Thoughts, Scribbles + Madness: Vol. 3

We’re back….well…almost. We’ve been ear deep in getting this year’s book together. The files have been magically transported to the printer and we hope to see the results soon. But in the meantime, we have a couple loose ends to tie up, so we’re heading back into the trenches. Hopefully we’ll arrive unscathed soon enough! Onward!

Contest Prizes AWAY!

We think for the most part, when we set out to do something, we’re a pretty well oiled machine. We are wrong. “Hey let’s do a contest,” we said. “Let’s forget to get everyone’s emails included with the submissions so its easy to get in touch with the winners!” We obviously didn’t think it all the way through. So, after digging and cross referencing all known data about the the three finalists, we have successfully sent out the prizes to the enigmatic, but deserving winners. Thank you very much for your patience with us.

For the rest of you who entered, or thought about entering, here’s a quick look at the bounty. We’ll have more contests down the line once we can get our heads above water. But for now, we are going dark with the posts so we can finish up this years book. We’ll be back soon, but if you feel like saying hey, we’re still around.

Comix Academy

*Update*
Comix Academy deadline approaching! Full tuition Portfolio Competition ends May 1. If you’re looking for a great workshop around Comic-Con time, give it a look!

Are you headed to Comic Con this year? Looking for a little guidance with your comic portfolio before hitting up editors on the show floor? Well you just might be in luck! Some close friends of ours have united to provide an awesome workshop taking place the week before the big show in July. Mentors include Mike Mignola, Scott Hampton, Dave Dorman, John Van Fleet, Chris Moeller, and Durwin Talon – that’s one heck of a lineup folks!

From Durwin Talon:

Comix Academy is a series of workshops designed to make the comic book illustrator and storyteller stronger and more informed. In this inaugural year, we have assembled some amazing talent to help students with one-on-one mentoring, demos, and presentations. The entire experience will be pretty intense, as students will finish work in time for an Editors Day held at the end of the workshop. There is a scholarship competition to help students with financial need with a full tuition scholarship to be announced May 1. The workshop happens the week before San Diego Comic Con, so students can then show off their work at the con!

For more info be sure to check out their website: Comix Academy!

CreatureBox Interview

Another interview?! Yup, you got it, but this time from our cronies over at Insomniac Games. Insomniac is a really supportive place to work and we’ve always appreciated the support from the team, and now they’re giving us a chance to yap a little bit about what we’re doing on CreatureBox over on the Insomniac Blog. If you’re not too tired of hearing us go on about character design, games and our own inner demons, stop on by!

Oh, and if you are sick of listening to us, we posted a couple of the vids from the Thoughts, Scribbles + Madness: Volume 1 DVD! Enjoy!

-the creatures

Ratchet, Clank & Qwark Vinyls!

We had an awesome opportunity to create this year’s Insomniac Games employee gift for the Ratchet & Clank Future Games. We’re huge fans of vinyl toys and wanted to do our own take on the characters we have come to know all too well. Dave handled the concepts, I sculpted them digitally and we both did crate inspired boxes for the set. We worked with Gentle Giant for the production. They arrived in the North Carolina Studio today and they are so cool! Qwark is 15 inches wide!! Not sure if these will ever be released to the public, for now they are just for employees. But it was such a cool project! Hope you like.

2009 Sketchbooks!

We wanted to extend a huge thanks to all the CreatureBoxers out there who picked up this year’s sketchbooks: Thoughts, Scribbles + Madness: Volume 2, Palindrone Robot Supply or the Propaganda Pack. All the great feedback has been awesome, and it’s amazing to meet such a range of people interested in the same things we are. The books are literally all over the world. We never imagined we would go through 1000 books so quickly, but we’re down to the last short stack of each! That is amazing.

So thanks to all of you who have supported us!!! And if you were thinking of picking one up, now’s the time because when they’re gone, they’re gone!