Live Stream: Creature Drawing! #drawing #conceptart #creatures

[Music] [Music] hey everybody aaron blase here it is october 22nd friday and we are back for another live stream hello livestream we all stream for live stream man it's october 22nd when is the tying gone it's gone out the window it went up the window a very long time ago but uh we're gonna have some fun today i want to go back and do some stuff that i haven't done in a long time i want to do some creature design i was screwing around with some stuff this morning and i don't want to stop so i thought well let's just take it into the live stream and have some fun with it um i was looking through some of uh our africa photos that dustin and myself had taken and i thought you know it'd be really fun to create my own african creature and and use some of the textures and everything that we photographed while we were in that while we were in africa i was thinking what if we came up with an alternate evolution you know the the grass plains and everything are the same but what if the animals evolved differently we came up with our own creatures so that was that's kind of the theme today that i'm gonna do um but before we get to that i want to talk about two big sales we got going on we've got a um a sale going on with our streaming uh access uh it's uh what the heck did i just say memberships to the website uh both of them are on sale streaming memberships are 40 off and annual memberships are 70 off and those are the best deals we have yes there you go so this is the best time to become a member if you want to get in there uh it's almost it's pretty much well not quite that well but it's it's uh it's a lot and remember the membership gets you everything it gets you access to everything that's on the site plus anything that we create during that year and uh so it's a really great deal um automatically automatic renewals it's it's pretty it's a great deal um also do you have anything else happening in uh i'm still working away on my uh because it's still october it's still inktober and our uh pen and ink drawing course is still 30 off yes i can't keep track of all these great deals that we do i just draw nick nick handles that stuff i just draw on paint and stuff so and order and order supplies i'm always on the phone hey nick i just ordered blah blah okay thanks um so um i'm still working away on the on the new course coming i've got a new animation course coming out that um as we get closer to the end i want to tell you more about it but um there's going to be some some fun news with that i think that you guys will really appreciate um but i'm having a great time uh creating it and um uh nick's involved and dustin's involved and it's really it's really kind of fun and uh other than that i think um you know everything else is going i had a great day yesterday or not yesterday one day before yesterday went out and did some uh uh some painting painting with brother ronnie ronnie williford did a little painting here there's some nice uh springs nearby and this is a plein air painting that i did i don't know if you can see it very well if it's they can see it yeah there we go did a plein air painting right there on the creek right there rock springs and watercolor and um man you know we've been talking about our next in-person workshop which we haven't done since before covent our last one was a watercolor workshop we did in sarasota in march of 2020 literally they were locking the doors as we were leaving quarters exactly and uh and so we've been you know since things are starting to open up again and uh the borders are opening up we're starting to think about you know where we want to do our next one and uh that's definitely definitely on the list so it's pretty cool but let's jump into here so this is uh i want to show you what we what i've been doing um let me uh knock this up a little bit right here let me go here so when we were out on the this is called the marsh area of the maasai mara it's right near the airstrip where we come in and there's always this triple baboons there's always antelope there's always elephants the grass around this area is really marshy and so uh because of that there tends to be some trees because there's trees there's dead trees that have fallen and so you get these really nice poses and and you know i saw these baboons out there uh and dustin got some great shots of these baboons as well it's a little small on the screen oh is it yeah sorry is that one of the phones that you took yeah there's one i took that's it and um uh i thought you know it was going through as i was thinking about doing creatures today i thought man what a nice backdrop to just put a creature against sitting up on top of that that log i love working over digital photographs and using um you know digital textures and that sort of thing to bring it into a kind of a photographic realm when i do these creatures and so i started sketching i didn't want to spend a whole lot of time sketching on camera and searching because that tends to take most of the time so i i was sketching and i came up with this and i'm still not quite there but let me knock this back a little bit so we can see it a little better and i'm just you know it's a six-legged creature um i thought you know it could be mammalian but it can also have bird traits and i gave it the big heavy bill because i do see it as a predator um i just thought it could be kind of fun and so that's the pose i started drawing we're going to draw right over and paint right over those baboons and uh that's that so i just thought um we got this far i'm gonna go ahead and start refining it and um and we'll just start working it from there what do you say let's do it what do you say people people are saying that looks really cool so i do want i definitely want an air of coolness to it um whoops already matthew says your beard is looking good hey it's filling in you know uh it wasn't until i hit my late 40s that i could grow my beard all the way in thanks i actually manicured it i got i got lazy last couple weeks and didn't get kind of scruffy on me should uh just because you should cut the baboon out throw him on the back of the creature like he's riding the creature oh that's a great idea actually they would fit perfectly that's what i was thinking it might actually might actually work so usually i'll do the rough drawing and then i'll do a refined drawing as you guys probably know in this case i'd see this as fur not feathers but fur coming down coming into this hard beak and mammals can have hard you know look at a pangolin pangolin is a mammal you know what i wanted to do no i'm not a mind reader it's not too distracting to you i thought maybe we could try it where we turn that cursor highlight on oh yeah yeah how do you how do you even shoot me all right everybody go right up here no if it does you can turn it off that's not too bad so are they seeing exactly this yeah they can see the green circle that just lets them see a lot better where you're at yeah hey where you at i'm over here especially in the line work phase i think it's yeah helpful so here i'm i was imagining the the beak still bony and everything but kind of serrated and kind of in the shape of teeth but still kind of a beak from leonardo plessinio placing you uh hey aaron hey how you going uh today i feel accompanied with uh your trans uh transmission while i work tran transition are you okay what's that road what did he say today i feel accompanied by your transmission while i work oh i don't know what that means but hey how's it going that just means they're watching the video which is a translation thing oh translation no they're your transmission being your stream that's an english thing oh transmitting oh my emissions it's those of us in the room that have to deal with your mission oh people like the highlighter oh good so i'm going to give him some big ears because as a predator he's got a i was giving it four eyes i was going to give it multiple eyes but i couldn't find a way that that made it look interesting or it just looked like i was trying to put too much on the face good opportunity for segway yoona on twitch says hello from france i love your art and i pre-ordered your art book speaking of which nick give it a highlight or give it an update yeah first of all thank you for uh the kind of yes and thank you yes thank you very much for purchasing the book so the books are still at port you can still pre-order they are making progress though we've received word that the boat has been docked um before it was anchored offshore just waiting in line to be allowed to dock now it's supposedly docked and now it's just waiting to be unloaded which means we are inching ever closer to getting these books in our hand um so when uh if you're interested in getting a guaranteed side signed copy of either of aaron's two art books that are coming out go to creatureartteacher.com books and uh you can pre-order once we have them the pre-order's over and there's no more signed copies so that's the update there you go so this is this is actually a nostril right here i decided to move the nostril off the off the face and just have that all big this is like really heavy solid bony material right here nothing can it just it can rip through anything it'll bite a tree in half and so i thought moving the nostril someplace else would be advantageous uh from casper i'm going i'm gonna shorten this question a little bit but if you decide to go to australia uh what marsup marsupials and animals would you want to sketch in an australian way huh quakers walkers i want to draw corkers quakers considering we might be going to tasmania it'd be cool to see some devils yeah we to get quackers i think we got to go to perth we got to go to western australia but um i'd love to yeah draw some devils i want to draw some wombats i want to hold a wombat koalas yeah let's see koala someone's asking what brush is that called i just brought some of your brush packs this is the number seven pastel brush it's a pastel c pastel c thank you this is in my um original custom brush set yeah you can get it uh in brush set number one which i'll post the link to you can also get it for free if you join our newsletter at creatureartteacher.com right on the home page well i've got some other i guess we can't really i can't talk about it yet can i meet regarding the meeting we had the other day nick yeah we're a little early on that but we've got some uh it's kind of fun it'll be exciting but we'll be able to talk about it later sorry i didn't mean to hold the carrot out in front of you but no that's fine we got some cool what we i mean we can say we've got some cool uh giveaways and stuff lined up we can absolutely say that yeah with a very cool company uh from kirk zimmerman uh hi aaron dustin and nick hi hey uh do you think you'll ever come to toronto for any workshops um never say never last time nick and i were we actually did a a lecture workshop it was about six years ago yeah we were in ottawa and uh oh that was ottawa that's right it wasn't toronto yeah sorry i got my cities mixed up i forgot it was ottawa but definitely will be in toronto at some point i love toronto dustin used to live in toronto i lived there for for two years yeah boy was that fun experience uh nothing got hooked on poutine oh my i was on a i was on a lean cuisine diet when