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Art Cafe Podcast

146 episodes - English - Latest episode: 30 days ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratings

Art Cafe is a podcast hosted by animation director and film industry artist Maciej Kuciara. Through the lens of of world renown artists, designers, directors and entrepreneur, the podcast gives a glimpse into the art industry with informative, inspiring and absolutely candid and uncut conversations.

Get informed, get inspired. Unlock your creative mind.

ABOUT HOST

Maciej Kuciara is California based director and artist working in entertainment, clothing and technology. His involvement can be found in numerous critically acclaimed projects ranging from video games such as The Last of Us to films such as Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Ghost in the Shell and Avengers: infinity War to name a few.

Maciej is also a co-founder of Learn Squared, an art education platform providing world-class art education to over 15,000 students and numerous AAA studios worldwide.

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Episodes

Art Cafe #49 - Aaron Limonick

May 24, 2017 07:02 - 1 hour - 58.6 MB

Aaron Limonick is a senior concept artist working for Naughty Dog, Inc, who worked on such titles as The Last of Us and Uncharted 4. http://www.limonick.com Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

Art Cafe #48 - David Levy

May 24, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 93.5 MB

David Levy is a leading international concept artist and production designer. He studied industrial design and architecture in France and the Netherlands respectively, and is currently working in Los Angeles, California as production designer and senior concept artist in the movie and videogame industry. He has worked on the major motion pictures: Tron Legacy and sequel, from Disney, The Thing, from Universal, Prometheus, from 20th Century Fox, Ender’s Game, from Odd Lot Entertainment, Spectr...

Art Cafe #47 - Khang Le

May 24, 2017 06:52 - 1 hour - 79.8 MB

Steve Jung is an Art Director at Universal Pictures in Los Angeles, California. Follow Steve on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/stevejungart If you like what I do, you can support Art Cafe with Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

Art Cafe #46 - Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau

May 24, 2017 06:47 - 1 hour - 46.8 MB

Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau is an illustrator, designer and educator living in Singapore. He is also co-founder and creative director of Imaginary Friends Studios, known for working with Capcom, DC Comics, Valve, Riot Games among others. http://artgerm.com/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

Art Cafe #45 - Tim Flattery

May 24, 2017 06:45 - 1 hour - 100 MB

Tim Flattery is a professional concept artist and illustrator that has worked in the film industry since 1988. His projects throughout his career include Back to the Future II, Saving Private Ryan, Men In Black, Terminator Salvation and many more. Tim is currently working as a concept artist at Marvel and Disney and is former chair of the Entertainment Design department at Art Center College of Design. http://timflattery.com/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

Art Cafe #44 - Scott Robertson

May 24, 2017 06:44 - 1 hour - 116 MB

Scott Robertson is Designer, Author, former Chair of Entertainment Design at Art Center College of Design and Founder of Design Studio Press. www.designstudiopress.com www.drawthrough.com Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing by Margaret Livingstone http://amzn.to/2e8Jda3 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

Art Cafe #43 - US Immigration - Alexandria Neonakis & Robert L. Herreria

May 24, 2017 06:41 - 1 hour - 136 MB

Alexandria Neonakis is UI Designer and Illustrator at Naughty Dog, Inc http://www.alexneonakis.com/ Robert L. Herreria is Immigration Lawyer, Associate with Jackson & Hertogs, LLP in San Francisco, CA http://www.jackson-hertogs.com/

Art Cafe #42 - Mahtias Verhasselt

May 24, 2017 06:29 - 1 hour - 109 MB

Mathias Verhasselt is an Art Director working at Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine, CA Website - http://mv.cgsociety.org/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mathias.verhasselt/

Art Cafe #41 - Emmanuel Shiu

May 24, 2017 06:24 - 1 hour - 84.7 MB

Emmanuel Shiu is a Concept Artist and Designer working in the Film and Video Game industries. His clients include Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros and Universal to name a few. http://www.eshiu.com/

Art Cafe #40 - Vitaly Bulgarov

May 24, 2017 06:10 - 1 hour - 118 MB

Vitaly Bulgarov is industrial and entertainment designer working from Las Vegas, Nevada. His client list include Boston Dynamics, Intuitive Surgical, ILM, Paramount Pictures and more. http://www.bulgarov.com Books mentioned during our talk: Eat That Frog - Brian Tracy http://amzn.to/2cSVG2k Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long - George Leonard http://amzn.to/2czqplw Mastery - Robert Greene http://amzn.to/2cyHOxS

