Working as a freelance character designer requires a solid understanding of one’s own creative process and the ability to deliver artwork in a fast-moving pipeline. As an artist, it’s your job to come ...

Designing unique characters is one of the most critical and challenging components in game design. This is especially true when the characters are well-known figures in literature, television and film ...

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Hello everyone! My name is Aaron Blaise and I’ve been an animator, character designer, and animation feature film director for the past 30 years. I’m also an art educator and run a website called ...

Eve Forrest is a self-taught artist whose striking art style that shows how contemporary digital art and illustration can ...

Xenoblade 2’s Collector’s Edition came with a large artbook, prefaced by an introduction by game director Tetsuya Takahashi. He talked about the meaning of character designs, and some differences in ...

New York City has a new destination for animation aficionados: the Process Lab of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The lab, housed in Andrew Carnegie’s grand old office suite, is the ...

The game Shovel Knight is a breakout indie star, which went from a Kickstarter project to a massive hit. Since the game was first published in 2014, it has received critical and commercial success, ...

The release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie has meant that Donkey Kong is somewhat the talk of the town at the moment. While Illumination's take on the character has managed to stick pretty close to ...