Tips For Drawing Backgrounds

Backgrounds, are important for storytelling.  They create atmosphere, mood and help ground the viewer. We can establish certain expectations about a scene by the location, and we can use them…

GOOD vs BAD Character Design

Professional Industry Artists Brent Noll and Maximus Pauson break down Good Character Designs and Bad Character designs with the three fundamentals of clarity: Silhouette, Palette, and Exaggeration. What are you…

Clean Line Art

Clean Line Art! Getting smooth clean line art can be quite a challenge when using a Wacom Tablet or a Cintiq. Today we want to show you how to get…

Character Turn Arounds!

Brent and Max teach you about character design’s most important job, TURNAROUNDS….one of the hardest things to do! We share awesome tips and tricks that only pros know. A 2d…

Can we draw like MIYAZAKI?

Can we draw like MIYAZAKI? Drawing like Miyazaki was a tough challenge, but Max breaks down the animation design style of studio Ghibli in this episode of Bam Animation. Learn…

Fantasy RPG

Industry Pros Brent and Max draw an RPG inspired group of fantasy characters. Max teaches us about contrast in character design, and Brent shows you how to draw round mushrooms…

Animation For Instagram

We used Adobe Animate and After effects to make this short looping animation for our Instagram. Animation is a great way to gain Followers on Instagram and social media. In…

Making a Walk Cycle

Industry Pros Brent and Max start animating in this episode of BaM! Today we will learn how to make a walk cycle in adobe animate! We will also learn how…

Drawing Player Unknown’s

Industry Pros Brent and Max Redraw a scene from PUBG in a Rick and Morty style. In this episode we learn about cool photoshop tools like, Clipping mask, how to…

Adult Swim Style

Happy Halloween from Bam Animation! In this episode Max and Brent redraw some viewer submitted art work in the style of an ADULT SWIM cartoon, Cool Tutorials and art tips…

Our Old Artwork

Maximus J Pauson and Brent Noll redraw some of their old artwork.  Brent and Max are both animation Industry professionals. Max is a characters designer and Brent does background design!…