"LASCAPES" - Vol. 1

Our good friend and CDA student, Jason Elvrom just released his new book "LASCAPES - Vol. 1".

It's a wonderful book showing beautiful paintings of locations in LA that we often don't get a chance to slow down and appreciate the charm. A great coffee table book for landscape lovers and for budding landscape artists looking for fun places to explore.

For sale now on the Blurb website. Check it out~!! :)

"Landscape Painting" with Leighton Hickman

"Story Development for Animation" with Rad Sechrist

Click on the image bellow to check out Rad's story sequence from the movie, "Megamind":
To view some more of Rad's storyboard samples, you can check out his hilarious short story his did for his friend, "Francesco goes to Hollywood~!!":
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
You can also find some great story structure notes on his "Rad's How To" blog:
Basic Story Structure Notes

Enjoy your visit~!!

"Zbrush Character Creation" with Josh Herman - Full

Landscape Painting Workshop with Bill Perkins at 3 Kicks Studio~!!

Date - Sept. 24 & 25, 2011
Price - $280 + $10 registration fee

Contact 3 Kicks Studio at 3kicksfineartstudio@gmail.com or call 626-466-5043 to enroll.

CDA at CDW Australia workshop 2011~!!

Earlier this year, Carlo and I was invited as the guest lecturers for the CDW Australia workshop in Adelaide.

It was a great experience meeting all the friendly people and shared some really fun times with the local artists.

Above is the highlights from the event. In Jan. 2012, both James Paick and I will be heading to Melbourne to do a second workshop.

Make sure to stay tuned and hopefully you will be able to join us next year :)
http://www.conceptdesignworkshop.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/CDWA/171936559497512

Enjoy the video~!!

"Animal Anatomy" with Jonathan Kuo

This is a great foundation class for anyone interested in character design and creature design.

It is also a great alternative class to anyone on the waiting list for Analytical Figure Drawing and Vis Com 1 as it breaks down form and gesture in the same manor and technique.

Sign up soon as space is limited~!!

PS - Bellow are some of the in class demo sketches to help give you an good idea about the class: