Here’s a must have book for Flash animators that just hit bookstores this week. It was written by Chris Georgenes a successfully animator who is also based out here in Boston. He has been a tremendous help to animators out there sharing his secrets through Adobe tutorials, conference presentations, on his blog and now this book. I haven’t read it yet, just got it this week. But it covers all the basics and is a great resource. I just wish I had this in my hand many years ago. So a big thanks to Chirrs for this one and for those who haven’t seen his stuff it all worth a look.

The custom illustrated professor icons project is complete. There is a series of 14 images representing each week of the semester. Each professor starts off cheery and energized and ends up worn out and eventually passed out by the end. This is for use on a BC Graduate School of Social Work online instructors repository/ course management site. The samples above are images from the start of the series and the end. Didn’t want to fill the page with all of them, but you get the idea. The style of character is intended to represent old faculty from decades ago, keeping with the theme of imagery on the rest of the site.  

I’ve been behind on coming up with new material to post to the blog lately, too much work on my plate. One big project I’ve got in the works is redesigning and building my website in Drupal. I’ll have a post with a preview soon.

Here’s a can’t miss interview with Roz Chast a fantastic comic artist whose work appears in the New Yorker. They discuss her thirty year career and showcase some of her classics. She has a book out called Theories of Everything that is a collection of her work. Funny comics are extremely rare so it’s great to see there is another great artist out there to rival the great Gary Larson.

This is a beautifully animated short by German animator Max Lang.