I've collected 11 of my favorite designs from 2005 into a psudo-Brady Bunch format. This is going to be an...