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Current Exhibits
Once Upon A Dream:
The Art of Sleeping Beauty
July 18, 2009 – January 10, 2010
The Cartoon Art Museum proudly presents Once Upon a Dream: The Art of Sleeping Beauty, celebrating 50 years since the original release of the classic animated feature from Walt Disney Studios.
Once Upon A Dream explores the creation of one of Walt Disney Studios’ most enduring films, from pencil art and model sheets to animation cels, color guides and behind-the-scenes photographs of the cast and crew. Almost ten years in the making, Sleeping Beauty was designed to look like no other Disney film, drawing from both medieval illustrations and cutting-edge 1950s graphic design. Artist Eyvind Earle, who supervised the film’s look and hand-painted most of the dozens of lavish backgrounds, gave the film its unique blend of lush detail and bold, stylized designs. Disney production designer Ken Anderson developed these elements into a visually arresting feature, much of it animated by members of the Nine Old Men, Walt Disney’s most trusted cadre of animators. Sleeping Beauty was the last Disney film to use fully hand-inked animation cels and one of only two ever filmed in 70mm widescreen. A box-office hit when it premiered in 1959, it’s now renowned as one of the most beautiful and beloved animated films ever made.
This exhibition also includes a spotlight on Disney artist/illustrator Ron Dias, whose first professional job in the animation industry was as an in-betweener to clean-up animator on Sleeping Beauty. Dias went on to become one of the most highly-regarded and sought-after background artists and color stylists in the business. The Cartoon Art Museum will feature a selection of his background paintings and color concepts from The Secret of Nimh, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and The Little Mermaid.
Details about the opening reception with special guest Ron Dias will be announced shortly.
About Ron Dias:
In 1956, Ron Dias, an 18-year-old kid fresh from Hawaii, came to Hollywood to work for the Walt Disney Animation Studios. After finishing his assignment in the Animation Department on Sleeping Beauty, Ron worked throughout Hollywood as a scenic artist for 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures and MGM Studios. He returned to the animation field to work with such studios as Hanna-Barbera (Jonny Quest), Warner Brothers (Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny), Don Bluth (The Secret of Nimh), and many others, ending with Disney’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Little Mermaid feature and television series.
In recent years, Dias has created artwork for Disney Imagineering’s “Disney Seas” murals in Tokyo, Japan, and has collaborated with noted marine life painter Wyland on a series of paintings featuring characters from The Little Mermaid. Dias now lives in central California and has gone full circle with his career, creating fine art as he was trained to do at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. He is still actively creating work for the Disney Studios, as well.
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March 21 – August 23, 2009:
The Brinkley Girls
The Cartoon Art Museum presents The Brinkley Girls, a celebration of one of the most popular cartoonists of the early 20th century, Nell Brinkley. This retrospective, guest-curated by comics herstorian Trina Robbins, showcases over 30 lavishly illustrated newspaper tearsheets, magazine illustrations, original artworks and other highlights from Robbins’s personal collection.
About Nell Brinkley:
For over thirty years Nell Brinkley’s beautiful girls waltzed, vamped and shimmied their way through the pages of William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers, captivating the American public with their innocent sexuality.
In 1907, at the tender age of 22, Nell Brinkley came to New York to draw for the Hearst syndicate. Within a year, she had become a household name. Flo Ziegfeld dressed his dancers as “Brinkley Girls” in the Ziegfeld Follies. Three popular songs were written about her. Women, aspiring to the masses of curly hair with which Nell adorned her fetching and idealized creations, could buy Nell Brinkley Hair Curlers for ten cents a card. Young girls cut out and saved her drawings, copied them, colored them, and pasted them in scrapbooks.
Nell Brinkley widened her scope to include pen and ink depictions of working women. Brinkley used her fame to campaign for better working conditions and higher pay for women who had joined in the war effort, and who were suffering economic and social dislocation due to acting on their patriotism. Unlike most of her contemporaries, she drew women of different races and cultures.
Today, except for a small group of avid collectors, she is unjustly forgotten.
