The Andrew Price Podcast

#17: Dylan Ekren - Making Good Characters

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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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