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I made my own Holiday image.StudioMMG greets its tiny audience a very warm and merry Christmas and all that! Although it certainly was a trying year, looking back, it was still pretty damn fun! May the New Year bring more opportunities to us all!Expect more "quality content" and other great and interesting stuff in 20...

This is the fourth and final feature on the amazingly creative Peter Chung. It was a fairly long and laborious ride, but overall his take on the creative process certainly opened my eyes. (More so than any Creative Director guy actually) If you are sick of hearing about this guy and how he’s really just an overrated fop, then I say to you "You know what’s funny? A few weeks after writing the Peter Chung Specials, I actually found the Aeon...

I asked myself, how does one establish some kind of meaning, feeling or significance in art? As an artist, do you have to some kind of background in Psychology or Philosophy to achieve some kind of emotional connection with your audience???No, and no (but a little knowledge goes a long way)! I've said it once, I'll say it yet again - the biggest advantage you'll ever get in figuring out what the heck I'm yapping about is to have a good...

Lets take a brief look at Philip Straub, a world-renowned artist who has worked on a bunch of children books, films and video gaming projects. He’s so famous, that just about every digital art-related website has written something about the guy! And by golly, this guy is amazing. One of Mr. Straub’s greatest strengths has always been his color choices and intense lighting, as he said in one interview “I use color, like value structure, positive/negative shapes and line, as a compositional tool. Bold color is just something...

Let me state the obvious here: The Internet for me is a hotchpotch of more often than not, meaningless and pointless activity that needlessly complicated a person’s real life. My blog complicates my life because everyday, I end up wondering: “Was it all worth it?”Seeing as you, my dear, teeny, tiny audience are caught in this swirling vortex of nothingness (hence designation of ‘Void’), I have no choice but to let you in on the latest in...

Just when you thought I had run out of things to say about the one and only...This is one of my final pieces for the ‘Beautiful Mind’ feature, starring Mr. Peter Chung. In the past, I have talked about the process in which Mr. Chung went through in developing his baby, Æon Flux. I will continue that with a brief look at his involvement in the production of the Animatrix short, ‘Matriculated’, one of the most under appreciated pieces of...