Final animations for Diablo Valley College’s 3D Animation and Modeling course were due this week.  Here’s mine!

Here’s some stuff related to my final animation project!

The texture maps were somewhat basic, but they worked.  Folks were particularly interested in the sky texture, which was made quickly in Photoshop with a high-scatter custom brush.

Storyboards were equally basic, but appropriate since we weren’t expected to animate anything too complex.  As the beginning-level course, most projects were around ten seconds or so in length.

ktshy:

stupid-illustrations:

Evangelion pencil animations. So. Cool.

Love the berserk mode Eva, so creepy.

emmyc:

potatofarmgirl:

meowmixeightysix:

Favorite new song.   XD

For those who missed the greatest song of 2012 

need this on my blog

Last Wednesday - April 18, to be exact - was the award ceremony for Diablo Valley College’s James O’Keefe Prize for Graphic Literature. During the event, a certain comic about beard-based particulates was given recognition via the George Herriman Grand Prize! Excitement! I don’t have any photos of the event, but here’s some relevant links:

2012 O’Keefe Winners - displays the ceremony’s official pamphlet’s contents, including each featured comic!  Go forth and read them!

Diablo Valley College Awards Its Students’ Graphic Ambitions - an online news article from the Graphic Novel Reporter about the event!

The James O’Keefe Prize Blog - the official blog for the O’Keefe Prize, which includes a link to previous winning entries!

Other highlights included strawberry-filled cake and a special appearance by Joe Field, owner of Flying Colors Comics and founder of Free Comic Book Day. It was a blast to see the other winning entries and their creators, and the camaraderie throughout the event was fantastic. Thanks to the O’Keefe Prize committee for the award, and congrats to the other entrants! For the glory of comics!

emmyc:

limekle:

The Ultimate Will Smith

After discovering that several of Will Smith’s songs are the same BPM, I decided to mix them all together.

I probably shouldn’t admit how much time I spent listening to Will Smith songs today.

Center: Gettin’ Jiggy wit It 
Left:  Men in Black
Right: Miami

As much of a clusterfuck as this is, it is still way more listenable than three songs playing on top of each other should be.

Alora why

kalidraws:

RIP Jean Giraud (“Moebius”) 1938-2012.
A legendary artist who not only dominated comics with amazing imagination and skill, but also visually influenced some of my favorite movies (Blade Runner! Alien! 5th Element!)

The tumblr Quenched Consciousness has a huge archive of his art, where I reblogged this piece from. If you haven’t experienced his work before, take a look. You can buy some of his books from Moebius’ site, and Amazon.

Let’s all aspire to be as creative, prolific, and visionary as he was.

Just some edits to the beard-druff comic from a few months back. It was a finalist in Diablo Valley College’s James O’Keefe Prize competition, and the judges had some good suggestions.

typette:

campriot:

Handy Art Link Megapost

I take no credit for any of this, all I did was assemble them togetha’.

Hellooo friends, I was just handed a couple of useful links from a talented friend, and seeing some posts on Facebook and around the internets inspired me to share them all with you in this handy place.

Bookmark them all, or bookmark this note, idc, just keep track of ‘em!

ALSO IF YOU HAVE MORE TO ADD PLEASE LET ME KNOW. (Also, apologizes for the wall of text. I CANNOT SEEM TO GET THE “READ MORE” BUTTON TO WORK.)

ArtsyPoses - http://artsyposes.com

Relatively new, but very cool. The 30 second drawing tool seems to be glitching a little but that could be my computer being a dumb. Lots of unique poses and they’re looking to expand to other body types (if you read the FAQ they even said there are too many fit models haa)

PoseManiacs - http://posemaniacs.com

Everybody knows this one! Great poses, you can interact with them (rotation, etc) and has a very cool 30 second drawing tool. Also I belieeeve this is available on iOS.

Pixelovey - http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php

Another fantastic drawing tool - I prefer it over PoseManiacs’ but I can NEVER FIND THE LINK :( Lots of options here, too.

CedarSeed - http://www.cedarseed.com/fire/tutorials.html

The drawings here aren’t great but there is so much information here. SO MUCH.

Color Is Value - http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/2010/09/color-is-value.html

Handy coloring tips and things!

Ctrl+Paint - http://www.ctrlpaint.com/

So many digital painting tutorials. SO MANY. Ridiculously helpful in everything ever, and constantly updated.

