Last month I had a wonderful experience and instead of spending my summer going to a comic book convention for work, I took a real vacation to the Canadian province of Quebec. The trip was wonderful with stops in the modern city of Montreal and the classic city of Quebec. The food, the people, the …
Category: travel
Jul 29
Photos from Cartoon Boot Camp 2012- Superhero Creation at the Cartoon Art Museum
Two photos from Superhero Creation at Cartoon Boot Camp 2012 which I taught at the Cartoon Art Museum this Summer.
May 26
Mini-Comic Day 2012 follow-up
Today I took part in the Mini-Comic Day challenge (http://www.minicomics.org/) that was held at the Cartoon Art Museum with the museum’s bookstore and inkDrinkDraw (both which I have relationships with). The goal was to write, draw and print a mini-comic by the end of the day. Mini-Comics (and zines too) have been democratizing publishing since …
Nov 29
New Art-Life drawings from the Dickens Holiday Fair 2011
As mentioned in my trip report from the Dickens Fair this past weekend I attended the Pre-Raphaelite Artist Salon at the Adventures Club at the event. Here we were transported to a period drawing session with models recreating a religious scene while live harp music was played and poetry recited. It was a pretty awesome …
Nov 27
The Great Dickens Holiday Fair 2011
I have been wanting to go to the Great Dickens Fair in San Francisco for at least have of my life and this year I took the plunge and went today, Sunday November 27, 2011 with a friend of mine. This is just some highlights and not every detail. I apologize that the photos are …
Nov 26
Repurposing architecture with animation ‘Illuminique’ at Westfield Mall SF
I have written in the past in my Motion Comic Magic posts where I talk about re-purposing artwork from comics and books into animation, but today’s post is about re-purposing architecture with animation using video/architectural mapping. Basically a high-tech technique in which video is seamlessly projected on unusual surfaces to wrap it in animation and …
Aug 28
Motion Comic Magic / re-creating the ‘Western River Expedition’ ride
One thing that is exciting to me is how modern animation techniques to re-purpose images of all sorts can be used to recreate and explain the past, present and future. I just saw an example that, while simple is a good. At the D23 Expo (official Disney Fan Club) last weekend in Anaheim Tony Baxter …
Aug 09
SDCC 2011 part 4: My artwork I created
As you know from my previous posts, I participated in the Cartoon Art Museum’s Sketch-A-Thon at the SDCC2011. Most of the time we created original art for a donation to the Museum for an individual, but sometimes we did drawings that were just examples while waiting for a customer. A few of mine that did …
