Showing posts with label cool town claymation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cool town claymation. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Constantine Claymation - John Con Noir - Our Latest Masterpiece!


John Con Noir is a Constantine claymation for the television show Constantine starring Matt Ryan. Its character, John Constantine, is from DC Comics' Hellblazer. The sets, puppets and props were designed, fabricated and built by our very own Carol Rasaphangthong and Jennifer Kim - who were also the animators on John Con Noir. The graffiti art in the alley set was done by artist, Amy Tanaka, who occassionally, like several other artists and creatives, lend their special skills and talents to Cool Town projects.

Constantine John Con Noir EP.1 "Trash" was featured on DC Comics' website and DC Entertainment's official YouTube channel. It has been mentioned on several blogs and websites such as ChannelSuperhero.com and others alike. It is a property of Warner Bros. and currently lives on DC Comics' website and can also be found on our social outlets and channels as well as NBC's official site.

Find behind-the-scenes content on our official site!

Monday, December 8, 2014

We're Moving!

For the latest updates and most current events please visit us here: http://www.cooltowncreations.com  Trust us, you don't want to miss what we have in store - come by and see for yourself! See you there!





Monday, October 14, 2013

Happy October!

 Made some uber-cool characters for Halloween! They'll be making cameos throughout our future projects!
 Meet Bertha. She's not afraid of anything or anyone, and she passes out candy canes for Halloween. Not sure if that Clown hiding behind her trailer knows what he's in for...
 Meet, The Mummy-Ninja. He's just rad. 'nuff said. And below, Strange Town's Killer Clown is on the loose and after PeeWee...EEEEEKKKKS!

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Look, It's PEE-WEE!

What do you think, should we animate this? 

Testing some new clay'n techniques and decided to make Pee-Wee!

Monday, April 8, 2013

NEW!! Late Night Television: Couch Commerce Ep.1

Don't you just love infomercials!?! It's so bad, it's good!  A new series from Cool Town Creations/Claymation - sit back, relax and laugh-out-loud!




Late Night Television: Couch Commerce Ep.1 features "Insta-Hickey", "Insurance Software" & " Key-Earrings" mock infomercials. These are intended to make you chuckle just a little on the inside - so please, put away your wallet and whip out your sense of humor. Enjoy! 







Behind-the-scenes and other exclusives:

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facebook.com/cooltownclaymation
twitter: @cooltownclay

Credits:
Written/Directed/Edited by: Carol K. Ras-
Art Dept: Carol K. Ras-, Jennifer Kim, Irma Gomez & Coral Huerta
Animation: Jennifer Kim & Carol K. Ras-
Original Music by: Dave Grimm
Voice Over Talent: Noelle J. Paul

A Cool Town Creations™ Picture

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Our latest short, "Crush"!


Gotta "Crush"? Well, here's Cool Town's "Crush" - it's love at first sight!



"Crush" is our first short shot using a new technique we call, StopCART-Motion™ or StopMoToon™. Behind-the-scenes content and other exclusives for "Crush" will be posted soon! 

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[t]: @cooltownclay

Monday, October 8, 2012

Our latest project!!

"The Both of Us" is based on a story by Mirae Lee. Adapted by Cool Town Creations, aka Cool Town Claymation.



Written by: Mirae Lee
Directed/Edited/Animated by: Jennifer Kim & Carol K. Ras-
Sound Designer: Dave Grimm
Voice Talent: Alison Johnson

Behind the scenes!










Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Fresher Than Cool: Mic The Unheard Ep. 5 Josh Whiting



 Cool Town Claymation's newest segment "Fresher Than Cool: Mic The Unheard" highlights artist/songwriter/engineer, Josh Whiting of Stage Red Studios. Read more about Josh Whiting below!

