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...
The paths to success in both mainstream and independent/ “creator-owned” comics are beginning to converge.
In this episode Chris and Lora share their perspectives about how a personal, creator-owned project can serve both types of careers.
They explain how a winning comic pitch is about the creator just as much as it is about the created project. Lora also shares some insights from her successful pitch to IDW.
[Read more…] about Five Steps To A Winning Comic Pitch :: PWP #5
We’re back with a special Paper Wings Podcast!
Chris & Lora were together in L.A. this week, so we decided to take a detour from our planned schedule and do a LIVE episode.
Instead of releasing Part 2 of our portfolio episode this week, we used Episode 3: PORTFOLIO PIT STOP to answer some of the many listener questions we received.
Listen in to hear our thoughts on:
Do the principles we discussed about animation portfolios apply when assembling a freelance illustration portfolio? Are “leave behinds” a good idea? How do you brand yourself online and make your portfolio stand out in the digital realm? What should you wear to an interview? What if I can’t attend comic conventions? And more!
We also take the opportunity to share our (mis)adventures on the California coast, and discuss our vision for Paper Wings– specifically the Paper Wings Talent Exchange Program!
And don’t forget to subscribe to the newsletter to receive details about a chance to win one of three Intuos4 Tablets from WACOM, the first Paper Wings Challenge sponsor! Newsletter subscribers will get the contest rules FIRST, before the next episode is released. So sign up today!
In This ArtCast ::
I share a revolutionary philosophy that “ideas are a dime-a-dozen” …and that’s a wonderful thing.
I explain how we can unlock ourselves from the paralyzing fear of idea-theft and unhealthy obsession over our ‘one good idea’ by accepting two truths. 1.) Our ideas are not as precious as we think and 2.) Good ideas CAN be contrived.
I also share some practical advice for how we can begin exploring ideas and generating new ones, both visual and narrative.
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The music heard on Chris Oatley’s ArtCast is provided by Storybook Steve and Kangaralien.