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Creative Metaverse Podcast
by Ryan Kingslien
Welcome to the Creative Metaverse Podcast, formerly known as the Game Artist Podcast, where we interview amazing Game Artists to find out what makes them tick and how they got the job of their dreams.
Episodes
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Career Talk Jet Olaño
Hello creatives, Ryan wants you to meet Jet Olaño. Jet wears many hats; he works with Unreal Engine Virtual Production Fellowship as an Instructor/Unreal Engine Technical Artist and is the Owner Operator at The Secret Hideout. He helped to instruct Industry Professionals learn a hands-on approach...
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Career Talk Jason Belec
Hello Creatives, Ryan wants you to meet Jason Belic. He has known Jason for a really long time. All the way back to when Ryan worked at Pixologic. Ryan is putting the spotlight on Jason, so you can see a whole other dimension to the type of people and jobs in our industry. Jason is an artist, but...
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Career Talk Ashley Sparling
This week we're bringing you a talk by the amazing Ashley Sparling filled with career advice for those looking to get into the game industry. Ashley is a veteran of the industry having worked at studios like Ubisoft and others and now running his own company, K9. Make sure to learn more about...
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Career Talk Jacob Claussen
This week Ryan is turning the mic over to Jacob Claussen and his career talk. Jacob Classen is currently a Lead Environment at Fall Damage Studio in Stockholm, Sweden and a Mentor at Vertex School. In this episode, Bita and Jacob go through his amazing journey to become a professional artist and...
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Alwyn Hunt And Andrew McDonald, Co-Founders Of The Rookies
This week Ryan is talking with the Co-Founders of The Rookies, Alwyn Hunt and Andrew McDonald. Together have put together a platform for first year artists to show their hard-earned talent, in a highly commentative industry. Alwyn has an established background in fine art and the CG industry.…
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Sean Spitzer, Unreal Enterprise - Senior Instructor/ Master Mentor Artist for VP at Epic Games
Join Ryan this week as he interviews Sean Spitzer, Unreal Enterprise - Senior Instructor/ Master Mentor Artist for VP at Epic Games. Sean has been in the games industry for 18 years working in both console and social gaming verticals. He has an extensive background in education teaching game art...
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Dan Weiss, Senior Character Artist at Untold Studios
This week Ryan is interviewing Dam Weiss, Senior Character Artist at Untold Studios. Dan has worked as a Character Artist, Creature Artist and look Dev Artist in some very well-known films and shows. From titles such as Man From U.N.C.L.E., Captain America: Civil War, Renegades, Lion King and…
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Nora Shramek, Senior Lighting and Render Artist
This week Ryan is talking to the industrious Nora Shramek a Senior level Lighting and Render Artist. She helps shed some light on what it is to be a lighting artist in a studio. Learn how a robust skill set helps in her communication and collaborate in her studio pipeline. Plus, how modern artist...
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James Jacobs, Co-Founder of Ziva Dynamics and Director of Technology Incubation at Unity
Tune into this episode were Ryan sits with James Jacob Co-Founder of Ziva Dynamics and Director of Technology Incubation at Unity. James talks about his time working on project like Lord of the Rings and Avatar, as well as his current venture in tools for Rigging. See how the industry has…
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Vimal Kerketta, Digital Sculptor/Character Artist Working For Movies, Video Games & Toys
This week Ryan has the pleasure to present to you a conversation with Vimal Kerketta, a digital sculptor/character artist whose work has been featured in many movies, video games & toys. To shed light on his beginnings for aspiring artists, Vimal recounts how he started off his artistic career....
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Ian Spriggs, 3D Portrait Character Artist
Ryan is excited to present his conversation with Ian Spriggs, 3D Portrait Character Artist, who's portraits push our expectation of 3D character work. Ian's work is raw and true to the subject, but in his chat with Ryan we are shown the artistry woven into his work. How there is an intension…
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Jasmine Jai, Senior Sound Designer at HoYoverse
Ryan has the pleasure to chat with Jasmine Jai, Senior Sound Designer at HoYoverse. She crafts the sound and acoustic mood in games. Listen in on this conversation and start to listen to the ambient noise that defines your surroundings. Jasmine's job is one layer that helps build an immersive...
