Making Good Characters, with Dylan Ekren

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 Listen to The Andrew Price Podcast: Spotify: Apple Podcasts: Google Podcasts: Anchor: