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”.
Tag Archive: education
Nov
23
2011
2011-12-28 Winter Parent-Child Class: Critters, Creatures and Monsters
Here is a fun parent-child cartooning class I will be teaching in San Francisco at the Cartoon Art Museum Wednesday December 28th, 2011.
December 28th (Wednesday) Critters, Creatures and Monsters
Ages: Parents and Children (7 to 12 years old) recommended
Time: 11am – 1pm
Cost: $10 per person (all children must be accompanied by an adult, ideally no more than two children for each parent)
About: Adults and Kids team up to learn how to create their own Critters, Creatures and Monsters wheather they be scary, cute or something else. The class will teach basic cartooning skills mixed with lots of fun creativity challenges.
All classes are taught by instructor Brian Kolm (Atomic Bear Press) atomicbearpress.com.
Nov
23
2011
2011-12-27 Winter Parent-Child Class: Heroes and Villains
I will be teaching a parent-child cartooning class at the Cartoon Art Museum on Tuesday December 27, 2011.
December 27th (Thursday) Heroes and Villains
Ages: Parents/Guardians and Children (7 to 12 years old) recommended
Time: 11am – 1pm
Cost: $10 per person (all children must be accompanied by an adult, ideally no more than two children for each parent)
About: In this Adult/Kid combo class we will learn how to create our own Hero and Villain characters while learning some of the basics of cartooning.
Celebrate the end of 2012 with fun classed that will have adults and kids teaming up to cartoon at the Cartoon Art Museum over the winter holiday break December 27th and 28th. All classes includes materials and admission to the museum.
Oct
20
2011
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)
Jul
16
2011
follow-up: Schulz Museum – Cartooning 101 – July 11-15, 2011
Sample arts and photos from the class I taught this last week at the Schulz Museum July 11-15, 2011. Click for a larger image.
Here are my drawings I did while teaching as well.
Jul
02
2011
Chabot Kids on Campus 2011: Cartooning Star Wars and Beyond (updated 7-16-11)
Photos and art from my class I taught June 27-July 1 2011 at Chabot College in Hayward CA. Come on back on July 8, 2011 to see more.
Click for bigger images.
Jul
02
2011
Chabot Kids on Campus: Cartooning Monsters and Creatures
Photos and art from the summer school class that I taught at Chabot College in Hayward CA. The end result was the kids creating there own beasts.
Jul
02
2011
Cartoon Art Museum 2011: Storyboard to Animatic
Well another fun Summer of classes at the Cartoon Art Museum for Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 is over with our last week focusing on Storyboard to Animatic (June 27-July 1). But what is a Storyboard and what is an Animatic?
Storyboard’s are a visual script to help the creators of films, videos, video games, theme park attractions and other forms of entertainment plan there production before money and time are spent to produce them.
The Animatic (or Story Reel or Pre-Visulization) takes the storyboards and brings them to film or video where they are edited to match the shots of a proposed film along with temporary sound effects, voices and music to simulate what it might look like in real time. The processes has become fairly standard as a way of showing what can be with out spending a lot of resources, especially for expensive live action special effects extravaganzas where the film can go over budget if not careful.
For our class we had six students who broke into four groups to produces a short story or segment of storyboards that were then scanned into the computer with audio and special effects being added.
All of our students did a great job and really brought a lot of creativity to their projects. Congratulations to all of them for their hard work.
Let’s see what the final results are…
The first team done were Eric and Leo who did a short and sweet gag story…
‘The Walnut’ – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 – Storyboard to Animatic from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
Next was Danie who did this short gag of transformation…
‘PlantMan’ – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 – Storyboard to Animatic from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
Then Leslie, our youngest student did this short educational story…
‘Giggles New Food’ – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 – Storyboard to Animatic from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
And last, but not least was Javon and Dont’e with a scene from a martial arts epic…
‘Chickens of Fury’ scene animatic – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 – Storyboard to Animatic from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
Further exploration: The same techniques used to bring Storyboards to video or film as an Animatic have also been used for the final productions that uses Picture Book Illustrations (Reading Rainbow, Rabbit Ears videos) and Comic Art (motion comics like ‘Watchmen’ and ‘Batman: Black and White’) To find out more about re-purposing artwork into animation, check out my posts on Motion Comic Magic.
