This week I am in Santa Rosa CA to teach the animation class at the Schulz Museum. The class is brand new and hopefully it will result in some cool animations. If all goes according to plan I will have some video clips to show on-line the week after. I will be blogging later this …
Tag: animation
Jun 27
Gake no ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Beach)
The new trailer for the next film from Studio Ghibli (Howls Moving Castle, Laputa, Totoro, Spirited Away) is on-line. Well a clip from Japanese TV with people talking over it. Director Miyazaki has created a very flat children’s book look with lovely Watercolor Backgrounds. I can’t wait to see it in the US next year …
Jun 09
Animators Survival Kit DVD
It’s been announced that Richard Williams has adapted his fantastic book, the Animators Survival Kit to a new series of how-to DVD’s. I took Richards animation workshop years ago and I can tell you this is going to be awesome. Even if your an artist who’s not doing Animation, you can learn a lot from …
Jun 07
Pnda animation test
This is a tiny animation I created today at the Schulz Museum while I promoted my animation class for kids that happens in July. The animation was created to test a cool xerox machine that can scan a stack of drawings and send them to a computer. I just brought the sequence of image into …
Jun 05
Richard Williams Animation Survival Kit PENCIL TEST
Years and years ago I took Richard Williams wonderful animation workshop and was blown away. Then there was a great book with all Richard’s note in it. NOW Richard will have a new How-Too DVD that coming soon. On-line there is a new pencil test that recreates the books cover and it looks amazing. Check …
May 29
June 7th, FREE Summer Sampler day at the Schulz Museum
On Saturday, June 7th I will be at the Schulz Museum in lovely Santa Rosa CA to promote my summer animation class. You can find me in the education room creating animation by way of Zoetrope and Stop Motion. Admission to the museum is FREE all day. Come sample some of our summer class activities …
Jan 16
Wondercon – February 22-24, 2008
It’s official, I will be in artist alley at Wondercon 2008 next month. You can find me at Booth AA48. More information will be appearing here on the site, so check back in the next few weeks. Till then, here is some more information on the biggest comics and pop cultural convention in Northern California.