i was living in california before toronto and when i moved up there and i got introduced to poutine that diet went right out the way thankfully though these courage potatoes and gravy yeah thankfully though i didn't i didn't drive i i walked everywhere in the city i didn't own a car for like two for those two years so so the exercise did help a little bit oh yeah the diet was like nope uh from casper is your creature representing the the extinct terror bird no this is just uh i'm just i'm trying really hard to come up with something unique but i just kept coming back to mixing like a a cat with a bird of with a bird of prey ryan on youtube says i was actually there in ottawa for that my buddy corey put that on sorry that's right sorry i missed going out with you guys for drinks after the event so there you go well there you go say hi to corey for us ryan it's been a while since we've talked to him that's right hey corey if you're listening hi it's been a while it's been a math i watched dune last night what'd you think i didn't know it's set up to be i don't know if it's going to be a trilogy or that's why that's what they're planning on i obviously really think they're yeah they're planning on i was so disappointed when that happened when that came up when i realized because we're like like two hours into the movie i'm like wha when is it's not like no there's plenty of things that happen but knowing the original story it's like they've got so much more story to cover what's going on and then i realized it's a it's a multi-movie but you said you enjoyed it right i really enjoyed it and you know what telling the story slower like this is way better because i remember when i said when i watched i've never read the books and when i watched the original you know i went to the theater and saw the original back in 1984 um i was in high school and i was so confused i didn't know what the hell was going on i'm just like holy crap stings in this movie steve and claudia i went and saw it last night in the theater oh yeah yep he said it's an excellent big screen movie it really is that you know you you get really used to seeing um you know when you when you look at a lot of visual development art and portfolios there's a and like you look at sid mead and really accomplished artists like that there's a certain the way they break up shapes and compositions in the app you know getting the abstract design right um that kind of translates from artist to artists it's kind of you know everyone kind of does it fairly similarly nowadays in a good way is what i'm talking about the really good ones and um every every other shot in that movie is is a visual development shot it's just they're just insanely beautiful a couple of youtube questions hannah asks are you going to give it fur or scales for why not both uh i could i might i was thinking about both actually and then mr garlic asks hi aaron i'm going to the zoo to sketch for the first time any advice for how to approach it yes figure out find out what you're going to be drawing ahead of time because if you're not familiar with the animal's anatomy if you're completely new to the anatomy and if you're and if you know you're new to drawing animal anatomy to begin with then you're you're going to have a struggle and so i always recommend brushing up on the animals that you're going to draw ahead of time so that you can get to understand their anatomy a little bit better so that when you do get in there and they're moving around because they will be you won't struggle as much and you can you know scribble down a pose and uh um and as as they move you can refine it that doesn't sound like dustin who's on the questions today oh that'd be nick birch and i i am here don't worry just nick has a lot more questions than i do but nick does questions all the time oh yeah uh castle's wrong i wonder if uh disney will organize a big beauty and the beast 30th anniversary event this fall inviting you mark hen glenn keane andreas daya uh it's already isn't it is it just now when did it come out oh it came out in 91 didn't it yeah i think it's come and uh i thought it came out 90. i thought i thought we already passed the 30th uh 91. but yeah i think it's i can't believe that followed this followed this year so yeah it'll be kind of like it would be really cool if if they um if they did a big event with you you know the old uh you know the beast crew how would you feel about that that'd be great i mean i wouldn't i don't think i'd be included in it because glenn was the was the supervisor of the beast i mean i did the beast in florida i was the the florida beast guy but um but uh glenn was the supervisor well we went to sort of a mini event like that at uh epcot for the lion king yeah you yeah but i had i had several characters on mulan that i supervised uh from leonardo uh when you choose the palette what tips can you give to choose it the palette when you're choosing i'm assuming you mean the colors that i'm choosing the color palette like how do you how do you well the first thing i do is i think about local color so i'm not thinking about um light or shade or anything like that right off the bat and then um in this case like this i'm thinking about uh you know how how would this cat or this animal evolve in this world and so you're not going to have a predator that's going to be you know bright blue in a predominantly orange and and since uh ochre kind of environment so it wouldn't be too far off of what's already evolved which you know with the cats which is the you know that the color that they are because they'd stand out right now not to say that you couldn't have parts that were hidden that when it came time to maybe display and attract a mate they could do that like the skin under the neck which is what i was thinking or the the the plumes on the back of the head those can lay flat and maybe the back side of them are brown but when they flare up you know they're bright blue and red underneath to attract a female erica bay says that uh um being the beast was released in november 22nd 1991. that's what i thought 91 yeah well you said 90 or something sorry ninety-one no all right after that's what i meant after i realized it's like 1991. 30 days from today will be the 30th anniversary yeah it's funny i remember that was our first really big feature because uh mermaid came through the studio and mermaid did okay um i mean mermaid did really good for the time yeah for the time because that's kind of what restarted the whole thing well actually it was uh oliver and company before that oliver and company did really well for the time oliver and company was the highest grossing animated movie of its time when it came out believe it or not um and um and then mermaid came out and just blew it out of the water and so then we they knew they were onto something it was it was this you know this formula this broadway this new broad they brought they had brought in broadway producers tom schumacher and peter schneider and and um and started approaching these films in a different way and uh it was really cool to see how the the the public responded to that and we just kept making them you know it was we didn't know any different we just thought this is how the animated movies were always made but it was really different than the way that they were made you know in the classic days tyler asks could you possibly do a domesticated animal cat bird dog fish course like domesticated animals pets basically drawing pets is what they're asking for yeah we've talked about doing something like that i wanted to do one on dogs and hit different uh different breeds and start with the you know the top five most common breeds worldwide something like that or maybe maybe six uh from from jade price how did you uh work out the six-legged creature you're you're working on i'm imagining that he's got a double uh there's a double socketed pelvis i don't think it's gonna be that's the other thing too i'm trying to decide whether or not it would be one solid pelvis with four sockets for the femurs or would it be two two pelvises with a flexible joint in between i think i think having two pelvises with a flexible joint um from an evolutionary evolutionary standpoint would make more sense so you could have a little bit of flexibility between the legs so in my mind there's there's two pelvises here and then a little more spine or like yeah so there's a lot between the from the shoulders down to the top of the first pelvis there's a you know there's a fair number of vertebrae and then i think there's maybe a a uh a hinge a hinge or maybe yeah i think i think it would just be a hinge uh for the second part of the pelvis and the other legs it was interesting how in the um in this image as you said it's more four legs then uh four four arms and yeah in the in pandora it's the other way around where the four legs are towards the front with the two legs in the back yeah so if someone were to um be struggling with because the other half of the question is uh that they're really struggling if there's any any tips would you say is just focus on the anatomy itself yeah think about what the reality is think about what's happening under the skin and that'll help kind of you know think about i try to think of the physiology of how how is it going to move and and don't just be willy-nilly about it it also reminds me of um there's a documentary i think it's on netflix like what other alien planets could be like yeah and uh there's a particular uh predatory animal that chases after these little it looks like little rabbits on the alien world yeah but these things look like monkeys they're running after them but then when they get to a certain range they have these arms tucked into their into their chest that are like twice as long yeah they can spring out you know they can spring out and try to to try to grab dustin when he gets into drawing the tail you're gonna need to hide him because he's covering the go to just the desktop see what i'm drawing the tail right now there we go that's why i don't like having b on the screen let's let's take a consensus right now do you guys need me on the screen or not because i don't like being on the screen because it blocks part of the drawing i think way more people prefer seeing you on the screen we just have to bring you in and out as needed but we cannot you know what i'm going to put a poll right now on youtube yeah i want to see what they say because i don't think to me it's like the other one that i've always argued is like director's commentary i think the director's commentary is just no one listens to it maybe a few totally not true and i think it's total total ego on the on the part of the filmmaker well considering we're literally planning on doing a commentary for brother bear on youtube i've been but i've debated it debated and i want to see what people think i think you and chuck totally have to do that's why we had that's why we did the moose instead of us instead of bob and i talking because i just feel like it's total narcissism so far it's 70 to 30 yes you on the screen 70 of the vote okay we'll let it keep running we'll see what happens all right so there's the there's the more tied up i didn't i didn't get the uh i'm gonna get this back that's on youtube by the way for people watching on the other channels wondering what poll are you talking about