http://www.stormvisions.com/moho/e-frontier.jpg Anime Studio Contest e frontier America Inc., is proud to announce our first official Anime Studio contest! Anime Studio 5 is your complete 2D animation program for creating movies, cartoons, anime or cut out animations. Create your own desktop animat...

The support of a few artist communities I am a member of, like this one, have been a great motivator. So thank you for your support, inspiration and encouragment.

Some contest news posted in the Contest forum - it's in progress ...

As for the job - yeah! Got my first industry job and will start Thursday! I'll be working at Animax http://www.animaxinteractive.com/ on various Flash projects. I'm looking forward to doing art for a living - how cool is that?!

Sorry to have kept you waiting guys and gals. I finally took care of the job situation today and so am going to hack this contest together and have it posted by this weekend. To save time I'm hacking up the last contest page, so it is jumbled now, but there are a few details there so you can start t...

That's looking pretty good so far.

Boy, did I miss these -sorry guys have been scrambling like crazy since the final weeks of school.

Thanks for the tips and advice. I have to keep poking at AI as lots of places seem to use it.

Ok, so I'm bad at making topic subject lines ........ For those who want to be bored by my life ... The delay on the contest is simply a result of my work situation. I was supposedly out of work several weeks ago but the IRS unexpectedly requested documents and they needed my brain a bit longer. Fri...

It is like the copa mundial in soccer. Sorry for the delay on the contest. I'll bore you with reasons for the delay in the Chit-Chat forum if you want. But it is still on my plate as soon as my work situation sorts out this week.

Hey. Still looking for work here - in panic mode since my current job is really ended, only hanging on because a last minute audit by the IRS means they needed my brain for a bit longer but that may be done any day/minute. Stress is my constant companion. :/ Anyway I like the commercial idea and am ...

Hey guys (and gals?). Still alive on this - just eagerly (desperately?! :shock: ) searching for work as my current job has actually run out and the boss looks a bit 'concerned' about paying for two people now that I have trained my replacement. I will be attending an event this week, and meeting som...

Despite some bangs and bumps we actually did get contest #1 finished and there were some cool entries. I'm pretty busy searching for my first animation job but I have been contacted by people interested in providing some really great prizes if we decide to do another contest. So, the question is did...

Thanks a lot Jack. I'll check out the forum.

Eureka! Methinks I struck gold! http://www.illcraft.blogspot.com/ Will try to follow this starting tomorrow.

Can anyone clue me in on how to draw in Illustrator. I am trying to use thie method described here http://frank05.critter.net/vector.html but that sure seems laborious. If I try to just draw each time I lay down a new stroke it 'joins' with a previous stroke in unexpected ways. I can deselect with e...

Ah, ok. There was another image there for a while. Once again, looks great.