Author's posts
Jun 09
Animators Survival Kit DVD
It’s been announced that Richard Williams has adapted his fantastic book, the Animators Survival Kit to a new series of how-to DVD’s. I took Richards animation workshop years ago and I can tell you this is going to be awesome. Even if your an artist who’s not doing Animation, you can learn a lot from …
Jun 08
Fiend Folio, Tarzan, and John Carter art
Spiderwick artist Tony DiTerlizzi has posted a cool retooling of a monster from the original D&D Fiend Folio. Tony is an amazing artist and his blog is worth reading, so check them out. Mr. Door Tree has posted some classic art from books of Tarzan HERE and HERE and John Carter of Mars HERE and …
Jun 07
Pnda animation test
This is a tiny animation I created today at the Schulz Museum while I promoted my animation class for kids that happens in July. The animation was created to test a cool xerox machine that can scan a stack of drawings and send them to a computer. I just brought the sequence of image into …
Jun 05
Richard Williams Animation Survival Kit PENCIL TEST
Years and years ago I took Richard Williams wonderful animation workshop and was blown away. Then there was a great book with all Richard’s note in it. NOW Richard will have a new How-Too DVD that coming soon. On-line there is a new pencil test that recreates the books cover and it looks amazing. Check …
Jun 02
fan art: the Vision
[singlepic=492,320,240,,] Just a fan picture of one of my favorite Marvel Supehero characters, the android Vision. This was rendered in ink with a dip brush and then colored on the computer. I tried to give the effect that his cape is translucent and the light is coming through.
May 29
June 7th, FREE Summer Sampler day at the Schulz Museum
On Saturday, June 7th I will be at the Schulz Museum in lovely Santa Rosa CA to promote my summer animation class. You can find me in the education room creating animation by way of Zoetrope and Stop Motion. Admission to the museum is FREE all day. Come sample some of our summer class activities …
May 29
Reminder: Cartoon Boot Camp this summer at the Cartoon Art Museum
I was at the Cartoon Art Museum yesterday going over my curriculum for my upcoming Summer classes and I just wanted to send out a reminder. I am really looking forward to the two new classes on drawing a comics page and animation. The information has now been updated at the museums website (scroll down …
