Why Your Concept Art Portfolio is Being Ignored

Chris Oately is a Disney artist who offers surprising insight to fellow artist and designers. Are you not getting the response you seek when submitting your portfolio? He talks about getting inspired, research, originality and using your imagination to better your results. Get your portfolio top notch with his insight. Check out this link:

http://chrisoatley.com/concept-art-portfolio-p1/?awt_l=4mEKk&awt_m=3l5lmyRU6pUGLtM

Visual Development Kickstarter

Over 25 artists from Ringling College of Art and Design have collaborated to create a hardcover edition of the book " Design Unscripted"! The book’s aim is to help launch the careers of aspiring Visual Development Artists. Artwork looks terrific. Hopefully they will reach their project goal amount.

Check this out:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1498141884/design-unscripted

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Inside The Pixar Braintrust

Here is a cool atricle about Pixar and and their thought process when they create movies.
Check it out.
http://www.fastcompany.com/3027135/inside-the-pixar-braintrust

Mr. Peabody Kicks Butt!

Mr Peabody has taken over the No.#1 Spot this week in the  box office.
Check this out for more info:

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/box-office-mr-peabody-and-sherman-bites-into-top-spot-need-for-speed-in-third-1201135308/

Google Sketch-Up and Comic Art

Google SketchUp and Comic Art
In a prior post I mention how game studios used Sketch-Up as a design tool:
http://tripleadude.blogspot.com/2014/01/google-sketch-up-and-game-design.html

Comic book artists have also been using this tool to help with backgrounds on there comic strips.
Check out these links:

http://paolorivera.blogspot.com/2012/06/wacky-reference-wednesday-no-178.html

http://leinilyu.deviantart.com/art/sanctum-sanctorum-52955441

http://www.giantmonster.tv/giant/?p=222

http://comicsaregreat.com/su
 
http://screentones.deviantart.com/art/Cheating-backgrounds-and-Props-130048837

You will get a kick out of this video tutorial on using Google building maker -
http://vimeo.com/58729524Main site for download:
http://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-make
There is a pro version as well with educational licensing for students.

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The Low Cost Cintiq Alternative

Ray Frenden is a talented artist who has been keeping us up on all the new low cost Cintiq alternatives out there. If you are thinking about purchasing a standard Wacom drawing tablet, you need to check this out first!

http://frenden.com/tagged/review

Check out Ray's work here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rayfrenden/sets/72157603779871503/


Here is Cintiq alternative update:
http://tripleadude.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-better-cintiq-alternative-amazon-fire.html

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2D to 3D Animation Software Part II

This is a follow up to a prior post:

http://tripleadude.blogspot.com/2014/01/2d-to-3d-animation-conversion-software.html

Here is another software that has it's own take on 2D to 3D when it comes to character turnarounds.
CrazyTalk Animator 2 by Reallusion:

http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/Animator/animator_videogallery.aspx

Check it out!


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