tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183161942024-03-12T21:28:29.077-07:00PORTFOLIO REVIEWTHIS IS WHERE YOU WILL SEE UP AND COMING ARTISTSRandall Slyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068154101273022471noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-82813389120616321792010-02-22T17:32:00.000-08:002010-02-22T17:32:49.988-08:00Joe Massey 1975 - 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ualDpHv9KaTvK9uh3PVrDPgb51voNsv96EVn5CMgurWUr5cpPHS0s_89LDNcZt3-Eg40j2vD1YbspPZdRJ-fJD4CqcnSJm3nd1bwSF7oc785rsEyM8jc8p7szsAUhARk6l2S3Q/s1600-h/22645_308833574614_635479614_3576905_7856099_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ualDpHv9KaTvK9uh3PVrDPgb51voNsv96EVn5CMgurWUr5cpPHS0s_89LDNcZt3-Eg40j2vD1YbspPZdRJ-fJD4CqcnSJm3nd1bwSF7oc785rsEyM8jc8p7szsAUhARk6l2S3Q/s320/22645_308833574614_635479614_3576905_7856099_n.jpg" /></a></div><br />
My wonderful kind friend Joe Massey died on Feb 17, 2010. Joe and I worked together and became good friends. He enjoyed doing the Portfolio Review with me, and was excited to see and read all of the emails that we had received from all over the world. Joe delighted in caring for and helping others. He is survived by his parents Dallis Newell and Mele Massey, sister Malisa Massey, wife Kelly Ann, and children Benjamin (11), Savanah (9), Jacob (7), and Sydney (5). Joe will be sorely missed.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47Ct64tSHLjoAf607m9tKp7Tz3e6qlODfcA44VB7iRXYHHJmIIt7UnGrklmUaiZrmFLRO66ZZkXZfieo2aBDlrONKi7TpM6t1PsOt5aP_5wDMhtwBbncQ-TEaL8ul3U8es-hURQ/s1600-h/Joseph+Massey+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47Ct64tSHLjoAf607m9tKp7Tz3e6qlODfcA44VB7iRXYHHJmIIt7UnGrklmUaiZrmFLRO66ZZkXZfieo2aBDlrONKi7TpM6t1PsOt5aP_5wDMhtwBbncQ-TEaL8ul3U8es-hURQ/s320/Joseph+Massey+.jpg" /></a></div>Randall Slyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068154101273022471noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-54007380797918224242009-11-29T11:24:00.000-08:002009-11-29T11:28:14.791-08:00Diego Molano<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><p>inkastudios@yahoo.com<br /></p><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><p>media:pencil, ink, photoshop<br /></p><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><p>Pixar<br /></p><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><p>Chris Sanders, Shane glines, Bruce timm<br /></p><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><p></p><p>Stitch, harley quinn, Bloo</p><p><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /></p>religion. Because of all the colors and opulence<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><p>the teenage mutant ninja turtles were my brothers growing up (only child)<br /></p><p><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /></p>http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/<br /> http://drawn.ca/<br /> http://cartoonbrew.com/<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEispV0Yd5bPZn6fc40vxvrrEyXBgPl5kSXfro3pngNEsP2VjVlfVHBJvKxjeTXLNG4GIjWkDJCPSzcmoDafAtKGHojy313My4upoB76gy-8TajxiTn-STKUyny1sqWA7vAzVurA/s1600/valentinos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEispV0Yd5bPZn6fc40vxvrrEyXBgPl5kSXfro3pngNEsP2VjVlfVHBJvKxjeTXLNG4GIjWkDJCPSzcmoDafAtKGHojy313My4upoB76gy-8TajxiTn-STKUyny1sqWA7vAzVurA/s320/valentinos.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409609514046240706" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWhAaFZWwBrWKCSpP_v_AcnLVD_EMTy5HyrZPaHwxFWWPTqlwYxY-jnR7W_zvcoJ5DQq_tTy2_s-QfkXr2eSDrUrhxMqoDwjQ9BCbi_rNDljQl6Z4AtVk50__SKLsjhLG5rLmO/s1600/culebraquotl2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 192px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWhAaFZWwBrWKCSpP_v_AcnLVD_EMTy5HyrZPaHwxFWWPTqlwYxY-jnR7W_zvcoJ5DQq_tTy2_s-QfkXr2eSDrUrhxMqoDwjQ9BCbi_rNDljQl6Z4AtVk50__SKLsjhLG5rLmO/s320/culebraquotl2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409609512685868306" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfE2Cfrin_87THbN6RaBfqum8OBsY0MGRX5jMrUz-X7Sxs_wgN4hTBpLs7lRDcXUtWCFVez7RXFnL-nNwLtpq6tx3N7WZjeSORNr-_Sy3wP8ZGyNpyjj__8RzOoDJbUb5A3Ed/s1600/characters+so+far.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfE2Cfrin_87THbN6RaBfqum8OBsY0MGRX5jMrUz-X7Sxs_wgN4hTBpLs7lRDcXUtWCFVez7RXFnL-nNwLtpq6tx3N7WZjeSORNr-_Sy3wP8ZGyNpyjj__8RzOoDJbUb5A3Ed/s320/characters+so+far.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409609508436850018" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdunFCRGl90mNcLM2a59mvjXHSYBScc1je9TyJYB7Q2QymrzSkLGUC5_2_uKUJM93rmIr1Xtf60Zka5j1BFqEbeJs6XD7NAgI1wWiNJ3KitxzYDuXNjbuagtQT8UJ-srCs_Oed/s1600/1+Ninos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdunFCRGl90mNcLM2a59mvjXHSYBScc1je9TyJYB7Q2QymrzSkLGUC5_2_uKUJM93rmIr1Xtf60Zka5j1BFqEbeJs6XD7NAgI1wWiNJ3KitxzYDuXNjbuagtQT8UJ-srCs_Oed/s320/1+Ninos.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409609503531005970" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-85243499633245316822009-11-29T11:20:00.000-08:002009-11-29T11:24:10.042-08:00Israel Covarrubias<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><p>intuiart@hotmail.com</p><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><p>Normally 3d max for my characters <br />Of course mechanical pencil and rubber</p><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><p>Spain or Vancouver<br />there is a high level of animation<br /></p><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><p>There are many excellent characters designers<br /></p><p><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong></p>Carlos Baena o Patrick Beaulieu are great<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><p></p><p>Monster o Cartoons</p><p><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /></p>in Pixar Animation Studios, Dreamworks, Blue Sky<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />http://animationtipsandtricks.com/<br />http://3dyanimacion.com/index.cfm<br />http://intuiart.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7FQNUYfRkzH-tML_vmSGxE1iAj0EG3KO4FqjCmICNwhH5t2t7SNy0B63aZAZh5v4JLR_QqjkF8RiEZXGWRi4YQa_XdUl48rQAjOCcRgjchH8lc8QIPTOAZww1yd_DIcWtLGS/s1600/Xtar.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7FQNUYfRkzH-tML_vmSGxE1iAj0EG3KO4FqjCmICNwhH5t2t7SNy0B63aZAZh5v4JLR_QqjkF8RiEZXGWRi4YQa_XdUl48rQAjOCcRgjchH8lc8QIPTOAZww1yd_DIcWtLGS/s320/Xtar.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409608295188839490" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFRrrtDD19rl4tUqLaq3wwC61SaBDAmYPX6bst-HVyxhkomRSEBw3uaBGvMHtMmI8ab78MEhL7ywCtmoyIZskVTtxswfGnf648I7kyBl2gEvXyV4ioAeodE8tf45UmvK3lu410/s1600/moso2-1024.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFRrrtDD19rl4tUqLaq3wwC61SaBDAmYPX6bst-HVyxhkomRSEBw3uaBGvMHtMmI8ab78MEhL7ywCtmoyIZskVTtxswfGnf648I7kyBl2gEvXyV4ioAeodE8tf45UmvK3lu410/s320/moso2-1024.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409608291669033666" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjj5T6e_N9E07Fok_YY1zN1n-ESRPCvmFAoySP5MzB6VSJydElntUKaWapTTx14k3ddZMfeIGqStRCVfQzrEPfbQIXya5-KU3Ugf6GqwoV4HqoYde1nF9EgKCyA3cU1OaNa26I/s1600/lopi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjj5T6e_N9E07Fok_YY1zN1n-ESRPCvmFAoySP5MzB6VSJydElntUKaWapTTx14k3ddZMfeIGqStRCVfQzrEPfbQIXya5-KU3Ugf6GqwoV4HqoYde1nF9EgKCyA3cU1OaNa26I/s320/lopi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409608288314859106" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS_wLm92fL2c-COcj3fo7dXWMnGqMMNNiBJ2IuHER1MyTmeZvX-qvj2Lxr5A4Ej23EVnpcWf81FDB8RkR9UfSA3ihRwxdkfMmKlVLJJ7BlvG6JfKbkiK_5WCqcX6o9cg0tGGBV/s1600/cobar.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS_wLm92fL2c-COcj3fo7dXWMnGqMMNNiBJ2IuHER1MyTmeZvX-qvj2Lxr5A4Ej23EVnpcWf81FDB8RkR9UfSA3ihRwxdkfMmKlVLJJ7BlvG6JfKbkiK_5WCqcX6o9cg0tGGBV/s320/cobar.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409608284518033586" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-45008273847978583332009-11-29T11:11:00.000-08:002009-11-29T11:19:11.851-08:00Lance Archer<p><strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong></p><p>lancejasonarcher@gmail.com</p><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><p>I use various mediums ranging from pencil to paint to polymer clay.</p><p><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong></p><p>Being that I enjoy movies, the kind designed for kids both young and old,I would love if I could to intern at Dreamworks, Aardman studios or Pixar.</p><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><p>Brian Froud's character designs for Jim Henson's movie The Dark Crystal are amazing. The way he captured the melancholy spirit of the old Mystics and the decaying desperation of the evil Skeksis was awesome. Offset against the childlike innocence of the Gelflings Brian managed to create a truly unique world which puts him for me at the top of the pack.<p><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /></p><p>n/a<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /></p><p>My favourite subject to draw is the human figure as there is an infinite supply <br />of different sizes, shapes and spirits to be found and captured.<br />Then with having tried to translate them onto the page I am always left feeling<br />that I have learned truly invaluable lessons which utilize and focus my talent<br />and perspective, also figure studies constantly remind me of how much I still<br />have to learn.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /></p><p>At first I thought my response to seeing a beautiful work of art was akin to<br />a birth defect; the sense of amazement and awe seeing them inspired was<br />gobsmacking, the fascination I felt as I studied the detail and the technique.<br />I immediately knew that this profession was the only one worth pursuing.<br />The pleasure of the process, from conceptualization to the final result is<br />totally encompassing. Unlike a lot of other careers where once a formula is<br />learned it can be applied over and over ad nauseam, with each new project I<br />undertake I continually have to return to the basics and reinvent myself.<br />This is what inspired me to become an artist and continues to inspire me daily.<br />Besides that I just like getting dirty.<br /></p><p><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /></p><p>n/a</p><p><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Ts7NhwmAFHx57P1yDLQx-ZD9Anebe2BdqDuQA2S_kq0vkzSwRmAe3UAItoFGWHWbPIGc_Os1RqnHE7rVFgU47ZF1DLnm8yi7NUs0NdqZs9HFABr7isTJsC2O3ud2BfDUI-Yc/s1600/Character+Design006.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Ts7NhwmAFHx57P1yDLQx-ZD9Anebe2BdqDuQA2S_kq0vkzSwRmAe3UAItoFGWHWbPIGc_Os1RqnHE7rVFgU47ZF1DLnm8yi7NUs0NdqZs9HFABr7isTJsC2O3ud2BfDUI-Yc/s320/Character+Design006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409607068708383874" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDaUELgIb76UniT2OVXuw9RPvmWJwKkJjFkDk7aLNCG5pzjM9hI34Rx8Uh4_nOEdqYKdCHU_yfKFGL1s82FYl2vSY4B5HB7gzW1Pi0U9OzY1P68_UrZ8karSyvspFHrCgxRhVI/s1600/Character+Design003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDaUELgIb76UniT2OVXuw9RPvmWJwKkJjFkDk7aLNCG5pzjM9hI34Rx8Uh4_nOEdqYKdCHU_yfKFGL1s82FYl2vSY4B5HB7gzW1Pi0U9OzY1P68_UrZ8karSyvspFHrCgxRhVI/s320/Character+Design003.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409607067505029106" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjagPIRWI6VmaohEMFZMeU0dhAVZRafsmGZKIxnJosEsVsOOA8lnUW_W_F0kzhmHJD0p5ATpxBQDnRKQtxXOYkFFDtJnrkHZJ6_CLfMeLHKmWB-09hq42nVTpy7-Gk4yrV_6ZGE/s1600/Character+Design001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjagPIRWI6VmaohEMFZMeU0dhAVZRafsmGZKIxnJosEsVsOOA8lnUW_W_F0kzhmHJD0p5ATpxBQDnRKQtxXOYkFFDtJnrkHZJ6_CLfMeLHKmWB-09hq42nVTpy7-Gk4yrV_6ZGE/s320/Character+Design001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409607061690317346" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggghiF-AkdN-D64hlXQ70yiqYNRuRBvTzt6tN8rA5vY645v35UySdIS9fzA2AbvUmaBGPKUv-y2MRe8p-cr13wbDlZaciIF4lD0oJiqs2FA4HGbJDAwRziSV02fJO-BRMJDPDg/s1600/Character+Design.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggghiF-AkdN-D64hlXQ70yiqYNRuRBvTzt6tN8rA5vY645v35UySdIS9fzA2AbvUmaBGPKUv-y2MRe8p-cr13wbDlZaciIF4lD0oJiqs2FA4HGbJDAwRziSV02fJO-BRMJDPDg/s320/Character+Design.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409607058652897442" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a></p>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-69486027356308160832009-11-29T11:05:00.000-08:002009-11-29T11:09:35.668-08:00Marko Antonio Luna Soto<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><p>markoluna@gmail.com</p><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><p>I use a wacom tablet, Photoshop and Painter for all my concepts, sometimes I draw on paper and afterwards I scan it and use it as a foundation.