because there's no way to i don't think there's a way to do it on facebook uh from kirk zimmerman when you when you were putting your book together uh how did you decide among all of your amazing work which pieces went in and which pieces were left were left out it was more i guess it was just really feelings um nick and i went through and we spent a couple of weeks having meetings and just going through all of the art in our in the collection that we've got and just saying yes or no really it came down to that and then i even once we said narrowed that down there was still more than i could fit in the book so we basically i i kind of made some judgment calls based on what laid out right together and then ultimately you went back through and did a final revision so it's kind of like what made the best look we felt really right yeah because there's a there's a lot of there's a lot of pieces in there that um that didn't make the book that people are gonna you know if you are if you follow any of my work like when the king speaks you know the the the the lion print that we've sold quite a few of that's not in the book well i'm already working on volume two but that's the point i was gonna make is that it's it's going into a second volume we've got plenty of work for a whole nother volume book but we got to get this one to people first yeah no kidding and speaking of which if you go to creatureartteacher.com books there's still time to pre-order uh someone's saying how about just put aaron in the upper left instead of the what's in the upper left is there anything up there no nothing no just all the all the uh all the tools oh that's all right you don't need to see the tools but uh zonji says i have uh i have teaching today uh attending the uh ix convention but just wanted to pop in and say hi hey zhang and also says i like seeing aaron usually uh seeing you helps connect gotcha all right so now i want to bring this up to full i think well now yeah i'm going to do that first i think i'm going to go a little bit more orange a little more orange than sepia and we'll get our brown actually and we'll get some lighter spots in it we used to do the green screen remember i know we stopped doing the green screen because we didn't have room but now we got room uh from from jacob price if you were uh to design for a six-legged creature in the front section would that would the extra lens be attached to the shoulder blade muscle or an extra shoulder blade i would do it um i would definitely do it as an extra shoulder shoulder blade down below along the along the side i've done that before it makes for a much larger um ribcage erica says yay volume 2. uh pandora asks are you using any reference images or is this anatomy all from your mental library this is all from my mental library right now and because we're such big fans of uh spinal tap we're gonna go up to volume 11. for our book uh from castro if you time traveled to the age of dinosaurs and went to the triassic jurassic and uh cretaceous period what would you want to sketch on uh on paper paper pen charcoal or photoshop everything everything because i there's got to be literally thousands upon thousands of species that we've just never found any fossil record for that their environment just doesn't allow didn't allow them to fossilize whatever it was that they lived oh i'm yeah you're right i mean for everything we found there has to have been thousands that that were never i mean whole species absolutely yeah i would take a camera with me really dustin would bring a camera i hope so now long tails have held they've held on to their long tails because of balance predators have long tails because they're running and chasing and changing directions fast and that sort of thing so i think i'm going to keep the long tail on it is it a good idea to include opposite hand work in our portfolio to get into art college or for scholarships no i mean unless you can draw equally as well yeah i mean no one cares if you can drop with your other hand they just want to see how well you draw peter hahn can draw equally well with both yeah which is an anomaly yeah so unless unless it's literally as good with both it's it doesn't and if it's better then use the one that's better that's like you know should you include your your degree in your portfolio no you don't have to and that's the thing that's one of the things unique to in uh to animation studios is that as opposed to other blue color or white color type jobs is that it really doesn't come down to your degree it comes down to your ability to to to do the work uh facebook question sorry youtube question uh have you ever drawn a barbary line um you know i may have at the zoo i think the the ones that they had at the zoo in um in uh in cheshire no barbies are extinct i think right i don't know i thought they thought they were i didn't think they were yeah i think they are look it up because that's that wikipedia those are extinct what's that wikipedia says they're extinct oh is it that's middle eastern right in the the barbary coast [Music] was believed to have survived in algeria until the early 1960s in morocco to the mid-1960s right today it is basically north africa oh wait until 2017 the barbary lion was considered a stink lion subspecies which does not differ specifically from i tend to be like bushier i always thought him as being bushier okay so there are at the beginning of the 21st century which would be the 2000s right the adis adaba zoo kept 16 adult lions they looked like barbary or cape lions or some debate so basically they're practical they're definitely extinct in the wild there's a debate about whether there's any of them in captivity that's that's the gist of it got it call it got it dustin he's uh when he's on the tail don't forget to sorry there's there was a lag so so the first thing i want to do is just get this silhouette in here and then i can go in and play with the color now i'm not going to play with the color a whole lot or i will a little bit but um i'm going to really pull in some textures from other animals i want to remind people that might have tuned in late that we are running two sales on our website right now uh and the big one is we're running a membership sale and uh for people that don't know we have two types of membership to our website we have an annual membership that lets you download and keep everything on the website and that's seventy dollars off right now so that gets you all of our courses all of the brushes all of the photo packs everything for one low price plus everything we release over the next year uh so that's on sale and then the streaming membership which is kind of like a low-cost monthly way to view all the content uh that's 40 off so that gets you access to streaming access to uh over 450 hours of lessons plus uh you know we release new ones about 60 to 90 days after they come out and then you get discounts on all the brushes check it out check it out now that's fun this is a long one ah long plume check it out now uh from jade what animals are the uh is this based on sorry if i missed the beginning as you probably already mentioned i'm not really basing it on any i mean there's got some cat in there it's got but i'm i'm kind of generalizing four-legged predatory animals in general and then i've got you know the beacon there obviously is a bird of prey in the plumes and erica says thank you so much i just got my signed grizzly print in the mail today thank you for packing it so well i'll be hanging it later today well that was all nick nick even signed it no we were over at we actually were over was it this weekend this past weekend yeah yeah because we're we're off doing vedanta and i were off doing errands and nick goes hey man you got to come by the house and sign the prince i got to get them in the mail today so that's how we do it folks yeah we i spent a lot of time coming up with the best way to package those things so that they don't get damaged and i'm pretty happy with my our method that we developed steve and i spent a while coming up with that we do a double box plus plastic tissue paper which one did she get she got the grizzly oh cool i like that print yeah pandora says wow an authentic nick forgery no it wasn't forged i'm kidding [Laughter] she was joking it's an authentic fortune an authentic fortune natalia asks do you have any tips for character design for animation yeah i've got a pile of a matter of fact i got so many tips i created an entire course on it on creating and doing character design like creatureartteacher.com now i got tons of tips first one being before you ever start drawing know the character that you're designing and i know that sounds obvious but so many people just dive right in um get in there and and if you're designing for a specific project read the script understand the character if you're doing it for yourself write the history of that character what are they all about are they the good guy the bad guy if they're the bad guy what good traits do they have round them out all kinds of stuff the more you get to know that character the easier they are they're gonna start designing themselves the uh character design course i just posted a link to it and um that is it's neck and neck with the animation course for being our most popular course on the website it's for it's really good so if you're at all interested i i strongly suggest it to people and also uh we have a character design course from david coleman on animal character design which is really good as well yes and if you become a member you get both included you know that guy's all right that guy's over he is all right he's working on a big project right now that we can't talk about oh we can't talk about that i thought that was common knowledge i don't know if it's coming out that he's working or well maybe maybe i don't know i don't know either that's best to keep your mouth shut that's what i figured uh do you guys print your own prints or use a service we do our own prints well it depends we have some that we do a service with and then other ones when we do like a special on prints we we we've got a giant large format gclay yeah the the signed prints the signed prints we do in-house because they're usually limited edition and and stuff like that we've got if you if you go to our website we've got a whole selection of other prints and those come from a printer just because it would be too much packing and shipping so what i've done right now is i've i've locked i've alpha locked this layer so i can draw over it and it won't go outside the the borders of what i've drawn and i'm just working on local color so i'm just playing around with what it might look like local color roxy asks is there going to be a photo reference pack from africa it's in the works making the final touches so the answer is no a hard no it's never coming what brush are you using now this is my brush that i don't sell it's my past it's a it's a textured brush that i got from a friend of mine yeah we can't sell it but um you made a brush very similar i did i've tried it's very similar and i think it's it's okay i've tried to i can't seem to get used to that brush as much as this one and i'm i'm continuing to matter of fact i haven't done brushes in quite a long time i got to get back and do some more brushes yeah we should put one out before the end of the year