Making Good Characters, with Dylan Ekren

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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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