#62 - Trouble working with Creative Directors? Awesome tips w/Sam Nielson ~ D.A. Livecast

Originally streamed on YouTube Live on Jan 10, 2025. Audio edited by Kiara Horowitz. Blizzard Entertainment! Disney! Sony Animation! Illumination Entertainment! Visual Development Artist Sam Nielsen has worked for them and more: • Viz Dev @ Skydance Animation• Character Design and Environment Design for games at Bungie, Warner Brothers Games, Disney Interactive, Activision, NBC Universal, many others• Environment and Character Design for TV for Dreamworks TV, WildAid• Figurine Design for Sideshow Collectibles, Disney Interactive• Character Design for theme park attraction, Disney Imagineering• Book Illustrations for HarperCollins, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, etc.Sam also teaches in the prestigious animation department at BYU (Brigham Young University) and makes great LinkedIn posts ... which is why Scott thought to bring him on the show. A few months, Sam made a thoughtful post about three effective kinds of directors and the rest is history you can watch unfold in this episode! Sam's Website: Interviewer Scott Wiser is currently supervising at Steamroller Studios (Supervising on Fortnite emotes. Built the Lego Fortnite emotes team, animating on Spice Frontier) and has written and directed for Spacestation Animation. He is the creator of 15 deeply meaningful feature film pitches and counting. 3 of these are Kickstarted Books and one is a short film. Any producers or executives interested in collaborating or funding on Scott Wiser's projects can peruse these pitches through the application at:

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#62 - Trouble working with Creative Directors? Awesome tips w/Sam Nielson ~ D.A. Livecast is an episode from Directing Animation Livecast by Scott Wiser.

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