note: I edited in some new text from the Museum which is in quotes. — Are you an artist going to the San Diego Comic-Con? — Are you willing to donate an hour or so of your time to help the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco? (http://www.cartoonart.org) If you answered yes to both of …
Jul 02
Stop and Go! A week long Animation class for kids next week at the Schulz Museum.
I will be in Santa Rosa all next week for the Animation Class I am teaching for advanced level kids Grade 4 and above. I am told there are still spots open. JULY 7–11,2008 â— 9am–12:30pm | Stop and Go! Learn the basics of stop-motion animation and make your own animated film by the end …
Jun 29
Congratulations to Boot-Campers from week 1 and 2
This is just a shout out to my students from the first two weeks of Cartoon Boot Camp at the Cartoon Art Museum. As you might have seen here at the blog, the first week’s Character Creation Camp yielded many fantastic characters. Congratulations to: Joey, Len, Rachel, Clare, Decklan, Turo, Olin, Adam, Johnny, and Keevan. …
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 22
Fan Art Sunday
[singlepic=529,320,240,,] Ulysse 31 was a cartoon TV show that appeared on Nickelodeon in the 1980’s. I never really saw much of the show as a kid since only my Grandmother and one of the neighbors had cable TV. The dubbing is pretty bad, but the design and animation holds up fine. It’s great that the …
Jun 21
Cartoon Boot Camp ’08 Character Creation results
On Friday was the last day of my first week of Cartoon Boot Camp at the Cartoon Art Museum. The kids each developed their own original cartoon character and did a final color illustration. Take a look at the work of these talented kids. Click for a bigger image…
Jun 12
Kid Beowulf and the Blood Bound Oath books are on their way.
My colleague Lex has posted photos of the printed copies of his book Kid Beowulf and the Blood Bound Oath. As some of you know I did the digital coloring on the cover of the book and I am thrilled to see how nice the books look in the photos. (I also did some watercoloring …
