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Bobby CohenLos Angeles, CA- Musician // Composer // Performer -- Videographer // Video Editor // Motion Graphics Artist -
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Visitors to the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow #epcot #englandpavillion #obnimayu (at Spaceship Earth)
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@ekaterinapirogovskaya and I created this miniature music video here in New York as a tribute to one of her teachers - singer, clown, actress, director Natasha Pivovarova. The full version is on Katia's YouTube channel. (at Central Park)
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KURIOS About The Webseries: an intimate look at our Cabinet of Curiosities. Coming next week! cirk.me/KURIOSabout
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https://soundcloud.com/bobbycohen/pantomime-on-pier-39-instrumental
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The Multiplane Camera at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco #disney #animation
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#collaboration #art with @forr3st #drums #animation
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Being that you're an industry expert, I was hoping if there were any tips or advice you can give to an aspiring Animation Series creator. Any lessons you've learned from working in the industry from so many years. What advice would you give yourself if you were starting out trying to get you're animation picked up by a major network?
Yeah I have a big piece of advice! Stop “aspiring”!!!!! Your aspirations end now!!!!
YES YOU! DON’T WAIT! START NOW! (passionate rambling incoming…)
The freaking coolest thing about living in the year 20XX is that you don’t have to have anyone’s permission to be an Animated Series creator. Grab a trial copy of Flash, or make flipbooks, or your own GIFs, or make some stop motion with your phone. Just start making whatever you want! Don’t save your good ideas for some big-wig executives or networks. Just do them right now! Don’t be precious with your ideas, just put them out there.
Content that’s on TV or in movies is not “more official” than stuff you make in your home on your spare time to share with friends on the internet. It’s all the same!!!!! As long as you enjoy it, who cares!! And if other people happen to like it also, then BONUS!!
The experience you get from trying to make something good on your own is so much more important than any future dream of being a big shot. Upload what you do to the internet and get feedback, show it to as many people as you can and listen to critiques. Learn to do stuff all by yourself, and only for your own pleasure.
From what I’ve seen, the people who end up creating a good animated series are the same people who have been creating their own stories, cartoons, comics and music on their own just for fun long before they ever got the shot at the big-time. Read about how your favorite cartoons are made, and try to do the process on your own. You’ll learn what your strengths are and what you’re interested in exploring.
(If you don’t have the facilities to create animation on your own, make something smaller scale- like a script, a comic, or a storyboard!)
OK THEN HERE’S STEP TWO: once you’ve learned to love your work on your own and figured out what you like to draw and what you’re passionate about, you may get a chance to pitch an idea. And thanks to the work you’ve done, you’ll be READY! Instead of some half-finished ideas, you’ll be able to point to all the amazing stuff you’ve created on your own and say “look, I already know what I like, AND I already know how to do it!” —-that’s WAY more impressive than an undeveloped idea with nothing to show for it. PLUS, the bonus of doing good work on your own is that you’ll attract attention and opportunity! I know so many people working in this industry who were discovered from their own silly personal work that was just randomly found online.
GET TO IT! DON’T WAIT FOR ANYONE’S PERMISSION TO BE THE CREATOR YOU WANT TO BE! START NOW! YOU HAVE TO START NOW! DON’T YOU MAKE ME COME OVER THERE AND FORCE YOU TO DO IT! YOUR “ASPIRATION DAYS” ARE OVER!
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The other night #recording #piano #prismsoflightandlastwords #theillustrativeviolet
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Last week I finished scoring a three-part comedic web series called "Sidework". This is an alternate version of a music cue I wrote for a montage scene while we were still experimenting with different styles to find the right mood musically.
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The Innovations of Fleischer Studios
Besides changing the face of animation by bringing the world the invention of the Rotoscope, as well as the concept and animation technique of "Follow the Bouncing Ball" sing-alongs, Max Fleischer and his studio also pioneered a revolutionary technique in animation, known as the “Stereoptical Process”.
In this process, a circular, 3-D model of a background - a diorama - is built to the scale of the animation cells. It allowed for a spectacular sense of depth and dimension, long before Ub Iwerks came up with the Multiplane. Within the model setup, the animation cells could be placed at varying levels from the scenery, and even between objects, so that foreground elements could pass in front of them, adding to the dimensional effect. It was an effective method for panning and tracking shots, which would require a turn of the table with each photographed cell of animation.
The process was used in many of the studio’s cartoons, particularly in their longer, “two-reel” shorts, such as Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936), Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves (1937), and Betty Boop in Poor Cinderella (1934) - the only color (albeit in two-strip Cinecolor), theatrical cartoon ever made starring the iconic animated songstress, which features her as a redhead!
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This is a piece I wrote for piano earlier this year partly as an exercise writing in free-time.
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A quick piece that started with rhythm and signature changes over a constant 184bpm tempo and ended with samples of the Marx Brothers.
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Warm sounds!
This is the arrangement I did for the opening song, minus Rebecca’s vocals!
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#volcanoscienceproject #livemusic #octopad
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#volcanoscienceproject #livemusic #guitarloops
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The instrumental track for the Cookie Cat rap! I composed it on LSDJ (Little Sound DJ) on a Gameboy. When we were pitching this episode, I would play the instrumental on my laptop and do the rap over Joe’s boards. It was a really strange but exciting experience for my first storyboard job!
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