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My friend, Dani Jones honored me with the opportunity to be featured in the first collected print edition of her webcomic ‘My Sister, The Freak’. (Now available for pre-order at MySisterTheFreak.com)
I recorded the entire painting process and broke it up into three parts.
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I interview one of my heroes Cyril Pedrosa author of my favorite graphic novel ‘Three Shadows’ and the beautiful new web comic ‘Portugal’.
Cyril shares about his early days at the Disney studio in Paris and his break from animation to pursue his true calling as a comics artist.
He shares insights into his own process, his thoughts on what it means to be an artist and the development of his multiple drawing styles through experimentation and emotional connection with the story.
Plus music by Gaby Moreno!
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I share THREE practices that all artists can apply to their own process that will instantly improve the quality of their finished works of art.
Also, I talk about my NEW podcast and web-community: Paper Wings.
AND… I explain how YOU could WIN a WACOM Intuos 4 Tablet by entering the FIRST Paper Wings Challenge!
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The site and home of my new podcast launches THIS FRIDAY!
Paper Wings is the apprenticeship program that I started last year to provide an intensive, personalized art and/or story education that is paid for with the skills and talents that the students already possess.
This method allows the apprentice/student to earn their education through the kind of creative work in which they are already interested and they avoid the crippling student loan debt that takes most art students years to pay off.
Now Paper Wings has taken another evolutionary step in the form of a podcast hosted by yours truly and my long-time friend Lora Innes.
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I have a great interview with my Disney colleague Akiko Crawford and her husband Duncan Crawford. Akiko is a VERY talented Matte Painter and Environment painter who works in Visual Development like I do.
And Duncan has worked as a sculptor on Super-8 and LOST (and he talks about that on the show), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Green Lantern, Thor, Iron Man 2, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Transformers and Spider-man 3 …just to name a few.
We talk a lot about their personal paths to success and they share some insight that might get you thinking differently or in a fresh way about how to get or keep your job in the entertainment industry.
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Lora Innes, creator of The Dreamer and I are starting a NEW PODCAST for visual storytellers called The Paper Wings Podcast! It will feature two shows per month, one focused on art and the other on story.
With passionate and efficient communication, a consistent, dependable release schedule, and a mission to advance the state of the art of visual storytelling, The Paper Wings Podcast, supported by The Paper Wings Talent Exchange Program (created to bring back the lost art of apprenticeship) is sure to fill our creative tanks (yours and mine) with high-octane inspiration.
AND:: Steve Umbleby’s career in character design takes another leap forward and the modern anthropology of a children’s story anthology reveals how any project can find it’s finish if it can find enough artists.
UPDATE: Lora has written about the new Podcast on her blog.
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Chris Oatley’s ArtCast has been on a short hiatus so I can focus on prepping my new Web Comic for launch.
The show will return at the beginning of February with an exciting, new contest with awesome prizes, a series of inspiring interviews and a vision for the show that will synthesize the explorations of past episodes and carry the show into it’s next stage of evolution.
This is a very exciting time.
You can listen to me share in greater detail about the hiatus in Episode 52.
The web comic title will be announced around the same time of the return of the show and I’m hoping to launch the comic before April 2011.
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Ryan Jones’ first job is also his dream job. He’s a concept artist at Telltale Games where he designed stylized versions of Doc Brown & Marty McFly for Back To The Future: The Game.
Play the episode (player and download link are at the top of this post) and hear Ryan talk about his creative process, how he landed his gig as a concept artist and how his illustration background informs his design work for Telltale Games.
PLUS: Joel Dreskin, the Telltale Games Marketing Rep shares a bit about another upcoming Telltale Title:: Jurassic Park!
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Subscribe to the ChrisOatley.com Digital Painting Tips Newsletter and get access to LOTS of FREE PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES designed by Chris Oatley.
You can download the brushes by subscribing to my Digital Painting Tips Newsletter via the Green Box at the top of the right sidebar on this site.
The ‘Brush Tips’ Series: Short video tutorials that demonstrate digital painting tips and tricks that can save you time, increase your efficiency and support a smoother, more intuitive workflow.
This episode addresses a frequently asked question: How do I make my cool stylized texture brushes in Photoshop? It’s easy and creating your own brushes is a great way to find inspiration, new ideas and approaches to digital painting that you’ve never thought of before.
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I share some listener feedback and discuss how artists can develop consistency and professionalism through fundamentals and a refusal to settle for less. I also briefly address the ongoing debate about digital comics and I talk about a new sit/ stand ergonomic solution for my workstation.
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I speak with Jerzy Drozd (creator of The Front) and Thomas James (creator of Escape From Illustration Island) about a recent discussion that has been taking place here on ChrisOatley.com regarding personal projects and how to actually finish them.
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This one has a bit of a slow start (some heavy editing helped quite a bit) but it has a big finish: How I avoid burnout. I explore every possible creative block that I can think of and provide some practical advice for how to stay focused and fruitful during creative droughts.
Also: I talk about the NEW ChrisOatley.com which will be launching very soon and I make an apology for an insensitive comment I made in Episode #47.
PLUS: A new song from Storybook Steve.
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I am joined by Ed Li (Environment Design), Joel Parod (Visual Development), Ellen Jin-Over (Art Director) and three-time ArtCast guest Mike Greenholt (Animation) for a Live online panel discussion about our work at DisneyToon Studios, our careers, our artistic victories and our struggles.
The panelists also take questions from the live audience and share advice from their own experiences.
Recorded LIVE Online at ChrisOatley.com on 4/29/2010
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The ‘Brush Tips’ Series: Short video tutorials that demonstrate digital painting tips and tricks that can save you time, increase your efficiency and support a smoother, more intuitive workflow.
Part one features two basic layer and group masking techniques that allow the artist to make significant changes to the overall silhouette of a character without erasing or deleting any prior work.
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