Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Character Designer

Character Designer - Yesterday at the CTN Animation Expo in Burbank, California, I Had the privilege of sharing the demo course with character designer John Nevarez. John designs for DisneyToons, Where is he Worked Tinkerbell and Kronk,Äôs New Groove.


Both of Us Were Supposed to Demonstrate what we do in front of live cameras. The only problem Was That There Was only one drawing table, and Somehow I Was signed up to do a digital demo. That Would Have beens has laugh.¬ †

So I Asked if he Would John take the drawing table and let me set up Alongside _him_ and draw _him_ at work.


It was a real pleasure to watch John draw. He Was completely Call absorbed in the world de son imagination. He drew Figure after-face cascading from the page, just rolling straight out de son head, full of work and expression.

Thanks, John, and thanks to everyone Who hung out with us and Asked great issues while we drew pictures.


If you,Äôre interested in animation, character design, storyboarding, concept art gold, I recommend this show. It,Äôs a Relatively Small gathering, aim all the insiders from the industry are here. It,Äôs a great place to meet like minded people.

By the way, I,Äôve puts current and former students here from a lot of the art schools visited Recently I,Äôve: SJSU, LAAFA, CSUF, LCAD, ACCD, A.of A.SF, CCAD , BMI, RIT, RMCAD, Art Institute, Watts, Korpus, 3Kicks, Ringling, Otis, CalArts, and Hartford. (Links take you to my blog posts about Those visits.) A shout-out to the students back at Those schools. Creating you,Äôll be the next great animated movies

For Those here at NTC , I,Äôll be doing a signing today at noon. And I'll be we have creature design panel at 2:30 with William Stout, Terryl Whitlatch, Greg Baldwin and Dave Thomas from Creature Box, and Sue Nichols.
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John Nevarez's blog
Interview with John on Character Design