Rock Band Creator at SVA

Don't miss the upcoming Career Development Evening Event:

Creator of Rock Band visits SVA!

Friday, April 9, 2010
3:00 p.m.
136 West 21st Street, Classroom 631-F

Harmonix Music Systems is the creator of the smash hits Rock Band 1 & 2 and The Beatles Rock Band. Harmonix has built a world class art studio with traditional artists; painters, graphic designers, illustrators, sculptors, photographers, film and video artists and digital artists.

Jason Arnone, Art Manager at Harmonix, is visiting SVA to talk about the various art department roles and show the behind-the-scenes creative process from concept, production to final execution. With every artist's role, Jason will draw connections between the artist in school and the professional game artist. You will learn first hand how your study of foundation skills will benefit you in any commercial art application, not just in games.

Space is limited. RSVP by logging on to www.collegecentral.com/sva and viewing "Upcoming Events & Programs" on your home page.


Office of Career Development
School of Visual Arts

Biz

You can buy Jon Sperry's rocketman shirt!

it's been too long.

i haven't been arting for too many reasons. but I wanted to drop a note here about this site i have recently learned of:

The Grid System is an incredibly useful and interesting site about grids. grids make the world go, as any comics artist would know first hand.

i think seeing the philosophy behind their use in other fields is pretty valuable. also directly applicable to all the web stuff today's cartoonist/illustrator is pretty much obligated to do.

happy holidays, and may all your type adhere to a baseline grid.

batman? who?

haven't seen the new batman movie yet, but...

tintin wins easily, i think. hopefully the next batman movie will reflect this (crossover?).

(photo by me. hooray)

An internet hug from Ira Glass

A nice piece that certainly applies to anyone making art.



parts 1, 2 and 4 are pretty interesting as well.

Ben Ross on Drawn.ca

Ben Ross animation featured on Drawn

Gotta go with 'Ducky Fire' as my favorite so far.

a fancy thing for your website perhaps...

FancyZoom is a lightweight javascript that enlarges images inline. there are some examples at the link.
it took me less than a minute to get it up and running on my site.

i've never been crazy about the behavior of opening images on websites. either it takes you away from the page you were on and forces you to hit the back button, or it opens up an additional window which is plain rude.

i was using the lightbox js on my website, but i was never satisfied about the default functionality. it had a cool feature for viewing sequences of images, but i felt the effect was too severe for one at a time viewing. i'm sure it's possible to alter the lightbox script to suit different needs, but that's outside my code monkey abilities.

anyway i like FancyZoom. it's from Cabel Sasser of Panic software. (if you're using a mac and maintaining a website, i highly recommend you give Coda a try. what little coding i am capable of i taught myself using Coda.) FZ is free to use for non commercial websites. if you make money off your site (i sure as hell don't) it's a one time fee of 39 bones. though i'll gladly fork over the money if things get rolling over at inksktink.net. ha.

apparently FancyZoom has issues in IE 6 (because IE 6 is terrible), but for reals... nobody worth knowing uses IE 6 anymore.

Pick A Square

http://patchblox.com/

Simply pick a patch, upload a 50x 50 gif and add a hyper link. You can even do an image made up of several squares.

I've gotten a bunch of hits on my blog from this. So I made second one, made up of 2 squares, for my site.

Use it. Or don't. What do I care.

Kagan Mcleod - History of Rap

this one's for gabe:
History of Rap Poster by Kagan McLeod


image from the article

I love comics

I know most of you guys don't like capes but its got Matt Fraction. And for the record I love capes.

COMIC BOOK CLUB
A Live Weekly Talk Show about Comic Books

Hosted by Justin Tyler, Pete LePage, and Alex Zalben

Tuesday, December 18th @ 8:00 PM

Featuring:
Brian Michael Bendis (New Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man)
Ed Brubaker (Captain America, X-Men, Criminal)
Matt Fraction (Iron Fist, Casanova)
& Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live, Superbad)

Tickets: $5
Online: ThePIT-NYC.com
Phone: 1-800-838-3006
Questions? 212-563-7488

The Peoples Improv Theater
154 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor
Between 6th and 7th Aves.

Check us out on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/comicbookclub3

The show is sponsored in part by Midtown Comics
(www.midtowncomics.com)!

Thomas Pitilli in Time Out New York

Tom got one of his awesome illustrations printed in Time Out New York. Unfortunately, they don't sell Time Out New York in Battle Ground, Washington, but I can view a dinky digital version here:

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/article/24103/where-to-catch-a-cab

And I'm sure he'll blog about it, right?

Great work Tom!

The Superest

http://thesuperest.com/

Thought this site was cool enough to share.

We could steal this idea and do it on Art-Burn.
Just a thought.

A stolen moment...

thought i'd use my pirated wifi to pass along these two items of (possible) interest.

Free downloads of the Best Figure Drawing Books Ever according to Process Junkie.

Layer Tennis. click the volleys to see the match.

important news!

Oh, i'm in it. This is shameless self promotion. Cool huh?

Wow

I just happened upon this blog by accident, unsure if you all know who he is and if I'm the late comer on this one, but check it out:

Enrico Casarosa

also check out

Ronnie del Carmen

Really good stuff.

Ratatatatatatouille.

next on the purchase list.

Fontifier

Check out fontifier.com
Cool way to get cheap, custom fonts based on your own handwritten lettering.

via The Man.

Tekkon Kinkreet [aka Black & White] Screening in NY

New York
Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters 1&2 [MOMA]
11 West 53rd Street, NY
April 25th - April 30th 8:30PM

Screening Schedule
Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 8:30 p.m., Theater 1, T1
Thursday, April 26, 2007, 8:30 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Friday, April 27, 2007, 8:30 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Saturday, April 28, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Sunday, April 29, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Monday, April 30, 2007, 8:30 p.m., Theater 2, T2
Trailer

Attn: Casanovanauts!

Go here and scroll down a little for an update on volume two.

Computer Generated Art

This site has some really cool Flash generated stuff. A lot of the scripts are Open Source and available for download. Most of this stuff is beyond my comprehension of ActionScript, but it's really cool to see what can be done with it.