Brian Kolm
Author's posts
Sep 04
rhinohouse.com artist reference on DVD
Rhino House is a company that sells special DVD’s of life reference for Animators and Artist. Each DVD has multiple video tracks that give reference on a handful of animals and how they move. The DVD’s come in both Animal and Human versions. From a review by Greg Singer at AWN.com: Assuming you don’t have …
Sep 04
"Kid Beowulf" in living color
For the first time the wonderful graphic novel Kid Beowulf will be distributed through Diamond (the big comic book distributor) to stores across the US and the rest of the world. To celebrate, artist/writer Alexis Fajardo asked me to take his illustration and give it a whole new look. So, with the help of the …
Sep 02
BTGC #3 update
I have taken the drawings I inked with a brush and added some washes of black watercolor. Here are some images. Here is the first image of a person shrouded in a hood. Who is it? Ah you have to wait and see?
Sep 01
James Baxter Dances (link fixed)
Just discovered a wonderful animation on James Baxter’s website. The master (former) Disney animator animated himself dancing. HERE Mr. Baxter animated characters like Quasimodo in Hunchback and King Triton in Mermaid. This little animation has more life then a bulk of most things I see on TV and in movies. It’s just so good. _____________________________________ …
Aug 31
Zombie Pirates
Zombie Pirates is an independent animated short that is being produced in stopmotion with clay figures. I like the sculpts a lot, and it looks like it should be lots of fun. Check it out. The producer also has a general stop motion website, animateclay.com _____________________________________ Visit http://www.atomicbearpress.com/comics/log/ to see my production art for my …
Aug 31
‘Empress Chung’ in the NY times
Both Cartoon Brew.com and my own sister have told me that there is a nice NYTimes article about Empress Chung, the Korean animated film that was produced in both the North and South. “I picked ‘Empress Chung’ because it had the most drama,” Mr. Shin said, “and it is full of our Korean tradition.” He …
Aug 31
BTGC #3 update
4 pages have there layout’s done, and I have jumped in and tried my hand at using the Ink and Brush method. My hand is so shaky and un-trained, but its lots of fun to do. Since the first scene is a flash back, I am using it to give it an exciting look. I …
Aug 30
Grandma and Grandpa
Since page one (that I am working on) has all of Ducelots adopted family, I had to go in and look at my designs. Here is Victor Grassroot’s grandparents.
