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: kids
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.
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
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.
Jul
02
2011
Cartoon Art Museum 2011: Character Design
Hey all, below you will find a video slide show featuring artwork my students created for the Character Design Cartoon Boot Camp at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. The goal of the class was to design and draw a character the students could call their own for a final project and I happy to say that all the kids did a great job.
In the slide show I included two images of my choosing as well as their final piece. The two pieces I picked for each student were tough choices since I had only to work with the images we had time to scan into the computer. So, the art presented in the video below might vary in it’s subject matter for each student, but shows their creativity and process.
I hope you enjoy the video sideshow below and visit the Cartoon Art Museum when you get a chance.
Character Design – Cartoon Boot Camp 2011 from Cartoon Art Museum on Vimeo.
Note: the music was created by Kevin MacLeod who licenses’ it for free through the Creative Commons. by http://incompetech.com/. Excellent work.
Apr
22
2011
My upcoming appearances and classes – spring/summer 2011
Just an update of where you can find me this Spring and Summer
Looney Toons Family Fun Day at the Cartoon Art Museum – San Francisco CA (ages 10-14)
Saturday April 30 – all ages with admission to museum
CAM-JAM 2011 : Animation – Cartoon Art Museum – San Francisco CA (ages 10-14)
May 22, 2011 – Artist event
Cartoon Boot Camp at the Cartoon Art Museum – San Francisco CA (ages 10-14)
June 6-10, 2011 – Story Board to Animatic
June 13-17, 2011 – Intro to Stop-Motion
June 20-24, 2011 – Dynamic Character Design
Kids on Campus at Chabot College - Hayward Ca
June 20-24: Cartooning: Monsters & Critters
June 27-July 1: Cartooning: Star Wars Art
Schulz Museum – Santa Rosa CA
July 11-15, 2011 – Drawing 101
Apr
13
2011
New Art-’Cartooning: Monsters & Critters’ at Chabot College Kids on Campus 2011
I will be teaching again this Summer at Chabot College in Hayward CA for the Kids on Campus summer program.
Cartooning: Monsters & Critters
Whether it’s a graceful unicorn, a slithering dragon or a more modern beast, we have been telling stories of fanciful creatures of all sorts since the beginning of time. This class will feature lessons on drawing classic beasties, the structure and construction of four- legged animals, and designing original creatures as well as a technique for presenting a final drawing.
Kids on Campus – Summer Camp 2011
Weeks of June 20-24 and June 27-July 1
Sign-up at: www.chabotcollege.edu/comed/kidsoncampus/kidsoncampus2010/
