Latest demo reel from Christine Phelan, a character animator based in the San Francisco Bay area, featuring some of her work at Double Fine Productions on “Brütal Legend” (2009), as well as some sequences produced for LucasArts on “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed” (2008).

Her characters are full of life, and I’m happy to see that unlike many games, her characters don’t seem to have an unbendable spine. Judging by her hobbies it looks like the Brütal Legend job was a perfect fit for her skills and personality. It wouldn’t surprise me if she turns out to also be a Jedi in her spare time.

There’s a new CGWorkshop: Modern Game Character Creation with Lara Croft (Tombraider Underworld) modeler Jonathan Rush in this intense nine week course. Jon will be stepping up to take you under the hood of the ‘character art hot rod,’ where you will learn the ‘ins & outs’ of successfully creating video game characters within a studio mind-set.

Student numbers will be strictly limited to 35 places only. The course runs from 1 February 2010 through to 4 April 2010. Fee: USD $549.00

After the controversy that followed the first Kane and Lynch game, the second game has just been announced followed by these darkly comedic viral trailers, enjoy: