Chris Sickels of Red Nose Studio at SIP

Illustrator/animator Chris Sickels of Red Nose Studio paid a visit to Syracuse Illustration Program recently. Whilst here, he showed the students how he creates his signature stop-motion pieces with 3-D handmade characters, and walked them through the processes of animating them, photographing them, and putting the finishing touches on them in Photoshop, before outputting them as animated GIFs. In the video below, he interacts with Prof. James Ransome's Media Arts Techniques Class sophomore students, and the final animations can be seen at the end of this short presentation.

Below: the animations:

Illustrators in their Studios (Part 1)

Welcome to the Syracuse Illustration program's blog page, Orange Studio. Orange Studio is a blog about all the wonderful things that are happening in the Syracuse Illustration program.

For our maiden Orange studio post we have asked many of our favorite illustrator friends to share photos of their studio spaces. The response was overwhelming! And for all who were too busy, we found images on the web—we hope everyone is cool with that! If not, we'll be happy to remove it. Included are also a few studio artists that we just love and we know will continue to influence and inspire.

Jack Unruh

Sam Weber

Shout (Alessandro Gottardo)

Jerry Pinkney

Chris Buzelli

Dan Bejar

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Brian Floca with Sophie Blackall

Back in Feb. of 2013 The Blog site Pen and Oink showed us the studio space of children’s book author/illustrators Sophie Blackall, Brian Floca, Edward Hemingway (“Eddie”), John Bemelmans Marciano (“Johnny”), and Sergio Ruzzier. This groups have been sharing a studio for over two years—with the exception of Eddie who moved in a few months ago—and we can tell that they all genuinely enjoy sharing the space together.

Donato Giancola

Douglas Florian

James Yang

Jarret J. Krosoczka

Keith Haring

Joe Ciardiello

John Cuneo

John Hendrix

Marcos Chin

James Ransome

Melinda Beck

Red Nose Studio