Leo Blanchette, Illustrator

Summertime Adventures

nobody@vox.com(Leo Blanchette) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:10:32 -0700

I've created this blog post for those very valued customers of mine who may be contacting me for freelance work. Its been a year since I took to flight on this freelance illustration thing. Although it started out as rough seas, I can say its be...

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Check Out my Webcam!

nobody@vox.com(Leo Blanchette) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:19:02 -0700

Yet another 3d robotic creation! This was a lot of fun -- I wanted to make a robot that was somewhat realistic and didn't take long to render. The result was this 3d webcam robot. He is created in blender 3d, and uses material nodes (basically ov...

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AO-Maru the Friendly Robot

nobody@vox.com(Leo Blanchette) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:51:33 -0700

AO-Maru the Friendly Robot. I created this robot as a sort of "friendliness assistant" to designers. AO-Maru is a technological wonder, inquisitive in nature, and does his job very well when it comes to bringing to life concepts such as (obviousl...

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Announcing a New Line of Microstock Bots!

nobody@vox.com(Leo Blanchette) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:12:49 -0800

Announcing a New Line of Microstock Bots! A lot went into the preperation of this highly optimal workflow. But now I can announce a new series of robots to make their entrance into the world of Microstock! Pictures below: There will be mor...

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Reel Mess Advergame in Beta Testing

nobody@vox.com(Leo Blanchette) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:15:42 -0800

I enjoyed this project greatly! Its an advergame called "Reel Mess" where the object of the game is to untangle the fishing line. They had me do most of the art for it, so I went all out in Adobe Illustrator and did some serious gradient mesh/ve...

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Creating Hydraulic or Pneumatic Tubes in Blender 3d Tutorial

nobody@vox.com(Leo Blanchette) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:30:13 -0800

Creating Hydraulic or Pneumatic Tubes in Blender 3d Tutorial By "hooking" points of paths to "empty" objects in blender 3d you can create tubes that move with the objects they are connected to via parenting -- in this case, a pneumatic piston use...

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DCWS Rocks!

nobody@vox.com(Leo Blanchette) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:04:59 -0800

DCWS rocks! Its amazing how much goes into making a good website. I waited patienty until I found a good web designer. It was long wait. When I connected up with DCWS I was mostly concerned with creating a *simple* website that ranks nicely in...

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Its ALIVE!

nobody@vox.com(Leo Blanchette) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:49:09 -0800

I have a plan to use robots to take over the world. Unfortunately, they never leave the "concept illustration" phase. These were a lot of fun. For once I stepped aside from the pure "what will sell" approach to the "just have fun for a change" ap...

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Web Crawler

nobody@vox.com(Leo Blanchette) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:08:25 -0800

My latest creation, #2 of the "Bots" series. Its a web crawler, such as is used by search engines to spider websites and to collect information. There is a tutorial coming up, but I'm trying to find a bot that will be simple enough to make a ...

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Pick the Robot for Upcoming Tutorial!

nobody@vox.com(Leo Blanchette) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:08:58 -0800

I'm doing a robot series, and behold! My first creation out of the robot construction bay! (The orange RSS bot to the right). Well, soon (maybe this week?) I'm going to do a simple tutorial on how to color a character in Adobe Illustrator. I...

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