<br /></p><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><p>I would like to work at Pixar or Ubisoft like a Concept Artist, thats one of my biggest dreams!</p><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><p>There are many but some of my favorites are Marko Djurjevik, Andrew Jones and Daryl Mandrik<br /></p><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><p>Actually one of my favorite character designs is Hell boy from Mike Mignola<br /></p><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />MONSTERS, because I love TO draw grotesque forms AND ANATOMY to create strange situations on the character<br /><br /><p><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong></p><p>Video games, inspired me a lot, when I was a child I was always curious to see how they did it.</p><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />http://sixmorevodka.blogspot.com/<br />http://alessandrobarbucci.blogspot.com/<br />http://mandrykart.wordpress.com/<br />http://androidjones.com/<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik9Sjn-ENt4QZ81c8ClvYRS2E9_978WLc5PGwXpdsyQXc9m0eyD7pttfLBDLMcMMjTE2qCGSFHHPsdDfKvkkMimuEGO-JPsyEahrcxvy34Mva_3jznrj3ov_DAXnfhuG1NXNoN/s1600/fuckme32.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik9Sjn-ENt4QZ81c8ClvYRS2E9_978WLc5PGwXpdsyQXc9m0eyD7pttfLBDLMcMMjTE2qCGSFHHPsdDfKvkkMimuEGO-JPsyEahrcxvy34Mva_3jznrj3ov_DAXnfhuG1NXNoN/s320/fuckme32.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409604651312963714" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVpToSP8hmYKaRqrHd_P_9_Ev_N9V6h5VuB-ACbUHnl68nLp9IedZEBqcakP4D9y07uy4caBECZRUbz0ci3QYs_TUF92LB_v-WONHf-sFU-8OYmJsrTWIoU9ztoX_kEscZEWh8/s1600/fuckme8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVpToSP8hmYKaRqrHd_P_9_Ev_N9V6h5VuB-ACbUHnl68nLp9IedZEBqcakP4D9y07uy4caBECZRUbz0ci3QYs_TUF92LB_v-WONHf-sFU-8OYmJsrTWIoU9ztoX_kEscZEWh8/s320/fuckme8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409604647482615890" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKYeBYFpBjGrMss5CM8VwEIGR5R2Es6syyiZLOiTQ_DjhQ_X470VtuhxKizY7_2RWpAOCBITydoOq8Ob5LLcNd1CqunWkAqjZuly3KsElRSarMEfgkxm-kuOXBzy6Ac83ypnnN/s1600/fuckme4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKYeBYFpBjGrMss5CM8VwEIGR5R2Es6syyiZLOiTQ_DjhQ_X470VtuhxKizY7_2RWpAOCBITydoOq8Ob5LLcNd1CqunWkAqjZuly3KsElRSarMEfgkxm-kuOXBzy6Ac83ypnnN/s320/fuckme4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409604639197329330" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjsHGkXCJqXpKWKoy-kSQ03sj3j8HgIsX9eaPHWXolVd13cZN6xWo9-ZOp6OM73JRn9lzQ9QAYzUyfJubf32fqmtcqRLrpqK6B6EKNjV-X6to_z-m7NM9I5wgpM-qYBEsTBxw/s1600/fuckme2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjsHGkXCJqXpKWKoy-kSQ03sj3j8HgIsX9eaPHWXolVd13cZN6xWo9-ZOp6OM73JRn9lzQ9QAYzUyfJubf32fqmtcqRLrpqK6B6EKNjV-X6to_z-m7NM9I5wgpM-qYBEsTBxw/s320/fuckme2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409604638177937106" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-46419489646474527482009-05-09T08:41:00.000-07:002009-05-09T08:45:53.727-07:00Daniel Swartz<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br /><div>dan@daniel-swartz.com</div><div>www.daniel-swartz.com</div><div><br /></div><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br /><div>All of my pieces start out as natural media drawings. Depending on the project I use varying degrees of either Prisma-color markers or just good old #2 pencils. I find it best to really hash out my designs by hand where I can really work back and forth (addition & subtraction) and have a kinetic connection with the work. I can get a better flow and rhythm to my characters and spaces when I sketch it out first.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>After I get my finished underdrawing to a point where the design is complete I scan or digitally photograph the drawing and drop it into Adobe Illustrator as a top layer on Multiply. From there I work to follow the initial feel of the sketchs as I build up layers of flat color, gradient and texture.</div><div> </div><div>I also create my own textures either through combinations of filters, collected reference that I modify or my favorite: getting dirty with paint and finding new tools to apply it with and creating textures that I love and give a more 'hand crafted' look to my spaces.</div><div><br /></div></div><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br /><div>Well Pixar is always at the top of everyone's list. Just for the incredible team they have assembled of artists and creatives...it would be invaluable to rub shoulders with and learn from their experience. Other than that, there is a design studio called Invisible Creature. Their work is beautiful and they do a lot of work where stuff is brought into digital, then printed and they work on top of that and back and forth. Great stuff.</div><div><br /></div><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br /><div>I would have a really hard time narrowing it down. I love the work of several animation and advertising studios from the 50s. A couple more contemporary artists I enjoy would be: Alberto Cerriteno, Bob Logan, Mike Casal and Robin Rosenthal.</div><div><br /></div><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br /><div>Although they are a totally unrelated style to mine, I really enjoy the designs from the Final Fantasy video games. Dennis Jones does great work that is very energetic. Mary Blair's concept work for Disney is beautiful. </div><div><br /></div><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br /><div>I think above all I enjoy drawing the human figure more than any other subject. There is a beauty and a rhythm and flow that is both challenging and enlightening. As I continue to improve my life-drawing skills I watch my illustrations and character designs become more complex and unified. I really feel that they both build upon each other to such a great degree. </div><div><br /></div><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br /><div>It started off with the fact that I could draw just slightly better than the other kids in 1st grade. Since then my inspiration and reasons have changed a lot. I used to be very inspired by 'beating' everyone else at drawing and art. However that has changed dramatically. I work very hard not to pit myself against other artists now unless it's to learn from them and find weaknesses in my own work. Now I try to create great work because I believe it's the fulfillment of who I am. I believe we were all created to do something great with our lives and to better the world around us. So now my inspiration is to utilize my God-given talents to their fullest...anything else would be a waste. </div><div><br /></div><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />I visit www.Drawn.ca religiously. You should too. :)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhOIdfpowpDe0lll2CfSg0t_I_SolKmHsMjo_XZ-U_f-3b-A0wMCByiw3uWuPbcWZsykKEebN9b2_SHV6dgh6kToPkAO5jlxZlL7PSVA5gSUHE_9bVNFM0K0A5RhZjInBE1dFV/s1600-h/Swartz-Fairy-Tale.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhOIdfpowpDe0lll2CfSg0t_I_SolKmHsMjo_XZ-U_f-3b-A0wMCByiw3uWuPbcWZsykKEebN9b2_SHV6dgh6kToPkAO5jlxZlL7PSVA5gSUHE_9bVNFM0K0A5RhZjInBE1dFV/s320/Swartz-Fairy-Tale.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333850686721100258" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggcSlu-uzaZ8gBGwVB6kYJJLf0uLTFJRGZOJEODhFF0xRFEHbc8hNklSG1RRUDSVrEvjy9l4GTylxQWdcSn7Lr4RXdzSJP033A8wGrhPYVuSHaSOvadDYGAwfn91uC7Ik6tQUS/s1600-h/Swartz-Creation-Cover2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggcSlu-uzaZ8gBGwVB6kYJJLf0uLTFJRGZOJEODhFF0xRFEHbc8hNklSG1RRUDSVrEvjy9l4GTylxQWdcSn7Lr4RXdzSJP033A8wGrhPYVuSHaSOvadDYGAwfn91uC7Ik6tQUS/s320/Swartz-Creation-Cover2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333850682059821810" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmrrlvjou-jHWWxQIf_XlrTlrRlYWwcsECMle_-y6AOHwYJ9WpdaVihyfRAc11mse-fysPn0D2iqwUSP9OEJjEF03_foa95QifXNny2QFdSVnAkfNO85y74U1MoiWT0oUojplM/s1600-h/Swartz-BigBlue.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 186px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmrrlvjou-jHWWxQIf_XlrTlrRlYWwcsECMle_-y6AOHwYJ9WpdaVihyfRAc11mse-fysPn0D2iqwUSP9OEJjEF03_foa95QifXNny2QFdSVnAkfNO85y74U1MoiWT0oUojplM/s320/Swartz-BigBlue.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333850680033049218" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-75985509564957650552009-05-09T08:37:00.000-07:002009-05-09T08:41:13.529-07:00Margherita Premuroso<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br /><div>mmeghy@mac.com and me webpage is www.margheritapremuroso.com.</div><div><br /></div><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br /><div>I use pencil draw to scketch, and laer I use Photoshop and Painter.</div><div><br /></div><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br /><div>I prefer work by home in my studio</div><div><br /></div><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br /><div>the top characters design are Wndlings Claire , and David Colman</div><div><br /></div><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />My favorite characters are pixar's characters<div><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br /><div>My favorite subjects are people , that I saw on the underground.It 's the best place to find new type of face deformation ...I like people because are more expressive ..</div><div><br /></div><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />I like draw , it give me freedom , It' a great grace....</div><div><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br /><div>wwww.margheritapremuroso.com</div><div>http://alcornstudios.blogspot.com/</div><div>http://jacanimation.blogspot.com/</div><div>http://www.aldogagliardi.blogspot.com/</div><div>www.animationmentor.com</div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxptHTpqxU5y8FvFJFPrpAzbktYYDuD7jccppcEZY27k755oWZg-uiQaen8yJID_rR7rr_1EyLtr6KUQKsvToMfmanAHo2riL-JHJ8y8r8162xRIDRB2xeWFYPVyI4z4-yxP11/s1600-h/69.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxptHTpqxU5y8FvFJFPrpAzbktYYDuD7jccppcEZY27k755oWZg-uiQaen8yJID_rR7rr_1EyLtr6KUQKsvToMfmanAHo2riL-JHJ8y8r8162xRIDRB2xeWFYPVyI4z4-yxP11/s320/69.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333849627707276274" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNt-Ti0AOnk0f1iEXRbaAf8YwQery-6Z92WAC7SL2931hHAXzqKiwONg0fP1AE4z-p4RrurZzuCNOd9usf5yrV1P0f-cfMcpJp1AcKwakMzsu6-ysEceiWQMaj_t5yKWkvjiT/s1600-h/52.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNt-Ti0AOnk0f1iEXRbaAf8YwQery-6Z92WAC7SL2931hHAXzqKiwONg0fP1AE4z-p4RrurZzuCNOd9usf5yrV1P0f-cfMcpJp1AcKwakMzsu6-ysEceiWQMaj_t5yKWkvjiT/s320/52.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333849624103999650" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8maqfTzUmPs68AmrusDVGqdVTlb0BqfsJc8ADDS9FwowSWdQ096-2N75w0md-bOeHKScCjnu8zbR0HvtFslBebf2teHYH9WK_FqrO0QHAvnYZQumZ_WTN-RvcTPQm7Z60AG9I/s1600-h/20.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8maqfTzUmPs68AmrusDVGqdVTlb0BqfsJc8ADDS9FwowSWdQ096-2N75w0md-bOeHKScCjnu8zbR0HvtFslBebf2teHYH9WK_FqrO0QHAvnYZQumZ_WTN-RvcTPQm7Z60AG9I/s320/20.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333849619706619026" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAZNISz9lHxwRhyphenhyphen7ONy-p1m8cysyg7lPvOCsY7Wo0cWMkaxSSdh3GlxZypDU3s04k4prEBRYkmgfaEGMEu6fBNYhBPe_03X3hakTt1OXB-xz1JPx63E4K7wyQD9lU-w3NcO26C/s1600-h/2_characters.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAZNISz9lHxwRhyphenhyphen7ONy-p1m8cysyg7lPvOCsY7Wo0cWMkaxSSdh3GlxZypDU3s04k4prEBRYkmgfaEGMEu6fBNYhBPe_03X3hakTt1OXB-xz1JPx63E4K7wyQD9lU-w3NcO26C/s320/2_characters.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333849618763712754" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a></div>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-28897387784121236152009-05-09T08:32:00.000-07:002009-05-09T08:37:18.963-07:00Jonathan Miller<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br /><div>seppo@videotron.ca or www.millertoons.blogspot.com<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, pencil, pen and ink</div><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br /></div><div><div>I think I would love to intern at Hallmark and/or American Greetings studios. I've been inspired so inspired by so many artists and designers they have working there. Their is such an abundance of styles there, that I would continue on a daily basis to not only learn from some great talent, but to be inspired to push myself to be greater at my craft and excel in areas where I never thought I would be good at. When you see other work done by illustrators you admire, or styles you love to see, it inspires me to work and draw even harder.