Interesting links

January 30, 2015

Polycount Riot Games Art Contest winners! The art is great, but also, the art direction feedback is top notch. The artistic style of ‘El Braum’ aligns closely…

December 29, 2014

This is Leonardo da Vinci's resume as a war engineer, sent to Ludovico Sforza for consideration. His painting skills are mentioned almost as an afterthought…

December 26, 2014

Fascinating gears and lever systems as animated gifs. Great ref for animating doors and looping techy bits for games! The most viral images on the internet…

October 30, 2014

A terrific read from someone I greatly respect. "Gamasutra: Laralyn McWilliams's Blog - She's Not Playing It Wrong" http://buff.ly/1sMgwyk If you’re an…

October 27, 2014

It's never good to hear about a project failing, but the postmortems and retrospectives that get written about them are often a helpful and instructive read…

October 6, 2014

I posted this in a comment on Facebook earlier, but I thought I'd post a list of some of the video game news sites I read every day and what I like about them…

September 30, 2014

I wrote a new article about clever uses for BitTorrent Sync! "Sync Stories: Ideas for Business Travelers" http://buff.ly/YO8AoI Sync Stories is a column…

September 29, 2014

Cool production summary of iterative game UI design. "This week in Archmage Rises: User Interface Magic" http://ubm.io/1ux6Z0K This past week, I focused my…

September 28, 2014

Good summary of why Linkedin can be valuable for people with specific, educated target audiences. "LINKEDIN DEMOGRAPHICS: The Top Statistics That Make The…

January 29, 2012

Whoa! My mini-speech on free agency being the future got plugged in the Daily Texans' coverage of TACC's Future of Video Games event! Conference exhibits…

June 16, 2011

Last year I wrote an article for GameSauce Magazine on E3, with the intent of essentially nutshelling what it is and what it means to the un- or…

January 18, 2011

Here's another life-enhancing tool I love: StrokeIt! It adds the ability to create global or application-specific mouse gestures in Windows. Incredibly…

February 22, 2010

Photoshop has been around for 20 years now, and I found a really awesome timeline image showing the development of Photoshop over time, which key features were…

February 16, 2010

Hey, neat! I was featured on a list of 100+ Resources for Video Game Professionals. This looks to be a pretty solid list full of useful sites and really good…

February 4, 2009

Ever bookmark a website full of great information, only to revisit it later and discover the link is dead? Worry no more! HTTrack Website Copier is here, and…

June 29, 2007

There's a piece on game industry career advice from the Tech Jobs Expert on Monster.com. And guess what? The article in question features a handful of quotes…

May 11, 2007

I found something awesome on LifeHacker a moment ago that smArtists may appreciate. It's called The Freelancer's Toolset . It's a list of 100 web applications…

April 24, 2007

I just found a great post by Gianfranco over at GBGames that's called What Would A Game Developer Do? Gianfranco starts out detailing focus problems we all…

April 13, 2007

Found a cool article this morning: 101 Hidden Tips and Secrets for Photoshop Some useful information in here I didn't know. A few repeats, but here were some…

April 13, 2007

I just checked out Rick Stirling's excellent blog and found an article for young artists that I wholeheartedly agree with... it's called Art for games, not…

March 24, 2007

MIT's Sloan School of Management Open Courseware MIT recently released most (if not all) of their courses online for free. I discovered today that that…

December 2, 2006

I found this over on LifeHacker today and thought it was pretty sweet. Here's the direct article link: A Primer on Electronic Communication Basically it's a…

July 25, 2006

I just ran across a website on accident that has a few people ripping on me and my site. It made me laugh, and I wanted to post it here. Here's the IndieGamer…

April 22, 2006

Hey, I'm in Texas! I'm staying with my good friend Eric . Yesterday we drove up to Fort Worth with a friend of ours to go trawling around in a condemned and…

December 25, 2005

http://www.jamesart.com/kits.html File this under "Artistic reference." These are some amazingly beautiful stylized resin model kits of the most…

December 8, 2005

I usually don't post quick things like this, but I just found something too beautiful not to post. I was doing some random browsing while waiting on something…

December 5, 2005

NanoLegends art released! I know a lot of you have asked to see my art and that I haven't had anything recent to show off. Well, that's no longer the case!…

September 28, 2005

My friend Eric recently started a worklog detailing his free-time foray into developing an original intellectual property. It's already shaping up to be a…