Disney Character Designer answers your questions about Concept Art, Character Design for Animation, Digital Painting & Illustration.
Professional visual storytellers draw inspiration from art, history, their own personal experience and the experiences of others to craft meaningful, emotional stories.
But the broad scope of even the shortest stories can make the craft completely overwhelming.
Here you'll find resources for comics creators, storyboard artists and animators - designed to help you find focus and clarity in the chaos...
This is the transcript for the podcast episode Interview With Adam Westbrook, Creator Of The ‘Delve Video Essays’ (Part 1) :: ArtCast #81To listen to the podcast click here.
Chris: This is Chris Oatley’s Artcast episode 81, an interview with Delve Video Essayist, Adam Westbrook, part one!
Jedi master Brian McDonald is back with more revelatory perspectives that will challenge the way we think about visual storytelling.
In part one, Brian showed us how theme creates character and character creates theme.
Now, in part two, we discuss when to stop dreaming and start writing, how success can kill creativity, why style isn’t always a good thing, and why the students who struggle the most, often grow the most.
Oh! …and we have some big news: Lora’s going to be on TV!
Storytelling guru Brian McDonald joins us for another mind-blowing interview.
In part one of this two-part interview, Brian discusses writing roadblocks, how theme creates character and why you have to send your characters to Hell…
For many visual storytellers, technology means “equality.”
Equal tools, equal teams, equal attention.
…a creative meritocracy where the Internet decides to reward only the best and most beloved work.
Of course, the mythical future I’m describing isn’t significantly different from our present reality.
Ideas like Webcomics, Podcasts, Patreon and Spotify have been erected from the rubble of the traditional publishing and music industries. Mobile and indie games erupted into the mainstream, claiming a huge share of the existing market and expanding it even further.
Movies are different. Not safe, but different.
Independent film and mainstream movies have co-existed since the early twentieth century.
Mainstream movies thrived because the Indies never really got in their way.
Most independent filmmakers embrace limitations and leave the spectacle to the studios.
Today, mainstream movies survive on spectacle. …almost exclusively. They are being destabilized by a global competition for attention, not by independent film.
…yet.
In this interview, Director Michael Chance and Composer Ryan Leach take us behind the scenes of Project Arbiter, an indie sci-fi short film with a big-budget look.
What will happen when technology offers Hollywood spectacle to aspiring independent filmmakers everywhere?
‘Project Arbiter’ is proof that we’ll all find out very soon…
This is the transcript for the podcast episode An Indie Sci-Fi Short Film With A Big-Budget Look: The Making Of ‘Project Arbiter’ :: ArtCast #78To listen to the podcast click here.
Chris: This is Chris Oatley’s artcast, episode 78 – The Making of Project Arbiter, an independent sci-fi short film with a big budget look, an interview with director Michael Chance and composer Ryan Leach.