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15 Jun

Posted at 10:03h in Uncategorized
Unless you’ve been living in a cave you’ve heard about the upcoming release of Apple’s new wonder-gadget, the iPhone. I’m a bit of a Machead, and I’ve been excited about the iPhone ever since Steve Jobs introduced the dazzling new product back in January. It’s a truly amazing device…but also an expensive one. The “cheap” model is $500, and the...

16 May

Posted at 13:42h in Uncategorized
Greetings, faithful blog reader. Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I’m in a bit of a time crunch. I’ve taken on a large project that I’m super excited about. I can’t say too much, but thanks to a referral by the guys at FunnyPages Productions I’ve been hired as a character designer for a new animated tv show that...

04 May

Posted at 08:04h in Uncategorized
It’s 3am and I just got home from the midnight premiere of Spider-Man 3 at my local Imax theater. All I can say is “Wow!” These guys sure know how to make a good movie. In fact, this may be the best Spider-Man film yet. First, they’ve topped themselves in the special effects department. The action scenes and sense of...

13 Apr

Posted at 13:25h in Uncategorized
(Click for a larger image.) Last night I took my wife to see Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” performed onstage at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. That makes me sound a lot classier than I am. My wife is the Shakespeare fan, I honestly couldn’t tell you half of what was going on in the story. But it was still...

11 Apr

Posted at 08:09h in Art & Business
Many professional artists use photo reference when drawing, which can be especially helpful when deadlines are tight. In the days before the internet artists would collect a “morgue”, or “swipe file”, a collection of photos cut from magazines and books and then organized under headings (i.e. “children”, “ducks”, “trains”, etc.). When I was in art school I used to collect...

02 Apr

Posted at 18:05h in Uncategorized
I’ve been dabbling in Flash animation again. This time its a brief internet promo for a forthcoming book by best-selling author John Trent titled “The Skinny Rabbit” (to be published by Thomas Nelson). A couple of months ago I did some character designs and artwork for the book. Then they came to me with the concept for this animated promo....