</div><div><br /></div><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br /><div>Most people tend to think that all great character designers only work in the animation world. I agree that animators are incredibly talented and have skills that are second to none. But artists at small companies that we've never heard of, or large ones, like a Hallmark or American Greetings, have such a pool of talent, where they can design from the simplest of characters to the most complex.</div><div><br /></div><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br /><div>Mike Adair, Miah Alcorn, Nate Wragg, Johnny Yanok, Bob Staake, Steve Mack, Anna Chambers,Leo Espinosa...the list is really endless</div><div><br /></div><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br /><div>I have been in the children's publishing business for 6 years now. And as much as I love to draw humans and animals, it tends to get a bit repetivive at times. I adore kids, and recently have been doing work for the baby/toddler industry and fell in love with that style. I love coming up with cute little animal characters and icons, but not in typical pale baby colors, but more of a bold and vibrant feel. I think artists like Bob Staake and Johnny Yanok are great examples of artists who's style's and illustrations are not only great and unique, but the colors are so vibrant, you instantly are drawn and love them</div><div><br /></div><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br /><div>I can't say for certain what inspired me to be an artist. I've always had a love for drawing since I was in kindergarden and eventually made a career out of it. There was no one in particular that inspired me to become a cartoonist, it was just something I continued to do every year and eventually made a decision that it would be the career I wanted to do.</div><div><br /></div><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><div><br /></div><div>http://www.mikeadair.blogspot.com/</div><div><div><br /></div><div>http://www.drawger.com/bobstaake/</div><div><br /></div><div>http://www.alcornstudios.blogspot.com/</div><div><br /></div><div>http://annachambers.blogspot.com/</div><div><br /></div><div>http://www.spotillustration.com/</div></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4HZa8Ggb5aaGMYm7BoJ0UO0qpOHrjGqP5aCw_UfW7Z_wYFY5eLeYys3qxlSgMF7vAWb3QIGwIVze_i2Gzd8fAiaoaudu4oFx4vcSKfqPRvfyFNjzIXxq4Q7UoP28gfJp4f8R8/s1600-h/SOCCER.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4HZa8Ggb5aaGMYm7BoJ0UO0qpOHrjGqP5aCw_UfW7Z_wYFY5eLeYys3qxlSgMF7vAWb3QIGwIVze_i2Gzd8fAiaoaudu4oFx4vcSKfqPRvfyFNjzIXxq4Q7UoP28gfJp4f8R8/s320/SOCCER.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333848249552135138" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9GJWiIZCqClxNub2w0KNhAIHWciRXk1Ah0OQ6YDA1joyYDqTtqzm3lAgHBzJPkEnmc6nV_Ig1HuiVDJlUYV9d6XTQ0d-PgnYIGG0c15rEFLQ0_QQEo0Z2NF6yJ1tT07DplwHw/s1600-h/OCEAN-PLSUH-DOLLS.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9GJWiIZCqClxNub2w0KNhAIHWciRXk1Ah0OQ6YDA1joyYDqTtqzm3lAgHBzJPkEnmc6nV_Ig1HuiVDJlUYV9d6XTQ0d-PgnYIGG0c15rEFLQ0_QQEo0Z2NF6yJ1tT07DplwHw/s320/OCEAN-PLSUH-DOLLS.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333848248318818274" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDbX6pBPTjoDJl-pBJaiwK4s-569CmTpJ_67eaqr_jeVze5KZxLR5gu3aG6b7R5_3S7rDVVhhwsnOJ0o374JRtt8wtN0grYTCjOZn5cuf89XJ8Y0uvlHB0pPhz4q0GWGwmP00/s1600-h/jungle.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 120px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDbX6pBPTjoDJl-pBJaiwK4s-569CmTpJ_67eaqr_jeVze5KZxLR5gu3aG6b7R5_3S7rDVVhhwsnOJ0o374JRtt8wtN0grYTCjOZn5cuf89XJ8Y0uvlHB0pPhz4q0GWGwmP00/s320/jungle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333848245496850594" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS0nCgP5x4BV9Rb0CgXTj-3Yt8pbeEgcHz7NwriEvv8cxAJaC7vM0sJ0iGPKYb8u9B9gxWTq_0snitN14h30ncYjdxY6W0G1giCVlXk-ZbqRcv1B1v_VAKUAeitItFf-bb1K6x/s1600-h/14)LION-BOOK+SPREAD.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 159px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS0nCgP5x4BV9Rb0CgXTj-3Yt8pbeEgcHz7NwriEvv8cxAJaC7vM0sJ0iGPKYb8u9B9gxWTq_0snitN14h30ncYjdxY6W0G1giCVlXk-ZbqRcv1B1v_VAKUAeitItFf-bb1K6x/s320/14)LION-BOOK+SPREAD.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333848239713613186" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a></div>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-31952594074553057512009-05-09T08:25:00.000-07:002009-05-09T08:31:30.639-07:00Eric Guzman<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br /><div>My email is Worldsfinest81@gmail.com and my webpage is www.worldsfinest.deviantart.com<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br /></div><div>I use mechanical pencils with 2H lead, col erase pencils various colors, and photoshop 7.0 with a wacom tablet.<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br /></div><div>I would like to work for any animation studios as a character designer (preferably warner bros. or Cartoon Network).<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br /></div><div>There are many great artist out there in which i am greatly influenced by, ranging from american animation and japanese animation.<br /></div><div><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br /></div><div>Some of my favorite designs come from a lot of the 80's cartoon era (He-Man, Thundercats, GiJoe,Silverhawks etc.).<br /></div><div><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br /></div><div>I like to draw people because of the variations in structure that can go into creating a character is always fun and challenging.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br /></div><div>What inspired me to become an artist was growing up i was always fascinated by the look and feel of characters in animation. <br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br /><div>www.wizarduniverse.com</div><div>www.daredetectives.com</div><div>www.stevegordon.com</div><div>www.animationinsider.com</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqaQWpivxCV9RnTkQ-Ha1C5CvxaXEB91sY8aseRgEzWdawIK3URCVg9CdyD5Vd03HKKS4Bm1wLx37Q5PVg45NTSAQ25yswBtAxSPfPUsQochF2sqJnkLi14udPenfYj5BsTq_W/s1600-h/tiger.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 207px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqaQWpivxCV9RnTkQ-Ha1C5CvxaXEB91sY8aseRgEzWdawIK3URCVg9CdyD5Vd03HKKS4Bm1wLx37Q5PVg45NTSAQ25yswBtAxSPfPUsQochF2sqJnkLi14udPenfYj5BsTq_W/s320/tiger.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333846833137768642" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3hsBHTFCOwjecs9hj25aEypgJRtYfJWDw4BG3UPe8fXl46KsHNqPhve-5ATLdoCnhRK-yYEoBtKAxDF5IVTMq9YSCAzrvHrWPoEMBpVmmCEcnYgishEsIfREESP1xCDtCyMk/s1600-h/tcats.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 207px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3hsBHTFCOwjecs9hj25aEypgJRtYfJWDw4BG3UPe8fXl46KsHNqPhve-5ATLdoCnhRK-yYEoBtKAxDF5IVTMq9YSCAzrvHrWPoEMBpVmmCEcnYgishEsIfREESP1xCDtCyMk/s320/tcats.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333846828169908226" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisuD-_RSBa6GKwq3P-WwVL8NN-VWBXs5YIEoqf7bTeJYfSl5-kJON3GG9_Il-yHkZtgsY3Y8P1jdnoHDc3H9lQmQl-EE2gaKLaAYQgEtcxuIp6I1RXR8EOsWiihNpI-Wkg7Y33/s1600-h/ninja.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 207px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisuD-_RSBa6GKwq3P-WwVL8NN-VWBXs5YIEoqf7bTeJYfSl5-kJON3GG9_Il-yHkZtgsY3Y8P1jdnoHDc3H9lQmQl-EE2gaKLaAYQgEtcxuIp6I1RXR8EOsWiihNpI-Wkg7Y33/s320/ninja.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333846824588810402" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqzcC2B0Qo4qkYWwkmpr7DnglIfvrMd9iLT1ypQ40Ni97FDBq_FY0POI2SJQ1iXC7C5H4B_49yQmH1FgyduSIyqnwCniKINUULOjJ3SRLR1Hc63RjP4qWelyQ6BuGHZOVgCv_/s1600-h/knight+color+final+lines.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 207px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmqzcC2B0Qo4qkYWwkmpr7DnglIfvrMd9iLT1ypQ40Ni97FDBq_FY0POI2SJQ1iXC7C5H4B_49yQmH1FgyduSIyqnwCniKINUULOjJ3SRLR1Hc63RjP4qWelyQ6BuGHZOVgCv_/s320/knight+color+final+lines.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333846826263887954" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a></div>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-29897792251648693502009-02-04T10:07:00.000-08:002009-04-26T13:55:21.470-07:00Ted Kim<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />I can be reached at seoulman@hotmail.com , and my website url is http://www.tedkimchee.com<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />Generally I like to use various col-erase pencils and 0.9mm & 0.5mm HB mechanical pencil. I'd be nowhere without my wacom tablet and predominantly use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop although I've been meaning to work with Painter. I've been missing out!<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />Pixar, Orphanage, Lucasarts and Bioware<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />Bruce Timm, Ben Caldwell, Stephen Silver, Lynne Naylor, Jose Lopez, Sean 'Cheeks' Galloway, Shange Glines, Joe Madureira, Franciso Herrera, Humberto Ramos, Skottie Young, Carlos Meglia, Alberto Ruiz, J. Scott Campbell, Jim Lee, Mike Mignola, Claire Wendling and everyone on your site!<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />I really dig all of Bruce Timm's work. He really pioneered a new era in American animation with the birth of the Batman series. Genndy Tartakovsky's Samurai Jack is another amazing example. Various Japanese Anime such as Samurai Champloo and Afro Samurai.<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />Hmm, really anything to do with superheroes, sci-fi and fantasy. These days I'm very into Asian mythology.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />The two biggest artistic influences in my life I'd have to say are Jim Lee and Bruce Timm. I've always loved drawing but I took it as a mere hobby for years. Seeing Jim Lee's work in the 90 's opened my eyes and spoke to me not only artistically but at a cultural level as well. Him being a second generation Korean going against what is typically accepted as a 'professional occupation' in Korean circles gave me alot of inspiration and hope to pursue art and my love for comics. Bruce Timm's style and sensibilites was another turning point imparting the element of simplicity and dynamic design to my own growing sensibilities.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />Many of them are already listed on your site but here are some of my faves:<br /><br />http://www.drawingboard.org<br /><br />http://www.conceptart.org<br /><br />various arstists:<br /><br />http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/<br /><br />http://humbertoramos.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYN_hZect6yrA5HePjEk_HkofCO7M0LtzEF7BG6eaYbbl7ysW3faSzaa2hEt7WOS9aw6xAbuEUWXgYTX2GNqcMKi_F1wOAy1G_5HVzdDChubqOQerInemIampp5-R3tSVz5m6/s1600-h/treewalker_col.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYN_hZect6yrA5HePjEk_HkofCO7M0LtzEF7BG6eaYbbl7ysW3faSzaa2hEt7WOS9aw6xAbuEUWXgYTX2GNqcMKi_F1wOAy1G_5HVzdDChubqOQerInemIampp5-R3tSVz5m6/s320/treewalker_col.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299006434671369122" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2CUgXFU7Y6gfzPConQe0QgQr-1R6MFPsqtIshN3N8YX6UW2VP2XmSQc69OAZkuur6woDkTS8TwnpLwg1TwH0H-AXaAzAyUjSUa2WP3X8AJU5gg_k4Q2Id8QYZtgIq1s_4oi_K/s1600-h/roxtar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2CUgXFU7Y6gfzPConQe0QgQr-1R6MFPsqtIshN3N8YX6UW2VP2XmSQc69OAZkuur6woDkTS8TwnpLwg1TwH0H-AXaAzAyUjSUa2WP3X8AJU5gg_k4Q2Id8QYZtgIq1s_4oi_K/s320/roxtar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299006434516804578" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr7qY4j935qyU84Zq1hc9LdOvzRM4a-g29OaMranq1pxh1vtSDPMCzFFw7Q35m4SCiWAoEPGZA4bigMauue3IB9RZEErjA_-6yz1gHEVvN5ibUrUF8L1vytkPOEn_BSYQe9Mav/s1600-h/galactronica.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr7qY4j935qyU84Zq1hc9LdOvzRM4a-g29OaMranq1pxh1vtSDPMCzFFw7Q35m4SCiWAoEPGZA4bigMauue3IB9RZEErjA_-6yz1gHEVvN5ibUrUF8L1vytkPOEn_BSYQe9Mav/s320/galactronica.