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…
By JAMIE LANG@Cartoon Brew Drawing For Nothing’ Is A Free, Updating Chronicle Of Canceled And Troubled Animated Films Full Of Artwork, Videos, And BTS Stories. Have you ever seen incredible development artwork for an animated project that you couldn’t wait to see come to fruition, only to discover that it…
Compiled by Georgia Geng, Journalist Lun Zhao @GameGrapes ”TIME IS THE LEAST SIGNIFICANT FACTOR IN THE GAMING INDUSTRY” . In the gaming industry, how long would a company prepare to win a massive triumph on the global market? Tencent’s answer: 10-20 years The Mission Tencent’s overseas revenue first appeared in…
By 猫爆炸了Cat Explosive Yingge Dance, Yingge, Engor, or “Hero’s Song,” is a form of Chinese folk dance originating from the Ming Dynasty. It is very popular in Teochew, a region in the east of Guangdong, and is one of the most representative forms of folk arts. Yingge Dance is one…
CCTV Dragon Year Spring Festival Gala creative show “Nian Jin” amazed all the netizens in China. Representing blessing and auspiciousness, the ancient Chinese pattern design integrated with music, AI and visual technology presented a glorious “Ancient fashion show” where beauty come from the paintings. The cultural symbols spanning thousands of…