But no longer. The forthcoming Fantagraphics Books publication The Art of Nell Brinkley collects Brinkley’s exquisitely colored full page art from 1913 to 1940. Here are her earliest silent movie serial-inspired adventure series, “Golden Eyes and Her Hero, Bill;” her almost too romantic series, “Betty and Billy and Their Love Through the Ages;” her snappy flapper comics from the 1920s; her 1937 pulp magazine-inspired “Heroines of Today.” Included are photos of Nell, reproductions of her hitherto unpublished paintings, and an informative introduction by the book’s editor, Trina Robbins.
Retired cartoonist and current comics historian Trina Robbins has been writing graphic novels, comics, and books for over 30 years. Her subjects have ranged from Wonder Woman and the Powerpuff Girls to her own teenage superheroine, GoGirl!, and from women cartoonists and superheroines to women who kill. She lives in a moldering 103 year old house in San Francisco with her cats, shoes, and dust bunnies.
For more information, visit trinarobbins.com.
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February 21 – July 19, 2009:
WATCHMEN
The Cartoon Art Museum presents an in-depth look at one of the most anticipated films of 2009 and the graphic novel that inspired it in its latest exhibition, WATCHMEN. The exhibition features dozens of concept illustrations, preparatory sketches and original comic book pages illustrated by Dave Gibbons, the co-creator and illustrator of the critically-acclaimed Watchmen graphic novel. Viewers will be able to follow the creation of the Watchmen universe from Gibbons’s conceptual sketches through his completed artwork to the actual props used in the creation of the Watchmen motion picture, courtesy of the Warner Bros. Corporate Archives.
Details about the Cartoon Art Museum’s February 27 opening reception will be announced shortly.
About the film:
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – moves closer to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a disbanded group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?
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*Exhibition Extended Through July 12, 2009:
The Art of Stan Sakai
Celebrating 25 Years of Usagi Yojimbo
The Cartoon Art Museum proudly presents The Art of Stan Sakai: Celebrating 25 Years of Usagi Yojimbo, a career-spanning retrospective featuring over 60 pieces of original artwork by the critically-acclaimed artist. It has been 25 years since Sakai’s signature character, a samurai rabbit named Usagi Yojimbo, first appeared in comic books, and this exhibition follows the entire existence of Usagi, from the very first pencil sketches to completed story pages, covers, and watercolor paintings.
About Stan Sakai:
Stan Sakai was born in Kyoto, Japan, grew up in Hawaii, and now lives in Southern California. He received a Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawaii, and did further studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
His creation, Usagi Yojimbo, is the story of a samurai rabbit in a feudal Japan populated by anthropomorphic animals. Usagi first appeared in Albedo Comics #2 in 1984. Since then, he has been on television as a guest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, on clothing, toys, in comic books, games, and in a series of trade paperback collections. His books have been translated into a dozen languages, including Polish and Indonesian.
Stan's art has been exhibited world wide in venues such as the Japan Tower in Belgium, the Doizeki Gallery in Los Angeles, France's Centre Nationale de la Bande Dessinee, and the Society of Illustrators in New York. His awards include an Inkpot, multiple Eisners, a Harvey, four Spanish Haxturs, an American Library Association Award, and a National Cartoonist Society Comic Book Division Award.
Stan is published by Dark Horse Comics and Fantagraphics Books. There are twenty-three volumes of his collected works. The most recent, Usagi Yojimbo Book 22: Tomoe's Story, was published by Dark Horse in July, 2008.
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Get Animated!
Booksigning
Bookstore Event: Sunday, July 19, 2009 1pm to 3pm
Free and Open to the Public
The Cartoon Art Museum Bookstore welcomes Tim Maloney, author of Get Animated! Creating Professional Cartoon Animation on Your Home Computer for a booksigning on Sunday, July 19, 2009, from 1pm to 3pm.
About Get Animated!
Never before have there been so many amazing tools with which to create high-quality professional animation. Thanks to today’s computer programs - many freely available on the internet - the computer sitting on your desk likely has all you need to produce theatrical-quality cartoons. Get Animated! is the entertaining and informative guide to help budding animators unlock all this potential and create studio-grade results with out spending a fortune on software and special equipment.
