GKIDS and Shout! Factory will release cult hit from the director of ‘Lu Over the Wall’ and ‘Night is Long, Walk on Girl’ on August 28.
Teenage rock band hopes song and film dealing with mental health issues and campus gun violence leads to conversation and healing.
The DreamWorks TV Animation veteran artist talks about her different approaches to character and conceptual design projects, the dynamic of realizing a strong director’s vision, such as Genndy Tartakovsky, and challenges she faced on shows such as ‘Samurai Jack.’
The creator of ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ teases his new animated feature film at SPA, shares his insights on the difficulties of the creative process, and gives advice for young artists looking for a career in the industry.
Winner will receive $1,000 and a complimentary full conference ticket for the event, set for Dec. 4-7 in Tokyo.
International conference and festival of contemporary character design and art announces speakers, programs for May 2-6 event in Berlin.
The 45th Annual Annie Awards will take place on Saturday, February 3, 2018, at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California.
The supervising technical director discusses production on Disney and Pixar’s long-awaited hit animated sequel, Finding Dory, including the design and animation of the film’s eight-legged heroic cephalopod.
The veteran designer details his work as production designer and art director on Pixar’s third offering of their hit ‘Cars’ franchise.
Creative studio creates new cross-platform brand identity to celebrate the ultimate music fan, using the MTV “Wireframe + Skin,” visual framework to dictate composition and graphic content, resulting in new IDs, bumpers, key art, on-screen graphics, and more.
Working with MullenLowe London, the Outpost VFX team developed the characters, storyboarded the project, shot live-action sequences featuring Unilever’s product, and also implemented cross functionality between Redshift and Golaem Crowd, for the 30-second CG commercial.
Design Studio Press’ ‘The Silver Way: Techniques, Tips, and Tutorials for Effective Character Design’ is a comprehensive book on character design, contains a foreword by ‘Penny Arcade’ artist Mike Krahulik and raised $114,139 from 1,700 backers.
Pixar’s animation team reflects on the challenges and triumphs of making their latest feature film offering, ‘Cars 3.’
New character and creature group to offer MPC Advertising’s proprietary ACE animated character engine tool for character-driven storytelling across a range of digital platforms.
New release features enhanced visual quality for 3D characters with industry standard PBR shaders, Image Based Lighting options, and a new Substance Material Generator.
Multi-faceted creature/character designer and master sculptor joins Spin VFX as Supervisor of Creature and Concept Design.
Reallusion’s 2D animation software CTA3 provides character templates, motion libraries, a powerful 2D bone rig editor, and more to automate 2D character creation and cartoon animation.
New digital platform shares the visual storytelling process with over 70,000 pieces of art from high-quality animated projects including Oscar-nominated features ‘The Secret of Kells’ and ‘Song of the Sea.’
International award for new creative talent in animated design.
Los Angeles-based design, animation, digital and production studio We Are Royale celebrates its eighth anniversary with a refreshed logo & website.
Category: Live Online Instructed Course
Start Date: September 28th
Time: Sundays, 6pm-9pm (PST)
Duration: 8 Weeks
This class caters to those who are new to or at an intermediate level in terms of design knowledge when it comes to characters. We will be producing 3 characters (and their 3 variants) that fit together in the same world based off of classic archetypes. There will be a significant amount of freedom but the instructor will act as an Art Director to help make your work coherent and imaginative. This class is structured in a way that helps you have 3 or more portfolio worthy images showing competent character design. Prerequisites: Significant understanding of human anatomy, some level of knowledge of animal anatomy, and a decent foundation in the fundamentals of drawings/painting.
Attend his class each week online for real-time lectures, demos, in class exercises, and critiques. We have a special rate for introductory courses of $495! Don't miss out! These are limited seats!
Check out his class here:
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Enjoy this summer learning, developing and keeping your skills sharp with our tremendous list of skilled professional instructors! With years of experience under their belt teaching and working in the art industry, you will find they will help you achieve your goal. All our classes are designed to encourage beginning, intermediate, advanced and professional artists in a friendly intimate learning environment. All studios come with natural light beaming from the rooftop, horses, easels and unlimited coffee in our break-room. We encourage you to take a look at our convenient schedule of classes that include 4, 6, 8 and 10-weeks classes. In addition, we are also excited to bring you top visiting artists for the summer and fall.
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VanArts presents a masterclass in Story Development & Animation, taught by artists from Pixar Animation Studios.
VanArts presents a masterclass in Story Development, Character Design & Animation, taught by artists from Pixar Animation Studios.
