by Eric Lorberer When last we sat down with the prolific Neil Gaiman, he had just published American Gods, a novel that introduced his already acclaimed storytelling skills to the realms of bestsellerdom. Since then he’s released an astonishing array of work, including the young adult novel Coraline, the graphic novels 1602 and The Sandman:…
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By The WGAW Podcast In this episode, Ahsoka creator and Mandalorian writer Dave Filoni talks about expanding the Star Wars universe, his new role as Lucasfilm’s Chief Content Officer, and more.
By Tencent Games Shadow puppetry is a form of opera in which the characters are cut out of animal skin or cardboard and illuminated by light. Three art branches have gradually formed throughout the country. Namely the Northern shadow play centered on Hebei, the Western shadow play centered on Shanxi,…
By Brooke Seggleston Building up your artistic skills is often a roundabout, confusing, and even tedious process, where we often feel like we’re stuck or plateauing. It’s easy to get into a rut with our work and practice. The main takeaway that I’d like you to gain from this video…
By Brookes Eggleston – Character Design Forge The “Aesthetic” Conundrum First, let’s get a lot of the funny/common ideas about “aesthetics” out of the way. Now, aesthetic COULD be vaporwave, digitally artifacted pink sunsets with an 80’s motif, it could be odd liminal spaces of abandoned malls from the 90’s,…
By Character Design Forge Whether you’re trying to make a career out of being a character designer, or you simply have a story you’d like to tell that needs characters, this video is a breakdown of all the things a character designer should practice and understand, including Drawing Fundamentals, Story,…
By Daniel McCoy The first systems of writing developed and used by the Norse and other Germanic peoples were runic alphabets. The runes functioned as letters, but they were much more than just letters in the sense in which we today understand the term. Each rune was an ideographic or pictographic symbol…
By Michael Ardnt Michael is the Screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I put this lecture together in 2006, when I started work at Pixar on Toy Story 3. It looks at how to write an “insanely great” ending, using Star Wars,…
By 北邦 from Shanghai China is a big country that produces numerous demons, and our ancestors also have many wonderful ideas about life just like us today. Sometimes these ideas are comfort, sometimes they are sustenance, and more often it is a spiritual symbol of the society’s resistance to the…
