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  1. Self Portrait Sketches

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    / July 17, 2008 / Leave a comment
    Davario on Livejournal created a post where hundreds of artists are now drawing portraits of themselves, past and present. It first started as a simple “draw yourself as a teen” post and then BOOM it exploded into a meme. There’s a huge list of sketches that have been submitted, with...

  2. Food Fight by Stefan Nadelman

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    / July 17, 2008 / Leave a comment
    I’ve seen Stefan’s work in miscellaneous places, but Food Fight takes the cake. BoingBoing’s version of Food Fight adds some subtitles to identify the events being portrayed (for those of us that need to brush up on our history). After watching Food Fight, I immediately sought out some of his...

  3. I Met the Walrus

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    / July 15, 2008 / 1 Comment
    I Met the Walrus is a wonderfully animated interview with John Lennon. When Jerry Livitan was 14 years old, he tracked down Lennon and interviewed him in his Toronto hotel room, almost 40 years ago. Youtube also has a high quality version.

  4. Paint Over Critiques w/ Steven Stahlberg

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    / June 10, 2008 / Leave a comment
    Steven Stahlberg’s paintover thread on CGTalk. Tons of pages here for me to checkout yet. Comparisons are definitely teaching me a trick or two about lighting. He’s really making the characters pop out.\ Starting on page 11, he started using animated GIFs in order to more clearly show the before...

  5. Plastic Animation Paper

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    / June 10, 2008 / Leave a comment
    Finally gave Plastic Animation Paper a try and HOT DAMN is it fun and simple to use. The free version functional enough to have fun with although it doesn’t include the blue sketch pencil or the ability to import sound. I hear that the application runs in 8 bit mode,...