Art Cafe #39 - Shaddy Safadi

May 24, 2017 06:08 - 1 hour - 106 MB

Shaddy Safadi is Founder and Art Director of entertainment design outsourcing studio One Pixel Brush: www.onepixelbrush.com

Art Cafe #38 - Scott Schneider

May 24, 2017 06:03 - 1 hour - 126 MB

Scott Schneider is set designer and member of Local 800 Art Director's guild with over 25 years experience in feature film https://filmdesigner.artstation.com/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0774021/

Art Cafe #37 - Andre Luis

May 24, 2017 05:37 - 1 hour - 80.4 MB

Andre Luis is Co-Founder and Manager of Trojan Horse was a Unicorn Festival in Troia, Portugal. https://trojan-unicorn.com/ https://trojan-unicorn.com/tv

Art Cafe #36 - Justin 'Coro' Kaufman

May 24, 2017 05:25 - 1 hour - 37.8 MB

Justin 'Coro' Kaufman is founder and art director of artist collective Massive Black, which specialize in concept design and illustration for film, games and TV: http://massiveblack.com/

Art Cafe #35 - Aaron Limonick

May 24, 2017 05:21 - 1 hour - 104 MB

Aaron Limonick is a senior concept artist working for Naughty Dog, Inc, who worked on such titles as The Last of Us and Uncharted 4. www.limonick.com

Art Cafe #34 - Mark Chang

May 24, 2017 05:18 - 1 hour - 69.3 MB

Mark Chang is a concept artist from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Check out his impressive 3D style frames done with Cinema4D and Octane: https://equinoz.artstation.com/

Art Cafe #33 - Andree Wallin

May 24, 2017 05:12 - 1 hour - 44.1 MB

Andrée Wallin is a concept artist working mainly with feature films and commercials. In 2013 he started creating his own IP's and is currently developing a project entitled STATE ZERO through his company Number 81 Entertainment. Andrée is represented by WME. www.andreewallin.com

Art Cafe #32 - Josan Gonzalez

May 24, 2017 05:08 - 1 hour - 46.7 MB

Josan Gonzalez is an artist and author of Future is Now: Volume One and Two books, successfuly crowdfunded via Kickstarter. Check his amazing portfolio and kickstarter page: http://www.fsix.es/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1410842311/the-future-is-now-volume-two Discussed in stream: Paper: lana Bristol Board 250gr Pen: Tombow Penbrush Comic influences: Geof Darrow, Loisel, Manara, Otomo, Hiroaki Samura, Alfonso Font

Art Cafe #31 - Vaughan Ling

May 24, 2017 05:03 - 1 hour - 93.5 MB

Vaughan Ling is concept designer working in film and animation, Los Angeles. He's most known from his work done for Tron: Uprising TV animated series as well as amazing 3D concept renders done with Modo. Check his website: http://www.heavypoly.com/

Art Cafe #30 - Alex Figini

May 24, 2017 04:41 - 1 hour - 122 MB

Alex Figini is one of the guys involved in Mass Effect's 12 - Month epilogue and he will be joining us July 28th! to share a bit of his story and work, come join in on the questions and answers or just hang out and listen! Some books mentioned in this stream: Molly Bang - Picture This http://amzn.to/2a3GikN Bruce Block - The Visual Story: Seeing the structure of Film, TV and Digital Media http://amzn.to/2akZYzy

Art Cafe #29 - Grant Warwick

May 24, 2017 04:19 - 2 hours - 178 MB

We have the pleasure of interviewing Grant Warwick, a self taught artists who teaches through his own business - Mastering CGI. http://masteringcgi.com.au/ Workflow mentioned during the stream: Creating Mastering Vray style shaders in Maya http://www.magnus-olsson.se/?p=133

Art Cafe #28 - Ash Thorp

May 23, 2017 20:27 - 1 hour - 160 MB

This special episode was just fun conversation and hanging out with my friend and business partner Ash Thorp www.ashthorp.com