 BIO: Josh Whitng Owner/ Stage Red Studios 

Born in Albany New York and raised in San Diego Califorina Josh has been involved with music for over 18 years. He began producing and recording bands after graduating from Musicians Institute in 2002 and interning at Golden Track Studios in San Diego. In 2008 Josh moved to Los Angeles to pursue audio engineering of corse like any musician finding their place took work. After freelancing as an audio engineer and working various jobs such as West LA Music, Guitar Center and Center Staging, in 2010 he was able to build his own studio called Stage Red Studios. He has engineered and produced artists with genres that include Rock, Metal, Acoustic, Country, Pop, Rap, Hip Hop, Voice Over and Radio Commercials. Stage Red Studios has worked with companies such as Rostrum Records (Wiz Khalifa, Mac Millar, Vali Porter), Resort Entertainment & Technologies, Designmate.com, Electric Blue Media and other industry companies Stage Red Studios works with local and out of state artists, such as Army On the Dance Floor, Kourntney Klein (Nitzer Ebb), Juice McCain (Black Walstreet), Tru Collins (Transibierian Orchestra, Tru & The Strays), Juicy J (3 Six Mafia), Rome (Sublime with Rome), Mars (1500 or nothin) just to name a few. Josh also writes and produces music with many local artists. He has gone beyond the scope of just engineering music, he often records Foley sound for movies, animations, webisodes, and commercials and well as sound designing.

“At Stage Red Studios we take pride in our work and offer many services such as tracking music, voice over's, commercials, post production and many more for your recording needs. Our Mission is to provide you with a supreme studio experience while capturing your artistic vision. We are a talented group from both a creative and technical standpoint. The payoff is a staff eager and able to please.” 

 Website: www.stageredstudios.com 
"Like" https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stage-Red-Studios/115086765182678
Friend https://www.facebook.com/stage.red
Follow https://twitter.com/stageredstudios

 Cool Town is an innovative platform for creative artists to collaborate and turn a simple thought into something tangible-stop-motion animation that is entertaining, educational and visually stunning. We are looking for underground, indie, unsigned musicians in all genres who want to gain free exposure and add to their following. This is an opportunity to be headlined in our growing community; we'll conduct an intereview, feature the artists' material and highlight the artists in their own persnal segment we call "Fresher Than Cool" hosted by Cool Town's very own Claymation VJ's. Email: cooltownclaymation@gmail.com for more info!

Monday, February 13, 2012

"Crush"

In the works...more updates to come!


 Decided to have a little fun along the way...

Monday, February 6, 2012

Don't Follow Us, We'll Follow You!

Stop-Motion Animation is emerging and soon enough you can be "in-the-know" on-the-go with our mobile app! Get the latest news, updates and more on our projects along with behind-the-scenes content! We know that in today's world being readily accessible to our viewers is important, so here we are, ready to entertain you on your lunch break, during your meetings, in your cubical, laundromat or anywhere else you'd rather not be! So, don't follow us, we'll follow you! 


While we strive to develop our mobile app to perfection, in the meantime, you can download our browser app for quick and convenient access to all of our social media sites all in one click---soon to be one tap! =)


Here's what you can expect---peep the screenshots below!








Saturday, January 14, 2012

The New 'Cool'

This is Carol Ras- here, creator of Cool Town, and I just wanted to update this blog to let our loyal fans know what's been going down in Cool Town!

As some of you may know by now, I am heavily involved in all of our 'Cool' projects---from development to set and character designs, to directing and animating, and finally to editing and viralizing. Seems like a lot of work because it is...but occasionally I do get help with these things, so it's not all me, all of the time---I must say that I am truly humbled and blessed to have such a great team of people who work alongside of me in these projects and who really bring great ideas and creations to the table. They're the few people that can genuinely match my efforts, and it's indescribable how much I appreciate them. Shout out to the 'Cool' Team, you know who you are! =)

With that said, the payoff is immense and, it too, is indescribable. I usually never realize how much work is put into what we do until someone asks me about what it is that we do, or how we do what we do. That's when I'm finally able to wrap my head around the intensity of this form of art and why so many people can be intimidated by it. It certainly takes a great deal of patience, trial and error and a few bad ideas to generate good ones.  And no matter what level you're performing at (beginner, hobbyist or experienced), and correct me if I'm wrong because it could just be me, but the results are always mind-blowing because you get to see your efforts literally come to Life! 