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Nacho Riesco, Freelance Digital Sculptor of Organic Jewelry Designs
Listen in on Ryan's chat with Nacho Riesco. Nacho is a Freelance Digital Sculptor well known for his elaborately crafted jewelry and highly engaging demos on Pixologic's YouTube channel. They will discuss Nacho's start as an artist and his view on digital sculpting from the point of view of a...
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Thomas Tobin, Senior Technical Artist At Unity Technologies
This week we have our Producer at Vertex School, Jean-Marc standing for Ryan. Join Jean-Marc's conversation with Thomas Tobin, a talented Senior Tech Artist at Unity Technologies. Also, Thomas teaches Houdini at the Vertex School and shares his knowledge of procedural design with his students....
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Kurtis Dawe, Character Artist And Lead of the Prime Ape Planet
We invite you to listen in on Kurtis Dawe and Ryan's conversation about Prime Ape Panet. Kurtis Dawe now has decided that he wants to use his skills and experience to bring a high-value project to NFT space with Prime Ape Panet. The project is headed up by Kurtis and a team of designers who are...
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Chico Spans, Vegetation Artist at Massive Entertainment
Have a listen to our chat with vertex mentor Chico Spans. Chico is a vegetation artist at Massive entertainment. Before that Chico was an environment artist at playground games as part of the road team working on Forza Horizon 4 and before that he was at Sticky studios. Chico gives us an in depth...
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Datagen, Simulating the Data that the Growing AI Industry Needs
Datagen provides high-performance data that is key to production-ready algorithms to accelerate R&D and improve computer vision models with access to a fully controllable synthetic data generation platform. In this episode, Ryan meets with Gil (CTO and Co-founder), Teddy (Marketing Manager) and...
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Jacob Claussen, Lead Environment at Fall Damage Studio
Jacob Classen is currently a Lead Environment at Fall Damage Studio in Stockholm, Sweden and a Mentor at Vertex School. In this episode, Bita and Jacob go through his amazing journey to become a professional artist and the courage to continue push his creativity. Along with being a recognized...
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Larry and Tyler, That's Nifty Podcast Hosts
Tyler and Larry have a PHd in NFTs and host a popular podcast called That's Nifty where they interview amazing artists working in this space. In this episode, Ryan talks with Tyler and Larry to unpack what an NFT and what they've learned from collecting and interview artists like Aeforia…
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Jama Jurabaev, Concept Artist / Art Director, Lucasfilm
Jama Jurabaev is a concept artist working at Lucasfilms and is founder of BigMediumSmall Studio. Recently complete design work for episodes of Boba Fett on Disney +. In this episode, Ryan and Jama go through his twitter feed to talk about Jama's amazing artwork and the tools he uses. Along with...
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Andre Holzmeister, Artist/Creator of ArtMonkees
Andre Holzmeister is the artist behind ArtMonkees' upcoming NFT release. In this podcast, we catch up with Andre just as he finishes up the last piece of art. Andre goes on to talk about how it has been his dream to create a toy collection and how that dream was impossible or insanely complicated...
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Super Pop Drop, Digital Wearable NFT creators
Have a listen to our chat with Doug and James from Super Pop Drop as they talk to us about digital artists in the fashion metaverse space! Think digital wearables and all the other assets that you need to create a fashion show like avatars, runways, lighting setups etc... You'll hear all about...
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Auriea Harvey, Digital Sculptor
Have a listen to this fascinating chat with digital sculptor Auriea Harvery from her home in Rome and Vertex here at the Leona art gallery in the heart of East Austin, TX. Auriea Harvey is a digital sculptor producing simulations and objects that bridge physical and virtual space. Auriea Harvey…
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Omar Awediah, Character Art Lead at Sucker Punch Productions
Omar Awediah is the Character Art Lead at Sucker Punch Productions and a mentor at Vertex school. Before that he was a character art lead at Amazon game studios and Obsidian entertainment and Cloud imperium games. Omar gives us a glimpse into many aspects of his life as an artist creating...
