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Action, Anatomy and Animation with Dr. Stuart Sumida – Anatomy of a Fight 2.0
Talking about the finer points of anatomy and fight choreography necessary to animate a realistic fight sequence in a recent webinar hosted by Animation Mentor. Animation Mentor is excited to announce that Dr. Sumida will be demonstrating these principles in person with Sensei Bill Ryusaki and friends. Check out this event and learn how you [...]
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Andreas Deja Supervising Animator
Andreas Deja was born 1957 in Gdańsk, Poland. Deja moved with his family to Dinslaken, Germany in 1958. After graduating from Theodor-Heuss Gymnasium (secondary school), he studied graphic design at the Folkwang-Schule in Essen, Germany. A lifelong fan of Disney animated films, Deja was hired by the studio in 1980 after he had corresponded with [...]
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Animating from the Heart – Logic vs Inspiration Animator and Filmmaker Ryan Woodward
Join Ryan in this passionate and inspiration session where he discusses his creative process. Animating from the heart and Logic vs Inspiration.
Ryan Woodward began his career as an animator/designer and storyboard artist in 1995. He has worked for Warner Brothers Feature Animation, Sony Pictures, Cartoon Network, Walt Disney Studios and Marvel Entertainment and Dreamworks Pictures [...]
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Animation Designers Who Illustrate and Vice Versa
Title: Animation Designers Who Illustrate and Vice Versa
CTNX 2011
Length: 75 min
Are you an illustrator and has been wondering if you should take your skill set into the world of animation design. Or maybe you are an animator or animation artist and have been wondering if you should take your skill set into the world of [...]
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Building your career from Getting In to Getting It All
Steve Hickner presents a holistic look at your working life. The reality is that you are not looking for a job—you are looking for a career and know the difference. A job might last two to three years where as a career is “a life” in the animation business. Steve presents an engaging opportunity to build [...]
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Carol Police Art Director
Carol Kieffer Police attended the Art Center College of Design majoring in Illustration with a passion for traditional painting and figure drawing, and an emphasis on fashion and editorial illustration. She graduated from Art Center at the top of her class with distinction. Carol began work on the animated feature Lord of the Rings. She [...]
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CreatureBox
At its core, CreatureBox is for anyone who enjoys bizarre monster design, comics of spacemen, and illustrations of everything in between. For the past several years, Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin have spent most of their time digging deep into what makes characters tick while trying to tell a few stories along the way. They’ve [...]
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Cultivating Your Artistic Personality with Louie del Carmen
BE THE ARTIST
Cultivating your Artistic Identity by Louie del Carmen
A philosophical and practical, guide, BE THE ARTIST puts forth the notion that by making a commitment to putting art first and focusing on what is inherent in each of us, we become artistically independent, and someone truly unique in a world of artists.
Within this process [...]
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Deja “View”: A Look at The Inspiration
Description: View: A Noun = An instance of seeing or beholding; a visual inspection.
It takes time to become an animator. Time to look, study, explore, look again, and be curious, research, be playful and passionate and then after you fail time and again you must have that drive that comes from deep down inside for [...]
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Dream Jobs You Didn’t Know Existed
Making the Most of Your Skill Set as a Professional Animator
With 40,000 new graduates coming out of art schools and media arts departments across the nation each year combined with thousands of jobs going to studios over seas, its a perfect time to find out the career options available to you to apply your skills.
William [...]
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Florian Satzinger
Florian Satzinger was a student of the well-regarded Disney, MGM and Hanna-Barbera animator and animation director Ken Southworth (“Alice In Wonderland”, “Woody Woodpecker”, “Tom & Jerry”, “The Flintstones”, “Peanuts”, “The Smurfs”) who influenced him greatly. Presently, he is developing StarDucks© and Toby Skybuckle© with France and Japan based Ankama Media Group. Besides his design and [...]
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Gary Goldman Animator, Director and Producer
Gary Goldman’s first animation job interview was in February at Walt Disney Productions. He had been raised in Watsonville, CA and earned his Fine Arts degree in Life Drawing with a minor in Art History from the University of Hawaii the December before, in 1971. Three days after the interview, he was hired into their [...]
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I Agreed to What?
Ellen Ann Mersereau Entertainment Attorney
After attempting to read his contract without help, one of Ms. Mersereau’s clients likened the experience to water running over a rock ——- nothing stuck. Another compared his experience to trying to hold onto a handful of cooked spaghetti.
Ellen Ann Mersereau has specialized in entertainment law for 18 years, with a focus on [...]
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I Don’t Want to See a Degree, I Want to See What You Can Do!
Description: A great deal has changed in both the entertainment industry and in it’s education over the past decade or so and the assumption is widespread that if you get a degree you will get a job. However, this is far from the truth for anyone wishing to enter the higher aspects of the film, [...]
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Inside the Imagination of Carlos Grangel
Carlos Grangel is a Spanish-born character designer for animated films. Carlos started as a character designer at Amblimation-Universal Pictures in London, and worked on “We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story” and “Balto”.In 1995 he started designing characters for DreamWorks movies “The Prince of Egypt”, “The Road to El Dorado”, “Spirit”, “Sinbad”, “Shark Tale”, [...]
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Inside the World of Ralph McQuarrie
In a rare presentation exclusively moderated by John Scoleri, co-author/publisher of “The Art of Ralph McQuarrie” and personal friend to Ralph, join us and experience that magical time and get inspired all over again through the presentation and conversations of those artists that not only were inspired by but who also [...]