actually let's put a brush out before the end of the stream there you go i'm sure i'll come up with something i'll i'll have a brush uh how's the uh amman serrano course coming nick coming along uh he's still filming we're still filming a couple little uh scenes for that so it's not quite in the can yet but as soon as it is we'll be editing it goal is to have it out before christmas aaron did you ever hold the title of concept artist or visual development artist no i've done tons of that but in different capacities where my my responsibilities kind of overlapped i mean i've been a visual development artist yes but i was you know i did it in the capacity of eventually becoming the director of that project so i was a director doing visual development when you left disney they actually offered you a visual development job and they did yeah but i chose not to not to go with it hey aaron i'm going to the chester zoo on monday near manchester in the uk hoping to get some good reference photos while i'm there man we love the chester zoo been there a couple times now yeah go to the bat house and take a deep breath were the beatles considered to voice and sing for the vultures in jungle book until walt in the studio settled with the barber shop quartets yeah i can't you know i know there's a story behind that and i don't know what it is i don't know if that's true or not i know they're they were based on beatles so i just uh just closed the poll almost 100 of the people voted that are watching on youtube uh should you be on the camera or not 86 say yes damn okay that's higher than i expected you're wrong you're all wrong i agree i think people make a personal connection by seeing you on camera i think that's feelings [Music] nothing more than feelings uh do you miss drawing in uh private i imagine every piece you do is being filmed and looked at live i draw them private all the time i can't stop drawing so it doesn't you know i'm always drawing he even draws when he's in front of the tv i do i draw all the time he takes his drawing kit with him whenever he goes to the theater no don't do that if he a lot funnier if he did that must be a lot cooler if he did not kill her if he did we play we did like different challenges of like that like drawing in the most unusual places like one of them is like drawing in a movie theater while movies playing so i'm going to turn that background back up now uh which one of eric goldberg's characters are your favorites and and admire oh i love the genie the genie is my favorite by far he's done a lot of great characters but i mean you kind of top the genie that's yeah all right let's see here time to jump out of this for a little bit i want to go into our photographs here's where i pulled the photograph from you guys are gonna get to see some of my reference how i keep it which is completely disorganized while you're doing that ethan asks in the future could you create an animation of a spotted hyena like from the lion king that would be very cool sure i think you're doing a hyena would be cool just because they move so bizarrely like they don't look like they're they move right look at that this is just a couple weeks ago this is us at the i said look at that i'm as big around as an elephant perspective perspective that's right it's making me look thinner in reality i love these shots that dustin got look at that face john on facebook says we need a photo of you painting while going down splash mountain this snake right here i think i can say it because i'm not showing where it's at this is a boom slam it's a poisonous snake in africa but they're pretty docile pretty amazing snake absolutely beautiful all right so i want to get some texture i want to try a leopard first dustin got some really great leopard photos here we are and i'm going to grab some leopard fur texture i want to see what i can do with it i want to see where i can do it let's see what we can do with it hey peter don't worry about it hey ben let's see where the order all we got channel there we go that's what i was looking for leo asks this isn't necessarily an ask uh this is not an animation question but how do you have sorry i can't read those are you okay yeah are you okay i know this is not about animation but would you have any tips on how i can improve my overall productivity and still maintain quality i assume they mean volumes say that i'm sorry how can they improve their volume of production but still maintain quality you know that just happens over time time is the best uh way of doing that because you just get more adept at what you're doing um spend more time at your desk take less breaks so that you get a rhythm um but yeah the only thing i can tell you is time time will take care of that um you know as as animators we always wanted to get faster and faster obviously we all know it creating animation is painfully hand-drawn animation is painfully slow and um and we all you know we had one guy that mark ken who just produced an amazing amount of animation one of the main ways he did it was two things one he sat at his desk all day long there's a lot of a lot of animators at the studio that took a lot of breaks and you know we'd go out and play ping pong go out smoke a cigarette do whatever and um but mark you know he took his two or three breaks a day and had his lunch but otherwise he was at his desk night you know eight nine ten hours a day twitch comment i just wanted to say thank you for all your courses i've learned so much and i'm currently learning how to draw bears for an animation oh right on i love it why are leopards on the savannah rare and difficult to see even as you're lucky as lions and cheetahs on the best planes are just easier to spot on safari you know i'm not sure there are there's not as many of them they're solitary um but so are cheetahs generally um i'm not sure was the question leopards versus cheetahs yeah like well that was more it's the question of why are leopards harder to find or harder to see than uh lions and cheetahs well they they're definitely creatures of the denser foliage yeah they literally hide more like cheetahs go out in the open but they i mean just in my experience having only been there twice the cheetahs literally need open space to do what they do which is run right and hunt stuff down yeah so you're going to see them more in the open leopards so far seem to they they lurk in the trees and in the bushes and in the ditches and yeah leopards are not as not as fast as lions or cheetahs so they have to use their intelligence and camouflage to sneak and uh ambush okay so this is really freaking cool so what i just did was i inverted i took the leopard and i inverted it meaning i made all the colors opposite and all the values opposite so anything that was light becomes dark and anything that was orange became blue now i don't want any blue fur in nature i wanted to go back to brown so then what i did was i went to the hue and saturation and i and i changed the hue to the opposite leaving the values where they were and so now i've got brown fur but everything's been inverted so i've got these really cool markings that are inspired from a leopard but they're reversed and i think this is going to be really awesome does that make sense what i just said it does yeah so if i take a little section let's say here i'm going to bring it up here we're going to put this on top now what i usually do is i'll knock this down to about 30 and i'll go to free transform first thing i want to do is get it on the body you blow this up so you can see it i'm gonna get it on the body and then i'm going to go to edit free transform and uh this was a warp so now i can move it around and actually get it to fit fit the body fit the form you got to do this as kind of a mosaic all over the place so this is this part takes time and then what i'll do is go in and uh go to image adjustments and go to exposure and i'll knock the exposure up a little bit but also knock the gamma correction a little bit so it pushes the uh pull back on the opacity and bring it back down to 20 so it pushes the uh the contrast a little i want to go back to warp again because i want to push this down just a little bit more squash the top a little just to get a little more have you ever animated a video at 30 frames per second uh yes a little bit not much so the next thing i want to do is i'm going to grab my eraser and i'm going to get the airbrush setting for it the soft round hannah asks do you think tracing is a good way of practicing art tracing pictures yeah i mean tracing definitely can help you it's not it's not the end-all you definitely don't don't do it all the time because you can only get so much out of tracing but it's not bad that's kind of cool that fits kind of well don't you think i think that's deep it's sneaky yeah and there's some cool markings on that so let's go back to i could see some of your fur brushes being used in the yeah i'm definitely gonna do that what's your favorite thing to draw you know big cats like we're doing now i mean it's questionable but i i mean i love any kind of big dramatic predatory species but i like i mean i'm i'm just as happy drawing a little songbird on a branch too so just any wildlife i love drawing so the idea here is i want to get up and get this little mass a little bigger now go to edit transform and warp once again i can warp those shapes get it to wrap right onto the it's a wrap right on there uh would you ever have an event with fellow animators over a weekend where you discuss projects you've worked on maybe eve maybe have commentary of the movie that's a great idea yes i would do that in a heartbeat we've done that sort of um not organized ourselves but you did that a couple years ago with eric goldberg and tony bancroft all that up at uh yeah we did in nashville or tom bank i'm sorry knock the saturation back a little bit same with this one get that to meld a little better and then once again i'll just go in and oops erase away soften some of these edges so i can get them to come together a little better hi erin hey how's it going i'm doing a college project on how to catch the attention of artists we like to work with uh what would catch your attention and make you want to work with someone uh the project um or you know a specific perfect person i admire asking a question on a live stream is a good way to get it asking a question a live stream but um yeah i mean it's it's uh it's got to be the project basically if the style fits the project yeah in the subject matter basically kind of think of what i'm going to do for the neck what i want to do no we're being raided on twitch we're being what rated this means just means a bunch of people are adding bringing their viewers over to us yep is that a good thing yes oh yeah it's a very good thing but um yeah it doesn't sound like a good thing but it is it depends on the on the stream itself because i mean mo most uh most have non-majority of um street uh streamers that raid are like really cool streamers and all but then there can be a couple that i know are like are like trolling rates hey jerks jerks but well those ones are are pretty pretty rare at least as i've experienced i'm just getting this to fit in here a little better check it out now i know you painted star wars uh characters on photo photoshop like chewbacca uh i hope you could draw uh other characters like