Resources for Students
I’m not one to buy games or books or go see movies the day they come out – I like to wait for the dust to settle. However, that doesn’t stop me from being extra excited about the Super Mario Galaxy game that was released for the Wii this week.
Rob over at Rob’s SketchBlog seems to feel the same way. Click through to see the amazing 2D to 3D transitional painting he created in honour of everyone’s favourite tubby plumber.
Mario Painting –> [via Kotaku]
How great is this? Marvel is offering their comics online in digital form. A ton of free ones for now, a $4.99/mo subscription for later. Nice site, too.
Here’s a neat twist on the lettering process – first the requisite sketch, then creating vectors in Illustrator – and then bringing the artwork into 3ds MAX for a text effect which is then brought back into Illustrator and Live Traced. I’d never have thought to do that, but it looks pretty fantastic.
Oh, you guys. Marian Bantjes is in today’s Layer Tennis. Colour me ridiculously excited! She’s amazing. I don’t know much about the second contestant, Armin Vit, but I’m thinking this is going to be fascinating.
Beautiful art, design, typography, illustration and photo manipulation by Nik Ainley. There are far more pieces than I could possibly show you here, so make sure to click the link and ogle!
Mike Rohde, a designer, writer and artist from Wisconsin, attended the SEED conference this week, and took/drew these really amazing Moleskine sketchnotes. Not only are they an example of design-on-the-fly, but they also contain shiny nuggets of wisdom from some of the web’s best designers and developers.
Marta Dahlig is the artist responsible for the cover art of the beautiful Exotique 3 masterpiece I showed you yesterday, called Umbrella Sky. She obligingly takes us through some of the steps she followed to create this work of art over at CGSociety.
Ballistic is hitting another one out of the park with the third installment of their Exotique collection of digital art books. We have several of this publisher’s books in the office, and they’re total eye candy; this edition is no different. With a full preview of the entire book in Flash directly on the book’s website, you know just what you’re getting – except web-sized images simply can’t give you the experience of actually holding one of these masterpieces in your hand.
It’s full of pretty pretty ladies, of course, but there’s also page after page of creatures and other dark characters that give the book a lot of depth and contrast. It’s not available until November, but my guess is, it will be well worth the price for the softcover or the hardcover.
Last week’s match didn’t really do it for me, but I enjoyed this final volley by Mathew Star Thomas on October 5th, and the progression on the Harrington vs. Anderson match was quite entertaining.
Again, Layer Tennis –> [by Coudal Partners]
Rayman’s Raving Rabbids is one of my favorite Wii games. When you run in this game, you actually take the two controllers in your fists and shake them up and down rapidly, just as though you were running – only way sillier. You can fling COWS, for crying out loud. The best part of the game was how ridiculously insane the rabbids were, so it’s with great joy that I can present you with some of the concept art. Better yet – some of it’s on a moleskine (scroll down to blog post #3 after clicking the link below to see the full shot of the crop above).