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Creature Spot - A home for creature lovers

*thanks florian!*

17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls - Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers.

impressive characters from jorge lacera:

Random Bits

zamak has a very unconventional way of making characters:

http://www.changethethought.com/zamak/

many pictures on star wars inspired portraits and interventions in public space

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/12/
star-wars-fun-part-2.html

and

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/01/
good-clean-star-wars-fun.html

very, VERY strange cartoons from MTV japan here:

http://www.feinheit.ch/blog/2007/11/29/
mtv-japan-prison-rabbit-cartoon-episode-1-15/

*thanks bernie*

super geeky monsters are drawn here, really creative and nice to watch; illustration marries web 2.0, really nice and intelligent

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HmXY3Q-2JkM

the original site and all of the over 100 monsters can be found here:

http://344design.typepad.com/344_loves_you/
2006/11/daily_monster_0.html

*thanks matthias*

summarizing famous hollywood movies in 30 seconds, cartoon style

http://www.angryalien.com/0704/alienbunnies.html

*thanks david*

a very interesting blog dedicated to animation

http://www.fpsmagazine.com

create your sitepal, avatar online, animated;

http://www.meez.com/main.dm

a very interesting hybrid video of recorded video footage and animated insects, stitched together very well

http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=7209282843949564567&q=insect+animation

*thanks peter*

Minimal and stunning!

http://www.g2works.com

comics and famous artwork mashed up:

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp
?contest_id=14079&display=photoshop#entries

http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/

doctor macro offers color vintage movie posters in high resolution for download too!

http://www.doctormacro.info/Movie%20Star%20Pages/Film%20Noir%20Posters/
Film%20Noir%20Posters.htm

http://www.pictoplasma.com/publishing/encyclopaedia/index.html

look at the comic on the bottom left side

http://www.scarygirl.com/

by Dan Goodsell (aka Grickily)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60585948@N00/sets/1499962/

via bb

http://www.spreadshirt.de

http://www.cafepress.com

http://www.comboutique.com

there is also a competition running here:

http://www.spreadshirt.net/contest.php?op=ldfgallery

a character design community with user upload

http://www.mojizu.com/

for sure you know pictoplasma already

http://www.pictoplasma.com/

many articles and information on the topic of computer graphics, character and motion design:
http://www.cgsociety.org/

find, match and arrange colors for your designs:
http://www.colourlovers.com/

with this blog:

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/

amazing!

via boinboing

• “lines and colors is a blog about drawing, sketching, painting, comics, cartoons, webcomics, illustration, digital art, concept art, gallery art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards”

http://www.linesandcolors.com/

http://www.hethe.com/

mixing analogue and digital at its best

http://www.timmarrs.co.uk/

drag and drop figures and bubbles

http://www.thirdframestudios.com/adgame/stripgen/

*thanks jürgen*

http://www.happyhomelandstore.com

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1581153864/
qid=1140184076/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_16_1/302-7408637-3462424

http://www.derekyu.com/extras/pixel01.html

• Drawn! is a collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, cartoonists, and anyone who likes to draw. Visit us daily for a dose of links and creative inspiration.

http://www.drawn.ca

http://www.threadless.com

• Threadless is an ongoing tee shirt design competition. Designs are put into the running to be scored for 7 days. After those 7 days high scoring designs are chosen to be printed and sold from our “SHOP” section!

Nice idea, wicked designs!

http://www.ericailcane.org/pagine/cinemavolturno.htm#

via http://flexgordon.yugo.at (again!)

wow! highy recommended! the sketch book navigation is very cute, the artwork even more!

http://www.blublu.org/

via http://flexgordon.yugo.at/

two more online - tutorials:

very clean, a zipfile for download:

http://www.deviantart.com/download/18914400/

also very good:

http://www.steeldolphin-forums.com/htmltuts/digital_colorpart1.html
http://www.steeldolphin-forums.com/htmltuts/digital_colorpart2.html

http://www.steeldolphin-forums.com/htmltuts/painting_steps.html

in german, clean and well-structured

http://www.distinctstyles.com/

picture taken from:

http://www.formereignis.com

cute site, the sweet little sister of eboy

http://www.lovepixel.idv.tw

“vector scientists…perpetually sharpening the cutting edge.”

http://www.tokyoplastic.com

DMA is a online-learnin-platform of the art-university linz. it covers many topics such as 2D and 3D design and has very broad and deep tutorials online. highly recommendable!

• “Inhaltlich sind die Module in die Hauptbereiche 2D-Grafik, DTP, Video/Postproduction, Audio, 3D-Grafik und Animation, Internet/Web/Multimedia gegliedert und je nach Fragestellung über Zugänge wie Workshops, Übungen, Produktionsprozesse, Grundlagen, Soft- und Hardware abrufbar.”

http://www.dma.ufg.ac.at/

Illustration Now!
Herausgegeben von Julius Wiedemann
Flexicover, 196 x 249 mm, 544 Seiten
ISBN 3-8228-4033-5 (englisch/deutsch/französisch)

http://www.taschen.com

cute characterdesign on flash-platform

www.rolitoland.com

http://www.glennferon.com/portfolio1/

In his portfolio, glenn feron shows a excellent showcase of what is possible with digital retouche and what´s left of reality.

interesting “workshop” category

http://www.conceptart.org/

a tutorial on modelling a face

http://www.c4dtreff.de/tutorials/character

i made a list of books, interesting for pupils and students of visual arts and media

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/
-/ZF3M7UPLDAS0/302-3771774-8222416

i also created a page on this blog, you can find it here.

some good tutorials on sketching drawing and mixed analogue/digital style

edit: some of the links broke so i updated this post

http://www.farlowstudios.com/content/view/14/28/
http://www.boltcity.com/workshop/copper_tutorial/
http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorials.html

e, boy! with games!

http://www.armyoftrolls.co.uk

the classics you should surely know:

 http://www.eboy.com

http://www.flipflopflyin.com 

this cartoon from the swiss designer demian 5 is probably the best (and funniest) cartoon ever. check it out when it´s still free.

http://www.demian5.com

Berlin - 25-26. Nov 2005

CHARACTERS IN MOTION

The pictoplasma animation festival
puts the style back into animation with
a unique overview of outstanding international short films, music videos
and motion graphics.

In traditional animation, industrial production conditions have created a universally applicable visual system of interchangeable characteristics, predictable movements and a limited gestural vocabulary. Classical character design is the result of a standardized production process, reducing the art to a series of predetermined shapes, volumes and silhouettes.

http://www.pictoplasma.com/motion/

Also don´t forget to check out the huge character archive on the website!

http://www.pictoplasma.com