Animation for Gripman Investment Financial

GAVBX Fund Summary from Brian Bookheimer on Vimeo.

Produced by Cap City Studios, LLC in 2016.

Baby Animals Rant the News

To date, we have produced well over an hour of animated content for our web based series entitled Baby Animals Rant the News which I co-created along with writer/ producer Dan Ewen.  The series has a home on Twitter as well as a page on Facebook with over 1.6 million impressions on Twitter.   We've been fortune to attract some well known voices for our 2 minute animated rants, which usually have a political slant, including comedian George Wallace and actress Constance Marie.  We've currently produced 36 episodes and plan to hit the 100 episode mark.  We've really enjoyed producing this series and look forward to continuing it as long as we can.  The first episode premiered on Dec. 22, 2016.  Tune in and follow us on our sites! 

Connecticut Science Center Lava Animation

Lava Animation Video Link 01

The Connecticut Science Museum recently went through a LARGE renovation, and I was excited to be able to animate the 40 foot tall lava animation that is one of their new showcased pieces.  The animation consisted of two one minute loopable cycles of animation (a resting state and an exploding state, pictured above) with :30 second transition animation inbetween so that the volcano can be active indefinitely.  It was a ton of fun to do and always enjoy fun freelance projects like this.  Can't wait to see it in person sometime. 

Drawing in Class

Drawing from Warner Brothers cartoons in class today.  One of the aliens from a Marvin the Martian cartoon on the left. 

Award of Excellence from the L.A. Movie Awards

'Lumin' was just recognized by the L.A. Movie Awards with an Award of Excellence.  Though it didn't make it into the screening due to the large amount of entries, we're excited that the film was still honored.  Still good news.  Congrats again to everyone/ all the students involved in the film! 

You can watch the film in its entirety here.

CCAD Announces Partnership with Toonboom

Today, Toonboom honored CCAD as the first college that it has partnered with in North America.  Click on the image below for the complete article.  

'Lumin' Screening at the Wexner Center Tonight!!!

Congrats again to the students in my Advanced Time Based Projects class last semester!  The film they created, 'Lumin' is screening tonight at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio.  This is the first screening of the film in the U.S.!!!  Can't wait to see it with a large audience!

ANIMATION CLASS COLLABORATES ON FESTIVAL-WORTHY FILM

CCAD posted a nice article on 'Lumin' this week.  You can read the article here.  Congrats again to my fantastic class!  To date, the film has been accepted into two overseas film festivals, one in Leeds, England and the Chilemonos International Animation Festival.  

Scene 27 from Animatic

Scene 27/ UCF FILM from tom richner on Vimeo.

This is my first attempt at a 3D shot in Storyboard Pro 3D.  It's basically doing what I want it to do.  Need to get more comfortable with the tools in the program, but not bad for a first attempt (good enough for the animatic/ time to move on).  

Progressive Animated Piece

Click on the image above to view an animation that I helped out with.  Animated about four scenes in this piece: the fishing scene (at :23 seconds),the sliding on clouds scene (:52), the calendar scene (:58) and the screaming eagle scene (2:32).  Andy Friz was the animation director on this, and we used cut-out characters rigs that he created in Harmony.  Was created REALLY quickly (in a matter of 5-6 weeks I believe, which is FAST for a three minuted animated film).  Enjoy!  Had fun working on it!

http://www.progressive.com/insurance/flosbestday/index.html

Meet The Guineas Animated Piece

This was an animated piece that went along with a pitch for a series called 'Meet the Guineas' (written by Dan Ewen and Eric Garcia). The characters were done in a cut-out style animation in Anime Studio Pro, a nice inexpensive little software package that allows you to add bones to your drawings. The background image was drawn by Chris Oatley.

Animated Piece

This was a piece I did for fun along with my Animation I class a few years back in Toonboom (back when it was Opus). The giraffe character is now the lead in the short film I am working on. Really liked that character and had wanted to do something with him for a while. He was part of a project I was developing with a friend, and so I used him in this exercise. This was kind of a goof on old silent films (maybe an old swiss film or something where its really dated and we really don't get the humor). I love a good vomit on screen! The projectile vomiting on SNL is always priceless.

Christopher Pop-In-Kins Commercial

Finished this piece in December of 2009. Won two bronze Telly Awards. Quick production, but everyone was happy with the results.