Presented by Indie Memphis and sponsored by The Film Program in the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis. Additional support provided by ArtsFirst and the First Tennessee Foundation.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers presents six independent documentary films from September through April – each with the filmmaker in attendance for a post-screening conversation with the audience about the film and their work.
Studio on the Square
Tickets are $8 each / $6 for Seniors / Free for Indie Memphis members and students with valid ID.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information, visit www.southarts.org.
Meet Evan Cheng a character designer for Sesame Workshop he talks about how characters are simplely made up of lines and how you use these lines help give them weight. The depth of this action helps emphasis the back history of your character to the audience before they even hear it. As a designer for Sesame Workshop, he gets to refine and reimagine an iconic group of creatures: characters like Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, and Oscar the Grouch. In his spare time, he creates custom designs and products for his own line, 2Bs. But he didn't always have this much creative freedom. As he explains in this short film, it was the work on 30s, his 30-minute alternative takes on the Sesame line, and on a cartoon alter ego.
This Master Session with renown Visual Development artist Chen-Yi's was an extraordinary experience to professionals, and in-training animation artists alike. Chen-Yi's talent and sensibility to create compelling characters is simply amazing.
He joined Disney Feature Animation in 1993 on Mulan, as the Artistic Supervisor, and was honored by the National Cartoonist Society with a Reuben Award in 1998 for his design of Mulan.
Since then, Chen-Yi had worked at Disney for 13 years as character designer and story artist on projects like "Tarzan", "Home on the Range", "Frankenweenie,” "Bolt,” "Joe Jump" (later called "Wreck-It Ralph" and many others.
In 2008, Chen-Yi joined DreamWorks Animation as a story artist and worked on "How to Train Your Dragon", "Kung Fu Panda II" and "The Croods.”
Chen-Yi started directing animated feature films in 2011 at Sofa Studio on the project "Moon Forgets.”
A demonstration by character designer Len Simon
He worked for fatcatanimation as an animation director
He has his own blog full of different work he has done over the years Len simon
Oguguo Odunze
An comic/manga artist who is producing his own comic "Apple Black" this is his take on creating characters.
BLESSED BY “MERLIN” (AKA THE GOD OF SORCERY) WITH THE ARODIHS ARM, SANO, A YOUNG SORCERER RAISED AND TRAINED IN ISOLATION AND SECRECY, HAS NOW BEEN RELEASED INTO THE EDEN CONTINENT FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF BRINGING FORTH TRUE PEACE AND HARMONY.
WHEN HIS FELLOW GIFTED ALLIES AND SORCERERS ACCOMPANY SANO ON HIS QUEST, SANO LEARNS THAT TREACHERY, BETRAYAL AND EVIL HAVE PLAGUED NEARLY EVERYONE WITHIN EDEN. HAUNTED BY NIGHTMARES OF BOTH THE MURDER OF HIS FATHER AND THE DECIMATION OF HIS OWN TRIBE, SANO WILL NOT REST UNTIL THE MYSTERY OF THESE TRAGEDIES ARE RESOLVED.
RIDDING EDEN OF EVIL WILL REQUIRE HIM TO LEARN THE SECRETS BEHIND HIS FATHER'S RESEARCH ON THE IMMENSE SOURCE OF POWER THAT IS “APPLE BLACK”.
He Has an Youtube channel and Deviantart about that describes his journey to becoming a professional comic/manga artists.
Warner Bros animator, Lynell Forstall,tells you how he started in the animation business. He has worked as a character designer & storyboard artist on hit shows like -- Batman, Johnny Bravo, The Boondocks & Legion of Superheroes. Some Other Character Designers in the Animation Business
Animation Club is hosting a character day this friday in Mac Lab 4 from 4-6pm we'll have movies and candy come have a stress relieving day with us at the animation club.
