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Art Cafe Podcast

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Art Cafe is a podcast hosted by animation director and film industry artist Maciej Kuciara. Through the lens of of world renown artists, designers, directors and entrepreneur, the podcast gives a glimpse into the art industry with informative, inspiring and absolutely candid and uncut conversations. Get informed, get inspired. Unlock your creative mind. ABOUT HOST Maciej Kuciara is California based director and artist working in entertainment, clothing and technology. His involvement can be found in numerous critically acclaimed projects ranging from video games such as The Last of Us to films such as Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Ghost in the Shell and Avengers: infinity War to name a few. Maciej is also a co-founder of Learn Squared, an art education platform providing world-class art education to over 15,000 students and numerous AAA studios worldwide. www.artcafe.tv www.kuciara.store
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Art Cafe #55 - Carlos Huante

Carlos is a veteran character designer with over 30 years experience in film and animation industry. http://www.carlos-huante-monstruo.com Books mentioned in the stream (Amazon Affiliate): Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty - http://amzn.to/2m9hJrg Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport - http://amzn.to/2lrilto Support Art Cafe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

May 24, 20171 hr 40 min

Art Cafe #54 - Virginie Bourdin

Virginie Bourdin is VFX Art Director and Concept Art Supervisor in film. http://www.virginiebourdin.com/

May 24, 20171 hr 50 min

Art Cafe #53 - Nick Gindraux

Nick is a senior concept artist at Naughty Dog inc. https://www.artstation.com/artist/ngindraux

May 24, 20171 hr 40 min

Art Cafe #52 - Steve Jung

Steve Jung is an Art Director at Universal Pictures in Los Angeles, California. Follow Steve on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/stevejungart If you like what I do, you can support Art Cafe with Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

May 24, 20171 hr 25 min

Art Cafe #51 - Andy Park

Andy Park is currently Marvel Studios’ Visual Development Supervisor. Along with serving as a concept artist designing characters and keyframes, he also leads a team of artists on several of their upcoming films including Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man and the Wasp, among others. He has worked on every single Marvel Studios film since 2010 including The Avengers, Captain America: The First Avenger, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Gu...

May 24, 20171 hr 20 min

Art Cafe #50 - Bruce Straley

Bruce Straley is a Co-Director and one of masterminds behind Uncharted and The Last of Us franchise working at Naughty Dog, Inc. You can follow Bruce on twitter at: https://twitter.com/bruce_straley If you like what we do here, consider supporting the show: http://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

May 24, 20172 hr

Art Cafe #49 - Aaron Limonick

Aaron Limonick is a senior concept artist working for Naughty Dog, Inc, who worked on such titles as The Last of Us and Uncharted 4. http://www.limonick.com Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

May 24, 20171 hr 52 min

Art Cafe #48 - David Levy

David Levy is a leading international concept artist and production designer. He studied industrial design and architecture in France and the Netherlands respectively, and is currently working in Los Angeles, California as production designer and senior concept artist in the movie and videogame industry. He has worked on the major motion pictures: Tron Legacy and sequel, from Disney, The Thing, from Universal, Prometheus, from 20th Century Fox, Ender’s Game, from Odd Lot Entertainment, Spectral,...

May 24, 20171 hr 19 min

Art Cafe #47 - Khang Le

Steve Jung is an Art Director at Universal Pictures in Los Angeles, California. Follow Steve on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/stevejungart If you like what I do, you can support Art Cafe with Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

May 24, 20171 hr 15 min

Art Cafe #46 - Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau

Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau is an illustrator, designer and educator living in Singapore. He is also co-founder and creative director of Imaginary Friends Studios, known for working with Capcom, DC Comics, Valve, Riot Games among others. http://artgerm.com/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

May 24, 20171 hr 30 min

Art Cafe #45 - Tim Flattery

Tim Flattery is a professional concept artist and illustrator that has worked in the film industry since 1988. His projects throughout his career include Back to the Future II, Saving Private Ryan, Men In Black, Terminator Salvation and many more. Tim is currently working as a concept artist at Marvel and Disney and is former chair of the Entertainment Design department at Art Center College of Design. http://timflattery.com/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

May 24, 20171 hr 36 min

Art Cafe #44 - Scott Robertson

Scott Robertson is Designer, Author, former Chair of Entertainment Design at Art Center College of Design and Founder of Design Studio Press. www.designstudiopress.com www.drawthrough.com Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing by Margaret Livingstone http://amzn.to/2e8Jda3 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

May 24, 20171 hr 24 min

Art Cafe #42 - Mahtias Verhasselt

Mathias Verhasselt is an Art Director working at Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine, CA Website - http://mv.cgsociety.org/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mathias.verhasselt/

May 24, 20171 hr 39 min

Art Cafe #41 - Emmanuel Shiu

Emmanuel Shiu is a Concept Artist and Designer working in the Film and Video Game industries. His clients include Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros and Universal to name a few. http://www.eshiu.com/

