#17: Dylan Ekren - Making Good Characters
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 17
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Episode description
Chat with Dylan Ekren who currently works as a CG character designer at Netflix. Previous to that he worked at Disney making characters for Wreck it Ralph, Zootopia, Frozen, Big Hero 6 and the upcoming Encanto movie.
In this long ranging discussion, we cover:
- 0:00 - Intro
- 1:55 - Getting into art
- 7:49 - Good learning resources
- 25:01 - What separates out successful artists from the rest
- 31:07 - Efficient use of time
- 42:42 - Learning path for new artists
- 57:53 - Dylan's Career after college
- 1:19:20 - Moving to Netflix Animation
- 1:25:30 - Dylan's favourite artists
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