Sam Cohen Animates

A blog in cataloguing inspirational media such as books, comics, animation, art, film, and video while also sharing my interdisplinary workflow processes and finished pieces.

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Wow it's been a minute since I've posted on here. I've been doing my schmaltz city newsletter over on substack but I still enjoy using tumblr as an art archive for myself. It's fun to look back over the last 10+ years and see all that's inspired me, how I've grown, etc. After a work project kicked my butt a few weeks ago, I've been hitting the YT tutorials hard and practicing/doing short exercises in AE in the mornings which has been really lovely. Here's one I did on faux 3D I really enjoyed.

Exciting things coming this spring, looking forward to sharing soon!

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SOMtember week 3 prompt: follow through

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week 2 somtember prompt: anticipation/overshoot!

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Some of my SOMtember prompts for week 1! More info on what SOMtember is here.

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playing around with balloon text in c4d! text reads "oy vey"

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I will be sending out my first issue(?) post(?) of schmaltz city this week! If you're interested in reading you can subscribe here.

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schmaltz city | Sam Cohen | Substack

sam cohen's personal stories, media inspiration-books, movies, animation, comics, tv, music, podcasts, design, and visual art, and news of u

I’ve been really inspired over the past few years by all the great newsletters I receive and finally am making moves to start my own! I've created a link for you to subscribe, I've left a description of the newsletter below.... more to come soon! schmaltz city is a monthly newsletter by sam cohen filled with all things considered schmaltz- the kind of art that is so sappy that some may consider it overkill. schmaltz city is where we will be indulging in those sweet nuggets of sentimentality-in movies, books, tv shows, podcasts, recipes, visual art, and personal stories-baby break me off a piece of that! In addition, I will be sharing behind the scenes/WIP animation/art, animation processes I’m learning, and upcoming events!

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No Bummer Summer Sampler — Museum of Museums

Join us in the Kitchen at MoM for “No Bummer Summer Sampler” by 9 Portland-based artists including Laura Burke , Justin L’Amie , Ral

Excited to be in this show at MoM in Seattle, WA next weekend! I have 2 stills from electric city magic valentine that I printed and framed for the showcase <3

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Samantha Cohen - electric city magic valentine

You can now watch electric city magic valentine in full on my website <3 :D <3

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Some stills from electric city magic valentine 💘

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electric city magic valentine — Well Well

My new piece electric city magic valentine is up for one more week, lookout for a Vimeo link in the next week or so where I will be posting the full video :)

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Playing around with Infinite Zoom technique!

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Made a shape repeat pattern in AE, played around with turbulent displace and roughen edges to give it a more hand drawn look!

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Experimenting with stretchy text!

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Messing around with collage-y type of animation for a gallery show I'm doing in March, really excited to begin combining 2D and 3D and making new work again!

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After experimenting with hard body dynamics with the rube goldberg machine, we moved onto soft body dynamics where we studied inflating, smashing, noodle dropping, and confetti in Cinema 4D. I loved learning how to inflate, can't wait to try it out more!

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Here is my most recent assignment from Cinema 4D Ascent. In this exercise I learned how to use hard body dynamics, field force, animating with splines, and working with bounce and friction. I had so much fun making these balls animate, definitely felt like a puzzle/video game to figure it all out. I rendered just using the viewport renderer for times sake, but I'm excited to render this in higher quality when I have more time.