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Electric Zombie Tee Creation from Ray Frenden on Vimeo.

In this video, watch as Ray Frenden completes an illustration for a t-shirt. The video is real-time, with Ray’s live commentary, and clocks in at an astounding 2 hours or so. I didn’t have the time to watch all of it, but I managed to catch bits throughout its length (though Vimeo annoyingly doesn’t let one skip ahead without preloading the entire video) and it offers great insight into Ray’s working processes and philosophies.

Ray’s videos also offer a great glimpse at Manga Studio, the illustration software designed with comics creators in mind. I’ve been meaning to give Manga Studio a try, but the software, though Mac compatible, won’t run on Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS. Some Internet sleuthing seems to give the impression that there’s no plans for a patch or upgrade until the next version of the software is released. On Smith Micro’s site, they acknowledge the incompatibility, and suggest trying the feature-poor Debut edition of the application, but subsequently don’t offer any free trial downloads of anything but the incompatible Ex version.

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