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Gio Nakpil, Creative Director
Giovanni Nakpil, Creative Director Gio, has been a digital model supervisor for Industrial Light and Magic, worked on principal creatures for "Star Trek" and "The Avengers," amongst other notable Hollywood films before switching gears to designing and building video game assets for Valve...
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Creativity & Integrity
Start projects and never finish? What does this say? To help you understand it I read a poem by Jack Gilbert called "Lovers". It's pretty neat. This lesson helped me honor my own work more and see myself differently. Hopefully it can do some good work for you as well. Much Love, -Ryan P.S. This…
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Creativity & Capacity
What is mastery? How do you build skill as a creative? These are questions that drive me to this day. They drive my work at Vertex School, the classes I run and my own practice as a 3D Artist. In this episode, we look at the idea that mastery is not magic, it's process. Learn the process and you...
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Creativity & Being Worthy Of Inspiration
In this episode we talk about my own journey as a creative man and a bit about how I learned to allow myself to be open to joy and that spark of inspiration. As a man, I have always struggled between the joy of creating and my need to provide for myself and my family. While there is no easy…
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Creativity & Your Creative Rules
Discover your rules for what makes art... what makes you an artist... and what you MUST do to finally give yourself that pat on the back that we all need. This exercise changed me and helped me understand how I was screwing up my creative life. It took longer to stop doing it but this was step…
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Creativity & Your Inner Critic
Our inner critic can be our biggest source of strength or it can haunt our every creative moment. What does he/ she want? Why do they do what they do? What does it say the things it says? You might be surprised to find out. Listen to the whole podcast episode and I hope this helps you on your...
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Creativity & Creative Identities AKA Roles
Lets learn about the three creative roles that help us bring our creativity into the real world: Visionary Realist Critic I hope this helps you understand your creative journey! -Ryan
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Creativity: Reverse Engineered Success Meets Creatives Drive For Freedom
In this episode, Ryan Kingslien starts this special conversation about being a creative by looking at the two poles most creatives struggle with... engineering success or disappearing into the dark wood to find their own special magic. This is episode one of this special series designed to help…
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Introducing The New Podcast Name!
Welcome to the new/old podcast: The Creative Metaverse where we interview creatives, artists and technologists helping to create the new creative tech universe! I'm super excited to bring some new voices to our podcast to both interview and to be interviewed. You know, there is a great saying by...
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John Jasper Fielding (Lead Animator @ The Mill)
Check out this awesome interview with John Jasper Fielding, a Lead Animator at the Mill! John's got some amazing history with cinematic animation. Listen in and learn from him! Enjoy! Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/ Learn more about John:...
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Robert Morrison (Lead Animator at Certain Affinity)
Listen to this awesome interview with Robert Morrison, a Lead Animator at Certain Affinity! He's got some amazing insights into the world of animation. Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/ Learn more about Robert: http://www.robertanimator.com/ Want to be an Animator in…
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Elaina Scott (Senior Pre Vis/ Post Vis Artist @ THE THIRD FLOOR Inc.)
Listen to this awesome interview with Elaina Scott! Elaina Scott has worked on titles such as Iron Man 3, Avengers 2, The Hunger Games, Fast Five, Insurgent, Transformers 4, TMNT, and The Fantastic Four. Hear her tips about landing a job in the industry. Learn more about Vertex School:...
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Andrew Tan (Animator @ Sucker Punch Productions)
Listen to this awesome interview with Andrew Tan, an animator at Sucker Punch Productions! Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/ Learn more about Andrew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtananimation Want to be an Animator in the Video Game Industry? Apply for your spot…
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Mark Peart (Lead Animator @ Super Spline Studios)
Check out this interview with Mark Peart, a lead animator at Super Spline Studios. Mark has animated for huge franchises, such as Lego and Call of Duty. Enjoy! Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/ Learn more about Mark: http://www.markpeart.co.uk/about/4564871070 Want to…
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Sophie Shepherd (Associate Animator @ Creative Assembly)
Check out this awesome interview we had with Sophie Shepherd, an animator at Creative Assembly! Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/ Sophie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/smshepherd Want to be an Animator in the Video Game Industry? Apply for your spot in our upcoming 3D...