luke or r2d2 or any of the other star wars characters luke that hack they also said jar jar and jabba uh chose to omit that from the question but she didn't write such long lists of things or destroy i think you should do jar jar that's what i think jar jar binks the internet wants that's terrell's cheryl's character yup tara wetlands does that although first of all he is a great design say what you will about the character but he's designed great yes he is she also designed sabolba which is and that character is freaking awesome yeah do you don't you you've got some we've got some good close-up uh leopard faces let's see let's go back into our into our library here didn't you get a close-up i'm closer scroll up not down okay i'm pretty sure there we go i'm pretty sure this person answered their own question uh twitch comment question do you like the movies made by studio ghibli and if so which is your favorite if i were to guess i'd say probably princess mononoke because of the wolves and the creatures yep you nailed it yes on all on all levels yep abs absolutely was that the one they were making when you were there no they were doing howl's moving castle no the there was a private screening uh at the animation theater did wasn't there like a private i'm talking about when he was at ghibli in japan when i was in jubilee oh ghibli i thought i did remember us go and see oh yeah yeah yeah you're right you are right there yeah about that's what that's what i always think but mine my my personal favorite has to be um the was it castle in the sky yeah castle in the sky i actually really like how's moving cameras yeah that's another good one just a lot of okay so here's what i did i went and i went to image adjustments and i went invert so now it made it a negative image of it so anything these are all the opposite colors it looks blue because everything else is predominantly orange and brown now i go to image adjustments and my hue and saturation and all i got to do is take my hue slider bring it all the way over and it brings it back to brown brings those blues back to where they were now i've got my inverted spots pretty cool little system yeah i think it's ingenious yeah i think i'm back thanks john wick so i'm going to take this whole section bring it right up here put it right over his face why was uh pocahontas and lanking when they were made at the same time considered as the a and b team no one considered that that's just a rumor that got started no one ever considered it to be an a and b team first of all disney didn't consider anything to be an a movie in a b movie they wanted everything to be great and um and so that being said um they just happened to split like mark ken who is the supervisor of um simba young simba was just as much of an a animator as glenn keane who was doing pocahontas and um but that that whole idea that it was an a team and a b team is something that wasn't really true i think there was just internally a lot of people because glenn was on pocahontas a lot of people were excited about that now once again glenn was probably the most popular was the most popular animator in the studio and everyone wanted to work with glenn and everybody figured whatever project glenn's working on that's got to be the main a project so that's where that stood that that whole thing got started um that being said uh let me get this eye in here real quick there we go that fits pretty good um i was lucky enough i got to work on both i had my own character on the lion king i did nala and then i jumped over and and i worked with glenn on pocahontas and animated pocahontas um in fact let me see something real quick i'll just take two seconds thank you angry potato says hi dustin hi like a little just changing the camera from quicksand a uh suggestion from steve coleman aaron steve says we should all change our last name to blaze like the ramones and the guy claudia is on board the blaze the blaze band but here we go show the desktop dustin instead of the chair now just i'll just keep it on the empty chair that way people can see the art and yes the shirt i was but i am wearing is a tri-gun shirt i love tri-gun i'm looking for my pocahontas cell i can't find it i found it but it's just taking too much time to pull it all out it's down it's delicate so i decided not to mess with it it was it's in here okay here we go uh were you close to uh michael eisner at all and if you were do you still keep in touch no i mean we weren't i wouldn't say we were close we knew each other he knew me i would say in passing i think i knew bob iger probably a little better bob would sit and have lunch with bob and i when we were at the commissary over at the commissary yes hey did you find it there it is and that's actually my my shop so i can just show you everybody yeah so this is um this is one of the cells can you switch it over dustin yeah this is one of the cells from pocahontas i don't have the background for it um but this is actually one of the there's you know when we by the time we did pocahontas it wasn't done on cell anymore so these are all commemorative cells that we had especially made for us um my whole box of cells got got left under a window an open window and the sprinklers came on beard this is like 15 years ago and so there's a little bit of water damage on the edges but the image is okay but lucky for me that um the cell that they picked um that's my and that that's the shot that i animated a pocahontas so that's kind of cool it's got miko and flip in there anyway we were talking about pocahontas so i thought i'd show you a little song oh yeah this is this is one that for milan yeah this one's got the background and um what's neat about this is that it's got tom bancroft who did mushu and then i did i did the ancestors and so it's got mucho mushu in the main ancestor right there um which is kind of cool so once ken's done water damage on it very cool stuff there you go man yeah let me show that come on let's put that tissue back behind it uh who's the artist you mentioned that has a degree in zoology and uses that knowledge to design creatures in star wars et cetera yes that's uh terrell whitlatch there we go is that's uh that's just the cell i don't know if that was one of my drawings hey manny just hopped on says hi everyone hey manny manny miss you buddy oh yeah jessica rabbit there's jessica this is from uh roller coaster rabbit where she's tied up on the this is the animated short so this is the first this is the first project i ever worked on a little more left i worked on this project when i was 21 years old um this is the project i became an animator on and uh it's a seven minute seven and a half minute roger rabbit cartoon uh called uh roller coaster rabbit and uh she's got a little cameo where she's tied up on the tracks yeah so this is um in the same cartoon roger gets shot up full of holes he looks like swiss cheese and um i got one of the cells for that uh i actually i didn't animate it but i cleaned it up it was animated by a guy named mark cousler and there's the animation drawing right there i don't want to i can't pull it out any better than that that's the animation drawing on the other one right yeah trail mixer yeah and there's print our prince of the popper the mickey right there and here's here's one from the lion king another one of my cells simba an adult nala adult simba an adult nala very cool yeah which one's that oh yeah this is when they're hiding behind kenai following this trail you see that yeah yeah so that's the moose kenai and koda hey little brother hey you know yeah little brother cool thanks stream so at this stage it's you know it's kind of slow because i'm just going in and kind of warping all my shapes and you put the whole thing together like a mosaic you know a moziak a boziac amazing man i like that i think that's kind of cool you digging it i did can you dig it yes we dig it there's dynamite i think what i might do is grab whatever color that is now right here right there now i'm going to go back down to the local color i'm going to try to get it to fade up and match which question hey i'm currently watching uh from madrid spain love your work and your huge inspiration uh to those of us starting out in the animation industry i'm studying to be a professional storyboard artist any advice yes start learning cinematography understand cutting you know telling story is one thing but it's all about telling story through pictures right and so the better you are at telling stories through pictures the better off you're going to be as a story artist so learn about that learn as much as you can about that speaking of manny i don't know if you guys said this while i was going through uh stuff i believe he's hard at working on his course right on manny carrasco's doing a course for us which we can't wait for manny maybe [Music] why is the leopard spot so different sorry late joining today well here's the thing i reversed them here's where it gets fun watch this all right deselect how long did it take to make trail mix up and roller coaster rabbit um how long did it take a day which set up um it was trying to think i was on it for about nine months or maybe seven months but i mean with all the boarding and and i think it probably took a year and a half here something like that pam coach is one to ask for that i can't remember so watch this i'm going to take this i'm going to knock the uh i animated about the first minute of the whole thing and then a few other scenes interspersed i'm going to go to transfor free transform first thing i want to do is i'm going to squash it so we get perspective about it i'm going to really squash it i'm just going to squash it now we're going to bring it up here make it a little bigger squash it some more now i'm going to go to warp i start to warp these shapes right around that leg go hit return you see how he fit on there i can do it just a little bit more there we go ah what do you think you're going to call this creature steve steve steve calling it steve any tips for dynamic poses with big cats especially tigers i find it hard to get any good references i only see jump photos you know i like to make them up i tend to push them beyond what they would probably do in nature but i like to make them up and i and i do that through i think about comparative anatomy i think about how when a person in the same pose um be pushed and i you know i know there's limits to especially in the upper part of the body where the because of the shoulder blades the shoulder blades are attached to the side of the animal rather than our shoulder blades being attached to the back and that's why we have this ability to move our arms back behind our backs whereas cats can't do that or any four-legged animal for that matter because of the way the shoulder blades are attached but i tend to kind of push that anyway i'm going to take this right now and i'm going to take all of the all of those layers i've put together i'm going to combine them so now it's now i can come in and just clean things up a little bit what are your thoughts on rigged uh 2d animation or rigid my mistake rigged rigged like puppet animation like they do in 2d it's not it's cool i mean i think any any kind of animation is cool as long as it's you know um like archer sort of yeah it's what they do is instead of doing frame they don't do frame by frame drawings