Recently, I was interviewed by the great Bobby Chiu on his website Sketchoholic.com . Some of the things covered in the interview was my character design contribution to the new film Toy Story 3. If you wanna check out the interview you can see it HERE . For those of you who are new to the Sketchoholic website, here is a little run down of what you can expect to find there:
Sketchoholic.com is where animation artist Bobby Chiu broadcasts live interviews with artists in the animation, film and illustration industry and asks them to share their thoughts and beliefs about art. On other occasions, Bobby also conducts contests where he paints live and encourages people to paint along with him. Winning submissions wins some original art. The site is free to join, just head HERE to do so.
Bobby had asked me to hold a short contest of my own as well for my interview. My contest was to draw/design/create a "Wall Street Cyclops" basically a Cyclops investment banker. The submissions into the contest were awesome! Everyone really blew me away with how many unique, fun and creative ways they apporached the design challenge. You can see the submissions on the page Bobby set up for my interview HERE .
All in all, Bobby has set up a really fun and informative website at Sketchoholic.com. There are tons of great interviews that can be found all over the site with some of the most talented and inspiring artists working today. And in addition to all the great interviews on the site, the drawing/design contests that Bobby holds on the site are a particular favorite of mine, as I love spontaneous character design challenges.
Below is my good friend Austin Madison's contribution to the contest, I just love the putting green and the blue tooth ear piece!
Details on my piece below
Wall Street Cyclops
5" x 7"
Acrylic, Paper Collage & Cold Hard Cash
2010
22 comments:
great textures and design! I love the colors :) I hopefully can catch the interview! look forward to it.
Genial prize! nice and funny style, well, I would like to participate, I wonder if the prize sent to Venezuela!? haha, thank you very much for sharing all this information, be aware of the interview!
awesome! Hopefully I can catch the interview here on Australian time.
BEAUTIFULL WORK!
greetings from Chile
Hey Nate-I stumbled upon the titles you designed for 'the Back-Up Plan' on the WatchTheTitles website:
http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00177-The_Back_up_Plan
That interview was a ton of fun! Thanks a bunch and I hope to see more awesome stuff from you soon! (Great prize too! I'm super jealous).
thanks for the interview Nate! You had alot of pressure on you in those dying minutes of chooing a winner. Mine was number 18, the green cyclops sitting on the buildings.
Holy crap! Awesome interview! Thanks Nate :)
Hey Nate, just watched your interview on sketchoholic-and it was very inspiring to say the least!! It's so cool to hear other artists stories, and advice.
I think your work is awesome, and I would love to get your opinion on my work.
I know your a busy man, and any advice you could share would be very much appreciated!!!
Thanks!!!
-Aaron Wilkin
http://aaronwilkin.blogspot.com/
Fantastic interview today! It was nice to hear you talk about your character design process. Thank you for judging out work! XD
Loved the interview! thanks for sharing.
Really enjoyed your interview last night. Great work and great words!
Hi Nate,
Great interview on sketchoholic last night, your deliberation on the contest winner had me on the edge of my seat hahah.
I would really appreciate it if you could swing by my blog to give me your thoughts on my work if you ever get a free minute.
www.theskypress.com
Your web store is great too by the way. Keep on rockin the independent art!
Cheers,
Sam
Thanks for doing that interview, Nate. It was great to hear what you had to say. Concept design sounds like it can be enormously satisfying, but also quite nerve-wracking
I just wish I'd left myself more time to do a better picture for the contest - there were some fabulous entries.
So, thanks for your generosity of your art and your words! I will definitely be watching your blog.
Hey Nate, watched the interview...live! Was great to hear how you work.
Your one of my favorite artists, I read How Many Cooks often to my 3 yr old for his bed time.
I wish I wouldve gotten to meet you while you were at Pixar, but my 1st week there was your last
Would you be interested in doing a artist trade?? I have a site called www.thedailypostit.com, you can pick any one (or 2 or 3) that you want.
Figure it doesn't hurt to ask :)
Inspiring interview, Nate! Thanks a bunch! :D
Thanks for doing the interview Nate, really informative stuff!
Gabby - Hey thanks so much, if you couldn't catch the interview when it aired, it's avaliable on the Sketchoholic website.
Eugenio - Cool, hope you like the interview, and thanks for the support.
Adele - If not, it will be on their website
Tomas - Thanks
Matt - Yeah, those were fun, i'm going to do a post on them once the film comes out on DVD
Adele - Yeah, I remember yours, it was great! Thanks so much for participating, it sure looked like everyone had a fun time with their designs
Laura - Thanks for the kind words, the interview was fun to do, and hopefully people found it informative.
Matt - thanks dude!
Aaron - Thanks so much for posting the link to your site, i'll have a look and i'll be in touch soon!
Lady - So glad you enjoyed the interview, it's nice to be able to share my process in hopes of it helping other fellow artists out
Matthew - Cool, thanks!
Betsy - Hey, thanks for the support, glad you could check it out.
Sam - hey, thanks for checking out the interview, and yeah, judging the contest was too hard, eveyone submitted such amazing designs. I'd love to check out your work, i'll have a look and be in touch.
Protowilson - Hey, thanks for taking the time to check out the interview, the design process is quite a challenge, but I think that's why we as designers love creating new characters with our artwork. Thanks for the kind words, hopefully you found the interview to be informative
Aaron - Hey dude, thanks so much for the kind words, I really appreciate you taking the time to check out the interview, yours was great too by the way. And I wish we could have met before i departed for the south land, glad to hear your little one enjoys the Ratatouille book, it was fun to work on. I'll have to check out your site, as i would love to do an artist trade, I'll be in tocuh.
Charles - Thanks man, and thanks for your amazing contributions to the contest, yours were a few of my favorites, they really stood out.
James - Thanks man, glad you liked it!
Great interview. Very cool work.
Man that's fresh! Brilliant and fun, really inspiring design and media.
great monster!
Thanks everyone for swinging by! Hope the interview wasn't too boring.
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