MARC TARO HOLMES ON VISUALLY DESIGNING CHARACTERS FOR VIDEO GAMES, MOVIES + COMICS (MF GALAXY 107)
HOW HIS GAMIFIED EDUCATIONAL APPROACH CAN HELP YOU DESIGN CREATURES + CHARACTERS TO BREAK INTO THE INDUSTRY OF YOUR CHOICE, HOW TO TRANSITION FROM TRADITIONAL ART SCHOOL TO PHOTOSHOP + TABLETS LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Marc Taro Holmes knows an awful lot about art. I’m not just talking about last December when he up and got himself elected to the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, or more than twenty years ago when he got his BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. I’m talking about his more than fifteen years as an Art Director and Concept Artist for tiny outfits you’ve never heard of, such as Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Disney, and BioWare where he worked on games such as Dragon Age Inquisition, Neverwinter Nights, and Baldur’s Gate. He’s still doing contract work for game design on characters, costumes, and fantasy-historical settings. Back thirty years ago, he and I belonged to an informal group of young science fiction, comic...