Category: Animation & Art

New Disney Inspired Art

I’ve often been asked what my favorite movie was to work on while at Disney. With the exception of my experience directing “Brother Bear”, I’d have to say that it was working with Glen Keane animating the Beast on “Beauty and the Beast”. Glen was incredibly generous with the scenes he gave me to animate. He got me to elevate my game higher than I thought I was able to do. Because of that… it launched my animation career to new heights. I owe a lot to Glen.

So the other day I say down and got inspired to draw the Beast… It has been years since I’ve drawn the character and I wanted to see if I could still do it. After that I started doing a few other characters as well.  I’m also posting these and a lot of other images over at INSTAGRAM so please follow me there if you want. Enjoy!

Student Discount

I often travel the world giving demos & lectures and get the opportunity to work with aspiring artists, illustrators and animators from all walks of life. I am continually impressed by the talent out there as well as the questions that I get. A HUGE part of our mission with this site is to continue to offer affordable art education. As a special “Thank You” to returning students I am offering a 50% Off Promo Code for signing up for my newsletter.

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Art Story Production Poster Released

Well, it’s hard to believe that it’s been a full year since our “Art Story” Kickstarter campaign was successfully funded. This is the first of many milestones as we slowly bring the film to the big screen. To celebrate I create a new poster image which we are using for inspiration at this stage of the production. I hope you like it!

Art Story Production Poster

Michael Jackson Illusion by Pulse

Some of you may not be aware but I am currently collaborating with an incredible team while developing ART STORY.  The guys over at PULSE represent some of the finest visual effects artists and business minds in the world.  John Textor , Frank Patterson and Jim Berney have been amazing. I was fortunate to work with some of these guys while developing “The Legend of Tembo” and and glad to be doing so again.

You may have seen their work recently at the Billboard Music Awards. They created an “illusion” at the show of a 3D projected Michael Jackson performing “Slave To The Rhythm” off his new album Xscape – To date the video has already been viewed by more than 20 Million people world wide.

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Creating textures with Photoshop Texture Brushes

In this episode, Aaron shows you his method for creating textured skin surfaces in his character and concept digital art. He will take you through using textured brushes, fitting the textures to the contours of your character and adding lighting details. 

Check out this link to the brushes on his site: http://creatureartteacher.com/product/custom-photoshop-brushes-set-2-elephant-texture/

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