I hope everyone is having a nice holiday! I have released a special podcast episode for the holidays. I explain what is new on the site, what will be new in the next few weeks, and what will be new in 2010. I have also released a special tutorial from the next tutorial series: Space Shooter. This tutorial will be the very first tutorial from the series, and will cover how to create a nice sprite for the space shooter game like you see below:

Resources - zip file includes the PSD, the scanned picture, and both results.
Watch the podcast episode - 5:25
Watch the tutorial - 46:09
Youtube Playlist - 5 videos