but they literally the drawings are rigged as puppets a lot of television is done that way especially a lot of kids cartoons um it can it's like anything it can be done really well or it can be done poorly poorly you chose all he chose poorly someone mentioned that south park is a good example of puppet animation yeah it's amazing to me i don't know if they still do it but it boggles my mind for the longest time they were using maya to make south park oh really not that it's 3d but they were using it as the animation to do all of the rigging and the puppets and stuff like that now there's software specifically for like adobe make stuff for that they were kind of ahead of the curve on yeah there's stuff out there more name more specifically aimed at 2d now oh this is coming out kind of cool i'm digging it next thing we got to do is get the shadows in for an hour and a half in we're doing all right don't forget about the tail i won't i still got to do the back end of the animal here i'm really liking the effect of those spots aaron yeah me too hey thanks man by the way i also put a poll up about whether or not people like the uh the cursor highlighter and uh 90 said yes oh good so that's a keeper if it's not too distracting to you no i'm getting used to it all right so now uh twitch question what canvas size are you working on uh eight twenty four uh eighteen by twenty four inches three hundred dpi that's what this is set up yes i wasn't sure what the photo references no the photo oh shoot what happened you you you cropped it into those dimensions or whatever oh i see so i can select now my my image that i'm creating is 18 by 24 right yeah yeah 300 dpi why has there never been a full feature film of mickey i thought they did what was it no they've never done a real feature i don't know i don't think i don't understand i don't know an hour and a half but myself [Music] and a question for nick do you have any artistic backgrounds yeah i have a i went to ringling for computer animation i taught at ringling for five years uh which ringling's an art college um so yeah i was trained in animation and and illustration and drawing and all that i'm just rusty is heck watch your mouth man this is a family show you should you should just said i i just read the ad twitch question have you saved yet uh nope but i will as i get my shapes in here here check it out now i'm gonna fill that gap so i don't have to do it later there we go don't like it are there any interesting stories about freddie moore i mean poor guy was uh he was an amazing amazing artist but he had a lot of drinking demons that's how he died he ended up falling out of a car and smacking his head on the pavement dude but um but man he was a hell of an artist i don't think i've ever heard the name before yeah he was a basic kind of before the original night old man he was one of the i mean the later nine old man he was one of the original guys back in the 30s early 30s and uh yeah freddie he he's the guy that he designed the the dwarfs and uh okay it just had this really beautiful fluid squishy way of drawing characters what uh when should you pick rgb or cmyk color one is for print the other one is for digital right yeah traditionally speaking cmyk is for if you're going out to physical print like our book had everything had to be converted to cmyk in the end because it's a four color printing process and you know to be honest with you i don't even pay attention to what i'm doing so i know like right now i couldn't tell you which one i'm doing yeah you know it really only comes into play if you're looking for very specific color type matching situations you know i think with most of today's digital art it's less of a concern than it used to be but i'm sure the people out there that'll get punching the screen right now i'd be saying that reflex punching the screen of all your colleagues that you've worked with which one impressed you the most as the greatest artist jim jackson he's got to be jim jackson [Laughter] the 11th man to walk on you guys got to look up jim jackson because he's uh the man's amazing twitch question is there a way to get better at acting for animation specifically facial expressions is it just a matter of practice and experience or there are any good things to keep in mind while doing it yeah i mean the biggest thing is just keeping it natural being honest with what the shot is trying to be and and act that out accordingly so many the biggest thing that the biggest mistake that young animators make is that they overact they're trying to get things to move and because animation means they got to move stuff around well no animation is not moving stuff around animation is bringing things to life and so often we are not moving around when they're when we're you know when we're emoting sometimes we're just sitting there absolutely still and that's that's bringing things to life and so it's knowing when to do that when to hold back when to be expressive um those are the things that that's probably the biggest piece of advice i've got a course on specifically that on the website yeah i just posted a link to the acting for animation course which by the way if you become a member either streaming or annual member uh it's available on both memberships so or you can buy it on its own try to make it easy whatever works for you deadlifts here says hey guys loving this fantasy creature hey thank you now here's the fun part i could do this or i can go hey let's see what happens if it looks stronger do you like the stronger version you like this or this this or this i gotta i like that one i've got a lag so or or i could do a combination if i keep to turn this on and then let it fade people say stronger in between the two yeah so i'm going to do something a little different i'm going to let it fade out i'm erasing the top layer stronger yeah i'm liking the stronger as well i would say fade out the head too because it looks a little a little strong on the head a little strong in the head yeah how's that i can even go let me do this someone's saying can we get a close-up view like a pen and scan just to see the how about if i take off some of the like that yeah i got a long way to go so i'm gonna pan and scan a little bit but um i'm actually gonna the stuff i have to do now it's gonna pull together pretty quick what don bluth uh movie is your favorite i grew up with secret nib yeah that will always be my favorite that one and uh um five little goes west or i've heard plastics but i know i also love uh titan ae so i love sci-fi firewood goes west no one likes five who goes west as a classic i love i love final ghost west i love the second one too the five who goes west is the thing it is the second one that's right i learned final gums of america or whatever the hell it's called an american tail american tail rival comes to america yeah i love um i like five oh people are getting mad at me i like finals go west too but when people say classics they usually say the first one that's that's all but um yeah an anastasia bar talk has to be one of my favorite characters of dominus bar and oh the bat oh sure blame the bat what the heck we're easy targets well you know that one that was robin williams right no it wasn't brother oh is frank uh frank um uh azaria frankie's area i think so yeah he did like half the voices of the simpsons all right so we got this far let's go ahead i want to i'm looking at the lighting the lighting is kind of off in the background in three well look at if we look at the shadow of the branch it's kind of behind it's up above the frame and behind our character so if i put a layer on top and we're going to set this to multiply and i'm going to put that right about there i think if you didn't have photoshop how would you approach the spots with traditional art you just have to draw them right i draw them yeah check out last week's stream stream where he drew a leopard and charcoal that's how i would have done it do you find that you act out the character's motions as you and animate them yep actually the the leopard drawing right behind you on the screen industry yeah actually i'm gonna let the sunshine do that let the sunshine keep all my sunshine my only sunshine make me happy happy evening skies are great you never know how much i love you see here one of your elusive cats just walk by me cat never comes in here during a live stream kitty kitschy yeah pandora says oh boy i came for the art but i'll stay for the karaoke is it true milk call and mark davis were the best draftsman at the disney studio yes yes oops the the uh the green dot does throw me off because it doesn't change size so i think half the time i'm thinking of my eraser or my pencil is that size and it's not yeah that's just because i think it would be jarring for the viewer if it was changes but it is way easier to see where your brush is at and what you're doing oh yeah that's one comment we've gotten on our courses over the years like i can't see what he's doing well we gotta fix that we gotta fix that were you ever asked uh to do uh imagineering or did you ever have an interest in that i never really had an interest yet so i've been asked and um but no i never really had an interest in it you were asked yeah i just feel like some freelance work that i did a while back but i i ended up not doing the job because it was it was just too big and i didn't i wasn't interested in it it was a big it was a big like stage show nighttime nighttime extravaganza kind of show that they wanted me to they actually wanted me to help them out with the story aspect of it what's your favorite peanuts character um uh mr peanut steve likes him so much he got a tattoo yeah ah snoopy i love snoopy so what i'm doing now is just hitting all the shadow areas or i think the shadows should be i think they should be daca did you pull colors from the photo to make your palette no no i made my own palette and then uh i went to the because i i find that you can let the just do your own palette and um when you get to using the photos the photos will have their own colors and you end up with something that's richer it's kind of cool uh who do you think was the better dresser no call or freddie moore no call do you have a favorite color and why not really i don't think we've ever been asked what's your favorite color i mean i i i tend to respond to like a teal color for some reason there's it's like blue green that really i just love but um not really so now we're getting some shading in there which feels pretty good i can still go a touch darker in areas but i'm going to save that if you had to complete this sentence what would you fill in the blank with every good animator should be blank every good animator should be well to mention what kind of animation you're talking about if you're talking about a a 2d animator i think every good animator needs to be a good draftsman but not necessarily anymore with with with uh cg animation cg animation so every good animator should be a great actor i know it's a cliche but i believe it how about every good animator should be paid well yes which which is wishes okay so i'm going to do another layer on top i'm going to set this to overlay and i'm going to try to lighten up a few areas that sun is bright and warm do you ever visit just a personal question i know you usually have to kind of adjust your lighting to match the