Simple 3-frame Animation with Procreate and GarageBand on the iPad.
![I recently posted a short animation on my Instagram feed and several friends asked me how I made it. In this video, I give an overview of the process. I created almost all of it on my iPad mini. I used Procreate for the animation, and then I used the Sunrizer app and GarageBand to […]](https://thomasbeuteltinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-13-at-7.32.36-AM-805x510.png "Simple 3-frame Animation with Procreate and GarageBand on the iPad.")
I recently posted a short animation on my Instagram feed and several friends asked me how I made it. In this video, I give an overview of the process. I created almost all of it on...
![This is my talk on my creative process that I presented to about 20 people at the Art Container at Playland at 43rd on Feb 8, 2020. The talk covers some of the tools I use to maintain focus and to stay inspired as I work on lengthy art works. The talk is about 30 […]](https://thomasbeuteltinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/process-talk-still2-805x510.png "Creative Process Talk")
![I’m happy to announce that I have a new art show called Sunset In Motion and it is currently at the Art Container at Playland at 43rd Avenue. It features several art pieces that I developed over the last 8 months. The show is open to the public and the schedule is: Saturday Jan 18 […]](https://thomasbeuteltinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-22-at-8.26.38-PM-805x510.png "Sunset In Motion Art Show")
![Back in the late 1970’s I inherited a Super 8 film camera from my granddad. He used it for home movies and I ended up make a few home movies with it as well. But one feature of the camera that caught my eye was the single frame mode. So I convinced friend’s of mine […]](https://thomasbeuteltinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/darth-car-805x510.png "Super 8 Film Animation")
![I’ve always been intrigued about bats flying around at twilight and catching insects. We see them every evening on our fishing trips to lakes in Northern California. On one trip I decided to see if I could film them with the help of night vision and a bat detector. A bat detector is basically a […]](https://thomasbeuteltinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-21-at-11.04.56-AM-805x510.png "Recording Bats")
![I print my own railroad backdrops from images that I google. Here I show roughly how I do it. My railroad is based on scenery in Northern California, so I google well known landmarks around the Bay Area for photos. I make heavy use of the clone tool to blend and extend the different photos. […]](https://thomasbeuteltinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-2.11.45-PM-805x510.png "Printed Backdrops")
![When I built the floor to ceiling canyon on the HO-scale Redwoods and Railroad in 1997, I had some friends come over and help apply the plaster. To make the canyon, I roughed out the shape of the hills and valleys using strips of cardboard. Once all the cardboard is in place, my friends and […]](https://thomasbeuteltinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-1.23.50-PM-805x510.png "Hardshell Scenery for the Great Canyon")
![One of my favorite pastimes is to go fishing early in the morning at the beach at Crissy Field. I try to go at least twice a week before work during the spring and summer. One day I noticed a bunch of plastic litter up above the surf zone. I assume these discarded bits and pieces […]](https://thomasbeuteltinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-18-at-9.02.00-AM-805x510.png "From Beach to Model Railroad")
![In this 4 minute video I show how I built a ferry slip headwork for my Redwoods and Pacific Railroad. Even though the tracks of the ferry slip end at a wall I wanted something more than just a backdrop to indicate the structure. I built it from coffee stirrers and the wheels are from […]](https://thomasbeuteltinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-18-at-11.57.05-AM-805x510.png "Ferry Slip Headwork Built from Coffee Stirrers")
![Railroad equipment rarely looks brand new in real life, so I like to weather my trains to give them that well worn look. In this video, my daughter and I weather a couple of Bachmann Pacific Fruit Express (PFE) Reefers. In real life, the PFE transported fruits and vegetables from California to the east coast, […]](https://thomasbeuteltinkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-1.33.45-PM-805x510.png "Well Worn Reefers")
