Living the Game

My good friend and short film producer/director Matt Connolly and I produced a short film for a Reebok competition earlier this year. As the subject of the film, it was to encompass my love, passion, and fire for creativity in general, but specifically for my martial art Capoeira.

I could talk a lot about what it means to me and the talent of Matt as a visionary, but I'll let the film speak for itself. Cheers, and Happy 4th! (btw, we got 5th place out of 5 possible spots).

http://my.mofilm.com/video/5dbc5f

~Chad C.

Anime Expo 2013

So, I will finally make it to Anime Expo this year! Every other year around this time since 2006 I've been in preparation for San Diego Comic Con, so I always miss Anime Expo...but NOT this year! Comic Con is not a must this year, so I'm going to the AX!

There's a lot I want to see there, including new anime titles, artwork (of course), meeting some of the artists behind some of my favorite series and films, games, toys, and last but not least, ridiculous cosplay, hah!

May see you guys there or may not, but I'm sure it will be a bit o' the ol' fun!

cheers,

~Chad C.

WOW Tribute Book Hardcover

WOW Tribute Book Hardcover - See prior post for details on my art contribution to the book!

Wow! We made it!

This was my first post on the 'Udon: World of Warcraft Tribute,' but since then I've found out that my piece made it in the book!! Super stoked for this and it will be out in July 2013 exclusively at San Diego Comic Con!

Prior Post:

So I just finished my "World of Warcraft - Tribute Book" piece minutes ago!! Of course I worked all the way up to the deadline date..but it took 2 months of "researching" WOW again in order to get my "reference" for the piece (such hard work). 

I really dig the design work in Warcraft and of Blizzard in general, so we shall see what they have to say (fingers crossed). Apologies, I cannot show you the piece or even a sneak peek, as Blizzard and Udon have said "NO!"

I respect the rules, so you'll have to wait, but the good news is, I will have more to post on Deviant Art that has nothing to do with that at all!!!

cheers all,

~Chad C.

R.I.P. Carmine Infantino

Re-posting this because it will never matter more than today... I am dedicating this piece "Officially" to one of my favorite teachers at SVA and legendary comic book creator 'CARMINE INFANTINO'. The creator of the Flash we all know and love (Silver Age Flash), Poison Ivy, Batgirl, and many other well known comic book characters, passed today at age 87 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine_Infantino

Carmine was a teacher of mine while I attended The School of Visual Arts in New York, NY. I absolutely loved his very straight forward attitude about comics and how to put one together the right way. I will always be grateful for his words and wisdom.
He is the teacher that told me I had "it" and that I should continue doing comics. "It," being that artist's eye for putting things together well, he told me.

I'd been wanting to do a piece for him since I left school and didn't feel my skills were up to par enough at the time to do a respectable piece for him. So with progression over the years came this piece. Hope he liked it.. R.I.P. Carmine Infantino (May 24, 1925 – April 4, 2013) http://fav.me/d1me2fa

Glen Keane (Quintessential Disney)

I would make this as a complete blog and ramble on about how great Glen Keane is, but I'd rather just allow you to follow the link and find out for yourself...



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I will say that I thought of this too late, but I really should have included Glen in my influence map.. I may replace someone on there actually...Including Freddy Moore kind of solidifies all of the people that came after him at Disney, but Glen definitely deserves high praise as one of the key artists that has influenced me.

Let's just say that everything you know as THE Quintessential Disney Style from the 80's until now (including Rapunzel) is Glen. The one that got me though, was definitely Tarzan. He also includes the Disney Family Album videos in his blog (which I absolutely LOVE) Enjoy!

cheers,

~Chad C.

Comic Con to Comic Con

So the San Diego Comic Con is now over but the projects continue my friends...Creative Impulse Ent. had a fantastic Con this year with the release of our newest Comic IP in collaboration with Paula Garces (Harold and Kumar, The Shield, Warehouse 13, etc.), "Aluna." My personal involvement in the project is lead and lone colorist (not an easy task by any means, but very cool). The second book will debut at the New York Comic Con, October 8th-10th (on which we are currently working). Paula will be there signing books, taking pictures, and having a blast, as usual. Aluna is also a full motion comic, where Paula has provided the voice over talent for the Aluna character along with other celebrity voice over talents, including but not limited to, Ahmed Best (Star Wars Ep.1,2, and 3, Marvel Ultimate Alliance II) and Malik Yoba (New York Undercover, Cool Runnings). It's been really great working with our entire team on this project and I can't wait to see where this IP takes us in the near future.
In other news:
I'm also working on a lot of commission pieces, multiple comic covers, and a few film projects (keeping the wheels lubed) both conceptually (aka drawing and designing), but also acting. I honestly feel that when I am not working on some sort of project at any given time..I'm wasting time.
Here's to things to come!
cheers,
~Chad C.