Bath Spa town sketching
- At June 28, 2018
- By Adam
- In Sketchbook, Travel
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I was recently in the lovely town of Bath Spa. A GREAT place with lots of beautiful buildings and surrounded by big, bushy trees this time of year! Here’s a sketch from Kings Mead Square whilst having a coffee break in the sun. Fun fact: the famed waters of Bath Spa taste like eggs. NICE.
The cafes around this little area are buzzing nowadays! The whole of the U.K is constantly hopped up on coffee 🙂
Nuremberg Zoo
- At June 20, 2018
- By Adam
- In Sketchbook, Travel
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This weekend just gone I took advantage of those cheap European flights we have over here and hopped across to Nuremberg. My friend and I did the ‘find the cheapest deals online and book it’ kind of thing, without any specific reason to go. I think this made it more fun actually! Just wandering around and working things out, rather than the standard super researching that goes on with most Internet booked trips.
We ended up going to Nuremberg’s Tiergarten Zoo, which is set is a massive, sprawling park and includes a beer garden!
It was a sunny day, so we did a bit of sketching, had a pretzel, a beer and an ice cream. #DasKugel Top day out!
Nuremberg zoo sketches along with some German chaps at the tram stop
Toon Boom webinar on YouTube
- At June 13, 2018
- By Adam
- In Training
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Hey all! The recent LIVE webinar I conducted for Toon Boom Animation is now available to view on YouTube. If you have any questions about the topics I’m covering or the software in general, feel free to drop me a line on my contact page.
I also recently updated the website to a new theme (I’d been using a generic WordPress set up for a while and have only just gotten around to fixing it up!). The blog is linked up to my Facebook and Twitter too, so subscribe, like, follow, stalk…you get the idea!
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- At June 06, 2018
- By Adam
- In Training
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On Thursday 7th June (tomorrow!) I’ll be talking live hosted by Toon Boom. The topic is ‘Symbols to Pegs: the differences of animating in Toon Boom Harmony’ so as you can imagine, there’s a strong focus on the crossover from other animation software. It’ll be 1 hour of animation GOLD (I may be overselling it there, but it’ll at least be a chance to get your questions answered!)
If you’d like to watch, you can sign up on Toon Boom’s website or catch the whole thing on YouTube afterwards.
Toon Boom Dublin Career Camp
- At June 05, 2018
- By Adam
- In Training
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Recently I was in wonderful Dublin for Toon Boom’s new initiative, their Career Camps. These weekend sessions are aimed at helping animators and studios cross over into the software, with several useful lectures and workshops to dive into. Best of all, they’re FREE!
I was there to talk and teach the cut-out animation sessions. I have to say, the crowd was very nice (even when my laptop decided it didn’t want to play with the projector for a little while). It’s so inspiring to be around passionate creatives who are still hungry to learn. It reminds me how you have to keep learning and evolving otherwise the paralysis of choice seems to creep in and pin you down with power of artistic insecurities..!
There was some gorgeous weather whilst we were there (unfortunately we were inside!) so here’s a snap from the canal in the south side of the city.
I’ll be at the Toon Boom London Career Camp on 30th June – 1st July 2018. If you’re interested, you can sign up for FREE here.