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James Gurney
James Gurney is the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Dinotopia book series. He designed the World of Dinosaurs stamps for the U.S. Postal Service and has worked on over a dozen assignments for National Geographic magazine, painting reconstructions of Moche, Kushite, and Etruscan civilizations. He has won the Hugo, Chesley, Spectrum, [...]
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Jerry Beck Animation Historian
Jerry Beck is an animation historian and cartoon producer. His twelve books on the subject include The Animated Movie Guide, Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide and The 50 Greatest Cartoons. He is a former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney, and is currently a consulting producer to Warner Bros., Universal and Disney for their [...]
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Kent Melton Master Sculptor
Kent Melton has spent the past 25 years working in animation. He was the first staff sculptor employed by Hanna Barbera. He then worked as an art director at Universal Studios before embarking on a full-time career as a sculptor for feature films. Melton has sculpted countless maquettes for Disney, Warner Bros., Don Bluth, Dreamworks, [...]
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Marcelo Vignali Production Designer Sony
MARCELO VIGNALI is a Production Designer and Visual Development artist for Sony Pictures Animation in Culver City, California.
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Argentine immigrant parents. In 1976 his family moved to Southern California, where his father started an auto repair shop. Marcelo graduated from West Covina high school in 1983, and that same [...]
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Master Workshop with Don Bluth (Title TBA)
DON BLUTH, trained by the nine old men is one of the original pioneers of independent animation filmmaking. As an animator, producer and director he was invited by 20th Century Fox to move to Phoenix, Arizona to co-helm the creation of Fox Animation Studio in 1994, following an already illustrious career in the animation industry [...]
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Nate Wragg – Feature Animation Character Designer / Art Director
Nate Wragg, a CalArts Character Animation Grad, has worked as an Illustrator, Art Director and Character Designer for both Pixar and Dreamworks Animation studios on various projects-including Ratatouille, Toy Story 3 and Puss and Boots. In addition to working in Feature Animation, Nate’s illustrations can be seen in on the pages of several children’s books including Too [...]
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One on One Spotlight Interview Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton is an American animator, former cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog. Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon, to Don and Wilda Plympton. From 1964 to 1968, he attended [...]
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Oscar Grillo
Animator, Illustrator, Creator and Director, Oscar Grillo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1943. Having attended Art School at the age of 16, Oscar’s passionate journey began when working in animation where his career quickly broadened into publishing cartoons in satirical magazines, illustrating books and painting. Oscar Grillo has filled every moment of his [...]
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Régis Loisel
Help CTN welcome, in a US Exclusive Appearance, French Graphic Novel Artist Règis Loisel. In 1972, when Régis Loisel was 20, he made his comics debut in the magazine, Pieds Nickéles. At that time he was still in college at the University of Vincennes, where he was taking courses in creating comics. These courses were [...]
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Self Publishing – DIAY (Doing It “All” Yourself)
Description: Today the roles of author and publisher have combined and are very much apart of the DIY (Do It Yourself) movement that include online animation media channels, blogs and self-publishing outlets. Hear about the journey and the world of the creator/self publisher who has chosen this DIY route and who proudly wears the multiple [...]
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Terryl Whitlatch Creator Illustrator
Terryl Whitlatch was born in Oakland, California, and started drawing at less than three years of age. Blessed with a mother who was, and still is, a talented artist-illustrator, and a father who taught biology, her fascination with animals started early. Countless weekends were spent visiting zoos, aquariums, and museums, and her father [...]
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The Business Side of Your Entertainment Business
The Business Side of Your Entertainment Business
The 10 Things You Should Do With The Business Side of Your Creative Business: Come listen, learn and ask questions about what you can and should do to maximize your business success all while ensuring you are following the local, state and national laws as you start, build and [...]
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The Media is the Message!
The Media’s the Message! This is an opportunity to invite a conversation between artists who are on the leading edge and are some of the first explorers of the Transmedia domain. A new approach to story telling and a freeing up of independent creators to connect with audiences through new forms of presentation. In this [...]
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The Upside of Uploads – YouTube Animation Success
Description: Aaron Simpson, VP of Animation Development at Mondo Media, will host a discussion with online animation maestros Arin ‘Egoraptor’ Hanson, Dick Figures’ Ed Skudder and Zack Keller and Rob DenBleyker and Dave McElfatrick from Cyanide & Happiness. Collectively, their online animations have been viewed over 200 million times, and we’ll add 3 or 4 [...]
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Translating 2D to 3D
Title: Translating 2D to 2D
CTNX 2011
Length: 75 min
Follow the process of turning 2D drawings into 3D sculptures. The process of translating your work or that of a designers into a single 3D volume is critical to the beginning of 3D character development. Spend an hour with 3D Character development artist Michael Defeo as he reveals [...]
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Welcome to the World of Character Designer Carlos Grangel
The Creative Talent Network is proud to announce the exclusive appearance of amazing character designer and independent CAO (Chief Artist Officer) and entrepreneur Carlos Grangel. Carlos started as a character designer at Amblimation-Universal Pictures in London, and worked on “We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story” and “Balto”.In 1995 he started designing characters for DreamWorks movies “The [...]
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WILLIAM STOUT
William Stout was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1949. At seventeen he won a full California State Scholarship to the California Institute of the Arts. He began his professional career in 1968 with the cover for the first issue of Coven 13. In 1971 he began to assist Russ Manning on the Tarzan [...]
