Sample arts and photos from the class I taught this last week at the Schulz Museum July 11-15, 2011. Click for a larger image.
Here are my drawings I did while teaching as well.
Category Archive: Past Event/Class
Jul
15
2011
2011-7-21 CAM Sketch-A-Thon at the San Diego Comic-Con 2011 (Schedule)
SEE THIS YEARS SCHEDULES WHEN I AM DOING SKETCHES FOR THE SKETCH-A-THON this year.
I will be participating at the Cartoon Art Museum Sketch-A-Thon at this years San Diego Comic-Con, July 21-23, 2011. While I am scheduled as a featured artist in the list below, I will be working the booth as well and should be there a good chunk of the time, so come on by and say ‘Hi’.
Thursday, July 21 through Sunday, July 24, 2011
$10 Suggested donation per sketchThe Cartoon Art Museum is pleased to announce its programming for this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International, to be held at the San Diego Convention Center from July 21-24, 2011. This year marks the fifth annual CAM Sketch-A-Thon, which features a host of artists donating their time and talents to support the museum in its fundraising efforts. This year’s roster includes professional animators, graphic novelists, newspaper strip cartoonists, political cartoonists, comic book illustrators, webcartoonists, underground cartoonists and self-publishers, providing the Cartoon Art Museum’s booth one of the most diverse artistic populations at Comic-Con.
Artists will draw for visitors during one-hour sessions at the Cartoon Art Museum’s booth, #1930 on the convention floor. In exchange for a donation of $10 or more to the Cartoon Art Museum, supporters will receive a customized convention sketch from a professional cartoonist.
Thursday, July 21
11am-12pm: Kraig Rasmussen, Rick Lucey
12-1pm: Brian Kolm, Steven Kunz
1-2pm: Mike Dubisch, Brent Schoonover
2-3pm: Dirk Tiede, Brad Rader
3-4pm: Anthony Hon, Andrew Farago
4-5pm: Chari Pere, Scott Shaw!
5-6pm: Seamus Smith, Jamaica Dyer
Friday, July 22
11am-12pm: Brian Kolm, Mick Gray
12-1pm: Karen Luk, Debbie Huey
1-2pm: Ron Yavnieli, Kimo Yancey
2-3pm: Raina Telgemeier, Dave Roman
3-4pm: Tom Gammill, Mell Lazarus
4-5pm: Seamus Smith, Michael Capozzola
5-6pm: Kraig Rasmussen, Frankie Addiego
Saturday, July 23
10-11am: Brian Kolm, Larry Marder
11am-12pm: Jon Macy, Brad Rader
12-1pm: Rachael Moore
1-2pm: Seamus Smith
2-3pm: Michael Gross, Michael Capozzola
3-4pm: Kostas Kiriakakis, Jamaica Dyer
4-5pm: Keith Knight, Brian Kolm
5-6pm: Kraig Rasmussen, Mia Morgan White
Sunday, July 24
11am-12pm: Seamus Smith
12-1pm: Carolyn Watson-Dubisch, Mike Dubisch
1-2pm: Rachel Dukes, Megan Rose Gedris
2-3pm: Kraig Rasmussen
3-4pm: Michael Capozzola
4-5pm: Andrew Farago
Jul
02
2011
Chabot Kids on Campus 2011: Cartooning Star Wars and Beyond (updated 7-16-11)
Photos and art from my class I taught June 27-July 1 2011 at Chabot College in Hayward CA. Come on back on July 8, 2011 to see more.
Click for bigger images.
Jul
02
2011
Chabot Kids on Campus: Cartooning Monsters and Creatures
Photos and art from the summer school class that I taught at Chabot College in Hayward CA. The end result was the kids creating there own beasts.
Jul
02
2011
Cartoon Art Museum 2011: Storyboard to Animatic
Well another fun Summer of classes at the Cartoon Art Museum for Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 is over with our last week focusing on Storyboard to Animatic (June 27-July 1). But what is a Storyboard and what is an Animatic?
Storyboard’s are a visual script to help the creators of films, videos, video games, theme park attractions and other forms of entertainment plan there production before money and time are spent to produce them.
The Animatic (or Story Reel or Pre-Visulization) takes the storyboards and brings them to film or video where they are edited to match the shots of a proposed film along with temporary sound effects, voices and music to simulate what it might look like in real time. The processes has become fairly standard as a way of showing what can be with out spending a lot of resources, especially for expensive live action special effects extravaganzas where the film can go over budget if not careful.
