Very cool first video in a series with the awesome artist Eric Powell (creator of The Goon). Can’t wait to see more. Eric’s use of Ink+Washes has been an inspiration on my own work.
Category Archive: education
Jul
16
2011
follow-up: Schulz Museum – Cartooning 101 – July 11-15, 2011
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.
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.
May
06
2011
2011/7/11 Summer ‘Cartooning 101′ class at the Schulz Museum
I will return this summer to the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa CA.
July 11-15, 2011 – Drawing 101
MONDAY–FRIDAY ? 9am–12:30pm
Have a fun-filled week designing and drawing your own characters—from superheroes to cute critters—and developing stories and comic strips. Join cartoonist Brian Kolm to learn the basics of cartooning and create your own mini-comic book.
Apr
22
2011
My upcoming appearances and classes – spring/summer 2011
Just an update of where you can find me this Spring and Summer
Looney Toons Family Fun Day at the Cartoon Art Museum – San Francisco CA (ages 10-14)
Saturday April 30 – all ages with admission to museum
CAM-JAM 2011 : Animation – Cartoon Art Museum – San Francisco CA (ages 10-14)
May 22, 2011 – Artist event
Cartoon Boot Camp at the Cartoon Art Museum – San Francisco CA (ages 10-14)
June 6-10, 2011 – Story Board to Animatic
June 13-17, 2011 – Intro to Stop-Motion
June 20-24, 2011 – Dynamic Character Design
Kids on Campus at Chabot College - Hayward Ca
June 20-24: Cartooning: Monsters & Critters
June 27-July 1: Cartooning: Star Wars Art
Schulz Museum – Santa Rosa CA
July 11-15, 2011 – Drawing 101
