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Cartoonist Conspiracy SF CAM-JAM Animation Art Jam on May 22, 2011 at the Cartoon Art Museum

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The Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco is co-hosting a third year of CAM-JAM events with the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore. The event is on Sunday May 22, 2011 from 11am to 5pm and the theme will be… ANIMATION.

Yes, you heard that right! Our challenge will be to produce 30 seconds of DIY animation goodness that will use technology and old school art skills together to make something cool. We will have stations to do: Flipbooks, Wipe Board Animation and Sketchbook Animation.

The technique that is most intriguing is the Sketchbook Animation inspired by the short film Nosy Bear. The technique is to draw all the art for a couple seconds of animation in your sketchbook which is then composited on the computer into a short video.

The sample in this technique used in our trailer below was drawn on 4 pages of art on 8.5″x11″ card stock in about 2.5 hours and then about 2 to 2.5 hours scanning and compositing the work together. Here are the results…

CAM-JAM 2011- No1 Animation Jam – Sunday May 22, 2011 at the Cartoon Art Museum from Brian Kolm on Vimeo.

So come on out and join a bunch of crazy cartoonist and make some animation. Artist of all levels are welcome.
The final work will be posted here on my blog after the event.

On May 22, 2011 the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco and the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore will be kicking off the third year of CAM-JAM’s, cartoonist collaboration events. The CAM-JAM’s have tried different themes in the past such as Tikis and Samurais, but this time we will go with something a bit more challenging…Animation. With a mix of old school drawing goodness and desk top video technology we will attempt to collaborate and create 30 seconds of animation within the length of the event from 11am to 5pm.

Will you come and join us?

When: Sunday May 22, 2011
11am to 5pm
Where: Cartoon Art Museum – 655 Mission St San Francisco CA
Cost: FREE for participating artists
What to bring: Sketchbook and any drawing tools that you like. There will be materials available to use at the event, but it’s always fun to share how you like to draw with your fellow artists.

The event will feature…

– Wipe Board animation – filmed with a digital camera and stop motion software artist will create animation by drawing on that office favorite the wipe board.
– Flipbooks
– “sketchbook” animation – inspired by the technique used on the short film animated “Nosy Bear” created with small drawings on a few pages of a sketchbook that are then composite digitally.
– Samples of animation by local artists
– Prizes
– Networking
– Treats
– Fun

Our hope is that cartoonist and artist of all caliber will join in the fun and help create animation on-the-spot.

To sign-up ahead of time, email the Cartoon Art Museum bookstore at bookstore@cartoonart.org or sign-in the day of the event at the front desk

BONUS: ANY ARTIST who shows their sketchbook on the day of the event will receive 10% off their purchase in the museum bookstore. Note: a few items are not applicable for discount.

For more information or questions contact:
Brian Kolm from the Cartoonist Conpiracy – staff@atomicbearpress.com
Heather at the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore – bookstore@cartoonart.org

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reminder: January 27th Comic Jam in San Fransico CA at Borderland Cafe

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Come out and draw with your fellow cartoonist in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can collaborate, jam, chat, compare notes, work on a project or anything you like.

Where/When:
January 27

at the Borderland Cafe at 6:30 pm to 9/10ish. That’s the Second and Fourth Thursday of the month BTW.

870 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 970-6998 ‎

What to bring: Art Materials, creativity, money to buy drinks and treats.

Who can come: any artist who wants too!

Hope you can come.

reminder Jan 13, 2011 Comic Jam in San Francisco!

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Come out and draw with your fellow cartoonist in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can collaborate, jam, chat, compare notes, work on a project or anything you like.

Where/When:
January 13

at the Borderland Cafe at 6:30 pm to 9/10ish. That’s the Second and Fourth Thursday of the month BTW.

870 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 970-6998 ‎

What to bring: Art Materials, creativity, money to buy drinks and treats.

Who can come: any artist who wants too!

Hope you can come.

January 2011 Comic Jams in San Francisco CA

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Well folks, Happy New Year. Come out and draw with your fellow cartoonist in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can collaborate, jam, chat, compare notes, work on a project or anything you like.

Where/When:
January 13
January 27

at the Borderland Cafe at 6:30 pm to 9/10ish. That’s the Second and Fourth Thursday of the month BTW.

