Sometimes you hear and idea and it just seems to stick. That happened this weekend. A friend of mine had gone to the first ever adult cartooning workshop at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. The class was taught by Michael Jantze, the creator of THE NORM comic strip. What Mr. Jantze mentioned to …
Jan 23
BTGC #2 – Saturday – Progress Report (pics)
Well, time to take a few steps back and see what’s happened. Here is the semi-inked pages from 1-13-05. Here is how they are after working a lot on them yesterday…These pages where brought into the final project document in Adobe In-Design. I replace what I had there all ready with these pages. This gives …
Jan 23
BTGC News Header (pics)
THIS….TO THIS….. The wording by themself will appear in the back of the book above the section that allows me to tell you about the book you just read. _____________________________________ Visit http://www.atomicbearpress.com/comics/log/ to see my production art for my comic book, Beyond the Great Chimney as well as other art, sketches and drawings.
Jan 22
BTGC #2- Saturday – The Replacements
Today I am working to get all the art done, with the hopes of scanning it tomorrow afternoon. LESSON LEARNED: Everything takes longer then you think it will! Since I have the opportunity to alter some work I was originally going to accept as done and print, I am doing what ever I can to …
Jan 22
BTGC #2 – Friday- A brush with Class
Ok, the title is bad joke. I went to an ART CLASS taught by the fantastic Watercolorist, Dorcas Moulton (me4hue.com), at Merritt college in Oakland, CA. I mostly went to see if a change of scenery would be good for working on Beyond the Great Chimney, and it was. Most of the 5 new pages …
Jan 21
BTGC #2-Friday-Another Day
Well yesterday was day off for sure… Well I had to work on another project, and there is only so much energy that flows from an artists hands. But today is another day, and I will be working on my comic off site…more on that later. THE GOAL: finish up as much art as I …
Jan 21
Gene Deitch’s definition of animation
Via Cartoonbrew.com… In regards to Motion Capture and weather it counts as Animation. Motion Capture being closer to puppetry vs. other forms of animation such as Cel, Cut Out, CGI, Clay, etc. Mr. Deitch writes: POLAR EXPRESS, it seems to me, opens up the possibility of a whole new category, which may possibly develop; Motion …
Jan 21
Comics UK (link, pic)
Ever want to know what kind of past comic have had in the United Kingdom (England, Scottland, Wales, etc.). Well here is a great place to find out. comicsuk.co.uk. Here you can see some of the UK heros of years past. many of them not know here in the USA. _____________________________________ Visit http://www.atomicbearpress.com/comics/log/ to see …
