Lip Comarella

NorCal and Shill

English - June 30, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
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Lip Comarella

Episode 42: Show Notes.

“The best opportunities I had here were always coming from people understanding what they are doing here, and what I’m doing here, and together, we can possibly bring something even better.” As quoted, our guest today is Netflix Animations art director, Lip Comarella. Hailing from the far North of Italy and currently based in Los Angeles, Lip’s passions lie in tool-agnostic, emotional storytelling, and the pursuit of artistic excellence. He has won multiple Apple Design Awards, as well as the coveted Annie and Cannes of Gold Lions awards. Apart from being an art director and digital fine artist, Lip is also a Finnish Sauna evangelist. Join us as we talk about his thoughts on NFTs, how he got into art, his breakthrough piece of art, what inspired his creative style, his appreciation for new relationships, and so much more! This is one not to be missed!

Key Points From This Episode:

• The joys of making connections in the NFT space.

• Lip’s initial thoughts on NFTs and the attraction to NFTs as a product.

• How Lip got into art and what inspired his creative style!

• Much Better Now as a starting point for our guest.

• Hear about his other jobs, apart from being an artist.

• The animal Lip would choose to be, and why.

• We talk about a bread fixation.

• One piece of advice he received in high school that stands out above all the rest.

• “Cherish your relationships” and other advice for first-time NFT artists.

• Lip’s ideal home destination, and why.

• The love he had for being at school.