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Inside 30 Desk: Ramón Núñez’s 30-minute painting workspace
30 Desk interface, captured October 31, 2026. Reference photograph: LiquidGhoul / CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Art of RamonN90: character, colour and everyday stories
Artwork © Ramón Núñez / 3dtotal. Official promotional selection; not an interior page spread.
Give your references room to connect.
URef / Jesus Conde. Frame from the official Image Tools tutorial (Beta 0.11.84).
Value grouping: what James Gurney means by seeing in families
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Mill, 1645/1648. National Gallery of Art, Widener Collection. Public domain.
From concept to production: following a real film’s decisions
Sprite Fright / (CC) Blender Foundation | studio.blender.org. CC BY 1.0.
Storyboard versus animatic: the difference is time
Blender Studio / Pablo Fournier — official Storyboarding Tools Overview thumbnail.
Iain McCaig
Portrait via Concept Art Association; photographer not identified on source page.
John Howe
Niccolò Caranti / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. John Howe at Lucca Comics & Games, 2017. Licence ↗
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James Gurney
James Gurney in his studio, from jamesgurney.com; photographer not identified on source page.
Alan Lee
T.M.Eckrich / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Alan Lee, 2016. Licence ↗
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Janix: a Star Wars city built with the hand of the artist.
Janix Civil Defense HQ concept art by Molly Denmark. © Lucasfilm Ltd. Source: StarWars.com.
Krita brings animation and timelapse exports to Android.
Blender’s storyboarding tools put drawing and timing together.
Syd Mead
Luke Ford / Wikimedia Commons; framing and color adjustments by WikiPedant. CC BY-SA 2.5. Downloaded without further modification. Licence ↗
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Ralph McQuarrie
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Jean Giraud (Moebius)
Jarek Obważanek, WRAK.PL / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Downloaded without modification. Licence ↗
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H. R. Giger
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Yoshitaka Amano
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Terryl Whitlatch: anatomy behind imaginary creatures
Portrait: Niccolò Caranti / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Licence ↗
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Rebecca Guay: fantasy illustration and the life of paint
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Robh Ruppel: building worlds with shape and light
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Claire Wendling: a drawing practice across comics and animation
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Peter de Sève: character begins with a story
Portrait: Parka Blogs / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Licence ↗
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What Wing It! can teach you about readable cartoon poses
Blender Foundation / Blender Studio; production layout from Rik Schutte and Vivien Lulkowski's poster breakdown. Cropped and resized. Licence ↗
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Charge: making materials tell a character's story
Blender Foundation / Blender Studio. Charge material-library preview; materials by Simon Thommes, published by Beau Gerbrands. Licence ↗
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Spring: what an environment concept needs to explain
David Revoy, blender.org — Spring concept art, CC BY 4.0. Published preview reproduced unchanged. Licence ↗
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Your first Krita animation: build a small loop with clear poses
Krita Manual contributors: Wolthera van Hövell tot Westerflier, Raghavendra Kamath, Scott Petrovic and Lundin. Unmodified illustration from Animation with Krita. Licence ↗
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Draw into a 3D scene: a Grease Pencil workflow for concept artists
Matias Mendiola / Blender Foundation, Blender Studio — Grease Pencil Fundamentals. Original lesson preview, CC BY 4.0. Licence ↗
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Photoshop’s new adjustment layers: protect the atmosphere
J. M. W. Turner, Approach to Venice, 1844. National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon Collection. Public domain; illustrative reference, not a Photoshop result. Licence ↗
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Opacity vs flow: make your Photoshop brush predictable
John Singer Sargent, Cairo, c. 1891. National Gallery of Art, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection. Public domain; a traditional painting reference. Licence ↗
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Clipping masks or layer masks? Give each one a clear job
Albrecht Dürer, The Rhinoceros, 1515. National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection. Public domain; historical silhouette reference. Licence ↗
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One place, two moods: a lighting study with Monet
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, 1894. National Gallery of Art, Chester Dale Collection. Public domain. Licence ↗
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Before you design a moon base, study a real lunar photograph
NASA / Johnson Space Center, Apollo 17, AS17-145-22216, December 1972. Public-domain NASA photograph. Licence ↗
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CCS Animada: Venezuelan stories take the next step
Wildwood: from a forest on paper to a world built by hand
Wildwood © 2026 Irish Ivy LLC / LAIKA. Official making-of featurette thumbnail; not concept art.
Clayface: designing Gotham—and the human inside the monster
Masters of the Universe: designing an Eternia that could be built
Additional Ramón Núñez artwork
Character montage and laundry scene © Ramón Núñez, from 3dtotal’s product preview. Still frames extracted from publisher GIFs. These are promotional selections, not scanned book pages.
30 Desk reference photograph
LiquidGhoul, Red-eyed Tree Frog, CC BY-SA 3.0, visible within the captured interface. The screenshot identifies the source tool rather than claiming the illustration as our work.
