This week I am in Santa Rosa CA to teach the animation class at the Schulz Museum. The class is brand new and hopefully it will result in some cool animations. If all goes according to plan I will have some video clips to show on-line the week after. I will be blogging later this […]

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I will be in Santa Rosa all next week for the Animation Class I am teaching for advanced level kids Grade 4 and above. I am told there are still spots open.
JULY 7–11,2008 ● 9am–12:30pm | Stop and Go!
Learn the basics of stop-motion animation and make your own animated film by the end of the […]

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The new trailer for the next film from Studio Ghibli (Howls Moving Castle, Laputa, Totoro, Spirited Away) is on-line. Well a clip from Japanese TV with people talking over it. Director Miyazaki has created a very flat children’s book look with lovely Watercolor Backgrounds. I can’t wait to see it in the US next year […]

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The official blog of the famous Belgian comic star, Astrix the Gaul has a fun post about the women who translates the books.
Translator Anthea Bell writes in her New York Sun article:
The great treasure of the Asterix saga is its inventive wordplay, which has forced translators such as me to adapt freely and creatively. Tintin […]

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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 […]

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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 After […]

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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 […]

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Via artist Bob Camps blog. From the Ren and Stimpy show it’s a holiday song for Yaksmas about that jolly fellow Stinky Wisellteets.
WATCH THE INSANITY HERE NOW!

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