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299006427221979938" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix5kT4SeukwRQnjKtJeOg-2xq8UN77XmNr-phtZQ0ipjK9lobootWu-BXKeQHFcPT_Z1YgHW552BQFZle1hfKObQD6i19F_Arp03I5-9Y769m9_-j9dpyEOcLyNxjl_U67k-we/s1600-h/bushidobill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix5kT4SeukwRQnjKtJeOg-2xq8UN77XmNr-phtZQ0ipjK9lobootWu-BXKeQHFcPT_Z1YgHW552BQFZle1hfKObQD6i19F_Arp03I5-9Y769m9_-j9dpyEOcLyNxjl_U67k-we/s320/bushidobill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299006423420381378" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-45588791528377042612009-02-04T10:03:00.000-08:002009-02-04T10:07:02.429-08:00ANWAR MADRIGAL<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />You can visit my page at http// www.madpencil.deviantart.com<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />TRADITIONAL MEDIA, PENCIL, PAPER. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, ALIAS SKETCHBOOK<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />DEFINITELY PIXAR ANIMATION<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I'M A BIG FAN OF DAVE GUERTIN, TOM BANCROFT, CHUCK JONES<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />I LIKE STUFF LIKE THE INSOMNIAC GAMES CHARACTERS, THEY'RE LAYERED SOLID CHARACTERS. THEY HAVE A LOT OF SUBSTANCE TO THEM<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />I LIKE DRAWING ANIMALS AND GIVING THEM HUMAN MOVEMENT AND ATTITUDE, I TEND TO USE PEOPLE AS MY FOUNDATION FOR MOST OF MY ART<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />THE ESCAPISM ASPECT OF IT, THE IDEA OF CREATING A WORLD IN WHICH A PERSON CAN FIND PEACE OF MIND EVEN FOR A SHORT WHILE<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />CREATUREBOX.COM<br />GALACTICCHIMP.COM<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0ei9uGtlqBQEqJ6IQN9ElR-GN0NfBW95Cik6lQwwyKVHB-pyBfMNhZm-MUiRhJNxVDw9GClhG1XppE6AcUVILAeOAZPryhMETbOWVzpSTiF-cVFTiNoywH7KPc0vMQEmgNPs/s1600-h/Skechers_Characters.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib0ei9uGtlqBQEqJ6IQN9ElR-GN0NfBW95Cik6lQwwyKVHB-pyBfMNhZm-MUiRhJNxVDw9GClhG1XppE6AcUVILAeOAZPryhMETbOWVzpSTiF-cVFTiNoywH7KPc0vMQEmgNPs/s320/Skechers_Characters.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299005194221416802" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-BOLFSnuvY-IVd540JpWTSfXco2OxZb1zFLkWwDccY4YQAKUH9l5c0WOYrB2R7GD81OjFvhvGWvURrrdxggncMGKxuv7xvZHEZtZNbF20UIpNETjAUkuDFXPfz0RoUwmRxYZn/s1600-h/Herb_01_mail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-BOLFSnuvY-IVd540JpWTSfXco2OxZb1zFLkWwDccY4YQAKUH9l5c0WOYrB2R7GD81OjFvhvGWvURrrdxggncMGKxuv7xvZHEZtZNbF20UIpNETjAUkuDFXPfz0RoUwmRxYZn/s320/Herb_01_mail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299005195702946162" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji0MhtT6tmO43YmO7U3fshLnU2hjmo9Y_3WdAxrwKt4_x8P3RMV1DMgCgz3KlmCDelg63lJuzlORK-SnCvSfYEigQtwzj8rHm62XuS4uBbA9WcMWfP96mwtlkmQeixOcq_taSD/s1600-h/Ecko_Kids_booth_by_madpencil.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji0MhtT6tmO43YmO7U3fshLnU2hjmo9Y_3WdAxrwKt4_x8P3RMV1DMgCgz3KlmCDelg63lJuzlORK-SnCvSfYEigQtwzj8rHm62XuS4uBbA9WcMWfP96mwtlkmQeixOcq_taSD/s320/Ecko_Kids_booth_by_madpencil.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299005195763298706" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujSel2y69I624gmpQ_ryJ3PZx-rEOOIe6dEDv8DqigrLX8Es_gt9lKJwEOWiF7l6S6J-s0uZp_hhaNnqKhVoQnw0f5zc-KKq016iCBNyMeT0JrwZDQ9b2Gl9lvcJMpmYmRH_t/s1600-h/Big_Guy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujSel2y69I624gmpQ_ryJ3PZx-rEOOIe6dEDv8DqigrLX8Es_gt9lKJwEOWiF7l6S6J-s0uZp_hhaNnqKhVoQnw0f5zc-KKq016iCBNyMeT0JrwZDQ9b2Gl9lvcJMpmYmRH_t/s320/Big_Guy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299005195580229010" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-50029193885271364492009-02-04T09:58:00.000-08:002009-02-04T10:03:05.918-08:00SHEKHAR SHIMPI<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />shekharss@hotmail.com<br />shekhar77.blogspot.com<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />I use Pencil, then clean my drawing with ink pen, I use Photoshop, Now days I use Wacom Tablet.<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />any cool place, If I had choice , would really like to work for Tim Burton, Del Torro or Terry Gilliam.<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />There are lot of, this names comes to my mind instant ,Nate Wragg, Ben Caldwell,Tony Fucile.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />I love "Jack Skellington" from "Nightmare before Christmas", I like charcters from "Incrdibles", and "Triplets of Bellville" and there are lots more.<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />I really love to draw Monsters and Witches, Fairy tales stuff, but bit more darker,<br />in my opinion there is a lot of scope to run your imagination wild,on this particular subject.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />Growing up watching Old Black &White horror and Sci Fi cinema, Classic Disney Movies such as 'Sleeping Beauty',<br />Reading Fairy tales, Comicbooks was real inspiration to me.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />daredetectives.com<br />cgtalk.com<br />passionforcinema.com<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoQihhUQn9Wp1f5h7uAPNwjzi9HQWLOULi0cbVNSJPhDb_jKA4OmHHmaLhhgw-eCIesiOBpo3eADo8hrX2uad9LbWgrpQNhvQUaCW-27AWgYTau8HhfXkrp6xGyV8eWNetVQBZ/s1600-h/Maharaja.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoQihhUQn9Wp1f5h7uAPNwjzi9HQWLOULi0cbVNSJPhDb_jKA4OmHHmaLhhgw-eCIesiOBpo3eADo8hrX2uad9LbWgrpQNhvQUaCW-27AWgYTau8HhfXkrp6xGyV8eWNetVQBZ/s320/Maharaja.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299004215575073890" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlL-S9gyeveQJUvJAJjC8w7bPT52MB2boYnRqifkTK7_cnXFRdtv_3HXaAK6c9o3iqIHe_VRqZK72XnlXQzkVGN8E_iSSFpi6e-k1tWhDhP_u4_Y57fdJ4v5ypXa5ByetBGD2O/s1600-h/YinYangGirl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlL-S9gyeveQJUvJAJjC8w7bPT52MB2boYnRqifkTK7_cnXFRdtv_3HXaAK6c9o3iqIHe_VRqZK72XnlXQzkVGN8E_iSSFpi6e-k1tWhDhP_u4_Y57fdJ4v5ypXa5ByetBGD2O/s320/YinYangGirl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299004211910546002" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmfE5LBAi876yaKLy3_2zrGaOfUnEbonWwI3VWwgrSCG8FyoLUG8OJ49Jeij03p3gdb1g1W-GAo-P9eQys6E6UipBYG259d5bygaQM77QW4dpuM7i9ej_TXX08hlHDeUN_T0bo/s1600-h/Sleek+baby.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmfE5LBAi876yaKLy3_2zrGaOfUnEbonWwI3VWwgrSCG8FyoLUG8OJ49Jeij03p3gdb1g1W-GAo-P9eQys6E6UipBYG259d5bygaQM77QW4dpuM7i9ej_TXX08hlHDeUN_T0bo/s320/Sleek+baby.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299004211169356546" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxkBRpJ2kHKrMswRkK4cmGHs1lvDYeSADXYkXtQ0KBE0Lk_JASkNZXuY50cC7qEGgNmc9egDCKd0zv_h2CRmHqBX2qY7-Bb4wsjvW_DoZK-C-ujtyYFugleAlxhLw0RcUIFMdf/s1600-h/Han.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxkBRpJ2kHKrMswRkK4cmGHs1lvDYeSADXYkXtQ0KBE0Lk_JASkNZXuY50cC7qEGgNmc9egDCKd0zv_h2CRmHqBX2qY7-Bb4wsjvW_DoZK-C-ujtyYFugleAlxhLw0RcUIFMdf/s320/Han.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299004204846281666" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-33470104046725729032009-02-04T09:50:00.000-08:002009-02-04T09:55:53.570-08:00Justin Cook<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />justin@seencreative.com<br />www.seencreative.com<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />Corel Painter 9, Adobe Photoshop,<br />Adobe Illustrator, Alias Sketchbook Pro. I draw directly on screen using a<br />Wacom Cintiq. I also sketch using any old pencil I have at hand. If I like<br />the design I'll scan it into the computer and start inking in Painter.<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />I'm a freelance artist based in the UK, so I'm open to any projects<br />that may be offered to me.<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />Stephen Silver,<br />Gary Ham, Dean Yeagle, Alberto Ruiz and Ben Caldwell.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />Mandy by Dean Yeagle, Kim Possible. I also really like the designs used in<br />Foster's Home for imaginery friends and The grim adventrues of Billy and<br />Mandy. I'm also a sucker for any old Hanna Barbera cartoon character, my<br />favorite would be Huckleberry Hound. Also Peanuts. Fantastic character<br />designs, and I can really relate to Charlie Brown, haha.<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />Monsters! I love them.<br />The imagination can run wild when I'm designing a monster of some kind. They<br />keep me amused for hours. I would love to design characters for a monster<br />catoon.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />I can't remember a specific moment in<br />time as I have always drawn from an early age, and I just kind of assumed I<br />would work in art in some way or another.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />www.schoolism.com<br />http://stephensilver.blogspot.com/<br />www.superham.com<br />http://www.deanyeagle.com/<br />http://www.daredetectives.com/<br />http://processjunkie.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrN5XWm5_3L4ULm5O9U4TrsDjEdAakgk6MGsBAkMgyaAA_mQbKrGQzTj2XZdswQWtxDIoAkO5L5EG5moTv-LXEL_fw0302vz5kjm595QPoin2ng5PTYhFqOb2wEpdqgNUkkhVl/s1600-h/Justin_zombie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 232px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrN5XWm5_3L4ULm5O9U4TrsDjEdAakgk6MGsBAkMgyaAA_mQbKrGQzTj2XZdswQWtxDIoAkO5L5EG5moTv-LXEL_fw0302vz5kjm595QPoin2ng5PTYhFqOb2wEpdqgNUkkhVl/s320/Justin_zombie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299002169655460882" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvpNksJsrS7DiV2jbEi8jGwKciz04bnHzA0_0hkNBypwFuU7d3yaCDwUd_Wv_DVWDA5lZJc8T1HfwWiP0A5a26_hdunttq62PFLJlBpcYAli0fAKWbkorXYskP-YIUOLEOImIG/s1600-h/Justin_pirate.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvpNksJsrS7DiV2jbEi8jGwKciz04bnHzA0_0hkNBypwFuU7d3yaCDwUd_Wv_DVWDA5lZJc8T1HfwWiP0A5a26_hdunttq62PFLJlBpcYAli0fAKWbkorXYskP-YIUOLEOImIG/s320/Justin_pirate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299002163328849762" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkwC2SlZ56wTyaEq3AziWsMdgn3T9PUXxDcObn6At2A7AeMn3VExQ8Y8h_rkl6B5qLSW-WrSbnUzx0pxJYa2OuQgeDh6s5ORTVGQTgngRyeJSnvl3AV6j7oZI6uu02ikIADZiL/s1600-h/Justin_frankenstein.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkwC2SlZ56wTyaEq3AziWsMdgn3T9PUXxDcObn6At2A7AeMn3VExQ8Y8h_rkl6B5qLSW-WrSbnUzx0pxJYa2OuQgeDh6s5ORTVGQTgngRyeJSnvl3AV6j7oZI6uu02ikIADZiL/s320/Justin_frankenstein.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299002152123913634" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJwWnrAv3DSOCDkREtqzLbUZ80L5jOAuwAxZd0MN651tw8k9kyFEHwHTC3ELFNiZGF_NHt579I-mp5FXSFdPg0ssTRyzgZT-ILI_rheCyRnsigrxKXpYkqT9kkVqRxD7Ts-A3/s1600-h/Justin_boxer.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJwWnrAv3DSOCDkREtqzLbUZ80L5jOAuwAxZd0MN651tw8k9kyFEHwHTC3ELFNiZGF_NHt579I-mp5FXSFdPg0ssTRyzgZT-ILI_rheCyRnsigrxKXpYkqT9kkVqRxD7Ts-A3/s320/Justin_boxer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299002152192116130" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-35598151601176279692008-09-15T13:37:00.000-07:002009-01-13T20:48:20.832-08:00Ryan Firchau<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />You can contact my through my website as soon as I have completed refurbishments www.ryanfirchau.co.uk or my Email www.rfirchau@microsoft.com or www.rfirchau@rare.co.uk and if you want you can also drop me a line on my Deviant art page send me a note http://firecrow78.deviantart.com/<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />I used to be a pencil and paper man but nowadays I pretty much work entirely digitally, I use Photoshop CS2 and painter on the odd occasion. Having said that, I have started to keep a sketch book for the first time since I left University. I think that you can be in danger of becoming a bit lazy with all the benefits that Digital can provide so It's good to keep in tune with traditional methods and techniques plus it makes a pleasant change to draw on paper.<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />I love where I currently work at Rare, but I do have a burning desire to work for Stan Winston's studio and Wetta<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />There have been so many great artists which I have been influenced by and which I admire, but I think when I look back it is mainly two which have had the biggest impact on how I produce my work and they are Albert Underzo. Underzo's illustrations for the Asterix series where one of the strongest influences for me as I was growing up. The other is Paul Bonner.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />I recently discovered the work of Florian Satzinger, who's created some fantastic looking characters. The character work on PIXARS The Incredibles is fabulous, such stylized shapes integrated with such believable and subtle reality. I enjoyed the work of McBride on the Pirates of the Caribbean films, I especially liked Davey Jones who was designed by Mark 'Crash' McCreary another big hero of mine. And of course Animal from the Muppets, everyone loves Animal.