Free Zbrush Brushes!

Donated by the talented Michael Dunnam, we have a large set of custom brushes for Zbrush.

DOWNLOAD BRUSHES HERE!!!

Valve's Film Editor!

Valve Software announced the beta of their new amazing film editor, the Source Filmmaker. Too many awesome things to put into words. Just watch the video!

Awesome Photoshop Brushes!

Over the years I've made hundreds of custom brushes and have collected thousands from others. Despite me defaulting to only a handful for every painting I work on, it's nice to have a variety to play with. A really great set was created from Yang Xueguo, called "Blur's Good Brush 4.0" set. They're all pretty amazing brushes and I thank Mr. Xueguo for taking the time to post and explain the use of his brushes.

CHECKOUT AND DOWNLOAD BLUR'S GOOD BRUSHES!!!

Kekai Kotaki Interview

The awesome Kekai Kotaki does an interview with the Crimson Dagger guys! Good listen, good questions, good content.


VISIT KEKAI'S SITE!
JOIN THE CRIMSON DAGGERS!

COLOR TEST!

Do you have perfect color vision?!

TRY THE TEST HERE! 

Spriter!

A cool little tool for big ideas. Spriter is an animation tool for 2D game characters and effects and visual editor. Watch the video for more information and check out the Kickstarter website to support them!

CHECK OUT SPRITER'S KICKSTARTER PAGE!

Beth Cavener Stichter

One of the coolest sculptors out there!

VISIT BETH CAVENER STICHTER'S SITE!

Deja View and Disney Galore!

Love Disney? Love old-school Disney? Well, you're gonna love this blog. Check out Andreas Deja's collection of Disney animation artwork. Tons of scanned in sketches and videos from Disney's alumni!

VISIT DEJA VIEW HERE!!!

RabbitHoles 3D Motion Holograms

This was a while back, but was always interesting to see. Holographic prints by 3D artists called RabbitHoles. Check out the video to see a gallery. I wonder if they've kept up with this tech. Hmmm...

Real-Time Light Simulator!

The WebGL Path Tracing site has this cool little gadget that simulates mental/v-ray lighting system from 3D programs into realtime! It's pretty awesome and can be very useful when illustrating. You can change or move the objects in the scene as well as change or move the lights. Check it out!

WebGL Path Tracing Site! Click Here!

L'Ecorché: Classical Anatomy for Artists

Extending from the earlier post about cool anatomy reference, everyone should check out the Kickstarter for this awesome little app in the works. I'm totally going to get it for my iPad when it releases. I recommend everyone checking it out, and for those who want to go the extra mile... donate! You eve get a copy of the app. :)

L'Ecorché: Classical Anatomy for Artists

Free Online Life Drawing!

Here are a couple of online programs that give you anatomy references that are timed. Yea, true.. if it's not irl, than how can it be "Life Drawing".. but, it's a pretty convenient way to practice and develope speed in life drawing. Both programs are free.

www.lovecastle.org/draw/

www.posemaniacs.com 

- The cool thing about posemaniacs is that you can see the muscles inside the human anatomy along with the ability to rotate around the model. Only downside is that they're all 3D and not real human references.

Also, this last one isn't free, but it's pretty awesome with a 360 view of real posed models.

http://onlinelifedrawing.com

DOTA 2 Art!

Pretty cool pdf of the character creating process for DOTA 2.

CLICK TO VIEW DOTA 2 CHARACTER ART GUIDE

Also, if you haven't already checked out the DOTA 2 comic "Tales from the Secret Shop: Are We Heroes Yet?" you should be all over that. Every panel is a grand piece of art!

CHECK OUT THE COMIC HERE!!!

Artist Forums

A lot of people ask on the Livestream "Where can I learn and grow with my art?" and I always mention an art forum/online gallery is a place to do it. People default to art schools, but that costs a pretty penny and will give you a lot of information you don't really need, with a less information that you're actually looking for. Art forums are teaming with both students and professionals, coming together to help one another out. You can get your questions answered, have people critique your work, and most importantly start a name for yourself.

Below is a list of places you can join. Feel free to leave a comment of other forums I may have missed.

• 3DTotal
• 3DVF - French
• ArtTalk - Russian
• CGArt - Persian
• CGHub
• CGSociety
• CGLand - Korean
• CGTantra
• ConceptArt
• Crimson Daggers
• DeviantArt
• DrawingBoard
• GameArtisans
• Game-Artist
• LeewiArt - Chinese
• Polycount
• Render - Russian
• UniversoCG - Portuguese
• Visualart - Romania