Yorick-Brown In reply to Gevio [2009-07-31 16:55:01 +0000 UTC]

cheers mate, i'm liking your work too. Seems like you're going for a photo-realistic look. You should check out James Jean if you haven't already.

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Gevio In reply to Yorick-Brown [2009-08-02 14:48:30 +0000 UTC]

thank you ..the guy is amazing, i didn't know him

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Yorick-Brown In reply to a-archer [2009-04-07 14:43:08 +0000 UTC]

No worries man, your work is brilliant! You remind me of Ed McGuinnes/ Francis Manapul. If i sent you one of my scripts, you think you could take a look, see if you're interested?

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Yorick-Brown In reply to StockmanArt [2009-02-05 17:16:01 +0000 UTC]

No worries man, absolutely love your stuff. Keep it coming!

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Yorick-Brown In reply to Chadfuller [2009-02-04 11:43:24 +0000 UTC]

No worries. You do a lot of journal entries!

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Chadfuller In reply to Yorick-Brown [2009-02-04 18:03:00 +0000 UTC]

lol I love talking movies!

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Yorick-Brown In reply to dfridolfs [2009-01-29 21:58:09 +0000 UTC]

No worries

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Yorick-Brown In reply to sarahhorner [2009-01-27 17:56:12 +0000 UTC]

I've already done the tesco thing (trolley boy age 16-18). I'm now 19, so i dont know why i am worrying so much. I am a 2d student, so something in 2d. My dream would be to work in comics but, i dunno... i like design and concept work etc. Anything that involves me drawing all day really and creating. Any skills i should have that you could recommend too?

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sarahhorner In reply to Yorick-Brown [2009-01-28 11:41:39 +0000 UTC]

well hopefully by the time you finish uni the industry may have picked up a bit, it always has its ups and downs. The 2d industry tends to be quite freelance in this country, especially for animation, I did some freelance work when I left uni but 2d went into a bit of a freefall and all people wanted was 3d so I had to retrain if I wanted to carry on being an animator.

Concept art is like the holy grail and you have to be shit hot to get a job in it and also be able to draw everything (characters, creatures, costumes, vehicles, backgrounds, even boring innanimate objects like lamposts) and there's usually very few advertised vacancies, companies tend to hire for these positions from within the industry, so it's excrutiatingly hard for graduates to get jobs in this.

But if you want to persue this I'd suggest going to every life drawing class you can find, your work will improve no end, check out every photoshop tutorial you can get your hands on, get access to a wacom tablet and practice practice practice until your fingers bleed. (check out conceptart.org there's real pro's there with some great tutorials) as for getting into comics I'm not to sure how that industry works, but some people seem to have some success online and eventually publish there work in print, I imagine that's a good way to get noticed. Basically my advice is if you want it and try hard enough at it you'll eventually get in, it's just a very competitive industry.

ooh also network at every possible animation festival and jobs fair going, every single piece of work I've got has been through networking.

Hope that helps and doesn't scare you to death lol, feel free to ask me anything else though, good luck x

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Yorick-Brown In reply to sarahhorner [2009-01-28 14:16:11 +0000 UTC]

Cheers! The advicer is very very scary, but all stuff i needed to hear. I went to life drawing last night for the first time in six months and i have completely lost it all, but i'm getting back on it. I've dabbled with a wacom now and then for the past few years but recently i've become determined to get hardcore at it. My main concern is, what happens to your social life when you're working this hard at something? I mean i know that sounds silly, but again, it's another worry of mine. Sorry for bugging you again. What sort of stuff are you working on at the moment?

Again thanks for the awesome advice
Dan

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sarahhorner In reply to Yorick-Brown [2009-01-29 13:04:42 +0000 UTC]

Don't worry too much about your social life, I found mostly at uni if I got a good productive 9-5 in every day you usually can do more than enough work, it's only usually a couple of weeks before a deadline when you have to stay till 10 every night.

As for what I'm doing at the moment I can't actually talk about. But since I've been here I've animated characters on Banjo Kazooie nuts and bolts, I've done some stuff for the xbox 360 dashboard avatars and I've done a 3 month stint in the concept art department, but I'm back on animation now, which is probably the area which I'll be specialising in.

Hope that helps and feel free to bug me I've been exactly where you are, Sarah

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Yorick-Brown In reply to sarahhorner [2009-01-29 14:36:59 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much. You've been most kind if you there's anything i can help you with even though i doubt there is (unless you want adivce on drumming, writing or which comics to buy) feel free to ask. Expect me to be bugging you again soon! Now.....back to my tedious clean-up project

Thanks again,
Dan

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sarahhorner In reply to Yorick-Brown [2009-01-29 15:35:05 +0000 UTC]

No worries go on then, give us your comic advice, I've been reading transmetropolitan recently and I need something new.

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Yorick-Brown In reply to sarahhorner [2009-01-29 16:12:06 +0000 UTC]

Well, Transmetropolitan is a good start. ' Y:The Last Man ' is probably one of the best series i've ever read. Brian K. Vaughan is a writing genius and there's a female artist on that book, Pia Guerra. She isn't all bells and whistles, just good solid drawing and story telling. The series has been collected into ten paper backs. ' Blankets ' by Craig Thompson is a 600 page black and white masterpiece (it's an autobiographical graphic novel). Pride of Baghdad is amazing. Brian K. Vaughan writes again and it's got Niko Henchiron on art and it's like the Lion King meets the Iraq war. Visually stunning. I guess all those are quite indy. If you want i can spew out some reasonably good mainstream titles, or just some good comic artists?

Wow, sorry that message was so long!

Dan

P.s. Just finished cleaning up a million-billion frames, a million-billion is more like 300.

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