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Nov 27

The Great Dickens Holiday Fair 2011

I have been wanting to go to the Great Dickens Fair in San Francisco for at least have of my life and this year I took the plunge and went today, Sunday November 27, 2011 with a friend of mine. This is just some highlights and not every detail. I apologize that the photos are …

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Nov 26

Repurposing architecture with animation ‘Illuminique’ at Westfield Mall SF

I have written in the past in my Motion Comic Magic posts where I talk about re-purposing artwork from comics and books into animation, but today’s post is about re-purposing architecture with animation using video/architectural mapping. Basically a high-tech technique in which video is seamlessly projected on unusual surfaces to wrap it in animation and …

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Nov 23

2011-12-03 Holiday CAM-Jam and Cartoonist Boutique at the Cartoon Art Museum – Dec 3rd

Hey all, here it is the last of the CAM-JAM 2011 events I am organizing with the Bookstore at the Cartoon Art Museum and inkDrinkDraw San Francisco. The events this year have really been quite fantastic with the final results being Animation and Paper Toy Monsters! But for this one we will be using the …

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Nov 23

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 …

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Nov 23

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 …

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Nov 19

Motion Comic Magic > new european comic trailers ‘Gringos Locos’ ‘Ria’ and ‘Kid Lucky’

For today’s Motion Comic Magic post I just wanted to share a few nice trailers for comic books from France/Belgium and Germany. I am still surprised that theĀ  major US companies don’t create more trailers for their books. The first one is a Franco-Belgian BD comic trailer that features a story of three comic artists …

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Nov 13

New Art – Spooky Pirate, Super Spooks

Some Halloween drawings from last month. Watercolor, pencil, sharpie pen.

Nov 02

Motion Comic Magic – Bringing unbuilt Disney theme park concept art to life in animated tributes

To me Motion Comics and Motion Illustration is about taking material that was not designed for animation and bringing it to life with modern multimedia technology. In my previous posts here for Motion Comic Magic I have looked at how illustrations and artwork can be animated for music videos, motion comics, trailers for books, and …

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