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Agora.Community

by David Hubert

Visual Arts Self-Improvement

Season 1

A Conversation With Steve Szczepkowski

We have an amazing first on our ‘A Conversation With’ series to kick off the New Year. It’s the first time we’ve had an audio director on the show! Steve Szczepkowski is a Senior/Executive Audio Director with 20 years of experience working in the film and gaming industries. Steve has just finished being Senior Audio Director for Marvel’s recent Guardians Of The Galaxy Video Game. In this stream, we’ll cover Steve’s broad history of creating different styles of music to suit the needs of a project, how to communicate between departments to achieve the best outcome, and the awesome work that went into staying faithful to the 80’s inspired Guardians Of The Galaxy lore. Also, check out Agora.Community for daily content, free rigs, and assets, and order an animation review from one of our industry experts: https://www.agora.community Thanks for listening!

A Conversation With Leif Jeffers

Catch up on this week's conversation with Leif Jeffers, Senior Animator at Disney. In this conversation, David, brent and Leif chat about his experiences working across multiple studios, how he handles reference footage and a Q & A from the audience. Also, check out Agora.Community for daily content, free rigs, and assets, and order an animation review from one of our industry experts: https://www.agora.community Thanks for listening!

A Conversation With Mark Thornton

In this 'A Conversation With' episode, we are hanging out with Mark Thornton. Mark has over 20 years of experience working in the 2D Episodic format. He has worked with hit shows and companies such as “Total Drama Island”, DHX Media & Brown Bag Films. From studying classical animation at Sheridan College, Mark has worked his way from being a key clean-up artist to animator, and director, and eventually co-founding Neptoon Studios. as a way to create his own I.P. for greenlighting and getting out into the world.

A Conversation With Daniel Gies

In our next "A Conversation With" let's meet Daniel Gies! Daniel is an amazingly talented self-taught artist. He has created tutorials for Pluralsight (Digital Tutors), teaching the techniques in the Adobe Creative Suite that have made him stand out so much amongst other artists. In 2012 Daniel co-founded e.d.films , an animation and film production studio based in Montreal. Also, check out Agora.Community for daily content, free rigs, and assets, and order an animation review from one of our industry experts: https://www.agora.community Thanks for listening!

A Conversation With Thomas Grummt

You might recognize our next guest on 'A Conversation With'. He’s one of our Agora Experts! Thomas Grummt has been working in animation for 15 years, and has been an Animator and Supervising Animator at DreamWorks Animation for the past 10 years. He just completed work on the upcoming adventure "The Croods: A New Age", and recently worked on the critically acclaimed "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" as Supervisor of the Light Fury dragon. In this sit-down, we’ll chat about the longevity of staying in a studio, traditional vs. online schools, and honing your craft to be able to teach others. Also, check out Agora.Community for daily content, free rigs, and assets, and order an animation review from one of our industry experts: https://www.agora.community Thanks for listening!

A Conversation With J.F. Malouin

JF Malouin, is a digital artist and entrepreneur. He has shown his work (mostly VR) all over the world, including Montreal, New York, Sao Paulo and Seoul. He has also spent 15 years, as an artist and managing creative teams. JF is the founder of Super Splendide, which creates immersive virtual reality to bring nature, beauty, and culture to those who are unable to reach them. In this conversation, we will discuss what created his passion to bring immersive experiences to the masses, the journey starting a company, and where he sees the future of VR heading! Also, check out Agora.Community for daily content, free rigs, and assets, and order an animation review from one of our industry experts: https://www.agora.community Thanks for listening!

A Conversation With Leo Sanchez Barbosa

In this ‘A Conversation With’, we are sitting down with Leo Sanchez. With twenty years of experience in the 3D Animation Industry, Leo Sanchez is a renowned reference in Character Modelling and a name consistently associated with some of the most successful productions of recent years. Having worked across Disney and Dreamworks on films such as Bolt, Tangled, and How To Train Your Dragon 2, Leo formed his own studio in which all disciplines such as Look Dev, Rigging, and Animation would be tightly brought together contributing to a much more solid character development practice. Leo Sanchez Studio has now contributed to productions such as How To Train Your Dragon 3, Croods 2, Larrikins, Angry Birds, and plenty more! In this chat, we discuss character modeling and development in the industry, Leo’s decision to form his own studio, and the benefits and challenges that came along with it! Also, check out Agora.Community for daily content, free rigs, and assets, and order an animation review from one of our industry experts: https://www.agora.community Thanks for listening!

A Conversation With Ravi Kamble

In this “A Conversation With” episode, we are catching up with Ravi Kamble, supervising animator at Dreamworks. But, you may have also seen his face around the Agora.community website as Ravi is one of the Agora Experts ready to take on your reviews. Ravi started his professional career in 2007 and has worked in several countries including Spain, UK, India and China. In 2014, Ravi was nominated for an Annie Award for his Lead Character Animator performance on “Penquins Of Madagascar” In this conversation, we’ll be discussing the importance of having a diverse range of experiences, the journey to an Annie Award nomination and adjusting to life in different countries. Also, check out Agora.Community for daily content, free rigs, and assets, and order an animation review from one of our industry experts: https://www.agora.community Thanks for listening!

A Conversation With Peter Ramsey

Are your Spidey-Senses tingling? Ours are! We are sitting down with the Director of Into The Spiderverse and Executive Producer of Across The Spiderverse, Peter Ramsey! But don't get us wrong, Peter has worked on so many more amazing films and projects across his 30+ year career starting as an illustrator/board artist and working his way through to producing some of the most amazing work of our time! Also, check out Agora.Community for daily content, free rigs, and assets, and order an animation review from one of our industry experts: https://www.agora.community Thanks for listening!

A Conversation With Justin Rasch

In this conversation, we are sitting down with Justin Rasch, an animator of many talents. From trying to find any nuggets of information he could in magazines like Cinefex, Starlog, and Fangoria to being completely blown away by the very first Jurassic Park film, Justin has built a career in CG animation and is a stop motion extraordinaire having worked at Laika. He’s currently residing as a Director and Senior Cinematic Animator at Blizzard, and has a raving social media presence and YouTube Channel. We’ll be chatting about the multiple disciplines of animation and their differences, what you can learn from different styles of animation, and building an online presence. If you'd like to watch this episode you can find it here. Also, check out Agora.Community for daily content, free rigs, and assets, and order an animation review from one of our industry experts: https://www.agora.community Thanks for listening!

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