Allan McKay is a Los-Angeles based visual effects supervisor and technical director. He is responsible for visual effects sequences in projects including Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Blade, The Last Airbender, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Flight, The Equalizer, and other films.  www.allanmckay.com https://www.instagram.com/allanmckayofficial   Follow me at: https://www.instagram.com/maciejkuciara  https://www.kuciara.com  Showtime Film is OUT! https://www.showtimeanime.com   Merch: https://shop.kuciara.com/  Gear and Books Recommendations https://www.kit.co/maciejkuciara

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Art Cafe is a podcast hosted by animation director and film industry artist Maciej Kuciara. Through the lens of of world renown artists, designers, directors and entrepreneur, the podcast gives a glimpse into the art industry with informative, inspiring and absolutely candid and uncut conversations.

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Maciej Kuciara is California based director and artist working in entertainment, clothing and technology. His involvement can be found in numerous critically acclaimed projects ranging from video games such as The Last of Us to films such as Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Ghost in the Shell and Avengers: infinity War to name a few. 

Maciej is also a co-founder of Learn Squared, an art education platform providing world-class art education to over 15,000 students and numerous AAA studios worldwide.

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Michah Dowbak aka Mad Dog Jones is a multidisciplinary artist from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Dowbak rose to fame in the world of crypto art with the recent success of his Crash + Burn series of NFT artworks, and he is now a headliner in the first major NFT art exhibition at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Michah has also designed a helmet graphics for F1 racing 7 time world champion Lewis Hamliton and livery design for winning MotoGP team VR46 Valentino Rossi.

Artistic Provenance and Art Medium Journey /w Mad Dog Jones - Art Cafe #147

George Hull is a legendary artist and illustrator know for his iconic design work for Matrix Trilogy, Dune (Part 1 and 2) and more.

https://www.ghull.com/
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Film Industry, Directors, Expectations - w/ Legendary Artist George Hull - Art Cafe #146

David Levy is an award winning designer, artist and art director known for his work for films such as Avatar, Tron: Legacy, Star Wars EP9 and more.

David's website: https://vyleart.com/home
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Film Industry is Changing, Art Legacy, IPs and AI with David Levy - Art Cafe #145

Benjy Brooke is a supervising director on Scavengers Reign Max tv mini series and at Green Street Pictures, Los Angeles, California.


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Mentors, Animation and Artistic Growth with Benjy Brooke - Art Cafe #144

Joe Bennett is a co-creator of Scavenger's Reign, animation director and co-founder of Green Street Pictures.

https://www.josephbennett.tv/
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Professionalism and Hustle /w Allan McKay - Art Cafe #131

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