<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />Creatures are my obsession, I love monsters and ugly things that look scary, always have! I guess it must have come from watching films like The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth and all those cheesy 80's horror movies. I also love dark fairy tales and gothic subject matter the brothers Grimm that kind of thing.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />It happened when I was very young, in Kindergarten, I drew a picture of a rabbit and showed it to my teacher and I guess it must have been better than average for a child of my age and I remember the positive reaction I got, it seemed to make people happy when I drew pictures, children are always so keen to please and be noticed, I guess this was a major part of what kept me going also I received a lot of encouragement from my parents and friends. I was average at all other subjects but I loved art, I have always had an over active imagination and drawing is a release for me I couldn't imagine my life without it. These days I try to learn as much as I can and I turn my hand to lots of different disciplines from sculpture to airbrushing and photography. I'm constantly pushing to improve my skills and my visual library, as a concept artist I need to have a broad wealth of knowledge of different subject matters. Research and reference is all part of the job, but I enjoy it so much that I'm always at it, not just during work hours.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />http://www.paulbonner.net/<br /><br />http://paperwalker.blogspot.com/<br /><br />http://marknewman.deviantart.com/gallery/<br /><br />http://www.andyparkart.com<br /><br />http://cheeks-74.deviantart.com/gallery/<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgahx6qETG6yUT9w4z0gIiDn4Bb8Fks3MtL95Bx4O_C4ahaVzGP1qGS81emAhzxF4K5JoXMP6ln6Pbbq-cGdFimClt6p5fad7_JruXdAY_f1xsq8F5JbISZhf6D-dMvRPtmzJbm/s1600-h/rf_crusadeMarine72.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgahx6qETG6yUT9w4z0gIiDn4Bb8Fks3MtL95Bx4O_C4ahaVzGP1qGS81emAhzxF4K5JoXMP6ln6Pbbq-cGdFimClt6p5fad7_JruXdAY_f1xsq8F5JbISZhf6D-dMvRPtmzJbm/s320/rf_crusadeMarine72.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246350810487983090" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidQ3UtRYvTV3V9iaU9tkQxAiklIKjdfUoNN3SSGzNOanoLX7uVff_Dcva9fQ1t_3fkZv2tXarVCWA_4FekbmHMLajTy6Kl741-1hKPwX4LVJz_ACdhsKjuV190wLuavELycwhF/s1600-h/rf_CrystalLure72.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidQ3UtRYvTV3V9iaU9tkQxAiklIKjdfUoNN3SSGzNOanoLX7uVff_Dcva9fQ1t_3fkZv2tXarVCWA_4FekbmHMLajTy6Kl741-1hKPwX4LVJz_ACdhsKjuV190wLuavELycwhF/s320/rf_CrystalLure72.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246350813813195266" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vhyphenhyphenyGk_Y8mpJsuvijouEb7zNN5T5Y31MkvpMLcvN4ruKtUh9xlPQFCNVArXpskNmcSraVmYb5-y5RMTQ7GJQF7Dwcy9nBA3wNQyfjsATFPwn_S3FxyAiRkIyH03QoB6ZQWIc/s1600-h/Death+Becomes+Her.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vhyphenhyphenyGk_Y8mpJsuvijouEb7zNN5T5Y31MkvpMLcvN4ruKtUh9xlPQFCNVArXpskNmcSraVmYb5-y5RMTQ7GJQF7Dwcy9nBA3wNQyfjsATFPwn_S3FxyAiRkIyH03QoB6ZQWIc/s320/Death+Becomes+Her.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291006483549400354" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrnjLxHDDNH-j5qLuspfaNe0pAgNhJt0UpDVHvu7hDEZhXjGdsdHZY22IHHr845yIJyxfsWDkw3z5VryycfMzmAtjdqpH-af08bBapehh8H8gfQXkK6ox3czyRhyphenhyphenuFV9g48ZO5/s1600-h/rf_SpellBound72.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrnjLxHDDNH-j5qLuspfaNe0pAgNhJt0UpDVHvu7hDEZhXjGdsdHZY22IHHr845yIJyxfsWDkw3z5VryycfMzmAtjdqpH-af08bBapehh8H8gfQXkK6ox3czyRhyphenhyphenuFV9g48ZO5/s320/rf_SpellBound72.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246350818144403042" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-24235190569388727772008-09-15T13:33:00.000-07:002008-09-15T13:37:31.589-07:00Enrique Corts<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)<br /><br /></strong>My email address is kikekun@gmail.com , and my website www.artofenrique.com<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />I mainly use the good old paper and pencil for sketching, and then when I'm happy with what I see, I scan it in and start inking with my Wacom tablet and Photoshop. It's a very organic process where I make all kinds of changes until the image is finished.<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />I would love to work on some of the companies that are doing my favourite videogames out there, like Valve, Bungie, Retro Studios...I also wouldn't mind to try and be involved on animation development, maybe in places like Pixar or Dreamworks.<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />Sadly, there are not a lot of great Character Designers working on games right now, except of course the very well known ones like Yoji Shinkawa, Yoshitaka Amano, Hyung-tae Kim or Tetsuya Nomura. For some reason, the western Designers are not that well known as the Japanese ones.<br />In the animation field, I love the work of Lesean Thomas, Enrique Fernandez, Sean Galloway, Jeff Matsuda, Eric Canete, Yoshiduki Sadamoto...<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />I love what Lesean thomas is doing with his Cannonbusters graphic novel...fresh! Also, all the stuff that Gainax and Mr. Sadamoto do is absolutely incredible...I love all the Furi Kuri and Gurren Lagann designs.<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />I think my strongest point is to draw action scenes, where I can play much more with the camera angles, character body language, visual elements...I always try to draw the most dinamic and intense scene I can.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />Probably all those old comics I was reading at my uncle's house! All very mixed stuff...from Fantastic Four to Westerns or war tales. Also my mother, being a very acomplished Artist herself helped me out and inspired me a lot.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />http://jeffmatsuda.com/<br />http://www.leseanthomas.com/<br />http://studiosis.com/jam/<br />http://enriquefernandez0.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgltwmVqbgnTB2pqx3NJweqk0SxdneqAkXsnkv5Eh6H1zHi7MHewe72SXzOuwFmtzhyphenhyphen_eUCOF9_6DAhgdLsm-vwXZO3dcp6AJEZtGmRqJhRafyJkGKBOqx0cbIrUJZcmKOS-bi6/s1600-h/ec_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgltwmVqbgnTB2pqx3NJweqk0SxdneqAkXsnkv5Eh6H1zHi7MHewe72SXzOuwFmtzhyphenhyphen_eUCOF9_6DAhgdLsm-vwXZO3dcp6AJEZtGmRqJhRafyJkGKBOqx0cbIrUJZcmKOS-bi6/s320/ec_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246349831880259186" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9RtePru70mzitAbFPIGQoMGflVV5vqi77U3qOjvhQP8TRGrZa8T9R3gnzX7665Ts7P7ecHbGGG0yM-Wa4bnFTX3jS_2L4AkLD_qfyy_25UGuca6XskOacwgUyxx1YoDxRRo-/s1600-h/ec_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9RtePru70mzitAbFPIGQoMGflVV5vqi77U3qOjvhQP8TRGrZa8T9R3gnzX7665Ts7P7ecHbGGG0yM-Wa4bnFTX3jS_2L4AkLD_qfyy_25UGuca6XskOacwgUyxx1YoDxRRo-/s320/ec_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246349833669791810" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbEP2hqqXJe5tAwp3scG64ZWBPxxfIWRpEgqYSUlgPjgDsbhn6lOaPE-P6EVtlWD5av5WYNRhOcudbBv3zPNVtEiFx1nc2ZUAFLrdk2Z5PI1apcFv_Rnt0q8ccFTY-sjHKGZbF/s1600-h/ec_8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbEP2hqqXJe5tAwp3scG64ZWBPxxfIWRpEgqYSUlgPjgDsbhn6lOaPE-P6EVtlWD5av5WYNRhOcudbBv3zPNVtEiFx1nc2ZUAFLrdk2Z5PI1apcFv_Rnt0q8ccFTY-sjHKGZbF/s320/ec_8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246349836797982706" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Q6hYsteV8f7R9cUb5eRkSbvIGzUlPwCIC1HonC01G9WZiGTGa3rdgTsgQ3YbviajVYGgnOt7ldMcE_tNZWqB-UF6b3-jbabr9WHHIYJf9b1nCB3QPlqWEsla0ogyHIGYoh6n/s1600-h/ec_11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Q6hYsteV8f7R9cUb5eRkSbvIGzUlPwCIC1HonC01G9WZiGTGa3rdgTsgQ3YbviajVYGgnOt7ldMcE_tNZWqB-UF6b3-jbabr9WHHIYJf9b1nCB3QPlqWEsla0ogyHIGYoh6n/s320/ec_11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246349839073002130" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-78666553431957110582008-09-15T13:29:00.000-07:002008-09-15T13:32:51.827-07:00Ben Camberos<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />email: camberosben@gmail.com<br />webpage: http://bencamberos.com/<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />Paper, pencils, markers, scanner, mac os x Photoshop, illustrator, Wacom.<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />I would like to work on character design or concept illustration for anyone who has a cool n fun project independent or not (pixar, nick, IML, etc)<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />Shane Glines, Bruce Timm, Genndy Tartakovsky, Chris Reccardi, Lynne Naylor,<br />Katie Rice, Jamie Hewlett<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />bruce timm's DC comics characters, Samurai jack, The gorillaz,<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />I like doing pin up girls and scenes cuz i magine a whole story just by doing one image<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />i took a character and animation class with Jorge R. Gutierrez & Sandra Equihua back in 98, so<br />they recommended me to keep going with my stuff.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />cartoonbrew.com<br />http://www.kidrobot.com/<br />www.tysonmcadoo.com<br />http://www.drawn.ca<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUu8u2iOCKpPt5xzEY2iEDz-XJDtDEdGV-txTqKni2IOY8BOetaK894oAHlGwbonngXpl0ATqOl2jCv2jyPKfntv4G8FK_1iF9wcFRWaxRWcfGOuBVINiscj8mnhqbUuFkPPTN/s1600-h/bc_eastern_promises.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUu8u2iOCKpPt5xzEY2iEDz-XJDtDEdGV-txTqKni2IOY8BOetaK894oAHlGwbonngXpl0ATqOl2jCv2jyPKfntv4G8FK_1iF9wcFRWaxRWcfGOuBVINiscj8mnhqbUuFkPPTN/s320/bc_eastern_promises.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246348661592192402" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoGJ5YR4iFfkbrDvMUC34ivx_EzgCkBcnqnEnxYm5mNBP0Cs6xLR3xGal7u_av0nTU5wINspNTPOW_I3L0ttmN1AZ0-fpXF7ei934nZxbj0sYruwesC8ODsIQTdjXR-W_SmeS/s1600-h/bc_greaser.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoGJ5YR4iFfkbrDvMUC34ivx_EzgCkBcnqnEnxYm5mNBP0Cs6xLR3xGal7u_av0nTU5wINspNTPOW_I3L0ttmN1AZ0-fpXF7ei934nZxbj0sYruwesC8ODsIQTdjXR-W_SmeS/s320/bc_greaser.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246348665583345170" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-U0yF46H4CMHouG4S2FKPQQqasXqNU64cBtiHoSyb7XfPKhVGPOvnbZLQtxT4yhVDCTNy4ZTVqu9y5kaCMLKsLNugmxVcXkHXqzHgKbr9YlTIhEPnJAKoOJX2Levk-LeRb81H/s1600-h/bc_pirata.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-U0yF46H4CMHouG4S2FKPQQqasXqNU64cBtiHoSyb7XfPKhVGPOvnbZLQtxT4yhVDCTNy4ZTVqu9y5kaCMLKsLNugmxVcXkHXqzHgKbr9YlTIhEPnJAKoOJX2Levk-LeRb81H/s320/bc_pirata.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246348665594834578" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapYJsTl7BQt0evoa2JGO9DueFHyZVueAKh7wQRDpAU1IK0wZg9UO1iSbEijM4_d4M0Ej9Z3JypeuptIYO2R4Rwi-PtKrOIV1dFaD5_t64-MR56hmMZEim3k9IJXy7h4iCO45B/s1600-h/bc_tattoos.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapYJsTl7BQt0evoa2JGO9DueFHyZVueAKh7wQRDpAU1IK0wZg9UO1iSbEijM4_d4M0Ej9Z3JypeuptIYO2R4Rwi-PtKrOIV1dFaD5_t64-MR56hmMZEim3k9IJXy7h4iCO45B/s320/bc_tattoos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246348669382228914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-22308215510685135912008-05-19T08:12:00.000-07:002008-05-19T08:16:31.577-07:00Joe Dave Torres<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />Any means of communication is fine. On a google search for "leftyjoe" most of my pages come up. myspace.com/leftyjoe or leftyart.blogspot.com<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />Mostly everything I draw is initially on paper with prisma col-erase<br />pencils. I do sketch in photoshop sometimes though.<br />After my sketch, I use adobe photoshop and illustrator. And even the<br />occasional prisma "color stick".<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />Wow, there are sooooo many cool creative places out there for an<br />artist, I would love to work anywhere that I can be a part of the<br />collaborative creative effort that results in any wonderful piece of<br />art. I'd like to someday know that I've worked everywhere. I hope I<br />can reach my artistic potential and someday have every studio on my<br />belt. I can dream can't I. LOL.