Speakers

Carter Goodrich Illustrator Character Designer

Acclaimed artist and Annie Award winner Carter Goodrich has illustrated sixteen New Yorker covers and has worked as a character designer on many beloved animated films, including Ratatouille; Monsters, Inc.; Finding Nemo; and the latest being Dispicable Me as well as many animation feature films from Pixar, DreamWorks Animaton and Walt Disney Studios. He is [...]

Aug 13, 2010 - Comments 0

Artist Exhibitor, Artists

Sean Galloway Character Designer

Sean Galloway is a self taught artist that is based in Los Angeles. His works include lead character designer on Spectacular Spider-man Animated, lead character designer on Hellboy animated, cover artist for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He recently has worked as a storyboarder for Marvel Comics’ new Avengers series, Hasbro’s new G.I.Joe [...]

Aug 9, 2010 - Comments 1

Speakers

Chen Yi-Chang Character Designer

Chen-Yi Chang is probably best known for his character design work for Walt Disney’s feature animated film “The Legend of Mulan”.
He has been in the animation industry since the age of 15 when he began working in his native country Taiwan for various productions for US companies. After graduation from CalArts, he joined [...]

Aug 2, 2010 - Comments 0

Artist Exhibitor

Marceline Tanguay and Zaruhi Galstian

Marceline Tanguay grew up on the French island of Montreal before getting her training in Toronto. Beginning her professional career she worked as a character design intern on Toy Story 3 at Pixar Animation Studios. She later moved to New York City to join the art department at Blue Sky Studios on their upcoming films, [...]

Aug 1, 2010 - Comments 0

Artist Exhibitor

Patrick Awa Concept Artist

Born in Santa Monica, California, Patrick grew up in Tokyo and began his career working for a Japanese CGI production studio where he rose through the ranks to direct various commercials and short films. He moved to California in 2001 and has worked as a character/concept designer for major movies such as “Valiant “(Walt Disney [...]

Jul 15, 2010 - Comments 0

Artist Exhibitor, Artists

Nicolas Villarreal Independent Designer

Nicolás P.Villarreal was born and raised in La Plata, Argentina. He studied at the Escuela of Animacion y Cinematografía de Avellaneda where he earned a degree in 2d Animation. While studying animation he was taken under the wing of Miguel Alzugaray, a well-known fine artist from Argentina. He continued studying animation and fine art painting [...]

Jun 3, 2010 - Comments 0

Artist Exhibitor, Artists

John Loter Character Designer Disney

John Loter and Shelley Loter are both former Creative Directors from Disney Consumer Products. They work together as Loter, Inc., an independent creative studio with experience in product design & development, book design & illustration, animation, character design, video game development, comics, graphic design, packaging design, and retail/branding development.
Loter, Inc. has contributed to the legacy [...]

May 16, 2010 - Comments 2

Artist Exhibitor, Artists

Stephen Silver Character Designer

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 [...]

May 16, 2010 - Comments 0

Artist Exhibitor, Artists

Mark McDonnell Independent Designer

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 [...]

May 15, 2010 - Comments 0

Artist Exhibitor, Artists

Beth Sleven Character Designer

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 [...]

May 14, 2010 - Comments 0

Artist Exhibitor, Artists

Rik Maki Character Designer

Rik Maki has been creating character designs for every feature animated film from Lion King to most recently Princess and the Frog. He ahs created designs for BlueSky Studios, Laika, Sony and is the owner of Grumpy Pants Productions happily serving the animation community for 32 years.
More work by Rik Maki can be seen at [...]

May 14, 2010 - Comments 1

Artist Exhibitor, Artists

David Colman Character Designer

David Colman is an illustrator who has been working as an Emmy winning character designer ,development artist and story artist in the animation industry for over 8 years. He has worked for many clients such as Disney Feature Animation, Disney TV, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Imageworks, Blue Sky Studios, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, 20th Century Fox, [...]

May 14, 2010 - Comments 1

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Enriching Your Art Life by Embracing the Internet: Chris Oatley

Chris Oatley has worked as a visual development artist and a content creator in the entertainment industries for six years. Chris has worked in visual development on films at Disney and The Weinstein Company. He has developed music videos for Geffen Records and he directed one for EMI. He has also worked in development on [...]

Nov 15, 2009 - Comments 1

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Michael Daly

“Michael Daley is an animation artist living in sunny California. He has worked on many television, game, print and design projects in the role of illustrator, animator, designer and art director. See some samples of artwork at http://biocreep.blogspot.com“
“Pascal Campion is a French artist living in the Bay area.
He’s worked for the past nine years in [...]

Nov 9, 2009 - Comments 1

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The Line Kings

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 [...]

Nov 8, 2009 - Comments 3

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Bringing Characters to Life in Disney Theme Parks

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 [...]

Oct 17, 2009 - Comments 0

Artist Exhibitor, Artists

Ryan Hungerford Character Designer

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 [...]

Oct 17, 2009 - Comments 0

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Ben Balistreri Dreamworks Character Designer

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.
I’ll be selling my full color 64 page [...]

May 10, 2009 - Comments 0