May 24, 20171 hr 14 min

Art Cafe #40 - Vitaly Bulgarov

Vitaly Bulgarov is industrial and entertainment designer working from Las Vegas, Nevada. His client list include Boston Dynamics, Intuitive Surgical, ILM, Paramount Pictures and more. http://www.bulgarov.com Books mentioned during our talk: Eat That Frog - Brian Tracy http://amzn.to/2cSVG2k Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long - George Leonard http://amzn.to/2czqplw Mastery - Robert Greene http://amzn.to/2cyHOxS

May 24, 20171 hr 41 min

Art Cafe #39 - Shaddy Safadi

Shaddy Safadi is Founder and Art Director of entertainment design outsourcing studio One Pixel Brush: www.onepixelbrush.com

May 24, 20171 hr 29 min

Art Cafe #38 - Scott Schneider

Scott Schneider is set designer and member of Local 800 Art Director's guild with over 25 years experience in feature film https://filmdesigner.artstation.com/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0774021/

May 24, 20171 hr 51 min

Art Cafe #37 - Andre Luis

Andre Luis is Co-Founder and Manager of Trojan Horse was a Unicorn Festival in Troia, Portugal. https://trojan-unicorn.com/ https://trojan-unicorn.com/tv

May 24, 20171 hr 12 min

Art Cafe #36 - Justin 'Coro' Kaufman

Justin 'Coro' Kaufman is founder and art director of artist collective Massive Black, which specialize in concept design and illustration for film, games and TV: http://massiveblack.com/

May 24, 20171 hr 15 min

Art Cafe #35 - Aaron Limonick

Aaron Limonick is a senior concept artist working for Naughty Dog, Inc, who worked on such titles as The Last of Us and Uncharted 4. www.limonick.com

May 24, 20171 hr 25 min

Art Cafe #34 - Mark Chang

Mark Chang is a concept artist from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Check out his impressive 3D style frames done with Cinema4D and Octane: https://equinoz.artstation.com/

May 24, 20171 hr 6 min

Art Cafe #33 - Andree Wallin

Andrée Wallin is a concept artist working mainly with feature films and commercials. In 2013 he started creating his own IP's and is currently developing a project entitled STATE ZERO through his company Number 81 Entertainment. Andrée is represented by WME. www.andreewallin.com

May 24, 20171 hr 24 min

Art Cafe #32 - Josan Gonzalez

Josan Gonzalez is an artist and author of Future is Now: Volume One and Two books, successfuly crowdfunded via Kickstarter. Check his amazing portfolio and kickstarter page: http://www.fsix.es/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1410842311/the-future-is-now-volume-two Discussed in stream: Paper: lana Bristol Board 250gr Pen: Tombow Penbrush Comic influences: Geof Darrow, Loisel, Manara, Otomo, Hiroaki Samura, Alfonso Font

May 24, 20171 hr 34 min

Art Cafe #31 - Vaughan Ling

Vaughan Ling is concept designer working in film and animation, Los Angeles. He's most known from his work done for Tron: Uprising TV animated series as well as amazing 3D concept renders done with Modo. Check his website: http://www.heavypoly.com/

May 24, 20171 hr 8 min

Art Cafe #30 - Alex Figini

Alex Figini is one of the guys involved in Mass Effect's 12 - Month epilogue and he will be joining us July 28th! to share a bit of his story and work, come join in on the questions and answers or just hang out and listen! Some books mentioned in this stream: Molly Bang - Picture This http://amzn.to/2a3GikN Bruce Block - The Visual Story: Seeing the structure of Film, TV and Digital Media http://amzn.to/2akZYzy

May 24, 20171 hr 29 min

Art Cafe #29 - Grant Warwick

We have the pleasure of interviewing Grant Warwick, a self taught artists who teaches through his own business - Mastering CGI. http://masteringcgi.com.au/ Workflow mentioned during the stream: Creating Mastering Vray style shaders in Maya http://www.magnus-olsson.se/?p=133

May 24, 20172 hr 10 min

Art Cafe #28 - Ash Thorp

This special episode was just fun conversation and hanging out with my friend and business partner Ash Thorp www.ashthorp.com

May 23, 20171 hr 56 min

Art Cafe #27 - Leonard Teo, Daniel Wade

ArtStation is the showcase platform for games, film, media & entertainment artists. It enables artists to showcase their portfolios in a slick way, discover & stay inspired, and connect with new opportunities. Leonard Teo is CEO and founder of www.artstation.com Daniel Wade is a Product Manager at www.artstation.com

May 22, 20171 hr 29 min

Art Cafe #26 - James Paick

James Paick is a founder and Creative Director at Scribble Pad Studios. James has over 15 years of design experience and has developed many projects within the gaming, film, theme park, illustration, entertainment space and advertising fields. Hope to see you all soon! https://www.scribblepadstudios.com/

May 22, 20171 hr 39 min
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