Brad Bird (and others) Composition/Layout Notes

Some really awesome people posted a ton of rare and useful resources (espeially if you're like me and have trouble drawing more than a couple characters in a sensible space):

Layout Notes

poke around the site and you can find storyboard templates and field guides formatted for any standard printer:

Templates

There's all kinds of news and tips and other things as well.
enjoy.

Golden Age References

Hey there folks! I've been doings loads of research for my piece for the upcoming Golden Age show.... Ah heck, I've mostly been researching this stuff more for the awesome finds than anything! There is so many amazing treasures out there on the internet! Being the art and especially animation and film geek that I am, I couldn't hold back my excitement at all the goodies I've been finding on Micheal Sporn's blog (or as he says "splog").

Here's his link! Click here !

If you don't know about Micheal Sporn, he is one of the leading men in the field, creating such emotional films like "Whitewash" and "Champagner" (forgive me if I'm spelling any of these wrong) He's also the top guy in creating the "Animation Show of Shows" featuring the current year's best festival films.

A few more links from me, with love.
Animation Backgrounds
Made of Pen and Ink
Lou Romano....for UP art fans =P

Comic Bloggin'

I've started a blog, that is attempting to review all of the comics I've read. If you are interested in comics, and want to hear my take on some, or maybe read about some comics you haven't heard about, check it out!

http://readcomicseveryday.blogspot.com/

happy reading!-Eamon

*Baltimore Comic Con 08 {Part 3}*

Here's more Baltimore Comic Con goodness. Below are some of the great artists & companies who attended the show.

Guy Davis has become my new hero in comics, for the fact that the man can draw almost anything (especially monsters) and he's also super nice and approachable person. He also drew a sketch for anyone who came up to him and asked. Here's my proof.



Paul Conrad, another great artist I had the pleasure to talk to and actually stopped by our table for a bit. Paul was at the event under AdHouse Books, a great publishing company with volumes of great original titles.



Please check out Paul's Blog when you get a chance. He's got volumes & volumes of amazing work and processes to show! Here are two exclusive posters he made for this year's con. They're awesome!




Emily Dove Gross



Jeremy Bastian



Cereal Geek Magazine


Members of the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society

Dave Perillo


Pat McMullen


Scott Derby


&
Jamar Nicholas


Matt Kindt, who is also a super nice individual, was there under Top Shelf Comix, featuring his book "Super Spy".

Thanks again to everyone who was there, and making this event happen! Cheers!

For Eric Braddock and all you cartoonist

* Classic Disney *

Recently my Art Director bought an old Disney book, called the "Art of Walt Disney" for only $1! This book is filled with great sketches, stills, and photos. A lot of the artwork comes from the one and only, Ub Iwerks, an animation pioneer, wizard and a huge inspiration and influence for the way I work. I'll be writing more on him later, but for now I hope you enjoy these scans I made from the book.









Cheers!

P.S. Thanks again Eamon for posting on Shotaro Ishinomori. He's amazing and also a big influence on my work, along with Tezuka, Yokoyama & Toriyama!

Eamon's Sharing Corner

Hello all, I decided it would be cool to share some things of interest with you all. I bought this from the Book Trader in old city, for a whopping 8.95. It is called Japan Inc. , it is a Manga by one Shotaro Ishinomori. He's a fairly legendary Manga-Ka, let's us have a look at him!

Wow! Look at that hair. Of course his man is an influential comics mastermind!






Over here, He is probably best known for Cyborg 009, as well as 009-1, and Android Kikaider. He also did some zelda comics apparently.
The book I bought is about Japanese economics, and has everything you could want in a manga.



An intrepid group of heroes,



Shady white men,


Mustaches,


Explosions,


Strippers,


and Ronald Reagan!


Also included are lots of graphs and tidbits about the japanese economy, which i didnt feel like scanning. (sorry) It is interesting to see a teaching tool in this form, and even more interesting, at least to me, that there is a culture out there that has really embraced the comics form in almost all facets of life. It's a gem of a book, and a fun thing to show people for a few laughs. Hope you liked.
-Eamon

Ridiculous/Awesome book covers

I picked up these two ridiculous books today solely because of their amazing/terrible book covers. Words don't describe. 50 cents apiece. While the covers seem cool, the content of the books seem lurid and mildly offensive...

Ralph Bakshi: Surviving Tough Times

Ralph Bakshi is a veteran artist/animator who is best known for his animated features during the 70s-80s (New Adventures of Mighty Mouse,Felix the Cat, Heavy Traffic, American Pop).
Even if you don't enjoy his work his movies he ruled animation in the 70s and is one of the major force who pushed television animation away from the executive/corporation ruled stagnation to a creator/artist focus.

here's some inspiring words from the man:

Resources are always essential.

Not a post about my own work, but a nice site I found on the internet for us animators out there, as well as anyone who appreciates the sketches. http://animationarchive.net/Model%20Sheets/ Is a website containing alot of original model sheets from feature animations as well as television work. Mostly disney designs, they are great references for those character designers out there( Shout out =P)

<3 Vee