Working as a freelance character designer requires a solid understanding of one’s own creative process and the ability to deliver artwork in a fast-moving pipeline. As an artist, it’s your job to come ...

Well-designed or distracting? These portfolios are bound to spark debate. When you first pull up the freelance designer Nick Jones’s personal website, it looks fairly normal: a subtle gray pattern ...

DC Comics is about to enter an exciting new era, treating fans to an exclusive look at a new character design for the upcoming series, Absolute Batman. As one of DC's most iconic superheroes, Batman's ...

Getting character design right is as complex as composing a melody, says Disney’s vet animator Glen Keane, who supervised the animation of “Tangled” and designed Rapunzel. “Working with 3D computer ...

On August 17th, ParaNorman, the second feature film from Oregon-based animation studio Laika (Coraline), will hit movie screens nationwide. The film’s veteran co-directors, Sam Fell (The Tale of ...

Berlin-born character design platform Pictoplasma will once again land stateside this September for its 11th edition in the Big Apple, promising two days of inspiration and networking at Manhattan’s ...