Hey all, it’s time for some more trailers for books. Today we get one picture book and two comic books. What do you think, would you read them after seeing these trailers? I posted a trailer a while back for Lane Smith’s book It’s a Book! which was really well done. Well there is …
Tag: animation
Jun 17
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 …
Apr 20
2011/5/22 Announcing: CAM-JAM 2011 – Sun May 22, 2011 at the Cartoon Art Museum/
I will be representing the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco in organizing a third year of CAM-JAM events with the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore. The event is on Sunday May 22, 2011 from 11am to 5pm and the theme will be ANIMATION. Yes, you heard that right! Our challenge will be to produce 30 seconds of …
Apr 14
The Mushroom – a pub animation by Julio del Rio
Following the techniques of Fran Krause (Moonraker, Utica Cartoon) who created the art for a short film “Nosy Bear” in his sketchbook, Julio del Rio did this short film with similar techniques. The artist drew all the images on one sheet of paper while sitting at the pub and then composed them on the computer …
Apr 13
Video Trailers to promote Comics and Books
If you read my blog enough, you will know that I am very in favor of using video/animation to promote and present comics and other publications. When I did the first trailer for ‘Kid Beowulf and the Blood Bound Oath’ it was still not very common, but it’s becoming more and more the norm which …
Mar 17
Motion Comics and Marketing
With the dominance of the internet as our center of information, I have noticed more and more viral videos being made to enhance other entertainment such as plays, movies and video games. The short videos can give the audience more information and get them excited about the story yet to come. A few of them …
Mar 11
2D animation in Adobe After Effects
I love Adobe’s After Effects program. It’s complex, but open ended in it’s possibilities for doing animation, motion graphics, and special effects. After Effects is also the most popular program that animators use to create Motion Comics too. It seems that artist are just starting to delve into the program as a character animation tool …
Feb 27
Moving art by Jamie Caliri (United Airline “Dragon”, “United States of Tara”)
Animation director Jamie Caliri has produced some stunning animation using 2D art, in 3D. But not in CGI 3D, but in stop motion. And since I am always interested in re-purposing 2D art into animation I thought I would share some oh his work. The first piece of animation I saw from Mr. Caliri was …