<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />Gosh, there are so many great artists, and so many amazing styles,<br />that it's hard to develop a criteria to compare them all. I love<br />character design sooooooo much, that I love and respect all styles and<br />designers. I think the only thing that I don't respect, is straight<br />up gaffling designs with no attempt to redraw from the original design<br />that was referenced, and claim that design as your own. I've seen<br />some of that around. There's nothing wrong with copying to learn a<br />style, or just to practice, but to later claim it as your own, is of<br />course....... an aboration.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />Some of my most coveted designers, like my absolute hero the<br />illustrious Mr.Stephen Silver and claire Wendling have the ability to<br />create and capture such subtle nuances of character in the particular<br />personality of the being that they are developing, that their talent<br />and skill drive me wild and send me into euphoric states. Like I said,<br />there are soooo many others that I love and respect, like Sean<br />Galloway, who's style theories are incredible. So much to look at and<br />admire, that I simply admire anyone who strives to sit down and do the<br />dang thing, and start creating and ever reach for that personal<br />potential.<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />I have always been a very observant human beast. I, for some reason<br />became very interested in the subtle differences of everyday beings. I<br />fell in love with archetypes and stereotypes ( positive ones) that<br />character design allowed me to put on paper all those things that I<br />noticed. things that were, in real life bellow the surface, I could<br />bring out and exaggerate and show the world. To surmise, that my<br />favorite subject to draw , is the uniqueness of an individual,<br />exaggerating it, and separating it from a sometimes similar group.<br />showing what makes the individual special from the rest of the similar<br />bunch, you dig?<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />I just kinda never put down the crayons, and I was inspired, as I am<br />still today to reach a level of technique and style that compares to<br />those who I respect. the ever growing knowledge and skill that I have<br />been constantly chasing is what inspires me most.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />No joke, but my most favorite of all related pages, is<br />this.....http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/ it gives me<br />everuthing I need to absolutely geek out and revel in. Thank you<br />Odin, for this wonderful blog. ( btw, i don't really pray to Odin)<br />LOL.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgldlkGJUP9WNn2ztSAgDmZAy5Lr69XgtTXBFM-P1bl60Q02ciR49Ja401tsxkVWY6-Hdom5mBclzljm1VskFLjnV2A8wbOfB62JsXLa48ONGVhnCCrKaaRDzjBhKhGnf_cehI0/s1600-h/leftyjoe-pg1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgldlkGJUP9WNn2ztSAgDmZAy5Lr69XgtTXBFM-P1bl60Q02ciR49Ja401tsxkVWY6-Hdom5mBclzljm1VskFLjnV2A8wbOfB62JsXLa48ONGVhnCCrKaaRDzjBhKhGnf_cehI0/s320/leftyjoe-pg1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202107969821230578" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_gIunYv2UY9WG1Bf10zQkDWYwSU9qBkT9GlQVZf2qrVJx8zD5DTMfTJp6jpk0w2zxNnKsM23wzOc91xsMCeIyW_-VDBnMA7YwZ1VNoRKMfqM8PwhEXzIl5k084KX7TYVLVEYx/s1600-h/leftyjoe-pg2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_gIunYv2UY9WG1Bf10zQkDWYwSU9qBkT9GlQVZf2qrVJx8zD5DTMfTJp6jpk0w2zxNnKsM23wzOc91xsMCeIyW_-VDBnMA7YwZ1VNoRKMfqM8PwhEXzIl5k084KX7TYVLVEYx/s320/leftyjoe-pg2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202107982706132482" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-28422909362546455012008-05-19T08:07:00.000-07:002008-05-19T08:11:19.703-07:00Sam R. Kennedy<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />samrkennedy@yahoo.com; http://www.samrkennedyart.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />I love col-erase pencils and markers. They allow me to produce a sketch with early value and color solutions. After that I use Photoshop and Painter to finish a character sketch into an illustration.<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />I think Bunji would be a fun place to work at, but I'm working at a great placeright now too. Red Storm Entertainment in Raleigh, NC is where I've been sketching and painting for the last few years. I get to do lots of sketching and illustrating for the Ghost Recon series.<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />I find myself looking at Francisco Herrera, Ramos, Joe Mad, Jeff Matsuda, and Carlos Meglia. I've got a couple of their trade paper backs, and I never get board with looking through their pages. Each page is a lesson in design and silohette. These guys stylize the character with solid drawing behind it.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen? The hottest thing I've seen lately are the vehicle designs for Tom Clancy's EndWar. (I don't think these are public domain yet, so working for Ubi has it's advantages.) In addition, I like what I see from Tak and Jeff Matsuda's work on "The Batman."<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />By far my favorite subject is the human body, mature men and women. I grew up reading comics and watching cartoons where characters could fly, fight, and move without the law of gravity applying to them. That had so much appeal that I'm always trying to capture that sensation of action through my drawings.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />It was really my college illustration professor. He's the first one who told me one could make a living doing this stuff. Before that I thought you were either born with the ability of Frank Herbert and Ollie Thompson or you were a "starving artist." Although I drew a lot as a kid, I never had a real art class until I got to my college's design department. Even the Fine Art classes I had taken several years before failed to teach me anything useful and left me with the impression that I couldn't make a career as an artist.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />http://comicartcommunity.com/gallery/<br />http://www.conceptart.org/?artist=marc_taro<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2iPy0MWqyN76FT-DyUIQiMlXHcNOhd8GLaSdhyM-uFBCYO00M6bgCvPTYUQG-LDXfppzJZbOS3dnAeY-V-C_YZg7O_SWF9VE0nPsKwXo-ZFYaW4UUSipyrZyEfmdP4czRVz7g/s1600-h/Air-maiden_20.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2iPy0MWqyN76FT-DyUIQiMlXHcNOhd8GLaSdhyM-uFBCYO00M6bgCvPTYUQG-LDXfppzJZbOS3dnAeY-V-C_YZg7O_SWF9VE0nPsKwXo-ZFYaW4UUSipyrZyEfmdP4czRVz7g/s320/Air-maiden_20.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202106672741107122" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXOjGG8bXw95cVEusqfxXVpKzdrjprBVHbLUXlte7kK66Cff63PsouKhn_370wfx_AHA2ZveG_jH71ZX-hA1Kt4q6EeJmx6gsVsE5uQZNgAobFTMVyvDsvlpRyuVrPMccT_tD1/s1600-h/Alien_pet_FLAT_SMALL_21.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXOjGG8bXw95cVEusqfxXVpKzdrjprBVHbLUXlte7kK66Cff63PsouKhn_370wfx_AHA2ZveG_jH71ZX-hA1Kt4q6EeJmx6gsVsE5uQZNgAobFTMVyvDsvlpRyuVrPMccT_tD1/s320/Alien_pet_FLAT_SMALL_21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202106672741107138" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjsFfCsZucgQ4d4CenlMbjhSrOK8QZvFzYmHxEQRkxTm-sPB9BUXA8BdJeM7scjlH0QH6lfgbIjLq3bhn3xJlB0xovyQGsiSdoFs9QPOLWlCkl9BvCGOhyzzC_qNLnhJjDU3z2/s1600-h/Fire-Rhino.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjsFfCsZucgQ4d4CenlMbjhSrOK8QZvFzYmHxEQRkxTm-sPB9BUXA8BdJeM7scjlH0QH6lfgbIjLq3bhn3xJlB0xovyQGsiSdoFs9QPOLWlCkl9BvCGOhyzzC_qNLnhJjDU3z2/s320/Fire-Rhino.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202106677036074450" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBbU6zBhLZVU38RRlNvDk31aZJFa_CB23w1Cl44tYU99HH9ihgkbhdHixyelZe-3L-YFUKycYci74vjwdeJI-gHqpbx1mzp1heTHxJ4SmIe0fBBqiRuk3rtT0ZNtJc_CGbcrV1/s1600-h/Insurgents.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBbU6zBhLZVU38RRlNvDk31aZJFa_CB23w1Cl44tYU99HH9ihgkbhdHixyelZe-3L-YFUKycYci74vjwdeJI-gHqpbx1mzp1heTHxJ4SmIe0fBBqiRuk3rtT0ZNtJc_CGbcrV1/s320/Insurgents.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202106681331041762" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-60503501563820012512008-05-19T07:58:00.000-07:002008-05-19T08:03:00.258-07:00Valerie Schoman<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />http://vhsartcraft.blogspot.com/ <-- features my most recent doodle farts, and I may be contacted through PurpleTsuyoi@gmail.com <strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />I usually default to the oft-used three-step process of 1) roughs done in blue pencil (preferably mechanical), 2) ink renders using any combination of Hi-Tec-C 03, Micron 01, 03, 05, 08, and/or brush pen, and finally 3) scanning and coloring with Photoshop. However, perhaps my greatest downfall (or is it greatest joy?) is my insatiable interest in medium experimentation. I love pencils, pens, paints, you name it I'll try it! I think, for me, color is the key.<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />I am currently having the very fortunate experience of interning at Nickelodeon Animaton Studios. I am still finding my place in the kooky world that is art, and my cares lay more in what I do rather than where I am. Right now I am very interested in breaking into storyboarding for television animation because I'd like to apply my knowledge of composition and character and learn more about storytelling.<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />Goodness gracious... there are so many! I particularly admire the work of Claire Wendling, Terryl Whitlatch, Eric Canete and Jasen Strong... may I please go on?<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />If it weren't made overly clear by my response to the last question, I am always impressed with well-designed animal characters, particularly stylized ones done for animation. I also loved the unique designs done for "Les Triplets des Belleville", Disney's "Mulan" and "Lilo and Stitch", as well as characters from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Invader Zim", just to name a few. I get a kick out of trying to understand the approach of various designers, because even those styles that are not remotely like mine hold a lesson.<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />Most favorite would probably be animals. I suppose animal drawing is simpler for me, in a way, because I can see such obvious personalities and/or symbolism in them, which are the most basic elements for great characters!<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />When you get down to it there were two things that started me on this path: discovering drawing tools and the encouragement of family and friends. I honestly don't believe I chose to become an artist. In fact it is something I've tried running away from unsuccessfully in times past. What I can tell you is that from the time I was able to hold a Crayola crayon in my hand up until the present moment when I was holding a Crayola crayon just before filling out these questions, drawing is the only thing that I have ever felt an absolute consuming need to do. And, through experience, I can also say that I am not the same person without it. That's not to say that I'll ever be any good at it, but I will never stop trying.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />A couple:<br />http://www.claire-wendling.net/<br />http://kahnehteh.blogspot.com/<br />http://alinanimation.blogspot.com/<br />http://themonkeymind.livejournal.com/<br />http://chuckpyleart.blogspot.com/<br /><br />... 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(Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />ishen@disrupt.co.za<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />hb pencil, blue red coloured pencil when & sketching and 0.5mm pilot fineliner when inking. Wacom tablet in photoshop and coreldraw when adding colour. (pc)<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />Any major feature animation studio, preferably Disney feature animation<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />I've always been a fan of Glen Keane, Mark Henn, Andreas Deja and Chris Sanders<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />Most of Glen Keans work as well Chris Sanders designs on Lilo and Stich.<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />I would have to say the female form or female characters and animals<br /><br />Why? I find it a bit more of a challenge drawing women, but that's what makes it fun. When it comes to drawing animals you can have fun giving them human characteristics and personalities, you can play with their facial expressions and body language. Disney animated features have done that for years, all their lead animal characters, have quirky personalities and a lovable quality to them.