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CreativeFan posts daily articles, quality resources, roundups, tutorials and inspiration in creative fields such as graphic design, web design, audio, music, video, computer graphics, and photography. There are plenty of interviews with artists introducing their techniques for concept art and matte painting.

2.International Sketching Symposium

The Urban Sketching Symposium is a three-day workshop where artists from around the world meet to draw together. The Portuguese capital of Lisbon is the host city of this year's event, which will take place from July 21 -23, 2011 at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.

Registration is now open to anyone with an interest in drawing on location, no matter their skill level or professional background. Sign up for the workshop here.

The blog features sketches and often equally colorful stories behind the scenes by 100 invited artists correspondents in more than 30 countries around the world. Some are architects and illustrators, others are graphic designers, web developers, painters or educators, all sharing the same passion for drawing on location.

www.urbansketchers.org

interview

Once again CGHUB caught up with the talented artists at Steambot to learn about their latest work on Tron: Legacy. Steambot Studios creates world class visual content for international clients in the feature film, videogame, advertising, broadcast, graphic novel and publishing industries. Read the full interview here...

Core77 Design Awards

Recognizing excellence in all areas of design enterprise, the Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners. Dedicated jury teams around the world will judge 15 categories of design endeavor with the top professional and student entries winning the inaugural trophy, and Winners, Runners Up, and Notable entries published in the Awards Gallery and across the Core77 online network.

awards.core77.com

Game preview

Adhesive Games, an independent company in Los Angeles, is developing a new Mech Combat FPS under the art direction of Khang Le. All clips in this video were captured from actual network game matches. The third person shots are from a spectator camera, gameplay is first person. A first person gameplay trailer is expected to follow soon.

click icon to preview concept art:


http://www.adhesivegames.com
http://www.hawkengame.com

TRON animated

Tron: Uprising will begin airing on Disney Xd during the Summer of 2012. Directed by Charlie Bean and Art Direction by Alberto Mielgo. There's also a 10-part micro-series in the works that will premiere in the Fall.

last call for entries!

Submissions are closing for Ballistic Publishing's EXPOSÉ 9, on Monday, February 28th 2011. This is the ninth edition of the annual artbook celebrating the creative talents of digital artists worldwide.

ballisticpublishing.com

Animation, Games, VFX and Interactive Media

Stuttgart will play host to three incredible events in May, becoming the animated capital of Europe! FMX, the 16th Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Interactive Media will take place May 3-6. The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film - May 3-8 and showcasing the latest international animated films and the Animation Production Day - a business platform for the industry - May 3-4.

Art of Tron

The 160-page high-end book takes fans inside the art and design of the upcoming film Tron: Legacy. The book showcases concept illustrations, set designs, character bios and images from the film, including an afterword by the film's director, Joseph Kosinski. See review at Parkablog

CG Art Competition

Due to long Christmas and New Year holidays, the Share One Planet Organizing Committee has decided that the competition deadline will be postponed.
Submission: August 1st, 2010 – April 20th, 2011,
Judging: May 1st, 2011 – June 1st, 2011
Awards Announcement: June 15th, 2011

“Share One Planet” Wild Animals CG Art Elites Invitational Competition is the first global competition of the “Share One Planet” series. The competition will invite CG masters worldwide to take part. Winners will be rewarded not only with cash, but also the receive specially-designed trophies. The winning entries of the competition will be first exhibited in China and then toured internationally in an exhibition. Organizers hope the platform of “Share One Planet” can be built for encouraging artists to create meaningful and inspiring CG works and for promoting great CG artists, raising attention to wild animals and the protection of the global environment.

www.shareoneplanet.org

Exhibition

The Fondation Cartier in Paris presents MŒBIUS-TRANSE-FORME, the first major exhibition devoted to the work of Jean Giraud, known by his pseudonyms Gir and Mœbius. An icon of incomparable stature in the world of comics and film. The exhibition presents the first 3-D animated film directed by the artist, La Planète encore, along with the stories from the original comic boards. With landscapes and characters in perpetual transformation, his drawings explore the boundaries of the unconscious and reveal an imaginary and fantastic world. Read more...

October 12, 2010 – March 13, 2011
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, boulevard Raspail 261

“□□ and Its Friends”

The Creative Cartoon Competition, themed on “□□ and Its Friends”, is jointly held by Shanda Games and leewiART, with the objective to design international standard cartoon figures and to represent all FLASH, web and casual products of Shanda Games. Winning artwork will have the opportunity to eventually become the major product logo of casual community and games of Shanda Games. Openness, freedom and creativeness are the guiding principles of this competition. Read more about the rules and submissions at leewiART

Comic Cover Art Contest

DeviantART announced "The Big Under" Comic Cover Art Contest! The winning entry will fetch a handsome $2,000, plus it might be used as the cover for the digital motion comic "Inception - The Big Under", which may be included as a bonus on an upcoming Warner Bros. Home Entertainment release.



