The Crab

This may or may not wind up in an upcoming iPhone App that a friend of mine is or isn't working on.



I may or may not be an idiot.

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Blake Rig

One question I get asked a lot is if I can share the Animation Mentor rigs. The simple answer is that I cannot, but I can tell you about an awesome one created by Jason Baskin that is available free of charge at CreativeCrash.com



I started playing around with Blake this weekend, and created a simple walk cycle, since I knew it would use the bulk of the rig. Overall I found Blake to be pretty functional, though I did have some issues with his tie. Luckily he is highly customizable, as you can see from the image above, so I just went with a turtleneck instead of the tie.

The rig has actually been around of some time now, and Jason has made some great improvements to it. So if you're looking for a solid (and free) rig to animate with, you really can't go wrong with Blake.

Blake Rig on CreativeCrash.com

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While watching the XGames on ESPN tonight...

I got inspired to sketch this up.



I have come to the sad realization that I will never compete in the XGames, but boy howdy do I enjoy watching them. Such an amazing group of graceful athletes doing things that I couldn't have come close to doing in my late teens/early twenties.

One more day of the Winter XGames, and then it's just a matter of waiting until the Summer ones roll around later this year!

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You can't slow down technology.

I was having a conversation with one of the guys I host my weekly podcast with, and we got on the subject of how rapidly technology seems to be advancing. It seems like within the last 10 years or so, the rate at which new gadgets and widgets are being released, refined and reduced in size has pretty much broken the needle.



I have no idea if that's what inspired the above sketch or not, but I figured I'd share it anyway.

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Flower power!

Tonight my son said he wanted to color a flower.



After I drew it, he asked in his best 2 year-old language if I would add a bee. Took me forever to figure out what he was asking for, because what I was hearing was, "AnbeelikeonMeee," which translate to "And a bee, like on the Mickey Mouse show that he watches."

He's still easier to understand than I am on most nights...

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Coloring book dino.

My son is really getting into coloring books, and so I've started drawing things for him to fill in.



Feel free to print this little guy out, and give it to your kids to color. If anyone actually does that, I'd love to see the results!

Take care!

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I'm not sure what this is, and I drew it.

Years ago I drew a comic strip called "Dog Complex." What you see below is a comic strip, but it isn't "Dog Complex."



I'd never have the time to do a weekly strip again, but I would like to find out a bit more about this odd little couple.

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