• Massive Black/Conceptart.org is hosting an opportunity to get your portfolio reviewed this week by top industry professionals.
• The new ImagineFX cover art by Warren Louw is sexy as hell. You can also see the original here.
• Final Light has released Explosion Toolkit HD, a collection of explosion stock footage and effects for your action sequences.
• Jon Foster of scifi/fantasy book cover fame has a new web site.
  
• Ballistic Publishing recently released d’artiste: Character Modeling 3 with character creation tutorials from master artists Jan-Bart van Beek, Giovanni Nakpil, and Cesar Dacol Jr. A limited edition will also go on sale this Wednesday.

Sale ends Monday at 11:00am Pacific time.

Ballistic Publishing is proud to announce the pinnacle of digital art with EXPOSÉ 7, the latest book in its groundbreaking series celebrating the Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe. With more art, more artists, and a judging panel unanimous in its praise for the remarkable standard of work, EXPOSÉ 7 showcases a talented community of digital artists and their inspirational art.

“There is some fantastic work in there and it was extremely hard to choose what to omit,” explains Max Dennison, EXPOSÉ 7 advisory board member and founder of Matte Painting UK. “On the whole the quality of entries was brilliant and the complexity of ideas was astonishing—better than last year I believe!”

Get more info or purchase here.

Please welcome our newest featured artist, Michael Zimmerman. Michael is a concept artist from California.

Be sure to check out his work in the gallery.

Massive Black: Volume 1 brings together more than 700 pieces of artwork by the Massive Black team from studios in North America and Asia. A foreword by Oddworld’s Lorne Lanning provides an entertaining view of his dealings with Massive Black and his thoughts on what makes it such a unique artist-focused company, while Jason Manley (co-founder of Massive Black) recounts the formation of the company with partners Justin “Coro” Kauffman, and Chris Hatala.

Judging by the contributions to the community by MB, and level of quality we’ve seen from Ballistic, this should make for a good addition to any digital artist’s collection.

Artists can also submit their work and register for cash prizes up to $1,000. The deadline for submissions is August 31st.

Back in May, Massive Black released a new set of downloadable tutorials from artist Whit Brachna. We just recently got a chance to view these. I love environment sketching, and Whit does an excellent job of introducing his techniques with painting an outdoor scene.

Download today from dvd.massiveblack.com. If you haven’t already, also be sure to check out Whit’s other videos.

And watch out for the Indian food.