NEW PASCAL CAMPION SKETCHBOOK IS COMING

Oogeley Boogeley 3 Sketchbook cover art:


Totoro Forest Project Piece by Pascal:


Another great sketchbook will be coming in just a few weeks. This time, by the amazing Pascal Campion. Pascal has worked on all sorts of cartoons and video game stuff. He's a French Animator living in California. His Last book Oogely Boogley 2 sold out quite quickly and is no longer available. But in a few weeks, there will be an all new Oogely Boogley book (#3). 50 pages full colour softcover book.

Can't wait!
you can check out more of Pascal's work here:
http://pascalcampion.com/

Justin Ridge and Hye-Jung Kim Flavor:01 Sketchbook

Just got word from the super talented Justin Ridge that his new sketchbook (Flavor:01) - which is shared with the also talented Hye-Jung Kim will be coming out in 2 weeks at Comic-con where we expect he will sell out.

Fear not however, as he's putting copies aside just for us. His past sketchbooks were almost instanteous sellouts for us. We are very excited about this one. Last year - was a dry year, as we didn't have a new Justin Ridge Sketchbook (since he didnt do one). We expect, this new one that's put out through Alberto Ruiz's Brandstudio Press to really satisfy.

Justin has worked on Avatar the Last Air Bender, as well as Flight and many other cool projects.

Expect tons more Sketchbook announcements on this blog over the next few weeks.

DEAN YEAGLE DOES IT AGAIN - BUT THIS TIME HE'S NOT ALONE

Dean Yeagle, the talented artist behind many great sketchbooks is going to be putting out another one in a couple of weeks. His character Mandy - is at the centre of it, as she's been for the last couple of books -but this time, the book features 31 artists' interpretations of Mandy plus Dean's work. The book will launch at San Diego, but we hope to have some shortly after that.

One of the fascinating facts I like to throw around when I discuss Dean is the fact that he's the man who designed the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee back in the day! Yes, Dean does it all and as a long time animator - he not only draws well, but he knows a ton of people.

Here's a list of some of the super talented folks Dean got to work on the book.

See any names you recognize?

Kei Acedera - www.imaginismstudios.com
Sergio Aragones - My favourite cartoonist of all Time http://www.sergioaragones.com/
Nancy Beiman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Beiman
Celia Calle - http://www.celiacalle.com/
J. Scott Campbell - Danger Girl Artist http://www.myspace.com/j_scott_campbell
Bobby Chiu - www.imaginismstudios.com
David Colman - http://davidcolman.blogspot.com/
Nathan Greno -http://www.fancast.com/people/Nathan-Greno/1399552/main
Rodolphe Guenoden - http://www.rodguen.com/
Gary Ham http://haminals.blogspot.com/
Mick Harrison (hope this is the right link. ha ha.) http://www.destill.net/
R.C. Harvey http://www.rcharvey.com/
Herval http://mapage.noos.fr/herval/
Tracy Mark Lee http://www.tdog-art.com/
Patrick Maté http://patrickmate.blogspot.com/
Fabrizio Pasini http://www.fabriziopasini.ptibook.com/
Bill Presing - http://billpresing.blogspot.com/
Justin Ridge - http://www.justinridge.com/
Mike Roush - http://www.mikeroush.com/
Senti - http://www.sentiart.com/Home.html
Stephen Silver - http://stephensilver.blogspot.com/
Tom Sito - http://tomsito.com/
Doug Sneyd - http://www.dougsneyd.com/
William Stout - http://www.williamstout.com/
BenTan - http://bentan.bellefree.com/
Scott Tolleson - http://stolleart.blogspot.com/
Tony White - http://www.digipen.edu/main/Tony_White
Barbara Yeagle - This is Dean's wife! She's an artist too!
Craig Yoe - http://www.yoe.com/

KEI ACEDERA & BOB CHIU - IN THE FOREST

The other day I posted about the Totoro Forest Project. Today I wanted to tell you all that Toronto's very own, Bob Chiu and Kei Acedera are participating in the event. A few months ago, Bob told me that he and Kei were invited to participate in a very special art auction, but left it at that. I had no idea what it was exactly. All I knew was that the show would involve a lot of talented folks. When I learned about the Totoro Forest Project a couple of days ago - I emailed Bob to find out if that was the show he was talking about and in fact it was. Very exciting. Above is Kei's contribution. To see the full image go to their blog.

http://www.imaginismstudios.com/blog.html

For those unfamiliar with Bob and Kei - They are the talents behind Imaginism Studios and Schoolism.com. If you've ever visited the Labyrinth, you've probably seen many of their terrific giclee prints and sketchbooks on our walls and shelves. Sometimes, it's easy to take local talent for granted. Seeing their work in exhibitions like this one - reminds us how lucky we are to have these guys around. I know that's how we feel about them. Way to go Bob and Kei!

CAN YOU RAED TIHS ?

This blog is supposed to be about animation, drawing and so on. Well, I couldn't resist. I got one of those emails - you know the kind, that gets forwarded and forwarded. I wasn't interested in forwarding it -but I did want to share it because I found it fascinating. So read on, and decide for yourselves.


Only great minds can read this

This is weird, but interesting!
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

TOTORO FOREST PROJECT

Just found out about this via Drawn.Ca.

check out the links below for true awesomeness!

http://totoroforestproject.org/

http://enricocasarosa.com/wordpress.1/2008/07/10/the-totoro-forest-project/

and here's the original article we found on Drawn.Ca . FYI: This is a great website for anyone who's interested in Drawing, Illustration, etc..

http://drawn.ca/2008/07/10/totoro-forest-project/

FYI: It looks like there will be a book for this. As a huge Totoro Fan myself - I will do whatever I can to try and make this book available in store - this coming fall.

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