PS4 - XBOX ONE - Next Gen Game Trailers - E3

Less talk, more show! After the hype of E3 2013, these are the games I'm most looking forward to playing (all in one place, so at least I'll be able to find them when I want to see them)! ;) Oh, and maybe a few "honorable mentions" for current gen.

Tom Clancy's - The Division

Sunset Overdrive

Star Wars:Battlefront 3

The Order:1886

Watch Dogs

Deep Down

 Infamous: Second Son

Mad Max

Metal Gear Solid 5

Batman:Arkham Origins

The Dark Sorcerer

Murdered Soul Suspect

Warframe

Dragon Age: Inquisition

South Park: The Stick of Truth

GTA 5

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag

Final Fantasy XV

cheers,

~Chad C.

Schoolism/Imaginism

If you guys are in art school and want to be any kind of prominent artist in the entertainment, animation, video game, or comic book industry, I highly, highly recommend you take a look at the interviews on Schoolism.com

http://www.schoolism.com/

Bobby Chiu is in charge over there and is a respected industry artist (which is why he's able to pull interviews with the artists he presents). The information you will hear in these interviews is invaluable if you take your career as an industry artist seriously.

I tend to watch or listen to these a lot while I'm actually working, and it's helped answer a lot of questions I've had about other creator techniques and how they got started in the industry.

Check it Out!!

~Chad C.

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