Just saw this on Create Digital Music some very cool monome action!

edison - tonka truck from edison on Vimeo.

A trailer for a 3d CGI animated film based on the manga 2001 Nights by Yukinobu Hoshino.



A version of Tetsujin 28 I had never heard of called Tetsujin 28-FX very cool and very nineties looking!

The latest issue of ImagineFX is out and its a character design special, Jam packed with excellent articles and tutorials ( my comic strip is snugly nestled in the news page! ).

Available at all good magazine places like Wh Smiths and Borders.

You can also order it online here!

Duck Heart Teslacoil from Digital Artist Awards on Vimeo.

I re-watched Brad Bird’s Iron Giant movie last night, It’s one of my favorite animated films!

It took me a while to get round to watching it as I had initially written it off as your usual bad Hollywood kids movie gunk ( I think this may have been down to a bad marketing campaign by Warner Brothers which sold it as “bad Hollywood kids movie gunk”).

I ended up catching it on TV on a quiet sunday and was absolutely gobsmacked at how good this movie was. The storytelling, animation and design all amazing. It’s a real shame that very few people watched this on release this is something I would love to see on the big screen!

Anyway as you can see I have knocked out a quick doodle of said Iron Giant, though I may redo the shading as I have seem to gone a bit screen tone crazy! If I have time I may draw him a body and give him a lick of paint.

If you never seen it I suggest you go to you local video shop and rent it (amazon also have it for very cheap).

This is a rough doodle I’m doing of Briareos Hecatonchires from Appleseed, It was inspired a drawing that Brandon Graham posted on his blog.

I don’t normally get to flex my Sci-Fi/Manga Muscles as I tend to focus on more cartoony style stuff but I’m having a lot of fun with this image. As you can see I have yet to finish his legs and the shading is very rough, I will post the finished Image soon!

I found this on Paul Popes blog - the image below is only part of a Frank Herbert Dune inspired comic page.

Click on the link to see the whole page http://pulphope.blogspot.com/2009/10/muad-dib.html

I just got Manga Studio EX4 and its very good as you can see by the results below!

I will make more posts as I get to grips with the software!