Art Heroes Podcast

Brendan McCaffrey has been in the industry since 1996, and he's definitely one of the best people to speak about the inception of 3D art, as an industry. In this episode we're talking about how art technology evolved, where it all started, and how it has been changing. Besides, Brendan is talking about his current workflow, routine, tools and gives a bunch of helpful tips to optimize your processes.

SHOWNOTES:

Stylized Character Program by Art Heroes: https://academy.artheroes.co/

Moto GP Key Art by Brendan: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/gY2qe

Brendan's final project at Art Heroes: https://youtu.be/jjCnFBF2MZw

The best way to keep up to date with Brendan is on Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/bmcaff

Brendan on Behance: https://www.behance.net/bmcaff

Official website: www.bmcaff.com

In this episode, we're talking with James Cain and it's all about kick-starting career, pricing your services as as freelance artist and picking your clients. Tune in!

James is currently a Digital sculptor working freelance in the toy and collectibles industry, in the past his clients have included Dreamworks, XM studios, Axis, Sideshow, Universal Studios, Hasbro UK and Steamforged, amongst others.

He also has aspirations of becoming a monumental sculptor.

In this Christmas edition episode we're meeting Vimal Kerketta, a senior facial modeler from Double Negative (London). Vimal specializes on realistic faces, and built his way from freelancing to a top studio in just a few years. In the episode we talk about Vimal's story, pipeline and what it actually takes to make a perfect face. We also uncover Vimal's social media strategy and talk personal growth for an artist. Tune in!

In this episode, we're meeting Stephen Anderson, a concept modeler from Walt Disney Imagineering where he works sculpting attractions for the Disneyland Parks. Stephen talks about what it takes to build a career at top-notch studios, and what he's striving for, after that many years in the industry.

More on Stephen and his work: https://instagram.com/smaartist

Official site: https://www.smaartist.com/

Art Station: https://www.artstation.com/smaartist

In this podcast episode, we're chatting with Daniele Danko, an italian 3D artist famous for his character art for collectionists. Daniele made a big leap changing his career from biologist to a 3D artist at the age of 30 and never looked back. He talks about making this change, crafting personal style as a 3D character artist, and what it actually takes to build a career and get stable clients within the collectionists' world.

More about Daniele's art: https://www.artstation.com/danko

Artwork mentioned during the episode:

Joker: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6b6w

Charlie Chaplin: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rKElG

Tode: https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/016/358/045/large/daniele-danko-angelozzi-08.jpg?1551861007

Welcome to the Art Heroes Podcast!

Meet your host, Maria JD, and learn about what's coming up next. We're also celebrating this podcast launch with a cool giveaway and raffling a $2000 worth of prizes (listen to learn more!)