Posts about work created with Adobe Photoshop, both static images and animated.
I’ve created a 30-minute course on how to draw and color characters in Photoshop. Links to the individual movies if you lose track of youtube’s wonky playlist: 1: INTRODUCTION An overview of the software and process of drawing. 2: DRAWING The gesture line is tied down, then cleaned up. 3: COLORING Using masks to…
My new course has been released in the Linkedin Library. It’s a fun one, aimed at anyone who is reasonably familar with Adobe Photoshop, who wants to do animation as well – but who may not want to struggle with another piece of animation software. Anything that you can draw in Photoshop can be animated…
One of my favourite courses in the Linkedin Learning (Lynda) library is ‘Drawing cartoon characters‘. A series of movies in my ‘Tips & Tricks’ series took many of the drawings from that course and animated them. I’ve assembled all the movies on the topics into this virtual course. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going…
If you’re a Photoshop user who hasn’t watched or subbed to Texturelabs Youtube channel, please do! The guy is astonishing. I used his halftone tutorial a while back to create my ‘posters & stuff’ image to the right! It made the original hi-res image look like a scan from an old magazine, a really nice…
During the 1990s I was an animation director for Creative Capers Ent., a small animation and design studio. We animated many games for Disney Interactive, many based on classic Disney characters (Donald Duck) and others on more recent titles (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, The Lion King, etc). During that period we developed many techniques…
A series of movies in my LYNDA/LINKEDIN-LEARNING ‘Tips & Tricks’ series cover various aspects of FX animation. I’ve assembled all the movies on the topics into this ‘virtual’ course below. BTW, check out my patreon, there’s going to be a lot of animation resources posted there! FX ANIMATION TUTORIALS These courses will demonstrate the technniques…
In addition to this site I also collaborate with my wife on her James Joyce / Ulysses blog & podcast ‘Blooms & Barnacles’. Kelly does the hard work, reading and writing about ‘Ulysses’, famed as one of the most challenging books in the English language. I draw the purdy pitchers that accompany each article. You…
A personal hobby-horse is the UI design fad (and it is a fad) of monochrome icons / UI design. It’s got to stop. I know this article has close-to-zero chance of influencing anyone, but hey, misery loves company. Though the plague infects almost all software now, it wasn’t always the case. Take Flash (the program…
A student recently asked me about alternatives to the Adobe CC suite, given the current economic crisis. A good question! I recently canceled my CC subscription, as $600 is too much while things are so unstable. The main Adobe CC software I lost access to: Photoshop (for drawing and design) After Effects / Premiere (for…
I recently finished the animation on Alan Parsons’ music video ‘As Lights Fall’ from his new album ‘The Secret’ (the song was written by Dan Tracey). In the video below, Alan turns the pages of his diary, revealing drawings which come to life. They were drawn and animated by me. The producer/director Patrick Read Johnson…