photography also but do you ever try to paint shadows in on the photography to match your oh yeah yeah yep uh while working on brother bear who was it that um suggested all the different totems for for three brothers and uh why did they get the totems that they that they got well each each brother represents a different aspect of the story you know and and that's exactly what they got i mean kenai needs to learn to love to love outside of himself to love you know to get over his prejudice of bears you know uh sitka who dies needs to he needs to understand his role as as a guide to guide his brothers are you using the pastel c are you using the other brush i'm using the pastel c right now but what about deny he's the uh uh dome of wisdom well he needs to understand that because he was he was following his wisdom all along but then he loses his way when kenai when he perceives that kenai is killed and he questions all of that and so he needs to learn that he was right all along was it and were those totems your idea i can't remember what that that that's that became such an integral part of the story i can't remember where it came from i mean totems are such a big that became part of our origin or early research so it's it's hard to say where the the idea of us using them in the movie i can't remember who where it came from did you prefer living in california or florida florida oh hands down and i find that across the board people from florida don't enjoy california as much usually that's not and i know there's you know people are going to be out there going not true um but the people that came out from california that transferred to florida when i was working at the studio they generally didn't like being in florida i really think part of that is the people from california are just wrong [Laughter] no what i was gonna say i really do think there is a east coast and west coast vibe oh yeah i just think there's a different yeah but i do miss all my friends out there in in california so now what i like to do is knock the drawing part of it back and turn off the scribble there and just see where i need to go in and define uh if you wanted to work on tarzan i heard you said uh you wanted to work on kerchak uh as the animated big characters and good at drawing animals well it makes you interested in his design and bruteness just i just loved his that that big design of his it was really interesting and i think bruce smith was the was the animator on him and i really like bruce smith's work and uh whoops and that that's pretty much why bruce smith was a brilliant brilliant animator [Music] now i'm going through and hitting like reflected light areas i'm all out of questions [Music] any new questions over there nia maybe maybe maybe you worry about your questions don't worry about over here okay it's just it's it's so quiet it's okay to be good to be quiet sometimes people like to just watch the drawing i just sorted did you hear that i heard it being a little a little sleepy are you oh no i don't fall asleep while i'm drawing although i'm probably not far from that you almost have a couple of times of drawing if you wanted to work on did you already ask a question about kerr check dustin yes okay sorry how dangerous is the cassowary the the flightless bird in australia they're they're pretty dangerous they can they can rip you open if they want really yeah what are the castle army again it's a big blue blue blue heads they're kind of like all right okay which are also extremely dangerous if you ever look at their feet it's like yeah those are dinosaurs yeah uh what did you learn the heart of the hard way in animation uh everything there is no easy way in animation you learn everything the hard way youtube question do you ever use the smudge tool to paint not really uh actually no i take that back no i use that a fair amount actually i was thinking of the i was thinking of the blur tool now the smudge tool i use to um to uh you know mess some areas up and and uh i'll also do a blur effect with the smudge tool rather than using the blur tooth have you ever wanted to draw a banshee from the movie avatar banshees are the flying things that they write oh yeah i love those things what would you do if drawing was not a career career option for you i'd probably be a musician since it's close to halloween i've heard there's a lot of spooky myths surrounding disney did you ever experience anything spooky no no i never did you never saw walt's frozen head never saw walt's frozen head never never experienced anything out of the ordinary or weird [Music] you go to a fur brush let's do this some of them that's not the right brush dog on it it feels better it's getting better all the time do you ever draw on procreate or do you mainly use photoshop i use procreate uh occasionally we have a whole course on it we have a whole course on procreate i'm just getting to that um but uh i mainly use photoshop just because uh it's convenient for me yeah that's got some nice fur texture to it because you're usually at your bed your desktop but when you're on the go you absolutely use when i'm on the go i'm on i use procreate for sure for traditional sketchbooks yep just adding a little bit of texture in here a little texture a little bit of fur texture with my fur brushes there i come back now to my regularly scheduled program go really get these dark areas what did you think of rhapsody in blue in fantasia 2000 with the influence work on uh al hirschfield yeah i liked it that's one of eric's pieces yeah i was gonna say eric goldberg did that right you know what i really like that eric did not too long ago was his get a horse short where it's um it's the 2d 3d combination with mickey yeah that's great yeah i think that was in front of frozen yeah it was that's probably one of if not the best the best shorter i ever saw just because of that because that beautiful mix of 2d and 3d another one i really liked was the um day and night where one character was day another character was night and the characters themselves were 2d animated but everything inside of them or cg oh yeah you remember that one mm-hmm it's pixar yeah i can't remember what was in front of that one or what that was in front of for though it was a pixar movie probably was like toy story 3 yeah man i can't remember what it was either so i'm just going in and emphasizing some of the spots trying to make them my own a little bit invention 2000 what was you're right toy story three it was pressure um is rhapsody in blue the beautiful i mean that's the uh is it the it's the subway one right yeah and like the city it's like the city and all that the kids wanting to learn piano and music and i really like that yeah hi aaron and team hi hi uh will be great to see your approach uh slash course about animating two characters interacting together like a fight or some physical well funny you got funny to say that because we got that coming up part of the course aaron is working on right now of course you're not going to see that because you want to keep it a little secret what we're doing but we just said it that's all right i don't know no one knows the details no one knows the deets that's what the kids say dietz yeah there what kind of liking this head how it's coming out it's getting better all the time man i looked on the great british baking show bake off random i know but i'm putting it that was completely random welcome to two years ago aaron oh it's a new season this year i know but that's when it was like oh i know during covid no even before that okay go ahead and correct me nick okay okay there we go there we go there we go but hello like a spider-man [Music] actually martin berger was asking about that earlier what what noise would this make and would it sound like a spider fin it would just sound like uh have you watched portrait artist of the year no i don't know what that dude hey aaron has anyone ever sent a photo of a tattoo of your work on them yes oh really yeah several times wow uh why do you think glenn keane was the most popular was it his skill level or was it his personality his personality and his skill level i mean his skill level is is top-notch but i think he he really encompassed the the spirit of not just disney and the company but the spirit of animation is there something you've always hated drawing everything uh it's an interesting question no i don't know that there's anything i've ever hated drawing there's things that i struggle drawing i still struggle with hands but no i can't think of any anything that i've hated drawing 310 we're two hours in yep we'll give it another 30 minutes now that's 30. about the tattoo stuff do you say nice stuff or or do you ask for the tattoos details to start a copyright theft case no i don't start a copyright thrift it's theft case you've had people also ask if they have your permission to get yeah but i mean they've always got my permission i don't care i consider it a an honor switch question are you into speculative biology or evolution at all i think it's kind of cool i mean what you're doing right now is kind of yeah it's kind of what i'm doing now what do you think this evolved from something completely different than anything that we know because that beat definitely gives off like a like a like a vulture parrot kind of vibe especially with those feathers in the back the very parrot you said those are feathers they look like feathers they're just long strips along what they're just long strips at this point spikes they could be anything they could be green they could be brown that could be blah blah blah whatever what's that thing they do on tick tock all the time now i don't follow tick tock i'm not tick tock but they actually they do it on tick tock but they also do it on oh sorry don't don't let me insult you dustin do you ever get inspiration from video games and if so what games no aaron's not a gamer i'm not a gamer why why did disney invent the xerography process because they save on inking time it takes forever to ink all those cells by hand and so if they could just xerox the drawings then they would save a ton of man hours and man hours equates to money so it would be a lot cheaper and i think there's something to be said about you know every time it's like it's like a copy machine every time someone redraws a drawing a little something gets lost in the translation and so the less you can recopy the less you have to recopy it the better do you guys have any plans for halloween yeah i'm gonna sit in the front yard pull out my fire pit get a fire going buy two block two or three giant boxes of full-sized candy bars make a little drinky poo and sit and hand out candy and become a neighborhood hero because i'm handing out full sized candy bar we don't need another key so one thing i'm kind of missing about our old house that we just sold um because over the last six years i've this that's what i've done is i've sat in my at the end of my driveway get a fire going i make drinks for myself and whoever's hanging out with me and i hand out full-size candy bars and boy we had such a good reputation the kids loved us they're not going to know what to do this year did you animate and supervise or supervise any um shin po uh and lean scenes no no that was bruce johnson i just did uh yeah when the headings that's yeah all the did you and yao and the head ancestors among the