Practice / 30 Desk
A real desk. A 30-minute practice.
Build a painting habit with Ramón Núñez’s browser-based workspace.
Read the story ↗Art, process & the people behind it.
Digital painting, concept art and the tools shaping creative work.
BEHIND THE SCENES / ART, FILM & TOOLS
20 stories to exploreFrom the art world.
Concept art / LAIKA
Wildwood concept art: silhouettes, character studies and a house built from drawings
Explore Thibault Leclercq’s character work, Santiago Montiel’s colour and the visual development that connects drawings to LAIKA’s miniature world.
Concept art / visual development · 5 min read
Creature concept / DC
Clayface concept art: Carlos Huante’s early explorations of a changing body
Human anatomy, stretched silhouettes and the colour of clay: a closer look at Carlos Huante’s pre-greenlight concepts, distinct from the finished film’s creature.
Early concept exploration · 5 min read
Production design / Perspective
Masters of the Universe: designing an Eternia that could be built
Guy Hendrix Dyas’s Perspective feature connects character studies, a visual reference library and the construction of Castle Grayskull.
Perspective · Sep–Oct 2026 · 2 min read
Animation design
What Wing It! can teach you about readable cartoon poses
A production study of Blender's cartoon short: expressive shapes, clear silhouettes and a background that supports the performance.
Archive study · 2023 · 4 min read
Environment design
Charge: making materials tell a character's story
Blender's 2022 short and its open material library provide a starting point for designing surfaces with history, use and purpose.
Archive study · 2022 · 4 min read
Concept art archive
Spring: what an environment concept needs to explain
David Revoy's published Spring paintings show how environments, characters and story development meet before a film is finished.
Archive study · 2019 · 4 min read
Painting workflow
Your first Krita animation: build a small loop with clear poses
A practical introduction to frame-by-frame animation: keyframes, holds, onion skins and a manageable first exercise.
Practical guide · 4 min read
Drawing and perspective
Draw into a 3D scene: a Grease Pencil workflow for concept artists
Matias Mendiola's documented workflow shows how rough drawings, simple meshes and a camera can help solve an environment together.
Archive study · 2019 · 4 min read
PHOTOSHOP / WORKFLOW
Photoshop’s new adjustment layers: protect the atmosphere
Clarity, Dehaze and Grain are now editable adjustment layers. For painters, the interesting question is where to leave an image alone.
2026 feature spotlight · 3 min read
PAINTING / BRUSH CONTROL
Opacity vs flow: make your Photoshop brush predictable
A short, repeatable brush test explains why some strokes build smoothly and others leave unexpected bands.
Practical guide · 3 min read
PHOTOSHOP / LAYER WORKFLOW
Clipping masks or layer masks? Give each one a clear job
Keep character colors inside a silhouette, revise edges and avoid repainting the same boundary every time.
Practical guide · 3 min read
VISUAL STUDY / COLOR & LIGHT
One place, two moods: a lighting study with Monet
Two paintings of Rouen Cathedral offer a practical starting point for designing lighting variations without redesigning the scene.
Practical guide · 3 min read
CONCEPT ART / REFERENCE STUDY
Before you design a moon base, study a real lunar photograph
Apollo imagery offers more than a science-fiction mood board. Look for scale, function, material changes and the evidence behind each shape.
Practical guide · 3 min read
Visual development / Lucasfilm Animation
Janix: a Star Wars city built with the hand of the artist.
Lucasfilm's artists explain how real brushstrokes, local painting studies and a carefully mapped city shaped Maul – Shadow Lord.
Source feature · 7 April 2026 · 3 min read
Software update / Krita
Krita brings animation and timelapse exports to Android.
The 5.3.4 update adds a practical finishing step for tablet painters, alongside recorder and interface fixes.
Release · 15 September 2026 · 3 min read
Workflow / from the archive
Blender’s storyboarding tools put drawing and timing together.
A closer look at the storyboarding workflow introduced in Blender 5.0—and why a painting student might care.
Archive · Blender 5.0 release, 18 November 2025 · 3 min read
Latin America / Animation community
CCS Animada: Venezuelan stories take the next step
Caracas Animada’s fifth edition connects illustration, emerging projects and an animation community looking beyond the finished image.
Community spotlight · October 2026 · 3 min read
On our bookshelf
The Art of RamonN90: character, colour and everyday stories
A closer look at Ramón Núñez’s debut art book, with official promotional artwork, visual analysis, interview context and buying options.
Project spotlight · 4 min read
Practice / community
Inside 30 Desk: Ramón Núñez’s 30-minute painting workspace
A real look at the browser-based studio: reference images, a session timer, layers and a community wall, all built around a manageable daily study.
Project spotlight · 3 min read
From the studio
Give your references room to connect.
URef brings references, notes and creative connections into a shared workspace.
Project spotlight · 1 min read
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