Painting Backgrounds for TV Animation can seem dauting, but if you use value to focus your subject matter, use atmospheric perspective, and use a pallete that reflects the mood and…

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…

Have you ever wanted to try your hand at Character Animation? Today we want to show you 4 Animation principles and how you can use them to get started animating,…

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…

A Cheap Desktop can be a great tool for #DigitalArt, and its the best way to get into professional software! today we found an old computer on craigslist to make…

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…

Perspective grids in Photoshop are easy to make. We show you how to use perspective grids in this episode, we show you 1, 2 and 3 point. And how to…

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…

Coloring Characters the Industry Way Coloring characters in Photoshop can be daunting at first, but we made a cool video to show you how real industry artists color in Photoshop….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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!…