Professional animator Tim Maloney offers expert advice on every step of the process – from thinking of an idea, choosing and using software, and putting on the finishing touches. Hundreds of illustrations make even the most complicated notions fun. The step-by-step directions demystify: writing the script, storyboarding, designing the artwork, creating the characters, making characters move, animating sequences, lip-syncing preparing high-quality output, editing, and sound. Plus, there is a bonus Tutorial DVD included, packed with useful open-source software, links to animation sites, and – best of all – cartoon animation that explains concepts from the book. With a copy of Get Animated! and the possibilities already available in their home computer, aspiring animators are fully empowered to create top-notch cartoons that will rival any mega studio creation.
About the Author:
Tim Maloney has been a professional animator for more than 15 years. Formerly the animation director for Mrs. Munger’s Class and Centerville for Disney’s One Saturday Morning, he has lectured widely and is an assistant professor in the radio/television/film department at California State University at Fullerton. He lives in Los Angeles.
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How to Fit Big Ideas into Mini Comics
A Saturday Workshop for
Youth Ages 11-15
Saturday, July 18; August 1, 12pm to 2pm
Cost per class: $15; Enrollment is limited to 12 students per session
The Cartoon Art Museum’s new two-hour workshop will teach students how to use their Big Ideas to create Mini Comics, those 5x8-inch booklets you see in independent bookstores and comic book shops. The class begins with a study in character development, followed by storytelling basics, then page layouts and dialog/narration.
Along the way, professional cartoonist Betsy Streeter will help students brainstorm ideas, fill in details, develop exciting plot twists, and figure out how to get it all down on the page. Streeter will offer pointers on how to fit text and drawings together, how to show action, and other tricks of the cartooning trade. Each student will leave class with his or her own mini-comic!
Instructor: Betsy Streeter
Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009 or Saturday, August 1, 2009 (sign up for one date only)
Time: 12 Noon to 2 PM
Age: Youth ages 11 to 15 years old
Place: Cartoon Art Museum - 655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
Cost: $15 per person
Enrollment: Limited to 12 students per session
To register please call 415-227-8666 x303 or email education@cartoonart.org.
To sign up for this class, the $15 fee must be pre-paid prior to the date of the class. We accept Visa and MasterCard charges over the phone or in-person, or mailed or hand-delivered checks. Cash is accepted at the front desk during museum hours. Reservations must be made and paid for prior to 12 Noon on the Thursday before the class session.
About the Instructor
Betsy Streeter is a veteran cartoonist and creative professional, with a background in design, film/video production, information architecture and creative management. Betsy has also been an artist-in-residence at the Cartoon Art Museum. She currently divides her time between cartooning and humorous illustration, independent art teaching, and raising her two children.
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Cartoon Art Museum's Adult Classes
Register for Summer 2009
Classes will focus on cartooning, character design, and comics. Each 2-day session is a new course, so you may register for all three sessions. Classes are designed as 2-day workshops but you may also attend single days as well.
Classes are Saturdays and Sundays from 1pm to 4 pm.
June 13 and 14
July 11 and 12
August 8 and 9
$100 per 2-day session or $50 for a single day ($90/$40 for members) To register call 415-227-8666 x303 or email: education@cartoonart.org
Defining the Project
Instructor: Brian Kolm
Level: Beginning/Intermediate - Adult
Days: June 13-14, 2009
Are you thinking about working on a personal comic or cartoon project? Do you need some motivation to get the ball rolling? Come to this hands-on workshop where like-minded creators can work on their projects together. We will go through exercises that will help you explore ideas for stories, settings, and characters for your projects. We will then learn how to take our projects to the next level. We will learn how to outline our stories, as well as design the characters and settings that will help bring the story and character ideas to life.
Characters, Storyboards, and Layout
Instructor: Daniel Salcido
Level: Beginning/Intermediate Adult
Days: July 11-12, 2009
Do you have a great idea for a comic strip, comic book, web-comic or cartoon? In this class we will go over the basic breakdown of the human form as well as basic design methods and a "things to consider" check list for designing characters. Once we have our characters, we will go over the basics of story boarding, and creating thumbnails and page layouts, which are a crucial part of story development and pre-production. By the end of this class, not only will you have a character for your concept, but you will also be well on your way to starting final production on it.
