https://youtu.be/tVynETvms-o 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 to frame our characters. To push the story forward using ... Read More
https://youtu.be/ynBENQJBQbE 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, in this video BAM Animation wants to show you Eases, Overshooting, Squash and Stretch and ... Read More
https://youtu.be/8wm9ti-gzLM 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 doing right and what are you doing wrong? Lots of ... Read More
https://youtu.be/rV2Ix0HZSbM 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 some cool digital art on. Digital art does not have to be expensive with the right hardware. This old ... Read More
Clean Line Art! https://youtu.be/NBE-RTFkXDk 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 clean lines in photoshop. These tips will help you smooth out your line art and make more professional looking art. And we ... Read More
https://youtu.be/upxBGNcryRs 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 make a Warped Perspective Grid! Perspective is great for animation backgrounds, comics, concept art, and ... Read More
https://youtu.be/yvUkaBhwAFY 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 character turn around is a fundamental of character design. Animation uses character ... Read More
Coloring Characters the Industry Way https://youtu.be/4atFicBvhMM 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. Some of these digital painting techniques are used at major studios including ... Read More
Can we draw like MIYAZAKI? https://www.youtube.com/embed/XPNi3nWSG5s?rel=0 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 about Anime character design, and other drawing/animation ... Read More
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 Guest artist Brianne Neumann explains some cool color theory for animation! We hope you love the 8-bit ... Read More