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />A love for comic books and animated movies. I really appreciate all that goes into making these movies, especially the animators and concept artists that come up with these characters stay in peoples hearts.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />www.deviantart.com<br /><br />www.skottieyoung.com<br /><br />www.comicartcommunity.com<br /><br />www.theartofglenkeane.blogspot.com<br /><br />www.chrissandersart.com<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQdh4bRJcqj6M6848RutGriWHxB0Bsi3m1FWSsAP9x2VzBwWtehIC6KcVQpQ_mqaa3pU4DNSIJL3lQmlGYl_hlbNQfhxykYIF8YgRBJROnlyfSuvM5LBuSEelO6wTTVw8OTcU/s1600-h/bingo_gal_8_by_15hen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQdh4bRJcqj6M6848RutGriWHxB0Bsi3m1FWSsAP9x2VzBwWtehIC6KcVQpQ_mqaa3pU4DNSIJL3lQmlGYl_hlbNQfhxykYIF8YgRBJROnlyfSuvM5LBuSEelO6wTTVw8OTcU/s320/bingo_gal_8_by_15hen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202102656946685234" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2IQDltjblDoVGIIOELVDsoJa8lEhEwpdOgTYJ7NK1-RX8aYNMrYnDSqCiPb-y-ZTsEo3QWxcdFluTb4_GglcLJKGHsnyfQYn4FU4FScnWEX4SgOgnf-fFUf8Bb83UUFwCnWc/s1600-h/keira_colour_by_15hen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2IQDltjblDoVGIIOELVDsoJa8lEhEwpdOgTYJ7NK1-RX8aYNMrYnDSqCiPb-y-ZTsEo3QWxcdFluTb4_GglcLJKGHsnyfQYn4FU4FScnWEX4SgOgnf-fFUf8Bb83UUFwCnWc/s320/keira_colour_by_15hen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202102661241652546" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhteoF5rFpMmL5xXUSr9ZXXmMrz_EO3nDA1oEDT4u7077K-sZN5_KrKDbxuFsCoWKT-bRYtv7w9tEpnO1PC8v7XWxjw7VSknuJ7ZLcl0SpKu-QQ7dV2AaBOEcVvKpw1Ao2hCqPl/s1600-h/my_dog_by_15hen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhteoF5rFpMmL5xXUSr9ZXXmMrz_EO3nDA1oEDT4u7077K-sZN5_KrKDbxuFsCoWKT-bRYtv7w9tEpnO1PC8v7XWxjw7VSknuJ7ZLcl0SpKu-QQ7dV2AaBOEcVvKpw1Ao2hCqPl/s320/my_dog_by_15hen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202102661241652562" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1HLflXW0sjMF1oXleGN9gAjtZklp9_BNYac-TKuZzoOUUYDVUouZkQ_lj4qm78lAUh4VNDuQW8Qb3sZECdrYfKXWPCHvm54Z4uQbTC8Ov2L-lNBuqd_mJUoPvhiWNUY0efNR/s1600-h/sue_by_15hen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1HLflXW0sjMF1oXleGN9gAjtZklp9_BNYac-TKuZzoOUUYDVUouZkQ_lj4qm78lAUh4VNDuQW8Qb3sZECdrYfKXWPCHvm54Z4uQbTC8Ov2L-lNBuqd_mJUoPvhiWNUY0efNR/s320/sue_by_15hen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202102665536619874" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-20253568523675440992007-12-13T07:18:00.000-08:002007-12-13T07:24:10.880-08:00Rafael Rivera<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />E-mail : <a href="mailto:rrivera112@gmail.com">rrivera112@gmail.com</a> or visit my site <a href="http://www.woundedlamb.com/" target="_blank">www.woundedlamb.com</a><br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />I like to start off with pencil and pen sketches, scanned in ,<br />cleaned up and colored in Photoshop and Corel Painter<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />ILM , I am a big fan of many of the concept artist there and the<br />projects they work on as well.<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />here are so many. I like the old Tex Avery and Chuck Jones designs.<br />The newer stuff coming out of Pixar , Blue Sky, and Dreamworks is<br />always great. My favorite creature designer of all time has to be<br />Carlos Huante.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />Again the old cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Popeye, The Hulk etc,<br />simply because they started it all and they stand the test of time.<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />My favorite subjects are Pin-up girls. It is fun to design a sexy pin<br />up , plus early in your art career, women are the toughest to master,<br />so once you feel you got it down, you show off a bit.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />Growing up in Brooklyn, the Graffitti around me was a big influence.<br />As a kid I had alot of comic books, watched tons of Godzilla and<br />Harryhausen films. My uncle owned a printing shop in Long Island, and<br />he would give me rolls of tracing paper and boxes of copy machine<br />paper, so it only felt right to fill them all up with doodles.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.animationarchive.org/" target="_blank">www.animationarchive.org</a><br /><a href="http://paullasaine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://paullasaine.blogspot<wbr>.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.carloshuanteart.com/" target="_blank">http://www.carloshuanteart.com<wbr>/</a><br />and of course <a href="http://www.woundedlamb.com/" target="_blank">www.woundedlamb.com</a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL_QDRz4BLvFrgxTWskO8fg7_VHaqMbZnZBsMNFpLpPgcw34P4wGDFL22Q9GXhYI6XW63muNwopX1a51p8USjw0Ydy2V8r6qaq3NDFZZcqduYJrJ03xtAR48NeZNyEwa-7JcZogg/s1600-h/Characterdesign03_color.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL_QDRz4BLvFrgxTWskO8fg7_VHaqMbZnZBsMNFpLpPgcw34P4wGDFL22Q9GXhYI6XW63muNwopX1a51p8USjw0Ydy2V8r6qaq3NDFZZcqduYJrJ03xtAR48NeZNyEwa-7JcZogg/s400/Characterdesign03_color.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143478337468847874" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBlFkqN5uircFW77BU3omrKma28rzqFMuYHU4NveWGBbkbvyAyxg03eUrUV-mg-UEZ8KSC_ahEQ5YLutUEwnzZplupUIHoPyW9F29D7SzKbQp3orblDA7tvAgQkyT4UiqpI5TEdg/s1600-h/Characterdesign02_color.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBlFkqN5uircFW77BU3omrKma28rzqFMuYHU4NveWGBbkbvyAyxg03eUrUV-mg-UEZ8KSC_ahEQ5YLutUEwnzZplupUIHoPyW9F29D7SzKbQp3orblDA7tvAgQkyT4UiqpI5TEdg/s400/Characterdesign02_color.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143478341763815186" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YKUay1V7bh7lmcWJvk7ytMj6Yy1fkebvSa2BaUXKCmRsxiFUQnCKB_KlUkZIUcFqwWEv-eN7hQlZaXXKf7Zt771VUUBuPDs1xiNFr76ZJHbhNudPOqftHuwWZGE71ZEGyTJn-g/s1600-h/Kung-Fu_master01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YKUay1V7bh7lmcWJvk7ytMj6Yy1fkebvSa2BaUXKCmRsxiFUQnCKB_KlUkZIUcFqwWEv-eN7hQlZaXXKf7Zt771VUUBuPDs1xiNFr76ZJHbhNudPOqftHuwWZGE71ZEGyTJn-g/s400/Kung-Fu_master01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143478341763815202" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeJ2Y2gzGri-D4lJThKaWJbs1-nKy83COuvlXhgzSF04dzoAlx8e35uuWKSd9hnbhNAl75UwGyo_gqfYCFkxJ4P672Ku9N7Ak1ggT9cjreUkUVqaX3_MoauPL9fCIG5a8D0IHvbA/s1600-h/clint01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeJ2Y2gzGri-D4lJThKaWJbs1-nKy83COuvlXhgzSF04dzoAlx8e35uuWKSd9hnbhNAl75UwGyo_gqfYCFkxJ4P672Ku9N7Ak1ggT9cjreUkUVqaX3_MoauPL9fCIG5a8D0IHvbA/s400/clint01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143478346058782514" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>Randall Slyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068154101273022471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-6740121800067398382007-12-10T16:39:00.000-08:002007-12-10T16:46:09.899-08:00Shane Corn<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />shanecorn.blogspot.com<br />maizekid74.deviantart.com<br />maizekid@gmail.com<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />I started out using traditional media.. I Love the way a pencil feels,<br />Copic Markers are wonderful and I was trained in watercolor for a<br />year. I also spent 6 years doing Kids Room Murals so I have a special<br />place in my heart for acrylics. I've recently started using flash and<br />photoshop<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />Id have to say Pixar. Even if I just got to intern and never work<br />there I think the experience alone would be nothing short of<br />wonderful. There is an amazing amount of talent to learn from up<br />there.<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />There are so many.. My favorites as of lately have been Sean "Cheeks"<br />Galloway, Harold Speirman, Genndy Tartakovski, Craig McCracken, Ricky<br />Nierva, Ralph Eggleston, Peter Sohn,and Tony Fucile, Lynne Naylor, ..<br />I also love the old animator designer guys like Chuck Jones, Tex<br />Avery, Bob Clampett, Mary Blair, Tom Oreb, Ed Benedict, and Ward<br />Kimball... There are just so many<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />Any from Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom, I think the design work in<br />Samurai Jack is Brilliant as well, I really cant pick a single<br />character I like.. I'm a huge fan of animation across the board so, ..<br />too many<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />MONSTERS.. fun silly monsters. The appeal of having no limits to what<br />you can do with a monster is really nice. 5 arms, 3 feet, 50 eyes ..<br />whatever you want. I also like drawing animals these days. I'm<br />learning a lot by doing so.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />I was one of those kids who sat in front of the tv and didn't move as<br />long as there was a cartoon on. I Love the old Warner Bros stuff and<br />Disney. I later found a lot of inspiration in Hanna Barbera style.<br />Nowadays I'm finding that comics from France and other places overseas<br />have a LOT of great line and appeal.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />cartoonbrew.com<br />drawingboard.org<br />cartoonretro.com<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgusOjFXAAyqRRmN37rzricSLXpUcG8yxZUTNfbHtdLKdK3b6pGQpLzy3fgYZEow1fVkELNc-BVn9Lfk6jBjENGQ1yMSkp3ZVp3j7T6IkgeWEkeTDb2tNNILqDbG9slpEtfogNd/s1600-h/imagifrenz.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgusOjFXAAyqRRmN37rzricSLXpUcG8yxZUTNfbHtdLKdK3b6pGQpLzy3fgYZEow1fVkELNc-BVn9Lfk6jBjENGQ1yMSkp3ZVp3j7T6IkgeWEkeTDb2tNNILqDbG9slpEtfogNd/s320/imagifrenz.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142510041618051666" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjagN2-mUYoF7oyiIX85-yGwmHp0d-JvomA7aF9vP57fIgRcTQNuYf0ROB3zDOtWRSz490obUjjtuOgh42JN24mXtZkXnbLybvQAlpfFZrWolEExhV5a4pP7Q0mVDrA23q8vMiE/s1600-h/nutz.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjagN2-mUYoF7oyiIX85-yGwmHp0d-JvomA7aF9vP57fIgRcTQNuYf0ROB3zDOtWRSz490obUjjtuOgh42JN24mXtZkXnbLybvQAlpfFZrWolEExhV5a4pP7Q0mVDrA23q8vMiE/s320/nutz.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142510045913018978" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuKDrj_J4KAR7JYwqJn6dRUtgpVVyXNkcXA-lATKIUvBLugUhkVQIFbd5TfdiE8fsIcOVww2t5sVU7mNgUOklyuwsqPpMJ_WtlzbcMoTaPQLaj8FHeoq-M2kO0X_GbmVMauEoV/s1600-h/ruthie+copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuKDrj_J4KAR7JYwqJn6dRUtgpVVyXNkcXA-lATKIUvBLugUhkVQIFbd5TfdiE8fsIcOVww2t5sVU7mNgUOklyuwsqPpMJ_WtlzbcMoTaPQLaj8FHeoq-M2kO0X_GbmVMauEoV/s320/ruthie+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142510050207986290" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJiutemQAB6eAR1FkN2dtXOo3_kU59sHqUdRJi4qIYgQgtBgZ6VbfCvZajMldD-3H-QBhzpJs3sZVfADREp_LciTI684bKBvd3hr1zLeA1ttcDVVsdfnpax24BP7nXARt1ahUL/s1600-h/swing.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJiutemQAB6eAR1FkN2dtXOo3_kU59sHqUdRJi4qIYgQgtBgZ6VbfCvZajMldD-3H-QBhzpJs3sZVfADREp_LciTI684bKBvd3hr1zLeA1ttcDVVsdfnpax24BP7nXARt1ahUL/s320/swing.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142510058797920898" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-65490609249219626922007-12-10T16:32:00.000-08:002007-12-10T16:38:51.196-08:00Kan Muftic<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />My e-mail is: info@streamatica.ch and the homepage is: www.streamatica.ch<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />Anything that'll do the job. If I'm about to make some mature, high-detailed concepts, I'll probably go with pencil on paper. That way, I can achieve the greatest amount of detail. But if I need to conceptualise various versions of the same character, I'll probably go all digital. For Moodboards or illustrations, I always go digital, from beginning to end.<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />I guess I found it: I'm hired at NC Soft Europe in Brighton ( UK ) as Senior Concept Designer.<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />Simon Bisley, no doubt. None can combine caricature and violence like him. And those wonderfull colors, yami... Besides Biz, definitely James Hewlet. I mean, the man is a legend. Tank Girl, Gorillaz... Beat that.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />Teletubbies. Really. It's a design that was / is adored by kids all around the globe. And that means something. Besides that, I dig every single sketch made by Calum Alexander Watt, known as "Salaryman".