From Comic Strips to Animation
Instructor: James Hummel
Level: Beginning/Intermediate Adult
Days: August 8-9, 2009
This class will talk about the transition from comic strips to the animated cartoon. We will discuss how the animation industry began and how it grew to where it is today. Then we will go through some of the basic principles of animation and talk about how animated movies, television shows and commercials are produced. Exercises will include creating flipbooks to illustrate storyboarding, key poses and in-betweening. We will also do exercises in gesture and proportion and incorporate our character(s) into a scene.
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Register Now for Cartoon Boot Camp 2009
- with Brian Kolm & Jacqueline Adelmeyer
For ages 10 to 14 years old:
June 15 through 19
June 22 through 26
July 6 through 10
July 13 through 17
For ages 7 to 14:
August 3 through 7
All sessions run Monday through Friday from 12 noon to 2:00 pm at the Cartoon Art Museum.
$125 per week for non-members / $100 per week for members
To enroll, click here for the registration form. Mail or hand-deliver the completed form to: Cartoon Art Museum; 655 Mission Street; San Francisco, CA 94105 or fax the application to: 415-243-8666. For any questions, please call: 415-227-8666 x303.
All participants must be pre-paid prior to the first day of each session. Full refunds given with 2 weeks cancellation notice prior to the first day of the session. 50% refund given within 7 to 13 days of the first day of the session. No refunds given within 6 days prior to the first day of the session.
Summer Boot Camp 2009 Curriculum
Intermediate ages 10-14:
June 15-19: Designing Superheroes
Superheroes are a big part of American pop culture with characters as diverse as Batman, Wonder Woman, Mr. Incredible and Diaperman. Students will learn to draw these and their own brightly colored lads and ladies who fight crime. The class will teach the students how to draw humanoid heroes in pose, physique, personality, costume and presentation.
June 22-26: From Storyboard to Animatic
In this class students learn to draw storyboards just like the ones used in movies and television shows. Once the storyboards are created students will develop them into an animated piece. The class will explore drawing, camera moves and lighting, timing and communication, and applying simple animation and camera moves to give a simulation of what a final film would look like.
July 6-10: Rendering Techniques for Comics
This class will focus on illustration techniques including the use of pencil, charcoal, and inking along with cross hatching and other rendering approaches to create shade and shadow and other dramatic effects in cartoon drawings.
July 13-17: Storytelling for Comics
Students will explore the process of creating a story including writing an outline, developing the structure of the story, creating characters, and making rough layouts.
Beginner level ages 7-14:
August 3-7: Cartoon Craft
Young students will participate in a fun week of cartoon and crafts combined, including the creation of projects that explore collage, flipbooks, zoetrope, paper dolls, puppets, and robots.
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Saturday Afternoon Cartooning Classes at the
Cartoon Art Museum
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Brian Kolm
UPCOMING
CLASS DATES:
May 16, 2009
June 6, 2009
June 20, 2009
July 25, 2009
August 15, 2009
August 22, 2009
Saturday afternoon
cartooning classes meet from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at the Cartoon Art Museum. The attendance fee for each
student is $5, which covers the student's admission to the museum and
the cost of art supplies. Students will learn a wide variety of skills
in each class, with subjects ranging from character design to
storyboarding to creating their own mini-comics. These classes are
recommended for students from 8-14 years old.
Reservations must be made by 12 noon on the Friday before the date of the
class. Reservations will not be accepted after noon on the Friday before the
class date. If you have made a reservation and you will not make it to the
class, please call to cancel by 10 am on the Friday before the class.
Please arrive by 12:45 pm to sign in your child or children. All children must be signed in and signed out by a guardian for each class session that they attend.
For the most up to date scheduling information, please
contact CAM Director of Education Diane Shapiro Sommerfield at education@cartoonart.org or by telephone at (415) CAR-TOON [227-8666], ext. 303.
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