Recently I came across a terrific article about business cards from the ProFreelancing blog. According to the author most business cards are largely a waste of money. People will quickly lose interest in you and your work if all they have to remember you by is your contact info. It's even worse at a networking event where everyone is collecting...
Sorry for the slowdown in blog posts this week. Things have been pretty crazy here. I'm putting in a lot of hours on an animation project, plus this week I also whipped together some storyboards for a major retailer, did some character design sketches for a major food company, and finished up designing a mascot character for a small business...
This past Saturday morning NBC aired another episode of 3-2-1 Penguins! which I had the pleasure of working on. There were only two characters who needed to be designed, Admiral Sowmaster and his assistant, Cash. Both were to be pig-like aliens. Here's an early rough concept. The Admiral is on the left. After turning in the first concept I received some very...
Last year I took a character design class online from Stephen Silver at Schoolism.com. One of the lessons dealt with memory sketching, which I've written about here. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhD_70XlG_o&feature=related] Here's a video of Stephen Silver doing a memory sketch and discussing it as he draws. Fun stuff. If you have an interest in character design I'd highly recommend taking Stephen's class. You'll learn...
As a character designer I'm fascinated with product mascots. A good mascot, when combined with a strong ad campaign, can be an enormous benefit when promoting a product or service. My favorite freelance projects are when clients hire me to design a mascot or character, either for advertising or animation. To help illustrate the power of a mascot I thought...
Continuing yesterday's post...
