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Hand Turkey Studios

About Me

Do you remember kindergarten, where you had to trace your hand onto a piece of paper and transform that into a turkey? Yeah, that's a Hand Turkey. You may notice that we've conspicuously decided not to use that image in anything that represents us. Instead, we've opted to use a black-eyed sheep with a Salvador Dali mustache. Why? We're not really sure. We could say something about creativity and the element of surprise. However, in all actuality, we like it and think it's funny... and that about covers it.

We're based in Richmond, VA, and we specialize in traditional and computer-based animation as well as illustration and print design. We have a for-real website with more of our work there and we also have sheep-dot , our side projects blog (side... erm... plog) that has even more cool stuff that we're working on.

My Blog

Hand Turkey Creates Logo for FlowPlayer

Hand Turkey Studios recently created a logo for the open source Flash video player, FlowPlayer. FlowPlayer is a very useful player that can be embedded into any website to play videos in the Fla...
Posted by Hand Turkey Studios on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:31:00 PST

Blender Fluids DVD in 3D World

In the October 2007 issue of 3D World magazine (Issue 95), there is a review of the Advanced Blender Fluids training DVD that Hand Turkey Studios produced with CmiVFX. The training DVD received a rati...
Posted by Hand Turkey Studios on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:38:00 PST

Next Blender Workshop - 16 June

This Saturday's Blender Basics workshop that we announced on the Hand Turkey website went swimmingly.  And now, the Basics II workshop is on this coming Saturday, the 16th of June.  We'll be...
Posted by Hand Turkey Studios on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:04:00 PST

June Blender Training: Two Workshops!

(cross-posting from www.handturkeystudios.com) Hand Turkey Studios will be offering two Training Workshops on Blender in June. Details on each workshop are listed below: Blender Basics Date: Sat...
Posted by Hand Turkey Studios on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:03:00 PST

Defrag Ohio Conference

As announced on the Hand Turkey Studios website: Hand Turkey's Jason van Gumster will be at the Defrag Ohio Conference April 12th until the 14th at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio...
Posted by Hand Turkey Studios on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:00:00 PST

Hand Turkey Website Updated!

We've modified our site at www.handturkeystudios.com with all kinds of new goodies: an RSS feed, cleaner navigation, Flash video, an event calendar, and a barrel of other nifty little additions and ch...
Posted by Hand Turkey Studios on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:49:00 PST

February Blender Workshop

Due to the amount of interest in it, Hand Turkey Studios will be holding our Blender Basics workshop again at the end of February.  Details are below: Date: Friday, 23 February 2007 Time: 1:00 P...
Posted by Hand Turkey Studios on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:28:00 PST

Advanced Blender Fluid Dynamics DVD

Hand Turkey Studios has teamed up with the visual effects training professionals at cmiVFX to announce professional grade training for the Blender community and visual effects artists at large.Blender...
Posted by Hand Turkey Studios on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:24:00 PST

Blender Training Workshop in January

Hand Turkey Studios will be offering a Training Workshop on the open source 3D modeling and animation suite, Blender in January of the new year. Details on the workshop are listed below: Date: Frida...
Posted by Hand Turkey Studios on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:00:00 PST