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Jul 02

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

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 …

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Jul 02

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 …

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Jun 25

2011/7/21 – 23 San Diego Comic-Con International (updated 7-5-11)

I will be drawing and meeting folks at the San Diego Comic-Con this July 21-23, 2011 at the Cartoon Art Museum booth as part of the Sketch-A-Thon. Here is the what Andrew at the CAM wrote HERE Fifth Annual CAM Sketch-a-thon at San Diego Comic-Con International Thursday, July 21 through Sunday, July 24, 2011 $10 …

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Jun 17

Cartoon Boot Camp 2011: Stop Motion

Video coming on Monday June 20 around 7 ish

Week 1 of Cartoon Boot Camp is coming to a close today. links to 2011 FINAL ANIMATION FROM THIS CLASS: “Alien Attack”, “I’m not going to Mars”, Cut-Out Animation, Action Figure Animation, “Danger Alley” and “Box Head’s new friend” First off we have some of our group exercises… note: they are all silent since we …

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Jun 17

2011/10/01 – 2 APE: Alternative Press Expo

I will be exhibiting at APE 2011 the Alternative Comic Expo at the Concourse Exhibition Hall in San Francisco on October 1-2. I will be sharing a table with artist Karen Luk too which is going to be very cool. You can find us at table #655 near the back right side where the programing …

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Jun 03

Warrior gal sketch

A rough exercises on designing and rendering a drawing with out line work (if possible). Inspired by the work of the super talented Chris Samnee http://www.chrissamnee.com/. Rendered in black watercolor over blue pencils.

Jun 03

Comic/Art Book Trailers

The line between Art, Commerce, Marketing, and Storytelling is getting thinner and thinner all the time. Here are a sampling from around the web of using animation with art (mostly) created for another format and brought to life to promote and entertain. Like a trailer for a movie, an animated promotional video can quickly sell …

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