870 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 970-6998 ‎

What to bring: Art Materials, creativity, money to buy drinks and treats.

Who can come: any artist who wants too!

Hope you can come.

Saturday September 19 – Talk Like A Pirate Day in San Francisco at the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore

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Some of  your artist pals from the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco will be at the Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore for Talk Like a Pirate Day on Saturday September 19, 2009. We will be on hand drawing pirates for the 100 pirate challenge as well as selling our books and chatting with guests. Plus some folks might be in costume too. The event is Free (does not included admission to the museum) so come and join us from 11am to 5pm.

– The bookstore will be giving a 10% discount for anyone in pirate costume!

BTW: the artwork for the event is by me as well. ©2009 Brian Kolm

SFCC – collaborations: arm wrestling, dancing and more!

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Last Thursdays meeting of the Cartoonist Conspircy in San Francisco was a new challenge for us. Following the lead of member Miromi, we did some arm wrestling and dancing. Well our drawings did that is.

Miromi writes:

Here are arm wrestling experiments that mutated into singing and dancing adventures from the Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco jams as well as the Rock Paper Scissors Zine Workshops. The activity of making comics is a loner’s world, and collaborations don’t occur so often. It’s a joy to be able to jam with other artists when the opportunity arises much the same way musicians jam…

Miromi provided us with Xeroxed simple backgrounds with lots of blank space that two to three people would add characters too. So one person would draw their character and then pass the drawing to someone else to add another character. Through back and forth working scenes and stories formed that were really fun. The process resembled classic 2D animation key-frames in many ways. To the inspiration from France: http://www.succursale.org/championnat/

You can see our work as a slideshow on Flickr with a zine hopfully coming soon. There is also a link to a jam at the Rock paper Sissors coop as well.

It’s best to watch these as a slideshow, although flickr has some fine thumbnailng on the set as well.

San Francisco JAM Thursday Dec 11,2008 and cheap-ass-white-elephant exchange info

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Reminder that the last Comic Jam of 2008 is on this Thursday Dec 11, 2008 from 6:30 to 9/10 ish at the Church St. Café.

Info: The Cartoonist Conspiracy San Francisco (CCSF) meets twice a month at 6:30 pm on the second and last Thursday of the month at the CHURCH STREET CAFé in San Fransisco CA.

WHEN: Thursday Dec 11, 2008. 6:30 pm to usually sometimes between 9 and 10 pm.
WHERE: Church St. Cafe 260 Church Street San Francisco, CA 94114

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— the CCSF CHEAP-ASS-WHITE-ELEPHANT gift exchange

GOAL: to celebrate the holidays by being CHEAP and getting rid of comics, books, zines, art materials, postcards, cool art, stickers, left over Halloween candy and other cartoonist/artist friendly things AND to get some new stuff in return.

WHO: Participation is OPTIONAL.

WHEN: 8:00 PM Dec 11, 2008 at Comic Jam (Jam runs from 6:30pm to 9/10ish pm)

RULES: Bring a cheap-ass-white-elephant gift and get one in return. No complaining about what you get, but trading at the end is encouraged.

HOW: WIth the economic state our country is in it’s a perfect time to have some holiday fun that is CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP.

1) Just grab some comics/books, drawings/art, etc. that you don’t want anymore and think other artist would like — CHEAP.
2) Get a free mailing envelope from work or the post office or fed-ex Kinko’s (the cardboard flat rate mailers would be great since they make it harder to tell what’s in it–CHEAP.
3) Stuff stuff into envelop and seal envelope.
4) Put a secret mark so you don’t pick your envelope when it’s your turn.
5) Come to CCSF jam

6) at 8pm any one who brought a CAWEgift will draw a number. Person 1 can pick one of the packages and then open it up for all to see. Person 2, 3, 4 etc have the option of ‘stealing’ from someone else the whole package (not just part) or picking a new one. The person who was ‘robbed’ can then pick a new package from the pile. The rules can be modified by the group if need be.

7) Enjoy out packages of goodies or trade with others the contents.

NOTE: If you really fee inclined to buy something for the cheap-ass-white-elephant gift exchange, try to keep it cheap and fun (comics for $0.10 are a good idea for instance)