Title: The Line Kings: Designers of Animation
Sponsored by The Character Design Blog
Length 45 min
Join us in this rare opportunity when these top designers in the field of animation come together for a round table discussion.
Gregg Couch (TBA) Designer from Blue Sky Studios.
Jason Deamer
Jason Deamer began his career at Pixar Animation Studios in 1998 as a [...]
Title: Bringing Characters to Life in Disney Theme Parks
Sponsored by Walt Disney Imagineering
Length 45 min
A panel discussion and overview of what it means to translate Disney characters from film and television to theme parks and attractions. Panelists from Walt Disney Imagineering will cover the past, present and future of Disney characters in theme parks, providing [...]
Ryan Hungerford was made and raised in the Midwest. Growing up, he drew in school and got detention.. Then he got detention for drawing in detention. After High School and all the detention, he still wanted to draw. So he made his way to the left coast and went to school at the Academy of [...]
Beth Sleven has worked at a number of studios as both a tradtional 2D and CG animator. She has animated on such films as “Looney Tunes: Back in Action”, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”, and “Curious George”, as well as a number of other films. Her more recent work [...]
We’re a team of female pinup artists called GirlsDrawinGirls. Since 2006, we’ve made it our mission to make our own name in a male-dominated industry, re-defining what is sexy from a uniquely feminine perspective. There are 30 artists altogether in the group. Our two volumes of pinup art – “A Girl in Time” and “Once [...]
MARK McDONNELL is a well-rounded versatile Visual Development Artist working in the Animation and Entertainment industry. Starting his career as a toy designer for Applause, he has held a wide variety of crafts within the commercial art world before setting his sights on the Animation and Entertainment Industry. From Toy Designer, Art Director, Theme Park [...]
BEN BALISTRERI is an Emmy Award winning designer for his work on “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends”. He’s been nominated for 6 Annie awards for his character designs and storyboards on shows like “Foster’s”, “Danny Phantom”, and “Crash Nebula”. He’s currently working at DreamWorks as a storyboard artist.
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DAVID COLMAN is a character designer and development artist in the animation industry. He has worked for such studios as Sony Pictures Animation (Open Season, Surfs Up), Sony Imageworks (Polar Express), Sony TV Animation(Boondocks), Cartoon Network (Class of 3000), Disney Feature Animation (King of the Elves, various undisclosed projects), and is currently doing character design [...]
Silver names three treasures to success in life that give him what it takes to keep on drawing: determination, passion and desire.
Stephen Silver was born in London in 1972. Aspiring to be a professional artist his whole life and knowing drawing would be his vocation, Silver got his professional start in 1992 drawing caricatures in [...]
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