For our class we had six students who broke into four groups to produces a short story or segment of storyboards that were then scanned into the computer with audio and special effects being added.
All of our students did a great job and really brought a lot of creativity to their projects. Congratulations to all of them for their hard work.
Let’s see what the final results are…
The first team done were Eric and Leo who did a short and sweet gag story…
‘The Walnut’ – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 – Storyboard to Animatic from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
Next was Danie who did this short gag of transformation…
‘PlantMan’ – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 – Storyboard to Animatic from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
Then Leslie, our youngest student did this short educational story…
‘Giggles New Food’ – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 – Storyboard to Animatic from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
And last, but not least was Javon and Dont’e with a scene from a martial arts epic…
‘Chickens of Fury’ scene animatic – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 – Storyboard to Animatic from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
Further exploration: The same techniques used to bring Storyboards to video or film as an Animatic have also been used for the final productions that uses Picture Book Illustrations (Reading Rainbow, Rabbit Ears videos) and Comic Art (motion comics like ‘Watchmen’ and ‘Batman: Black and White’) To find out more about re-purposing artwork into animation, check out my posts on Motion Comic Magic.
Jul
02
2011
Cartoon Art Museum 2011: Character Design
Hey all, below you will find a video slide show featuring artwork my students created for the Character Design Cartoon Boot Camp at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. The goal of the class was to design and draw a character the students could call their own for a final project and I happy to say that all the kids did a great job.
In the slide show I included two images of my choosing as well as their final piece. The two pieces I picked for each student were tough choices since I had only to work with the images we had time to scan into the computer. So, the art presented in the video below might vary in it’s subject matter for each student, but shows their creativity and process.
I hope you enjoy the video sideshow below and visit the Cartoon Art Museum when you get a chance.
Character Design – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
Note: the music was created by Kevin MacLeod who licenses’ it for free through the Creative Commons. by http://incompetech.com/. Excellent work.
Jun
25
2011
2011/7/21 – 23 San Diego Comic-Con International (updated 7-5-11)
I will be drawing and meeting folks at the San Diego Comic-Con this July 21-23, 2011 at the Cartoon Art Museum booth as part of the Sketch-A-Thon.
Here is the what Andrew at the CAM wrote HERE
Fifth Annual CAM Sketch-a-thon at San Diego Comic-Con International
Thursday, July 21 through Sunday, July 24, 2011
$10 Suggested donation per sketch
The Cartoon Art Museum is pleased to announce its programming for this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International, to be held at the San Diego Convention Center from July 21-24, 2011. This year marks the fifth annual CAM Sketch-a-thon, which features a host of artists donating their time and talents to support the museum in its fundraising efforts. This year’s roster includes professional animators, graphic novelists, newspaper strip cartoonists, political cartoonists, comic book illustrators, webcartoonists, underground cartoonists and self-publishers, providing the Cartoon Art Museum’s booth one of the most diverse artistic populations at Comic-Con.
Artists will draw for visitors during one-hour sessions at the Cartoon Art Museum’s booth, #1930 on the convention floor. In exchange for a donation of $10 or more to the Cartoon Art Museum, supporters will receive a customized convention sketch from a professional cartoonist. Featured artists include: Michael Capozzola, Carolyn Watson Dubisch, Mike Dubisch, Rachel Dukes, Mick Gray, Michael Gross, Anthony Hon, Kostas Kiriakakis, Keith Knight, Karen Luk, Larry Marder, Rachael Moore, Chari Pere, Brad Rader, Kraig Rasmussen, Dave Roman, Scott Shaw!, Seamus Smith, Raina Telgemeier, Dirk Tiede, Kimo Yancey and Ron Yavnieli, with more to be announced as the convention approaches.
Jun
17
2011
Cartoon Boot Camp 2011: Stop Motion
Week 1 of Cartoon Boot Camp is coming to a close today.
links to 2011 FINAL ANIMATION FROM THIS CLASS: “Alien Attack”, “I’m not going to Mars”, Cut-Out Animation, Action Figure Animation, “Danger Alley” and “Box Head’s new friend”
First off we have some of our group exercises… note: they are all silent since we did not have time to add sound.
Cut Out Stop-Motion and other stuff – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
Action-Figure Stop-Motion tests – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
“Danger Alley” stop-motion – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
And then the final projects from our three groups…
“Alien Attack: the Moon” stop-motion animation – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
“I’m not going to Mars” stop-motion animation – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
“Box Heads new friend” Stop-Motion – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