Squeaky Clean. Refreshing our Freshness.
Okay, okay, enough rambling about a bunch of nothing---=) I'm really here to let you know that I've been exploring and discovering a lot of new, interesting and innovative ways to utilize not just what we have access to, but what we're limited to as well, and coupling a few odd aesthetics to create a more dynamic way to share our stories and concepts. Things that are indescribable seem to the be the theme of this post because I can't quite explain it, but this combination of technology and natural ability is what we're trying to better understand so we execute our projects in the most efficient and prolific way. 

Now, we're no experts, just a couple of artists stumbling through the process to be better than we were...or until one of us hits the lottery, whichever comes first...=D Until then, we will continue to work less in the real world and more in our 'little' world...(one could only hope=).

Anyhow, that's it for now, not for good---stay tuned for more updates---check out our Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr...for more updates if you don't see any here. 

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Dude, Save The 'Stache!

For those of you who didn't know, it's MOVEMBER! A charity event held annually in November that challenges men to grow a mustache to raise funds and awareness for Prostate Cancer. So, go ahead and let it grow and manifest into its own being. Who knows, you might actually pick up more dates with your new furry face! Be sure to share this information with the men (women as well because every woman knows a man and vice versa!) in your life because it's imperative that we are aware so we can battle this together!


Learn more about 'Movember' here: http://us.movember.com/about/

Monday, June 6, 2011

"Ignite Change" Green Long Beach Promo Video is Up!

UPDATE!!! As of 6/9/2011 10:31 A.M.
The video is here! Check it out peeps! And be sure to ask yourselves, "What can YOU do to help save the planet?"
In this short/promotional video we collaborated with Green Long Beach! to bring 
you a segment about the importance of preserving our resources and cleaning up 

our carbon footprints. All it takes is for one person to "ignite" and find a way to 

contribute and empower others to do take action by simply taking action!


Introducing a new neighborhood in Cool Town! This is just a sneak peek at a few characters and set pieces from our upcoming video "Ignite Change" for the Green Long Beach Festival happening on June 11th 2011. The video will be posted at the end of the week so be sure to check back for it. Some of the sets that we built may not make the cut for this video, but will certainly be in our future projects, including short sketches and glimpses into "The Suburbs"! More photos to come and please feel free to comment....we loooooove to hear from our viewers!
Scroll down for more info on the Green Long Beach Festival!
Remember these days? Class Photo!





Thursday, June 2, 2011

"The Notorious 101" is finally available for viewing!



It's finally here and ready to watch! Our latest collaborative project with Umbrella House Productions, "The Notorious 101" is a spec-spot for Tongal.com's Brisk Ice Tea Video Competition. Co-Directors, Carol Ras- of Cool Town & Greg Whitehead of Umbrella House, saw this challenge as an opportunity to finally work alongside one another as Directors. And, this is only the beginning of many future collaborations!
About the Contest:
The contest brief is to create a video between 30-60 seconds long demonstrating what we felt needed to be more "Brisk" is Life. The idea that spawned was a no-brainer being that both productions are Los Angeles based and know much about the chaotic, hot-mess-of-a-traffic-system we so graciously love to half-heartedly tan in. So, naturally and immediately, this became the concept that we kicked into gear and began developing. 
 And, unlike the traditional Cool Towners, these characters have FACES--WHOA!!! Is this a new realm for Cool Town? Possibly. But nonetheless, the faceless characters are somewhat of a trademark, however, that won't stop us from exploring and taking you in different parts of this fictional world where there are characters with features and other strange, unique and rather unusual traits. Be on the lookout!

In conclusion, this project opened up a new chapter for us and we are truly stoked about taking our viewers for a new adventure! 
WAIT!
Scroll down for some Behind the Scenes Photos!