Lackadaisy Expressions - http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333

This artist is incredibly talented and even though they are cats there is so much to be learned here.

+ more - http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/210/1/5/lackadaisy_construction_by_tracyjb-d422uo7.jpg

The Angry Animator - http://www.angryanimator.com/word/2010/11/26/tutorial-2-walk-cycle/

Because come on, all sorts of handy animation tips. I linked directly to the walk cycle because I found it to be most useful but there are other things floatin’ around there if that’s your thing~

Constructing the Head/Face - http://amberblade.tumblr.com/post/11177240121/tutorials-done-by-stanislav-prokopenko-who-is-an

Done by Stanislav Prokopenko, an instructor. Also really seems to know what he’s talking about. Saving images off of Tumblr seems to be hit-or-miss so keep this link handy as it may not save correctly. :(

And so begins the dumping of handy tutorial images that should all be on your harddrives soon :

How to Draw All Kinds of Shit - http://coelasquid.blogspot.com/2009/01/muscle-tutorial-thinger.html

Some of you may remember this from all of James Phegan’s classes ever! Super handy, and this is a printable version of the giant jpg he used to e-mail us.

How to Draw Beef - http://coelasquid.deviantart.com/art/Abdomination-How-to-draw-beef-132538271

The same artist; she’s really damn good at drawing beefy dudes.

Drawing people in perspective and other handy things - http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/125/9/9/IFX___Strike_A_Pose_by_WarrenLouw.jpg

http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Fellas-Tutorial-104865472 - Fellas Tutorial

http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Ladies-Tutorial-98311607 - Ladies Tutorial - NSFW

http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Pose-tutorial-72010406 - Pose Tutorial

http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Expression-tutorial-77399204 - Expressions/Head Tutorial

http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Hand-tutorial-83785318 - Hand Tutorial

http://alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Foot-tutorial-90158269 - Foot Tutorial

Resources :

http://lockstock.deviantart.com/ - Nude models and drapery!!

http://ictoa.deviantart.com/favourites/42274937 - Lots of nude models in all sorts of poses

http://www.japanesestreets.com/photos/ - All sorts of clothing styles!

http://tobyshelton.blogspot.com/2010/10/ive-got-to-hand-it-to-you-2010.html - Amazing amazing hands

http://s103.photobucket.com/albums/m148/squidsmanphotos/?start=all - Coelasquid’s “manbucket”

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsmtnfmnJV1qa8bb7o1_400.jpg - haaands

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lshg8hi59P1qjozoyo1_500.jpg - HAAANDS

Other neat things :

Color Scheme Designer - http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Allows you to quickly and easily create specific color schemes for a wide variety of purposes! If you’re like me and terrible with color, this will help.

Make your brush in Photoshop look like Flash or Paint Tool SAI - http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa104/ResultGraphics/screenshot20100331at728.png

Things to keep in mind while gesture drawing - http://hospitalvespers.tumblr.com/post/8712840616/gesture-drawing-basics

Super Obvious Secrets I Wish They’d Teach In Art School - http://philmcandrew.tumblr.com/post/5588480161/super-obvious-secrets-that-i-wish-theyd-teach-in-art

The Complete Guide to Not Giving a Fuck - http://inoveryourhead.net/the-complete-guide-to-not-giving-a-fuck/

How to Steal Like an Artist - http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/

Also, psst. - http://www.mediafire.com/?z7c401x9fdwqx - Ten art books that we should all own already.

For artsy fartsy types like me. I’ve got A LOT of this book marked already if that says anything about how useful this stuff is.

ALSO! Side note, there are a few very kind asks in my inbox regarding my artwork and inquiries about webcomics. I HAVE read them, and I WILL answer them. If the comic is any indicator, I haven’t had the time to sit down and do personal work as of late, and that includes responding to folks that would take a little longer than a quick “Hey! Thanks for that! I appreciate it!”

But, yes! Bookmark Miss Addy’s post and give this stuff a genuine look.

A MILLION REBLOOBS

lackadaisycats:

drawnblog:

I really enjoyed this fantastic behind-the-scenes video from caricaturist John Kascht showing his approach to drawing Conan O’Brien.

(Link via Ricardo Latorre)

This is really great!  It’s about caricature drawing, but encompasses so much about construction drawing, expression , and the thought processes behind character design too.