Art Cafe #27 - Leonard Teo, Daniel Wade

May 22, 2017 18:45 - 1 hour - 115 MB

ArtStation is the showcase platform for games, film, media & entertainment artists. It enables artists to showcase their portfolios in a slick way, discover & stay inspired, and connect with new opportunities. Leonard Teo is CEO and founder of www.artstation.com Daniel Wade is a Product Manager at www.artstation.com

Art Cafe #26 - James Paick

May 22, 2017 18:38 - 1 hour - 137 MB

James Paick is a founder and Creative Director at Scribble Pad Studios. James has over 15 years of design experience and has developed many projects within the gaming, film, theme park, illustration, entertainment space and advertising fields. Hope to see you all soon! https://www.scribblepadstudios.com/

Art Cafe #25 - John Park

May 19, 2017 21:06 - 1 hour - 132 MB

Join us as we interview legendary concept artist John Park as he fills us in on the history of his career, how he thinks, and where he's headed in the future! http://www.jparked.com/

Art Cafe #24 - Fausto De Martini

May 19, 2017 19:25 - 1 hour - 101 MB

We are excited to chat with Fausto De Martini a Freelance Concept Artistist with great experience in the field of video game Cinematics who recently made a move to work as an Art Department’s concept Artist/Illustrator for movies. http://www.faustodesign.com/

Art Cafe #23 - Beeple

May 19, 2017 18:59 - 1 hour - 116 MB

Beeple is Mike Winkelmann, we have the honor of picking the brain of such an awesome artist, a graphic designer from Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. His short films have screened at onedotzero, Prix Ars Electronica, the Sydney Biennale, Ann Arbor Film Festival and many others. http://www.beeple-crap.com/

Art Cafe #22 - Eytan Zana

May 19, 2017 18:54 - 1 hour - 105 MB

This Art Cafe is going to be an amazing one! The Concept Artist at Naughty Dog Inc, will be joining us. Come join in to ask questions and get answers from the amazing Video Game Concept artist Eytan Zana. https://www.artstation.com/artist/eytan

Art Cafe #21 - Kirill Chepizhko

May 19, 2017 18:53 - 1 hour - 88.2 MB

Kirill Chepizhko is 3D concept designer based of San Francisco, California. https://www.artstation.com/artist/fett

Art Cafe #20 - Portfolio Reviews

May 17, 2017 18:55 - 1 hour - 99.3 MB

Reviewing portfolios of Art Cafe fans!

Art Cafe #16 - Edon Guraziu

May 16, 2017 23:21 - 1 hour - 97.2 MB

Edon is freelance artist working from Wageningen, Netherlands. Most notably he've done some work for Star Citizen, a highly anticipated sci-fi crowdfunded video game done by Foundry42 studio. Edon also works on some undisclosed projects including more video games and films. https://www.artstation.com/artist/guraziu

Art Cafe #15 - Learn Squared

May 16, 2017 23:16 - 2 hours - 181 MB

The co-founders of Learn Squared want to invite you for inspiration infused chat about WHY we launched our school, what motivates us and how we envision future of art community and art education.

Art Cafe #14 - Marco Nelor

May 09, 2017 04:55 - 1 hour - 109 MB

Marco is freelance illustrator based in Chicago, IL. Most recent and notable project he work on is Mortal Kombat X for which he created variety of awesomeness. What impress me personally the most however is his amazing traditional drawing skills as well as dedication to craft. http://marconelor.com/ https://instagram.com/marconelor

Art Cafe #13 - Levi Peterffy And Alex Brady

May 09, 2017 04:14 - 1 hour - 146 MB

Alex is a freelance concept artist working in games, film and product design living in Cambridge, England. https://aj-brady.squarespace.com/ Levi Peterffy is a concept artist and matte painter in film industry working in London.

