Alia

Hey everyone,
We’d like to introduce you to an artist very near to our hearts. Greg’s wife Alia El-Bermani. She’s a painter worth taking a good look at. Her pieces are amazing, her shows are fantastic and her career is astonishing. We are huge fans. We’re adding her to our links so you can continue to follow her efforts as a painter. Enjoy!

Sketchbook for Sale!

Hey everyone,

We’ve just finished putting together a small shopping cart for our 2008 Comic-Con Sketchbook: Thoughts, Scribbles, + Madness. If you’d like to pick up a copy, simply click on the image in the sidebar to be whisked away to our digital store. For all of our waiting list customers, if we have received payment your books are being shipped today! All remaining books are now on a first come first serve basis. Thanks so much for the support!

- the creatures

Comic Con Wrap Up!

Hey everybody!

After four amazing (and exhausting days) Comic Con came to an end. We had such a wonderful time meeting everyone who came by the booth. It was a great experience for us to finally put some faces to the names we’ve seen floating around the site. We also had the opportunity to share CreatureBox for the first time with many attendees. All in all, we couldn’t be happier with the results of the show – expect to see us again next year!

Major congrats to all our winners of Sketchbook Pro 2009 along with a big THANK YOU to our friends at Autodesk that made it happen. We’re extremely excited about the future of the software and encourage you all to give it a try if you’re looking for the most natural drawing software out there.

Also, thanks for all the support with the Sketchbook! We will be sending an email out shortly with instructions on how to order the “Waiting List” copies. Afterwards, any remaining sketchbooks will be sold through the site – we’ll keep you all posted!

Again, this was a great experience for us. Now to start planning for 2009!

- the creatures

*UPDATE*
For those of you who asked to be put on the mailing list, an email has been sent out with the instructions on how to get a copy. For everyone else who may be interested, we’re closing the waiting list for the time being. When all of the “Waiting List” orders have been filled, we will try to make available whatever stock we have left through the website. Thanks again for all the support!!!

CreatureBox at Alias Design Community

Hey everyone,

Over the last year, CreatureBox has had the pleasure of working with Autodesk on the beta version of the latest release of Sketchbook. We love working with them and are excited to be a part of such a great tool’s development.

Recently, we had the opportunity to talk about some of our process and our skewed insights into this weird little world of character design. The interview is on Alias Design Community and has a few images that peek into a bit more of the “process” behind the scenes.

As an added bonus, we have been given copies of Sketchbook Pro 2009 to give away at Comic-Con! That’s right, full licensed versions of our favorite drawing app. To keep everything fair, we’re having a raffle: anyone who picks up one of our ashcans gets the chance to draw a winning ticket and become the proud owner of Autodesk Sketchbook! So come on by and test your luck. And for those who don’t get a copy, well, we’ll have a little something to console you. It’ll be ok, we promise.

We look forward to seeing you all at the show (Booth #4502), and for those of you on the waiting list, we will be letting everyone know what’s left of our stash after the convention. It’s first come first serve. Thanks again for the support!

- the creatures

Thoughts, Scribbles, + Madness

Hi everybody!

Well, San Diego Comic-Con is almost upon us and we’re pleased to say our booth plans have come together. The banners arrived over the last few days and we can’t wait to hang them. They’re about the size of a football stadium…well, maybe a little smaller. Either way, the booth will be appropriately CreatureBox’d so please be sure to stop by and say hi if you’re in the area. Look us up at #4502!

We’re also excited to have for sale our first publishing venture in the form of a 28 page limited edition sketchbook. Thoughts, Scribbles, + Madness measures about 8.5 x 5.5 and contains a wild assortment of everything CreatureBox including monsters, spacemen, and robots. But that’s not all! Included in every copy is a progressive scan DVD containing over 40 minutes of time lapse character design. Imagine the previous videos from the site but on steroids presented in razor sharp widescreen glory.

We look forward to talking with everyone at the show…let the festivities begin!

- the creatures

*UPDATE*
We’ve had some requests for a waiting list for any copies left over after the show. If you would like to be included, please use the contact form and put “Sketchbook Waiting List” next to your name in the name field. Also, be sure to use a valid email address. We’ll sell the remaining copies in the order of the contacts we receive. Thanks!

*UPDATE #2*
The price of the sketchbook (which includes the DVD) will be 15.00 dollars. For internet orders after the show, 5 dollars will be added for domestic shipping and 10 dollars will be added for international shipping. Thanks for the great response to the book!

Happy Birthday!!!!

Well everyone, that time has come. After one amazing year, we are now in the midst of making a major push to ready ourselves for our presence at Comic-Con 2008. And as you might expect, along with all the excitement, we also have a lot to prepare. So we need a little time away from the site, but you don’t think we’d leave you empty handed, do you?

Never! In fact, we are having our first contest give-away to celebrate our ONE YEAR anniversary. That’s right, CreatureBox has been through birth, growth, and now seems to be sitting up all on its own. But none of this could be possible without all the great feedback, comments and introductions we’ve been lucky enough to have from all of you! So we present you with a single question.

“What existing character in all the world would you all like to see most reinvisioned by CreatureBox?”

So leave a comment. We want to know, and whoever we think has hit it square on the nail, well, that’s where we pay it forward, or back, you know what we mean.

When we come back one month from today, we will be announcing the winner of the contest who will be receiving not one, but two prints from the ‘Box. From Dave’s collection, a dynamic interpretation of “Mr. Incredible”, and from Greg’s collection, the wacky apes of “Silverback Death Squad”.

So Happy Birthday CreatureBox! And here’s to our next year of craziness.

- the creatures