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Brian Kolm

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Jan 22

BTGC #2- Saturday – The Replacements

Today I am working to get all the art done, with the hopes of scanning it tomorrow afternoon. LESSON LEARNED: Everything takes longer then you think it will! Since I have the opportunity to alter some work I was originally going to accept as done and print, I am doing what ever I can to …

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Jan 22

BTGC #2 – Friday- A brush with Class

Ok, the title is bad joke. I went to an ART CLASS taught by the fantastic Watercolorist, Dorcas Moulton (me4hue.com), at Merritt college in Oakland, CA. I mostly went to see if a change of scenery would be good for working on Beyond the Great Chimney, and it was. Most of the 5 new pages …

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Jan 21

BTGC #2-Friday-Another Day

Well yesterday was day off for sure… Well I had to work on another project, and there is only so much energy that flows from an artists hands. But today is another day, and I will be working on my comic off site…more on that later. THE GOAL: finish up as much art as I …

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Jan 21

Gene Deitch’s definition of animation

Via Cartoonbrew.com… In regards to Motion Capture and weather it counts as Animation. Motion Capture being closer to puppetry vs. other forms of animation such as Cel, Cut Out, CGI, Clay, etc. Mr. Deitch writes: POLAR EXPRESS, it seems to me, opens up the possibility of a whole new category, which may possibly develop; Motion …

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Jan 21

Comics UK (link, pic)

Ever want to know what kind of past comic have had in the United Kingdom (England, Scottland, Wales, etc.). Well here is a great place to find out. comicsuk.co.uk. Here you can see some of the UK heros of years past. many of them not know here in the USA. _____________________________________ Visit http://www.atomicbearpress.com/comics/log/ to see …

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Jan 21

NYPL PICTURE COLLECTION (link)

The New York Public Library site, THE PICTURE COLLECTION is a great resource of old images, great for us artist. The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as …

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Jan 21

funchase.com: the theme parks on the Jersy shore.

Came across this interesting site, funchase.com, about the boardwalks/theme parks of the New Jeresy Shore called Wildwood. The site has lots of historical photos galore. Lots of fun, check it out. The sights and the sounds… that unique blend of pizza, salt air, cotton candy and musty wood floats on the ocean breeze…the Wildwood Boardwalk …

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Jan 21

Adidas-Man costume (link)

www.steffx.com/pages/prosthetics/superhero.asp The Superhero costume from the Adidas Shoe ad. Our all-purpose superhero costume proves you don’t need nipples on your rubber suit to fight crime.