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Tag: animation

Jan 28

Motion Art Moment: January 2012 Gorry Bug

Can’t see the video, visit Motion Art Moment: January 2012 Gorry Bug from Brian Kolm on Vimeo. I would like to share with you something new I am doing for 2012, a Motion Art Moment. These will be short monthly videos that take a recent piece of my artwork/illustration/comics and animate them using digital tools. …

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Jan 18

Motion Comic Magic – recent comic trailers

A post on re-purposing comics and illustration into animation A few NEW trailers for publications, with the actual published art brought to life through digital animation. Some are more elaborately done and some are more simple. BONE: Quest for the Spark BOOK 2 Video Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 Movie Intro (fan made) – with art …

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Jan 12

Stop and Go kids stop-motion animation at the Schulz Museum – winter 2012

Last week I taught two classes at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, CA. The above video is the final result of the one day stop-motion class which we call “Stop and Go”.

Dec 11

New Art/Motion Comic Magic: Animatics and the Puppet Tool

I just started a new workshop at the youth center I work at featuring one of my favorite applications, Adobe After Effects (as well as Photoshop and Illustrator too). I love After Effects since there is so much versatility in what you can do. The program is also great since it can accommodate huge differences …

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Nov 19

Motion Comic Magic > new european comic trailers ‘Gringos Locos’ ‘Ria’ and ‘Kid Lucky’

For today’s Motion Comic Magic post I just wanted to share a few nice trailers for comic books from France/Belgium and Germany. I am still surprised that theĀ  major US companies don’t create more trailers for their books. The first one is a Franco-Belgian BD comic trailer that features a story of three comic artists …

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Nov 02

Motion Comic Magic – Bringing unbuilt Disney theme park concept art to life in animated tributes

To me Motion Comics and Motion Illustration is about taking material that was not designed for animation and bringing it to life with modern multimedia technology. In my previous posts here for Motion Comic Magic I have looked at how illustrations and artwork can be animated for music videos, motion comics, trailers for books, and …

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Oct 20

2012-1-2 Schulz Museum winter break 2012 cartooning classes for kids

Date: Jan 2-3 Where: Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa CA Classes: a Stop-Motion and Drawing (more info coming soon, all is subject to change)

Aug 27

CAM-JAM 2011/#1/Animation Jam (final results!)

This short animation was created as part of the 3rd year of CAM-JAM artist events at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco CA. Produced on Sun May 22, 2011 in 6 hours for the art and then composited in After Effects later. Each event is an art jam with a different theme, from comics …

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