Gene Hamm's animated feature screens at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco Saturday November 5 at 4pm. It is currently streaming on Tubi, TyphoonOnDemand and Mometu.com.  But you can see it without commericials at the Cartoon Art Museum.  Gene will be there for a Q and A after the screening. You can ask him questions such as "What the hell were you thinking?"

Gene was interviewed by Brian Mitchell on the Cartoonerific podcast.  

I was interviewed today September 22, 2022 on Gary Garver's Controlled Chaos radio show on KCAA. ​We talked about my animated feature Hell Toupee and about animation in general.  The interview starts around 21:25 and goes for about twenty minutes. Gary is a great interviewer.

I have a new cartooning class on Beamya.com.  I show you tips and tricks for cartooning that they didn't teach me in art school.  I learned them from teachers in Hollywood who had worked for the classic animation studios such as Warner Brothers and Fleischer. I took classes at night at Hanna -Barbera when I worked there. They taught me how to draw 30 acceptable drawings a day so they could get Smurfs and Superfriends on the air.   https://www.beamya.com/product/cartooning-secrets-from-a-hollywood-animator

Hell Toupee, Gene Hamm's animated feature is streaming on Tubi, TyphoonOnDemand, and Mometu.  If you like it, give it a like and recommend it to your friends.  If you hate it, give it a like anyway and recommend it to your enemies.

    
  
    Gene Hamm's feature Hell Toupee is 75 minutes long and took Hamm three years to animate single-handedly. In Hell Toupee, when genetically engineered killer toupees escape from a lab on an isolated island, a female local barber must stop them from taking over the world.  Hell Toupee was originally a graphic novel by Hamm which is available on Amazon.
    Hamm wrote the story, animated the film, composed the music and voiced some of the characters. The other two voice actors were Samantha Lane who voiced the heroine and Ted Smith who voiced the villain.
    Hamm moved up to the Bay Area to work on the Gumby TV series after working in Hollywood on TV series such as The Smurfs, Superfriends, Plastic Man and such music videos as the title song of Big Trouble in Little China, Howard Jones’ Like To Get To Know You Well, and Michael Bolton’s Everybody’s Crazy.  He worked for Roger Corman on Battle Beyond The Stars.  His first job in Hollywood was in 1978 for Ralph Bakshi on Lord Of The Rings.
    In the Bay Area he worked on the cult TV series Liquid Television and animated the villains in Dick Tracy,  Sega’s first video game made in America.  He taught animation and storyboards in person and online for Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
    Hamm is the author of the book How To Get A Job In Animation And Keep It.  Currently he hosts How To Caricature for Airbnb Online Experiences where he teaches you how to caricature and draw cartoons with simple tricks he learned working in Hollywood cartoon studios.
    The song “Love Like There Is No Tomorrow” from Hell Toupee is on Spotify and Apple Music.
    Gene is available for interviews about Hell Toupee at genehamm@sbcglobal.net or (707)235-9064.

This week Airbnb approved my second Online Experience class: How To Caricature Bodies.  My first class How To Caricature has received over 150 five star reviews and has been enjoyed by individuals and corporations all over the world.  In the first class I drew caricatures of all the guests, showed them how to draw the cartoon head from every angle, add expressions to the face and how to create their own "all purpose critter" by changing one or two facial elements on the face.
In my new class we concentrate on the body and show you how to draw two and four-legged characters and hands.  Both classes show simple tips and tricks I learned working at Hollywood animation studios, things they don't teach in art school, but should.  People who think they can't draw at the beginning of my classes are pleasantly surprised at their new found ability at the end.  Along the way they do a lot of laughing as well as learning.
https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/1683951?guests=1&adults=1&s=67&unique_share_id=a0c7e8b3-8d87-42d2-9cf6-1c7b781d636e&fbclid=IwAR2mpZGB5uizGv5bOCCrBUAd4AQEPXXBNmjji-PClNcLtYrBkA1y3hjW17g

I've been animating furiously (well maybe not furiously, I'm pretty happy) to turn my graphic novel Hell Toupee into a feature.  Early in January I previewed the first 27 minutes of it as a cliffhanger at the Hell's Kitchen NYC Festival and it won Best Animation.  Now it is 47 minutes long and the distributor wants it 70 minutes long.  I am expanding and deepening the story and I think improving it.  I am aiming to finish it by the end of 2020.  I will keep you updated here.  You can also see nearly daily updates on Facebook if you friend me.

The Dream Hat, Gene Hamm's first animated feature is now for sale on GumRoad.com.  In a village where everyone has lost the ability to dream, a little boy goes on a desparate journey to find the secret of The Dream Hat.
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It is packaged with Gene's animated short Cook For Your Life.  Can the last three animals on the farm who haven't been eaten turn the farmer into a vegetarian before lunchtime.  Part comedy/part cooking show.

Gene Hamm's How To Caricature Is now an Online Experience at AirBnB.com  If you, or your family, friends, or co-workers are looking for a fun two hour class, animator Gene Hamm will show you how to exaggerate or bring out the features of a person in a simple cartoon.  He will make it fun and easy.  All you need is a pencil and a few sheets of copy paper.

During the online Zoom class, Gene will draw everyone and then email the drawings after the class,  And to keep it fair, you can draw as silly a caricature of Gene as you want.

Gene learned to draw caricatures down in Hollywood animation studios where the animators were always caricaturing each other.

The class makes a great birthday present, or part of a holiday party.  It also livens up some Zoom meetings.

Just click on How To Caricature.