animation
Bubble Guppies Gil Animation
I animated one of the main characters from Bubble Guppies, Gil, for the Big Fall Premieres Promo for Nick Jr. The animation was done in Maya as well as modeling the megaphone. The compositing was done by a vendor of ours. VP Brand Creative – Matthew Duntemann Animation Director – Chris Papa Animation – Robert [...]
The Lift – by Robert Kohr
The Lift explores the consequences of one very common behavior of not holding the elevator door open for someone rushing to get on or worse, lifting your finger and actively pushing the close button. In this film, an elevator interaction between the two lead characters goes wrong, prompting a young woman to learn about being [...]
The Lift: Early Character Designs
I am moving from Brooklyn to Manhattan later this month and decided that I need to purge a lot of belongings. As it happens I begin to find old sketchbooks, drawings and other assorted knick-nacks. I stumbled on some of the pencil drawings which later became the designs for the main character in my film [...]
Nickelodeon Logo Game Slates
Prior to working on the Halloween Spots for Nickelodeon On-Air, I worked on three logo slates for the gaming department. The slates have been used iOS, Wii and PC Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. Games. Sometimes when I am at an Apple Store I see a little kid starting up an iMac and playing the latest Diego [...]
Dora’s 10th Birthday Celebration
Dora is 10 years old! Marketing approached us to do an animation of the Dora Show Page on nickjr.com. The Dora characters take over the page and prepare it for Dora’s grand entrance. This project was animated in Flash on a really tight deadline. Director of Digital Marketing - Jack Daley Design Director – Renato Castilho [...]
Main Character Tunraround
In December I showed some concepts of the main character in my next short, Europa. The main character’s name is Savannah. Since then I have worked out a style that I am happy and while similar to the style used in The Lift, it is much simpler and easier to draw. I have 3 more [...]
New Short – Some New Concepts
Back in November I posted a sketch I did at Comic Con using some nice new Copic markers and the standard brush Micron’s I like to use. The sketches are coming out a little to complicated for animation. So now I need to figure out how to scale back. The film is currently called “Europa” [...]
Animated Art on the High Seas
I spotted this really neat ‘animation installation’ when I was on the cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas, last week. The people animate as you walk by, doing various physical activities. Other than the light behind it, the illusion is generated through what is called persistence of vision In the 19th century there was a [...]
Nickelodeon Halloween Animation – Network IDs
I had a tremendous opportunity this fall to develop 3 network ID’s for the Halloween holiday for Nick on-air. I work for Nickelodeon as an animator and multimedia designer in its preschool digital online group (what a mouth-full). That said when I was offered the chance to work on these I was more than happy [...]
New Short Film
As 2010 comes to a close I am starting my next film. I have posted some characters in the past and I am starting to narrow down a style. While I want it to be a tad simpler than the characters in The Lift, I want them to still have a relation in style as [...]
New Characters
I am still exploring designs for my next film. Two posts ago I posted some work of what I was thinking would be the main character. I am try to design her as well as some others, unlike The Lift I intend to have many more characters and dialogue.
The Lift – Shot 13 | How-to
This week I am posting a much earlier shot from my film ‘The Lift’. In this shot the main character is leaving for work, or what ever she does. As you saw from one of the other later shots I posted she doesn’t make it to where she was going. Something I haven’t really talked [...]
The Lift – Shot 51 | How-to
I am posting this new video on my blog a little late this time, a week late actually. I forgot to do this last week, though I did get it up on Youtube and Vimeo. This week I won’t be doing a video as its a holiday in the US. Shot 51, what you see [...]
Making of a shot – Shot 50 of my film
I have recently setup 2 channels, one on Vimeo and another on Youtube which I will update every Tuesday with new shots from my film. YouTube Kohrtoons Studio Channel Vimeo Kohrtoons Studio Channel This week I created an almost 7 minute tutorial showing my process of developing a shot from the animatic to the final [...]
Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile
I recently downloaded the latest drawing app available for the iPhone. I have not been a huge fan of the others as they never felt quite right. Autodesk seems to have offered up something truly good, Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile. The main difference I felt between Autodesk’s offering and Brushes was that Sketchbook lacked the ‘vector-esc’ [...]
11 Second Club – August Submission
Ever heard of the 11 Second Club? If you are an animator you should have. Its a website where an audio clip is posted on the first of the month, usually something from an old movie. Then those who choose to participate have about 30 days to complete their interpretation of the animation. I decided [...]
Freelance Red Flags
I originally saw this on digg then on web monkey and thought that it was an interesting warning/humor/comment on freelance and things to watch out for. That said I thought it would be fun to add my top ten. I stole some of the better ones from that site That said here are my top [...]
Animation Tutorials :: Efficiency in Flash Lesson 01
Efficiency in Flash is important. Whether you are working on your own or on a production team, you need to get your work done as fast as possible. In this lesson I will explore JSFL plugins for Flash as well as mapping keys to the commands that you use the most.
Animated Manhattan
My Coworker Allison sent me this awesome link show examples of animation that has New York in it. I think I can add to this a bit, though this is a pretty exhaustive list. http://www.ironicsans.com/animated_manhattan/
Ni Hao Kai-lan!
Oh boy second post in two days, well I should be working right now on a video for myNOGGIN, but I just had to post this page that I animated. Basically we have these pages on Nick Jr.’s website called landing pages and these are usually used as introductory sections for show titles. Our newest [...]
50 seconds done and still at it :D
Happy New Year, for that matter Happy Chinese New Year! It has been so long since my last post. Well I did post, about my store, but then I took that down as it fell through. I learned a lot from the experience a lot which I will apply to something similar in a few [...]
Ridiculous Asumptions about Digital Video and the iPod
I always cringe when I see articles on line similar to the following article from Reuters (Big media seen playing hardball with Apple). Specifically this quote: “If there isn’t any video you want to watch, the device itself is worth less money,” Forrester analyst James McQuivey said of the iPod and other Apple products, such [...]
Shot 13: Rough Animation and Composite
So here is the latest render. I have finished the rough animation. Yay! It only took me 3 weeks! Argh way too long. Also the whole shot was initially spec-ed out to be about 6 seconds, the final version here is now at 8 seconds. It was moving way too fast. I still have one [...]
Drawing in Union Square
My friend Amy is finally back from here 11 month adventure in Japan working on the CGI animated version of Poo for the Disney Channel. Well actually she got back about 2 months ago. She brought her friend Buun, who also worked on Poo.