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Matt Tovar (Character Animator & Assistant Professor @ University of the Incarnate World)
Check out this interview with Matt Tovar, a character animator who also works as an assistant professor! Matt shared with us a lot of great insights into the world of animation and his journey to get where he is today. Enjoy! Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com Learn more...
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Ju Li Khaw (Senior Animator @ Arkane Studios)
Listen this interview with Ju Li Khaw, a senior animator at Arkane Studios! Ju Li had a lot of insight into being a professional animator. Enjoy! Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/ Learn more about Ju Li: http://www.animstate.com/author/julikhaw/ Want to be an Animator…
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Jess Simard (3D Animator @ Playground Games)
Listen to this interview with Jess Simard, a 3D animator at Playground Games, as she sheds light on her experience working in animation. Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/ Learn more about Jess: https://www.artstation.com/jesssix Want to be an Animator in the Video Game...
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Mike Jungbluth (Animation Director @ Bioware)
Check out this interview with Mike Jungbluth, an animation director at Bioware. Mike has a lot of insight to being an animator! Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com/ Learn more about Mike: http://www.animstate.com/author/mikejungbluth/ Want to be an Animator in the Video...
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Jonathan Mack (Senior 3D Animator @ Facebook)
Listen to our interview with Jon Mack, an amazing animator working for Facebook's VR-AI department. With years of experience working for AAA games, he's got a lot of insight into the world of animating video games. Enjoy! Learn more about Vertex School: https://www.vertexschool.com Learn more…
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Lana Bachynski (Senior Animator @ Riot Games)
Check out this new podcast with Lana Bachynski, a senior animator at Riot Games! This will be the first podcast of an Animation series, spearheaded by the head of animation at Vertex school, Dan Perry. Learn more about Vertex: https://www.vertexschool.com Learn more about Lana:...
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Michael Rudd & Kaushit Saha (Art Director/CEO of Playwood Games & Freelance Artist for Wartime)
Check out this interview with Michael Rudd and Kaushit Saha. Michael is the CEO and Art Director of Playwood Games, and Kaushit is a freelance artist who worked on the game "Wartile." More about Wartile: https://www.wartile.com/ More about Kaushit Saha: https://www.artstation.com/kaushiksaha More...
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Nayoun Kim (Senior Character Animator @ Jellyfish Pictures)
Check out this interview with Nayoun Kim, a senior character animator at Jellyfish Pictures! She was so fun to talk to, and has a lot of insight into being an animator in the industry today. She's worked on big pictures, such as Kung Fu Panda 3, How to Train Your Dragon 2, and The Croods. Enjoy!...
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Brandon Pham (Game Dev Unchained)
Check out this new episode with Brandon Pham Want to be a Character Artist or an Environment Artist in the Video Game Industry? Apply for your spot in our upcoming Game Artist Program here: https://www.vertexschool.com/
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Vuk Banovic (Lead Environment Artist @ New World Interactive)
Check out this new episode with Vuk Benovic Want to be a Character Artist or an Environment Artist in the Video Game Industry? Apply for your spot in our upcoming Game Artist Program here: https://www.vertexschool.com/
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Mohanad Hossam (3D Generalist & Art Director)
Check out this new podcast with Mohanad Hossam Want to be a Character Artist or an Environment Artist in the Video Game Industry? Apply for your spot in our upcoming Game Artist Program here: https://www.vertexschool.com/
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Welcome to the Creative Metaverse Podcast, formerly known as the Game Artist Podcast, where we interview amazing Game Artists to find out what makes them tick and how they got the job of their dreams.
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Creative Metaverse Podcast is created and hosted by Ryan Kingslien.
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