Designer: Tom Judd

Having found 5oup.com, I also was fortunate to come across Tom Judd, one of the creators of 5oup.net. Judd graduated from Manchester Metropolitan with honors for his Bachelor's Degree and is currently completing a Masters at the Royal College of Art in Animations. He clientele includes Barclay, Burton Snowboards, BBC, and Doritos. Snooping around Judd's website, I quickly drew up an admiration for this man. He's got a massive arrangement of multimedia work that is truly impressive. From sketches to illustrations to 2 dimensional playback, Judd has a lot to offer. The one thing I like most about Judd's website is that he has an on-going project where he draws a drawing everyday and posts it up on his site.

Everyday is a self-set project intended to keep me drawing regularly. Each page represents a day of my life and is scanned and uploaded to this site on completion. I am currently in my second year of daily drawing which will finish on the 30th June 08. Volume 3 will begin 1 year after that date. I will endeavor to maintain this year-on year-off schedule through my entire life, and hopefully by the end of it all I will have a nice record of my artistic development.

Anyway, take a look around his site at www.tomjudd.co.uk. Yes, he's european ;)

Community: 5oup.net

IMAGE CREATED BY TOM JUDD, ONE OF THE TWO CREATORS OF 5oup.net

When surfing around the internet, I stumbled across an interesting community network called 5oup.net. The website was created by James Chambers and Tom Judd in February 2006. 5oup.net is a great place for students to show off their work and have their art seen by a wide audience.

Since it's launch 5oup has had a great reception both online and off, recieving support from Icograda, Design is Kinky, Pixelsurgeon and Computer Arts to name but a few. Our userbase has grown to over 1300 students from a huge variety of backgrounds and creative disciplines, and represents a cross section of emerging creative talent. 5oup is the only dedicated community run by students, for students.

I found to be a network site that is beautifully designed (compared to DeviantArt.com) and displays student art work perfectly. What I liked most about it is that you can find students by schools which I find very useful because you can see what is being produced by students from which ever school. Anyway, I'm waiting for the day in which I can become a member of this delicious 5oup :)

Check the site out here.