Art Cafe #12 - Ross Tran

May 08, 2017 20:04 - 1 hour - 147 MB

Ross is an illustrator and concept designer based in Los Angeles, California.He designed Echo for Relativity Media but is better known for his energy-infused YouTube channel, Ross Draws: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLEVrhumRsK67JkP3G4w5cQ https://www.patreon.com/Rossdraws?ty=h

Art Cafe #11 - Scott Ross

May 08, 2017 02:59 - 1 hour - 93.2 MB

Digital Domain co-founder and VFX industry legend Scott Ross joins us to share how he got his start in the industry, the pitfalls of major visual effects films, and what he thinks are the most realistic solutions to the industry's woes. SHOW NOTES: Scott's Blog: www.scottaross.com Digital Domain: http://www.digitaldomain.com/ ILM: http://www.ilm.com/

Art Cafe #10 - Efflam Mercier

May 05, 2017 19:23 - 1 hour - 178 MB

Efflam Mercier discusses the beginnings of his career, some very technical insight regarding the science of lighting, working with references, and perservering in the face of adversity. SHOW NOTES: Jeremy Vickery's Gnomon Workshop: http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/981/Efficient-Cinematic-Lighting#.Vd9i4fZVhBc Sam Nielson on Schoolism: http://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=3 Color Correction Handbook: http://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/032...

Art Cafe #09 - Ash Thorp

May 05, 2017 19:02 - 1 hour - 407 MB

Ash Thorp is a graphic designer, illustrator, artist, and creative director for a multitude of media, including feature films, commercial enterprises, and print. http://ashthorp.com/

Art Cafe #08 - André Luís

May 05, 2017 18:35 - 2 hours - 95.2 MB

André Luís is Co-Founder and Manager of Trojan Horse was a Unicorn Festival in Troia, Portugal. https://trojan-unicorn.com/

Art Cafe #07 - Raf Grassetti, Josh Herman, Rodrique Pralier and Colin Thomas

May 05, 2017 02:29 - 2 hours - 97.9 MB

Raf Grassetti is Lead Character Artist for Sony Santa Monica. https://grassetti.wordpress.com/ Josh Herman is Character Artist and Designer working in Film industry, best known for his Iron Man Mark 2 and Mark 45 suits. http://droidsforsale.com/home/ Colin Thomas is Character Artist working for Naughty Dog, Inc. http://www.muditup.com/ Rodrigue Pralier is Principal Artist for Warner Bros., Montreal. https://www.artstation.com/artist/rodrigue_pralier

Art Cafe #06 - Sebastian Gromann

May 03, 2017 18:44 - 1 hour - 54.5 MB

Sebastian Gromann is Berlin based concept artist at Karakter Studio. https://www.artstation.com/artist/sebastiangromann

Art Cafe #05 - Steven Illous and Ash Thorp

May 03, 2017 05:04 - 1 hour - 81.9 MB

Steven Ilous is a director, writer, producer and visual effects supervisor as well as the founder of SMI Entertainment working with New Regency, best known for his short film Polis http://smi-ent.com/ Ash Thorp is a graphic designer, illustrator, artist, and creative director for a multitude of media, including feature films, commercial enterprises, and print. http://ashthorp.com/

Art Cafe #04 - Shaddy Safadi and John Sweeney

May 03, 2017 04:41 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB

Shaddy Safadi is founder of One Pixel Brush, art outsourcing studio for Video Games, Film and TV http://www.onepixelbrush.com John Sweeney is Senior Concept Artist at Naughty Dog http://sweeneyillustrates.blogspot.com/

Art Cafe #03 - Breaking into Video Games Industry

May 03, 2017 01:39 - 2 hours - 84.2 MB

David Lesperance is Environment Artist working at Valve Software http://david-lesperance.squarespace.com/ Rafael Grassetti is Lead Character Artist at Sony Santa Monica http://grassetti.wordpress.com/ Jung Park is Lead Concept Artist at Respawn Entertianment http://www.jungparkart.com/ Ryan Hawkins is founder of Art by Papercut and artist at Valkyrie Entertainment http://artbypapercut.com/ Nick Gindraux is Senior Concept Artist at Naughty Dog http://ngindrauxportfolio.blogspot.com/ Alex Neona...

Art Cafe #02 - Dan LuVisi and Anthony Jones

May 02, 2017 22:08 - 1 hour - 50.9 MB

Dan LuVisi is a creator of Last Man Standing and Popped Culture books. Anthony Jones is an artist and educator working in film and video games out of Irvine, California.

Art Cafe #01 - Dan LuVisi

April 28, 2017 04:30 - 1 hour - 53.8 MB

Dan LuVisi is an artist from Los Angeles, California, creator of Last Man Standing and Popped Culture books. https://www.artstation.com/artist/danluvisiart

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