Category Archive: Animation/Motion Graphics

May
12
2013

Video: Paper Monster Party 2 vs Superheroes – May 11, 2013 follow-up

NOTE: There are bits of sound here and there, but just in the middle. So be aware so it’s not too shocking!

Paper Monster Party 2 – May 11, 2013 from Brian Kolm on Vimeo.

Yesterday was the 2nd annual Paper Monster Party at the Cartoon Art Museum, a sequel to the event I helped to organize two years ago. The event allowed artists of all levels to customize paper toys into monsters or superheros. The superhero theme came from the opening today of the Superman 75th anniversary exhibit at the Museum. We had both artist who came just for the event as well as the general public who were visiting the museum cut, color and fold paper toys into their own characters.

The blank paper toy templates we used were:

- Fold n Fun by Brian Gubicza @ http://goobeetsa.com/freestuff.html
- P.D. Paper Dude @ http://www.custompapertoys.com
- Anywere DIY Toy by Morgan Gleave @ http://www.nicepapertoys.com/profiles/blog/list?user=00zvnchiqxozs
- and Paper Toy Template 001 by me, Brian Kolm – DOWNLOAD IT HERE

A big thanks to our artist/animators: Julie Davis, Rob P, Imogen, Andrew G, Renee French, Sameer Ajmani, Joss M, Alyla M, Mom M, and Rick Lucey.

The stop-motion video was something new from the previous event and was created with Boinx’s iStopmotion app on an iPad which worked mostly just like the desktop version, with the exception that the images are a bit blurry. I will have to figure out if there is a way to fix that.

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Paper Monster Party 2 2013 video preview image

May
11
2013

Cartoon Boot Camp 2013 trailer!

Cartoon Boot Camp 2013 at the Cartoon Art Museum from Brian Kolm on Vimeo.

This is my new trailer for the classes I am teaching this summer at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco CA.

Cartoon Boot Camp returns for the Super Summer at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco for 2013!

Animaton/Artwork by instructor Brian Kolm (www.briankolm.com) (me)
Music by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/)

- Classes run Monday through Friday
- Cost: $135 ($100 for CAM Members)* Sign up for a membership and save!

June 10-14, 2013: Super Mania! — Time: 11am – 1pm – Ages: Intermediate Artists ages 10-14

Reserve your space: http://guestli.st/154173

July 8-12, 2013 – Stop-Motion Animation — Time: 11am – 1pm – Ages: Intermediate Artists ages 10-14

Reserve your space: http://guestli.st/154182

Mar
10
2013

Daily Drawing – Sketchbook Animation test 03 – some color added

March 10, 2013

Cat sketchbook animation – test 03 – 3-8-13 from Brian Kolm on Vimeo.

Here is the third update on my Sketchbook Animation I am assembling from sketches done in January. Can’t see the video, go HERE.

Still to do…

- Color the rest of the sketchbook drawings in Photoshop
- Tighten the editing
- Add some slight digital manipulations
- Add music and sound effects.

See the orignal drawings…day 1-1/26/13, day 2-1/27/13, day 3-1/28/13, day 4-1/29/13, day 5-1/30/13, day 6-1/31/13.

Feb
22
2013

Daily Drawing – Sketchbook Animation test 02

Can’t see the video below, visit https://vimeo.com/60060731

Cat sketchbook animation – test 02 – 2-19-13 from Brian Kolm on Vimeo.

This is the second pass at roughly building my animation from sketchbook drawings I created last month. The animation is simple (since it was drawn in my sketchbook), but the whole ‘story’ is there. I am still going to clean up and possibly color the drawings, re-time certain scenes, adding some missing birds, and try to make it as slick as possible. There are a few areas that I am going to try some digital tricks to add a bit more life to the animation, but you will have to come back again to see the final results.

It was really fun creating this animation and I might do a larger attempt one of the upcoming months for my Daily Drawings, but with a more elaborate piece of course. At the bottom is a sketchbook animation we created at an event I helped organize at the Cartoon Art Museum which shows what you can do.

See the drawings…day 1-1/26/13, day 2-1/27/13, day 3-1/28/13, day 4-1/29/13, day 5-1/30/13, day 6-1/31/13.

Can’t see the video, visit –> CAM-JAM 2011: (Animation May 22) from Brian Kolm on Vimeo.

Jan
31
2013

Daily Drawing – Sketchbook Animation 06

Animated Gif below…
Daily Drawing Sketchbook Animation day 06 2013

My last day of doing Sketchbook Animations for my Daily Drawing. The image above is an animated Gif and will do a simple slideshow of images.

My hope is that I will have time to composite these drawings into an animation in the following weeks, time permitting.

Tomorrow begins month two of my Daily Drawings for 2013 with 28 Heroes (one per day) in February.

See my archive of Daily Drawings here –> http://atomicbearpress.com/category/orginal_art/daily-sketch-orginal_art/

Jan
30
2013

Daily Drawing – Sketchbook Animation 05

1-30-2013 Sketchbook Animation 05

More Sketchbook Animation for my Daily Drawings.

I will be taking scans of these drawings and compositing them in After Effects to make them move.

One more day for the first month of Daily Drawings 2013.

See my archive of Daily Drawings here –> http://atomicbearpress.com/category/orginal_art/daily-sketch-orginal_art/

Jan
29
2013

Daily Drawing – Sketchbook Animation 04

1-29-2013 Daily Drawing Animation 04

More Animation for todays Daily Drawing(s). A bit of mini-story is forming. Should be interesting to see how it all comes together when composited together.

The animation is going to be running at only 8 FPS (Frames Per-Second)

See my archive of Daily Drawings here –> http://atomicbearpress.com/category/orginal_art/daily-sketch-orginal_art/

Jan
28
2013

Daily Drawing – Sketchbook Animation 03

1-28-2013 Sketchbook Animation 03

More Sketchbook Animation for my Daily Drawing(s).

A different challenge will commence on Feb 1st BTW, so keep coming back and seeing whats going on here at the blog at atomicbearpress.com

See my archive of Daily Drawings here –> http://atomicbearpress.com/category/orginal_art/daily-sketch-orginal_art/

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