Jean-Francois Lepine works as Lead Character Artist for a game development studio in Foster City, California. Some of his personal work is posted at CGSociety. He discribes the walk cycle (image above) as follows: "Technical Animaton in XSI using mostly curves as trajectory. Skin muscles and face expressions are a combination of shape keys, plotted deformation, SDKs and other blended deformations. Rendered in mental ray..."
The Art of How to Train Your Dragon
available now at amazon.de
design sketch by Stuart Craig, Production Designer for Harry Potter
Sidebar Nation runs a great series of hour long podcastes aiming to present entertaining, informative and art-literate discussion on comic pop culture. The show features articles and interviews with top artists of the entertainment industry, such as Adam Hughes Jean Paul Leon, Neville Page, James Jean and others. Find the complete list of all back episodes here. www.sidebarnation.com
Six of the best visual arts podcasts have joined forces on VAPN to keep you informed, inspired, and entertained with hours of valuable content every week. On top of that, you will find articles, tutorials, and other useful resources on this site that you won’t find anywhere else. visualartistpodcastnetwork.com
Jean Giraud came to public attention in the USA in the 1980's after his work was published in the science fiction magazine "Heavy Metal", an American version of the French publication "Metal Hurlant". Since the '60s he published more than 25 graphic novels including strips such as Blueberry, Arzach, or Silver Surfer. In addition, Moebius (Jean Giraud) has contributed to the set designs of numerous film productions, including Alien, The Abyss, Dune and The Fifth Element.
The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition - which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software - honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world's top institutions of higher education.
FZD School of Design caters to both professionals looking to further their skills and to students who want to break into the entertainment industry. The courses cover a wide range of design topics such as video games, feature films, theme park designs, consumer products, toys, TV commercials, and set designs. FZD focuses heavily on the importance of fundamental skills and the proper ways to develop design abilities. The aim is to mold students into elite designers with a broad range of skills and graduate with a top notch portfolio.
The deadline for subsmissions is January 22, 2010. Spectrum is open to every artist who wishes to participate: students, fine artists, and illustrators are all treated equally. There are no limits on the number of pieces an artist can submit and there is no pre-screening prior to judging. Spectrum is sold in the mass market through all the major bookstores. Copies are also sent to many art directors and publishers to maximize exposure for the artists featured in the book. Submissions for Spectrum 17 are now being accepted. Visit their website for an application and download the entry form here.
A color picker resembling closely Corel Painter's color wheel is now availabe for Adobe Photoshop CS4.
cs5.org shows a preview into the next generation of Adobe developments. Painter-style brushes and an advanced warp tool are a few of the new features of CS5 due to be released in 2010. A video shows ‘wet’ paints being smudged, smeared and blended. It also shows an on-screen representation of the 3D properties of a brush, being twisted to lay down different stroke types. read more...
Universal has just debuted the first international trailer for Ridley Scott's Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett (via ComingSoon). The first official photos from the film are postet at couriermail.com. More information on the movie and a plot summary has comingsoon.net. Some more photographs and behind-the-scenes footage can be found on this blog.
Ballistic Publishing is now calling on artists to submit digital images for consideration in EXPOSÉ 8. Images can be created in any 3D or digital illustration application. Photoshop and digitally manipulated photography is also welcome. There is no cost or limit to enter work for inclusion. Each artists with work published in EXPOSÉ 8 will receive a complementary copy of the book. Submissions can be entered here: www.ballisticpublishing.com
7sins contest is an international contest, aimed at visual artists, either individual or collective.
CGheute is the new CG and VFX community website covering the German VFX market. On a daily basis they provide industry news, reports about events, the latest making-offs, Tutorials and what is going on in the German CG and VFX Scene. The team consists of two artists working in VFX for more than 15 years and extended contacts to the German VFX industry. The Artist-Profile-Pages give opportunity to present oneself, especially to German companies. www.cgheute.de
ImagineFX is 50 issues young. Following a string of awesome IFX covers from the likes of Android Jones, Bao Pham and Stanley Lau, they are now opening up the front cover spot to the public. Artists from all over the world are invited to submit their cover designs until January 10th 2010. The winner will be awarded with a one year subscription and a Wacom Cintiq. More details about the competition in the ifx-forum:
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