This Animator’s Survival Kit DVD set from Oscar-winning animator Richard Willams looks like a great resource for those animators out there. Personally, I do not have the patience for animation, but it’s fascinating to me.
This DVD set is a companion to Williams’ highly-rated Animator’s Survival Kit book. The site doesn’t seem to indicate if the book is included with the DVD set, but it seems not to be.
Richard Williams was awarded two Oscars for the animation on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit“. He directed and designed Roger Rabbit, Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman and all the new characters for the Walt Disney/Steven Spielberg production.
The set isn’t cheap at £634.04 (or about $1,252.42 for us U.S. folks as of the date of this post).
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Published on
September 13, 2007 in
fun and inspiration.
Tags: apparel, art, caricature, cool, Cool Stuff, humorous, monster, parody, president, t-shirt, web links, zombie.
OK, so I am a bit jealous that I didn’t come up with the idea of turning famous dead presidents into cartoon zombies! OK OK, I’m really jealous that I didn’t come up with the idea of cartoon zombie presidents.
How cool are these? Drawn in a very 1950′s EC horror comic/Jack Davis-esque style, featuring Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. And to make sure they offended the religious folk out there, you have Zombie Pope and Zombie Jesus as well.
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Cartoonist MacLeod has an honest and revealing post, On Cartooning which should be of interest to fellow cartoonists out there. Thought I would pass it along.
MacLeod has an interesting gimmick — his cartoons are all drawn on blank business cards. It’s a neat hook.
The cartoons are also unique, falling somewhere between slapstick surrealism and existential poetry. His style ranges from open, minimalist characters to Mondrian-meets-Kansinsky ballpoint doodles. Not all of them will “click” for you, but when one does it’s usually spot-on.
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Published on
September 6, 2007 in
reviews.
Tags: art, artist, cartoon, cartooning, cartoonist, creativity, design, drawing, free, graphic design, graphics, Illustration, illustrator, podcast, review, web links.
Illustrator extraordinaire Von Glitschka has a very cool podcast out that I just started listening to, The Illustrative Designer podcast. Each podcast is basically an interview by “the Vonster” (as he calls himself) with a chosen professional illustrator, cartoonist or designer. The most recent illustrator interview was with (the unimaginably prolific) cartoon illustrator & designer Bob Staake.
The “illustrative designer” moniker comes from Von’s idea that when asked to describe his work, he says he’s not a graphic designer that can draw, but rather an illustrator who can design. Hence, “illustrative designer”.
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Published on
September 4, 2007 in
productivity.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, caricature, cartoon, cartooning, cartoonist, color, graphics tablet, how-to, humorous, Illustration, illustrator, Photoshop, process, productivity, resources, technique, tip, Tutorials, vector, Wacom, walkthrough, web links.
If you aren’t familiar with cartoonist Tom Richmond, make yourself familiar. This guy’s work is absolutely amazing. Very much in the style of Mort Drucker from MAD Magazine — only taken to the extreme. Not only is his cartooning & caricature style excellent, but his color work is also phenomenal. Tom graciously has taken the time to outline exactly how he digitally colors his artwork in Photoshop in a juicily-detailed three-post tutorial/how-to series on his cartooning blog.
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