Planet to Planet; Creatures and Strange Worlds is the title of resident CGPAD’er Mike Corriero’s new artbook.  Its Mike’s first print of a compilation of sketches which feature his unique vision of the weird and wonderful world of creature and environmental design.    Mike’s passion for creature design and his unique approach coupled with his [...]

Black Sun Entertainment have released a short animated film called Azureus Rising to great applause and review, it has also won Best Animated Picture at the Malibu Film Festival and is a stunning example of what can be achieved when great talent is brought to work together on a project.  Its a showcase film highlighting fantastic [...]

Welcome to our newest, professionally judged contest on CGPAD.  This time in collaboration with the amazing talent of STEAMBOT Studios.  The contest will provide all registered members of CGPAD the opportunity to win Steambot Studios fantastic artbook: EXODYSSEY    “Steambot studios (Montreal, CAN and Austin, Texas USA) is a next-gen visual developement studios creating world [...]

Already as a kid I loved all movies designed by Ray Harryhousen. This old chap is actually one of the pioneers of “stop motion animation”, something probably long forgotten by now in the days of “motion capturing” Tim Burton and Nick Park  gave homage and revived this technique by directing “A nightmare before Christmas” and [...]

This is an interview with Dave Rapoza a fulltime freelance artist,  I tried to ask him some very basic questions that would help everybody who is aspiring to have a career as an artist! CGPAD:  Tell us something about yourself.  How did you come in touch with art? Dave: Well, ever since I was little I [...]

In last week’s S.O.T.W. theme, staff-member IGB challenged the CGPAD forum members to submit concept-art panels utilizing an early, 20th-century expedition to the Great Rift Valley as the base inspiration for their entries, and shortly after procuring the appropriate reference material, and collaborating on a general direction for the setting of the boards, this international [...]

This is a very modern dilemma for a lot artists and I find myself increasingly intrigued by the situation when people discuss the difference between traditional and digital painting methods. When I discuss about the differences between digital Vs traditional methods and how closely they are related I often have to justify and clarify this [...]

Hello everyone! I’ll be writing some articles and news for CGPAD’s frontpage from now on and I hope to  fulfil everyone’s needs and wishes as best I can!

I am terribly sorry for the lack of news on our mainsite guys but I was totally gone from the art scene. Problem as I am the webmaster of this site also so you see why there wasn’t any news posted lately. But from now on we will post art news, CGPAD related news as [...]

That’s right space-fans, 3Dtotal, in association with illustrious concept-artist Chee Ming Wong, (also known as Koshime) have now released a compiled version of his popular space-based, painting tutorials,which were first seen throughout successive issues of 2D-artist magazine. This eBook compilation, which contains no less than twelve-chapters of comprehensive-instruction, covers the “how-to’s” of applying the appropriate [...]