<br />And even though it's not really a humanoid character, the "EVE02" from Neon Genesis Evangelion makes my heart go bonga-wonga.<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />I guess it would be the Post-Apocalypse. Ever since I left my bosnian homelands in fire and ashes, I feel like a piece of a post-apocalyptic society myself. So that could be an aspect of my personality that comes through in my designs.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />Since I grew up in a artistic family, it didn't appeal to me at all until I went to art school in Sarajewo. Then, all of a sudden, it just came over me and I drew 12 hours a day. Then, the war came and I had a break of about ten years. I became a visual effects artist and film director after a while. But after drawing a storyboard for one of my videos, flames turned on. I then discovered conceptart.org with it's amazing designers and decided to let all go and get back to drawing and painting. That was about two years ago. Now I'm drawing for one of the biggest video game companies in the world.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />Needless to say, it's surely conceptart.org. Specially the "Sketchbook" section; scary! There are also CG Channel and CG Society as the main bookmarks for anyone involved in this business.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoW20bZjkQ6rJGBMSxsMuSlQ3uZFcTTGnQBjnnM8Ax145FF_6irJNggzASXKhs0Ox896gAj9pMrqw9pL2TnO7RUcskKrDIhyphenhyphenLRo1iMvxoCQWq-1IPqRHhsVXZ4WLbCi5XrKNuD/s1600-h/Cochise_paint.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoW20bZjkQ6rJGBMSxsMuSlQ3uZFcTTGnQBjnnM8Ax145FF_6irJNggzASXKhs0Ox896gAj9pMrqw9pL2TnO7RUcskKrDIhyphenhyphenLRo1iMvxoCQWq-1IPqRHhsVXZ4WLbCi5XrKNuD/s320/Cochise_paint.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142507980033749522" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM2zCjmyUreiKTXRD_u5vgC_Z9oP5Mvqvybe-dtJsJBz-HZQb77gBX6aJ6rJcLScj4gAxYAyFZkDZZ3irVsQ4lpyD24Ciu9wM74DyffYAesbw7ItXhdL3VGLSCZDggE7aASSLN/s1600-h/J_W_Hardin.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM2zCjmyUreiKTXRD_u5vgC_Z9oP5Mvqvybe-dtJsJBz-HZQb77gBX6aJ6rJcLScj4gAxYAyFZkDZZ3irVsQ4lpyD24Ciu9wM74DyffYAesbw7ItXhdL3VGLSCZDggE7aASSLN/s320/J_W_Hardin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142507992918651426" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeoEyGCseHd7PWFH3MbyQ6_Fn8jRazVGg3LkmajnSnUQHV7sv_V5XAJaE0-h7Ae3DMzqDBDjwcBGjaDVzkygsJQ2hAzfXvpdZBHvsFPeX3m8EqvKwsoEEaXDSdje2vLR5gPMCX/s1600-h/Pat_color.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeoEyGCseHd7PWFH3MbyQ6_Fn8jRazVGg3LkmajnSnUQHV7sv_V5XAJaE0-h7Ae3DMzqDBDjwcBGjaDVzkygsJQ2hAzfXvpdZBHvsFPeX3m8EqvKwsoEEaXDSdje2vLR5gPMCX/s320/Pat_color.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142507992918651442" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJPknnGh-MnWhqKmi-CQDalt_nvsgU-9ci1C0HQQ82Tufuh9LlgtTJPgU_UvNhHnmVDqpDql95dy9hJuz1XpDN7fIB9NeK3DcN7Rur5n4tCFV7UDNd18CTnGY7kytfEi7m1-V/s1600-h/Trash_Girl.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJPknnGh-MnWhqKmi-CQDalt_nvsgU-9ci1C0HQQ82Tufuh9LlgtTJPgU_UvNhHnmVDqpDql95dy9hJuz1XpDN7fIB9NeK3DcN7Rur5n4tCFV7UDNd18CTnGY7kytfEi7m1-V/s320/Trash_Girl.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142508005803553346" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-5140284442533005292007-09-14T13:27:00.000-07:002007-09-14T13:38:22.813-07:00Patricio Oliver<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />http://www.patriciooliver.com.ar/<br />http://www.fotolog.com/coshicabuto<br />http://www.fotolog.com/killermodels<br />po@patriciooliver.com.ar<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />Adobe Illustrator<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />I would love to do covers for marvel comics, since Im a comicbook geek ever since I was a child,<br />working with guys like Genndy Tartakovsky or Craig McCracken would be amazing too since they show me when I was younger a new style of cartoon more related to what I like and enjoy.<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />Craig McCracken, Genndy Tartakovsky, Edward Gorey, Mike Mignola Tim Burton, Bruce Tim Hayao Miyazak<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />Mike Mignolas Hellboy universe is amazing it has this mix of Gothic terror, humor and Scifi that I love. Tim Burtons The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is incredible, strange bizarre children with terrible fates are mesmerizing for me Most characters from Foster House for Imaginary friends are cool too. I can help loving Eduardos design.<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />As I said before everything related to Victorian culture, war, freak children and horror has a great appeal to me.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />Comicbooks and cartoons for sure, I love superheroes, but everything change while I was studying graphics design and Tim Burton Craig McCracken, Genndy Tartakovsky, Edward Gorey and Mike Mignola appeared in my life. The animated style of bruce Tim streamline characters gave me a new perspective in cartoon and superheroes.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />http://www.redmagicstyle.com<br />http://www.kidrobot.com/<br />http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/<br />http://www.popcultureshock.com/timm/<br />http://www.hellboy.com/<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKyoMzfdoeLf2lBX2VsPuhhJPtEPDoCHTNRDu2RvaoechUvtbTj0Y6kenHqL2LbQcaJfKY2xzqePP3kqX1PbrHvraH9Ef9B7NIlDbkJs7mlKnS5SRsKxZDgQluZnHwxWnQcYS/s1600-h/po_cuentos.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrKyoMzfdoeLf2lBX2VsPuhhJPtEPDoCHTNRDu2RvaoechUvtbTj0Y6kenHqL2LbQcaJfKY2xzqePP3kqX1PbrHvraH9Ef9B7NIlDbkJs7mlKnS5SRsKxZDgQluZnHwxWnQcYS/s320/po_cuentos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110161738388744306" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11I8DC4XAjg-smLGB2uMs55x7x8LVGLv4cS48BqJeDi57LcvVJJQ77H0638lLfittQ4GiUHhC31tLscUnQ2UQn1EKs-_J5cIFk6N6i9Qu1Dzm8qc1j2gdmyUKqGVB_8Fq2cuP/s1600-h/po_horror.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11I8DC4XAjg-smLGB2uMs55x7x8LVGLv4cS48BqJeDi57LcvVJJQ77H0638lLfittQ4GiUHhC31tLscUnQ2UQn1EKs-_J5cIFk6N6i9Qu1Dzm8qc1j2gdmyUKqGVB_8Fq2cuP/s320/po_horror.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110161742683711618" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPyZyAF4SvF4YNrTKHdA7mEgsfpD4HykHHnFj9ufbcls-_xSaAmB45c5pYbel4TuZmvgP2ReT_1mILVZ3p3USHUpAN1aVwsILo2gMUpH81nHiZa4Cbt47MLkF-EQWxBzMHPrLG/s1600-h/po_maurice.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPyZyAF4SvF4YNrTKHdA7mEgsfpD4HykHHnFj9ufbcls-_xSaAmB45c5pYbel4TuZmvgP2ReT_1mILVZ3p3USHUpAN1aVwsILo2gMUpH81nHiZa4Cbt47MLkF-EQWxBzMHPrLG/s320/po_maurice.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110161746978678930" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSi-Z73oQS9Mrvl_qAis_a4cZ_w29PL7ZG9GExUCBjWe0zDiNPcBcMj_93LWiokV9f9AW7Kp2dWsmJLMrwRuhKLVwnXuCRwmODoQZah4jjd3thtti9-aTtWtouLcXggR9vwAl7/s1600-h/po_stoneboybot.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSi-Z73oQS9Mrvl_qAis_a4cZ_w29PL7ZG9GExUCBjWe0zDiNPcBcMj_93LWiokV9f9AW7Kp2dWsmJLMrwRuhKLVwnXuCRwmODoQZah4jjd3thtti9-aTtWtouLcXggR9vwAl7/s320/po_stoneboybot.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110161755568613538" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18316194.post-37976446926202403762007-09-14T13:17:00.000-07:002007-09-14T13:23:41.958-07:00Richard Gaines<strong>If people would like to contact you, how would you like to be contacted? (Email, Webpage)</strong><br /><br />You can contact me at rgaines326@yahoo.com.<br /><br /><strong>What type of tools or media do you use?</strong><br /><br />It depends, really. Since I have a habit of doing character sketches, U usually use blue col-erase pencils or and H-B mechanical pencil. Just recently, a friend of mine introduced me to Tombows, which the Warner Bros. animators used. As soon as I used one, all the generic 2-B's and H-B's went out the window. It was like drawing with butter comparitively.<br /><br /><strong>Where is the place you would like to work or be an Intern if you had a choice?</strong><br /><br />The place I would most love to work at would have to be Disney, Warner Bros. or any similar traditional animation studio of that ilk. If not animation, I would also enjoy doing storyboards or character design at Pixar, Dreamsworks, etc.<br /><br /><strong>Who do you think are the top character designers out there?</strong><br /><br />There are so many character designers that blow me away! Of course you have Glen Keane, Andreas Deja, Florian Satzinger, Uli Meyer, Sergio Pablos (Tantor rocks!), Dave Coleman, Steve Silver, John Nevarez (king of storyboards), Mel Milton....just to name a few.<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite character designs which you have seen?</strong><br /><br />Well, I'll have to say the styles that have most influenced me have been Don Bluth (to the chagrin of many--don't know why), Walt Disney's style between the 60's through the 80's which were largely influenced by Milt Kahl and John Lounsbury, and course the animal designs in Balto. I only wish they would make cartoons like this again!<br /><br /><strong>What is your most favorite subject to draw? And why?</strong><br /><br />My favorite subject to draw is usually animals and animal-based characters. A lot of my friends say I tend to draw a lot of canine characters. Lately, though, I've finally managed to get back into life drawing. It's a breath of fresh air and you feel like you are beginning to pick<br />up on things you either forgot about or overlooked in hindsight.<br /><br /><strong>What inspired you to become an Artist?</strong><br /><br />The prospects of being an artist has been a life-long passion for me, even though I got serious about it a bit later in the game. What was most influential for me was watching classic cartoons and going "I wanna do that!!" Oftentimes, I harkened on these imaginary crusades of trying to reverse the current trends in animation and overrunning the "market-influenced" pageantry with more fun cartoons. John K. has a similar agenda and I fully reward him for that!<br /><br /><strong>What are some of your favorite website links that would be relevant to this Blog?</strong><br /><br />Some great websites would have to be Animation Nation, Cartoon Brew, Concept Art and Drawingboard.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMh7BRqQ1aY01aCwDK2NVe8Pk49I8-lNpuXc8Ae-6Os659am8BqsOVsEW372TBz01kweU4GqujbBf5SCj_Inu4PTBRpgGj-jOLn1JJ_w6UL7dlT0hlutkT_TL9AWhRmIZtzwCs/s1600-h/rg_fat_dog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMh7BRqQ1aY01aCwDK2NVe8Pk49I8-lNpuXc8Ae-6Os659am8BqsOVsEW372TBz01kweU4GqujbBf5SCj_Inu4PTBRpgGj-jOLn1JJ_w6UL7dlT0hlutkT_TL9AWhRmIZtzwCs/s320/rg_fat_dog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110158018947065906" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiizE52pY6VM-6iWe6ffyy1WzcgvWzHxsj6K4RU9J4FzU3imn2Wp2QL4LqYJHhoOZ0PachOPaGxVv0FYjZHCcR5JjUQ7AOZWECltkooDUZvBSPfFgO8M4droUE6ifwud5bs3uxM/s1600-h/rg_flee_expressions.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiizE52pY6VM-6iWe6ffyy1WzcgvWzHxsj6K4RU9J4FzU3imn2Wp2QL4LqYJHhoOZ0PachOPaGxVv0FYjZHCcR5JjUQ7AOZWECltkooDUZvBSPfFgO8M4droUE6ifwud5bs3uxM/s320/rg_flee_expressions.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110158023242033218" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVeVJO13tLNtfiNqCYAXKF7EHJopTJQ-s83L4NZdLqjolONtFmDByHB78cWMrqPy9WeYRw_k0WKMPvabnMIcdzMJB2udzHFtgsu_7nm-NivlJFVH6B1TQBJx11cIuvrVQC9VZL/s1600-h/rg_july_fourth-bats.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVeVJO13tLNtfiNqCYAXKF7EHJopTJQ-s83L4NZdLqjolONtFmDByHB78cWMrqPy9WeYRw_k0WKMPvabnMIcdzMJB2udzHFtgsu_7nm-NivlJFVH6B1TQBJx11cIuvrVQC9VZL/s320/rg_july_fourth-bats.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110158023242033234" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatNigbvcts3xlFpqg-aQ_HHf4LLoYgGe5RRUMb3dIdlYy8ieni9HNT7WATL3vOLzXSZ1pXfvFNg31xPRXDDogGm7Be5D7yZsjyhphOi8yTH2GK35XNxjKBap1PhWJ3YWiR-8a/s1600-h/rg_native_american_wolf.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatNigbvcts3xlFpqg-aQ_HHf4LLoYgGe5RRUMb3dIdlYy8ieni9HNT7WATL3vOLzXSZ1pXfvFNg31xPRXDDogGm7Be5D7yZsjyhphOi8yTH2GK35XNxjKBap1PhWJ3YWiR-8a/s320/rg_native_american_wolf.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110158027537000546" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/">CLICK HERE TO GO BACK TO THE CHARACTER DESIGN HOMEPAGE</a>JOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13887684248746157017noreply@blogger.com0