These are caricatures from the sketchbook "Deadly Are The Naked" by the amazing JIM SMITH. For those who aren't familiar with Jims work, he is one of the most amazing draftsman working in animation today and probably of all time. He's one of the only people I know who can make a drawing so solid it makes you feel like you can reach into the paper and grab hold of it. On top of Jims amazing drawing ability he's a hell of a guitarist and one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Jim gave me my first paid animation job, cleaning up his storyboard drawings, a position for which I was highly underqualified but was paid for none the less. If you're interested in seeing more of Jims work you can visit his website at www.jimsmithcartoons.com (also in the links section) I also highly recommend purchasing his sketchbooks "Lonely Are The Naked" and his latest "Deadly Are The Naked" go to his site for more info.
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Cool!
"purchasing his sketchbooks "Lonely Are The Naked" and his latest "Deadly Are The Naked" go to his site for more info."
I was going to purchase Lonely Are the Naked sketchbook from StuartNg, but you suggest both.
I went to Jim's site, a little hard to navigate. Looks like it might be cheaper to buy from Jim himself.
Thanks! These are some nice images.
Jim Smith is also the man who brought to life such joyful stories as the "Space Madness" episode of Ren and Stimpy.
A super talent indeed!
love his work
Cool post Fred! It must have been the most frustrating and inspiring situation ever to be his assistant. Jim's new sketchbook was made available through Diamond so if you have a good local comic shop you might be able to get it from them too. I ordered a few for my store.
Does anyone know what the status of Chestacles is? I know they produced some footage for it but now it looks like Jim is going to make it a comic project. I need my fix damn it!
UMO - International Cartoon contest
The UMO - International Cartoon Contest is held by UsabilityMatters.Org towards the World Usability Day. All the awarded and qualified cartoons will be exhibited on 3rd November 2005 on the World Usability Day.
Participation is open to all cartoonists from every country in the world.
There is no Entry fee.
Please go through the rules and regulations – and in particular – the conditions applicable to the intellectual property rights.
Theme for the Competition
Frustrations caused by Technology
eg., machines, gadgets appliances & internet
Technologies have now become the integral part of modern era. In our daily routine life we encounter with several products and technologies to make our work and life easy but does it solve the purpose always?..
Sometime it comes as a fear to learn,
Sometimes it’s dangerous to use, and
Sometimes it leads to frustration....
Our encounter with technology continues every single moment, when we are relaxing, or when we use different appliances in home or office, our lives are full of moments with technologies, and theme for the competition is to identify such moments, specially the ones that cause frustration and convey them with a humorous and thought provoking cartoon.
Awards and Acknowledgements
A jury will select the top 6 winning entries, the cartoonists will be granted a cash prize award of
First prize Rs.25,000/- (Rs. Twenty five thousand only)
Two second prizes of Rs. 10,000/- (Rs. Ten thousand only) each and
Three Third prizes Rs. 5,000/- (Rs. Five thousand only) each
An exhibition of the winning and short listed entries will be held and UMO will publish an exhaustive works report.
The jury and the judgment criteria
We are in process of putting a jury of well-known professionals and socially active personalities. The names will be announced in due course, depending on confirmation.
For Judgment jury will use criteria such as creativity, humor, visual communication, presentation, persuasiveness, originality, cleverness, relevance of content and execution to identify the winner.
Deadline for Submission
Cartoons will be accepted through October 3, 2005
Rules and Regulations
Entries : up to 3 cartoons per person
Size (snail mail) : A4 (210 X 297 mm) or A3 (297X410)
Size (digital) : 300dpi and in dimensions that are suitable for printing
Technique : free
Entries in hard-copy/paper will not be returned.
Exhibition and Prize distribution
On World Usability Day, November 3, 2005
Submitting your entries
Mail your cartoons keeping the competition name in subject line to usabilitymatters [at] gmail [dot] com.
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Thanx so much for the link! I'm afraid to say I don't know who Jim Smith is,but I'm definitely gonna make up for it by visiting his site. Thanx very much!
Hi blogger:)
I adore this site... My favourite posts are copied and saved in a text file...
I might use them later on to create a similar project on my site... Obviously I will not use the same words, no worry about that...
Regards,
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Much thanks Fred, I don't when this was posted but I appreciate it a whole bunch. For any one interested in the books I have some Furry are the Naked and Chestaclese, contact me on my blog:
jimsmithcartoons.blogspot.com
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