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		<title>Inside the Imagination of Carlos Grangel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;We&#8217;re Back: A Dinosaur&#8217;s Story&#8221; and &#8220;Balto&#8221;.In  1995 he started designing characters for DreamWorks movies &#8220;The Prince  of Egypt&#8221;, &#8220;The Road to El Dorado&#8221;, &#8220;Spirit&#8221;, &#8220;Sinbad&#8221;, &#8220;Shark Tale&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the World of Character Designer Carlos Grangel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;We&#8217;re Back: A Dinosaur&#8217;s Story&#8221; and &#8220;Balto&#8221;.In 1995 he started designing characters for DreamWorks movies &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fleet Street Scandal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FLEET STREET SCANDAL was created in 2006 by Kevin Dart and Chris Turnham. Both artists share a common desire to create high quality printed material and artthat would look great on the wall. Since opening, Fleet Street has shipped prints across the globe, published two hit books, Fleet Street Scandal: A Collection and Seductive Espionage: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicolas Villarreal Independent Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jose Lopez Character designer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jose Lopez has been a character designer for over 10 years working in the Film, TV and Video Game industries. He cultivated his signature style early on, working on such animated series as “Godzilla”, “Men In Black: The Series” and “Jackie Chan Adventures”. More recently, as lead character designer, his work on “Green Lantern: First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Nevarez Character Designer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Nevarez has been an artist within the animation industry for over 13 years, first working at Disney Television as a storyboard revisionist and storyboard artist on such shows as Pepper Ann, Kim Possible and then transitioning over as a designer for DisneyToons, where he worked on Tinkerbell, Kronk&#8217;s New Groove and Brother Bear 2. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two in One Interview: NY Illustrators &#8211; Character Designers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Title: Two in One Interview: NY Illustrators &#8211; Character Designers
Presented by The Creative Talent Network
Length: 45min
Filmed in November 2010
Moderator Jill Culton Originally from Ventura, California, Jill Culton is a graduate from the California Institute of the Arts where she was one of only five women in the character animation class of 1990.  Now, twenty years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick Morgan Ed Acosta Taesoo Kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PATRICK MORGAN is a Detroit, Michigan native who initially moved to Los Angeles
to pursue his music career as a bass player.  His &#8220;other&#8221; passion of
drawing enabled him to make his way into the animation industry to help
him pay the bills.  He began his career as an illustrator working for
Disney, Warner Bros, along with other various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ctrl-Zs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ctrl-Zs are a collective of friends and artists who work in the Flash Animation industry. Collectively, they have worked on animated shows for Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, HBO, MTV, and more.
Organized by Daisy Church of Girls Drawin Girls, The Ctrl-Zs are a group of like-minded artists that help promote each other and market their talents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carter Goodrich Illustrator Character Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Despicable Me as well as many animation feature films from Pixar, DreamWorks Animaton and Walt Disney Studios. He is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sean Galloway Character Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217; new Avengers series, Hasbro&#8217;s new G.I.Joe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ovi Nedelcu Character Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ovi was born in Romania, in 1979. He was one year old when his dad escaped communism and ran for the border. After reaching America, he flew his family and Ovi to New York, then to Chicago, then to Arizona,
then to LA, then finally to Sacramento.
Ovi llater attended school at the academy of art in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Character Designers Creating Identities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Title: Character Designers: Creating Identities
Length 45 min
Filmed on November 2010
Sponsored by the Creative Talent Network
Description: Join feature film creators Chen Yi-Chang,  Joe Moshier and Jean Gillmore together in this rare appearance outside the large studio walls while they share their passion for &#8220;creating identities&#8221;.  There are reasons why Feature Film character design is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marceline Tanguay and Zaruhi  Galstian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick Awa Concept Artist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Valiant &#8220;(Walt Disney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Loter Character Designer Disney</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 21:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; development, book design &#38; illustration, animation, character design, video game development, comics, graphic design, packaging design, and retail/branding development.
Loter, Inc. has contributed to the legacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Silver Character Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 05:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark McDonnell Independent Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 05:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beth Sleven Character Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth Sleven has worked at a number of studios as both a tradtional 2D and CG animator. She has animated on such films as &#8220;Looney Tunes: Back in Action&#8221;, &#8220;The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe&#8221;, and &#8220;Curious George&#8221;, as well as a number of other films. Her more recent work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rik Maki Character Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Colman Character Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Colman is an illustrator who has been working as an Emmy winning character designer, development artist, story artist and art director in the animation industry for over 10 years. He has worked for many clients such as Disney Feature Animation, Disney TV, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Imageworks, Blue Sky Studios, Jim Henson, Hasbro, Cartoon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enriching Your Art Life by Embracing the Internet: Chris Oatley</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Daly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;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&#8221;
&#8220;Pascal Campion is a French artist living in the Bay area.
He&#8217;s worked for the past nine years in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Line Kings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Characters to Life in Disney Theme Parks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ryan Hungerford Character Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Balistreri Dreamworks Character Designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 06:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEN BALISTRERI  is an Emmy Award winning designer for his work on &#8220;Foster&#8217;s Home for Imaginary Friends&#8221;.  He&#8217;s been nominated for 6 Annie awards for his character designs and storyboards on shows like &#8220;Foster&#8217;s&#8221;, &#8220;Danny Phantom&#8221;, and &#8220;Crash Nebula&#8221;.  He&#8217;s currently working at DreamWorks as a storyboard artist.
I&#8217;ll be selling my full color 64 page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CTNX Networking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NETWORKING is something that happens 24/7 at CTNX. More coming soon&#8230;..
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