"The Big Under" is a prequel to the film Inception; it reveals how Cobb and company get to Saito to put him under for the dream featured in the beginning of the film. Check here for stills from Inception for inspiration, as well as more information about the film and comic.

conté animated

“Thought of You” unites figurative works, EFX animation, and contemporary dance in one beautiful piece of animation. Ryan Woodward, the artist behind all this, is planning to release a book about his techniques in spring 2011.
conteanimated.com

Sentury II

The long awaited next book from legendary Syd Mead has finally arrived after nine years. Loyal fans and art enthusiasts will rejoice in being able to view what Syd Mead has been imagining for nearly the past decade. Having illustrated the future for us for the past 40 years, Syd Mead continues to amaze and surprise us with his stunning pieces. Vailable now at sydmead.com

Cars II

Disney/Pixar just made public the first film stills from Cars 2, opening in theatres on June 24, 2011. Itsartmag.com has some new character designs in high resolution on their page.

pixar.com, unofficial pixar blog

A blog dedicated to the VFX industry and all the people behind the scenes that create the impressive film images of todays, yesterdays and tomorrows films. The website offers exclusive interviews with the artists and never before seen image material from blockbuster films such as AVATAR, INCEPTION, ROBIN HOOD and PRINCE OF PERSIA.

www.artofvfx.com

Brush Viewer

Downloading and sharing custom-made Photoshop brushes has become a common practise all over the internet forums. Whether for experiment or a certain purpose, there is a broad variety of resources. Rarely one can estimate the actual use of a brush-set before loading it into Photoshop.



ABRView is a little software that enables you to preview single brushes and helps you to pick the one you were looking for. Get this application (64KB) for free at easyelements.com

Megamind

The Art of Megamind shows illustrations and visual development for the animated film of the same name produced by DreamWorks Animation. The book holds 156 pages containing character designs, color sketches, background paintings, storyboards and props designs.


Insight Editions | Hardcover | 11 x 10 inches | 978-1-60887-004-2

Digital Matte Painting

matte art by Jaime Jasso

scribed.com has published an interesting compilation of tutorials and walk-throughs describing the techniques being used in the process of digital matte painting. There is also a section about photoshop brushes explaining the various settings and their effects. Most of the tutorials have been around for a while and some of you may remember them from other websites. Still most of the information is relevant and worth a look at. scribd.com

Steampainting: Spark

In volume 1, Spark looks at the method behind the inspiration of each subject, and specifically, helps users navigate the comprehensive steps used to create a visual representation of a design, idea or mood. This book reflects the passion and enthusiasm for concept art and offer a glimpse into the artists’ mindset and motivation behind each STEAMPAINT image.

Now available at steambotstudios.com

TRON

With Disney's remake of TRON coming forward, it'sartmag has realeased a few more pieces of concept art for the film. More of this will soon be released in 'The Art of Tron: Legacy' shipping from Amazon on November 16, 2010. Check out a high res preview of David Levy's city environment here.

The Colony

Mesmerizing, delicate sepia toned images throughout from renowned, award-winning artist, Viktor Antonov - production designer and co-author of the French animated feature The Prodigies.


The story, taking place in 1875 traces the epic journey of Gabriel Duban in an era before space‑travel when worlds of mystery, danger and enchantment were still found on Earth. Viktor is a winner of the Visual Effects Society and a BAFTA award. In his 11 years in the entertainment industry he has designed and art directed projects such as the blockbuster Half Life 2.
Available now at amazon.com

call for entries!

Illustrative is the leading international forum for contemporary illustration and graphic arts.

The exhibition displays an inspiring collection of fresh illustration and graphic art showcasing over 600 works from more than 60 artists. Over the course of two weeks, the festival celebrates the illustrative arts, presents new talents and trends, exchanges ideas, marvels at progressive technologies, and rediscovers forgotten styles.

The Young Illustrators Award encourages and supports designers in their artistic practice and offers an international and worldwide recognized platform for them. A jury, consisting of international art directors, well-known illustrators and publishers, will nominate artists in three categories during the event.

Applications for Illustrative 2011 can now be submitted here. www.illustrative.de

dDigital Arts Festival

NEoN 10 is a seven-day international digital arts festival featuring moving image, performance, music and technology driven arts.
The over arching curatorial theme this year is Character: evaluating the abstracted or physical agent in a work of art; investigation of the fictional or psychological systems; observation of the unit of information, symbol, sound or written language. Through this focused dimension NEoN intends to explore the notion of collaboration between visual art, information communication, media production and gaming that will expand digital development and knowledge.

NEoN DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL
Dundee
Scotland, UK

Nov.11.-14.2010