ancestors did you do the head answers for the most yeah get the most footage somebody said there's going to be a lot of disappointed kids at the old house hopefully they don't egg the new owners because actually erica said that and uh and someone else wrote oh the big candy bar guy moved someone on twitch says full-sized candy bar your neighbors never even stood a chance they were done full what name would you give the creature you're currently drawing uh i don't know cat eagle cattle a kegel a key goal half cat happy good do you know what a kegel is nelson no [Laughter] should i have not said it it's funny i'll just shut up now i thought you were being funny that's even funnier that you weren't being funny yep i mean i was trying to be funny but it's not in that way because honestly i did not know what i was saying someone says it's a leopard like a lep happy friend oh yeah oh yeah and here's a suggestion for your halloween brussels sprouts covered with chocolate to prank the kids i've seen those who came up with the uh hakuna matata in lion king for the song i have no idea it's one of those things that just as you research you discover things that would be one of the first things they discovered is that hakuna matata actually does mean no worries in swahili exactly you go to africa they actually say it hakuna matata you you don't even know who you are what's your favorite song by queen you mean rhapsody yeah although i like uh bicycle i like bicycle that's a good one pretty much anything the show must go on is really good too don't stop me oh who wants to live forever oh yeah from from highlander yeah don't stop me now it's pretty good too yeah don't stop me now steve does that one i carry out probably who wants to live forever because that one that one really that could get to you you think about it especially if you've ever lost anybody so adding those getting some value changes in the spots really helps to round out the character for a lot of people just joining us i want to remind them we're having a sale over at creatureartteacher.com our annual membership and our streaming memberships are both on sale and those include over 450 hours of art and animation lessons including digital painting courses character design courses photoshop lessons um character design all kinds of stuff animal drawing so if you go to creatureartteacher.com it's 40 off our monthly streaming plan or 70 off our annual membership cooking lessons and we also still got the uh pen and ink uh going wrong right yeah the uh because it's still inktober our pen and ink course is 30 off as well and that's uh where aaron kind of takes you through his process of drawing the ballpoint pen and and whatnot and what not as well as brush pen right who's your favorite uh disney villain whether it's the modern or old ones probably maleficent i like stromboli too what the movie treasure planet would john silver be considered a villain in a way long gone pilgrim yeah yes but he redeemed himself aaron are you going to add shading on the tree to match where the creature's at yes just have to add a little bit just a little bit [Music] how did the animators animate the pink elephant sequence in dumbo and lay it out did they lay it out and then do it on a black background i have no idea how did they even lay it out on a black background as well sorry i missed the question i don't know like they could have they um that's not that would be that hard to do not sure how they did it what year was dumbo in 1942 the 43 i can't remember is that their second movie was it snow white then dumbo then you know snow white pinocchio still like pinocchio i was going to say was it snow white pinocchio then dumbo or snow white you have to look that one up i can't remember my disney history is terrible yeah were you asking about the the peak elephants someone said what's your favorite disney villain that question i always liked jafar yeah i thought he was pretty good i liked uh i like frollo from uh hunchback of notre dame actually that actually be my least favorite but that's it's cause it's too realistic that guy was a perv yeah he's very dark you pulled me on a diet while you're in there is there a rooper on the bottom in the bottom tray and then bottom drawer what they're all probably in the uh the like that doesn't look like the same drawer i had in my head in the fridge up for further back yeah uh did you work with your brother in florida or california or both florida we don't work together anymore hey thanks man opening of cans bring it back around i'm having a sour beer oh yeah just cause i saw it in the fridge do you like those they're okay margarita ghosts refreshingly tart cigar city brewing company professionally chart it's friday you're darn right it is kuku did you work with your brother in florida or california or both yeah you get uh dustin already oh sorry that's okay you run down to the room [Laughter] i deserve that realize uh uh any reused scenes in robin hood or uh from other movies such as uh maid marion dancing uh with the merry men yeah sherwood jungle book it's all through jungle book too yeah but what's the question but um did you ever notice that they that they reused oh yeah we all we all knew about it yeah someone says the best disney villain is professor radigan from the great mouse detective oh yeah that's not a bad one but again glenn keane to ratchet the world's greatest rat i don't know how you remember all these lines i don't either i think it's just because i watched it so much when i was younger it was one of the tests i had to do in order to get hired at disney was that it was an in-between test and it was uh um what's his name the main character taking off his coat put it on the hanger ironically enough youtube suggestion hey aaron how about adding a yellow fur near the corner of its mouth or beat just like birds just like birds that have that yellow thing at the end of their beak the yellow thing at the end of the week you mean on their mouth i think that's what they mean yeah well let's see how would that look you gotta think of it and be in shadow while you're doing that is there a fairy tale that disney hasn't done that you would like to see them take on in 2d um i can't say that there is you're not a fairy tale guy really i mean that's brother bear's not a fairy tale no i wanted to write my own yup but um i don't know there you go that's kind of cool right there from one from amanda neil uh hello lawyer my boyfriend keeps having this recurring dream where he purchases a ferrari only for it to turn up at our house with an irremovable roof rack what does this mean well i think it means you want to travel somewhere yeah in style in style can you imagine doing a road trip with inner ferrari with the roof rack yeah what was your favorite cartoon when you were a kid aaron um the warner brothers cartoons coyote bugs bunny daffy those are all my favorites my first disney film i saw in the theater was robin hood 1973 when it came out i think it may have been one of the first movies i saw in the theater i think it was my grandfather that i saw it uh tell us about the tests uh you would take it at disney did they ask you to take them or did you request it and no we had to take it in order to see if we had the abilities that they needed for us to to get hired for the job that we were interviewing for well not interviewing who would review them training for the other artists that were there uh what kind of effects uh uh uh testing exercises were they it was uh in between just in between yeah was it one scene two scenes just there was like four drawings not strong but like how many different sequences did you have to that was it we just the one yeah just the one they just picked something that was complex and uh see if we could do it from allison stevens best disney villain hands down is gizmo you know isma is pretty darn good yeah i gotta give you that oh the lava crunk but crunk has to be the best henchmen [Laughter] but that that was uh what's her face i'm sorry i'm drawing a blank though i did your voice eartha kit earth the kid was awesome yeah yeah she was a great catwoman too yep and i was walking for one of my favorite songs of hers that she's performed uh it was like back in the 60s mr sung i want to be evil really good song no chord also says don't forget about ursula and they'll sing uh hades man hades is really good too ursula was a great villain too yeah a lot of personal disney's just full of great great villains meg meg meg my little nut meg you literally just told dustin i don't know how you remember all these lines and then yeah that's that's just one that stood out but my little nut meg did you ever meet howard ashman no i never did someone says the leader of the huns and mulan was a pretty great villain funny uh yes it could have been you aaron that could have been you it could have been me yeah it's very interesting how little you see shinyu and and uh yeah you don't really see them that much so when you were doing the original villain for that yeah and i know that the shenyu was actually still a character at that time right and you were doing the general who was like a traitor right right yeah about gun he there is more footage yeah that's what i'm saying so what was the story i can't remember it's it's so blurred now everything's run into it and run into it but i can't he was he was running interference behind the emperor's back in order to take i can't remember i can't remember at all i just can't remember uh was dreamworks's ants the answer to a bug's life at pixar that was dreamworks ants was was uh jeffrey katzenberg trying to screw over disney yeah people don't realize he had left disney and that was that was him going he knew they were making yeah so he was trying to ruin him by by doing what he did were there any villains in brother bear um um i don't like telling stories with traditional villains so the villain in brother bear is also is the is the hero he's his own villain whole movie is about him having to learn the the air of his ways it reminds me a lot of um [Music] hey miyazaki's uh characters in his movies the studio ghibli especially like especially in princess mononoke because everyone in that in that movie are heroes and villains in their own rights yeah youtube question i love this style can you please explain about the textures the textures well i think they mean how you're getting realism the textures come about through i steal them i photo bash them from other sources right now i'm creating shadows on the log underneath the drawing of the character layer do you remember zera in lion king 2 simba's pride no i've never watched lion king 2. believe it or not um but back to the sorry i didn't get a chance to finish this stuff so that's right um i was i was doing my typical old man um but it's a lot of just photo bashing grabbing grabbing textures from uh other sources and um and bring them in other photographic textures i should say and bringing them in and uh by getting it to uh meld with the drawing now what some of the things i'll do as well is i'll manipulate the photograph to get it to come back in and kind of meet somewhere in the middle with the drawing i'll blur areas and that sort of thing which i haven't done yet hey look there's a little random hand sticking out right there you see it oh yeah he's sitting on a baboon so essentially how how well that blends if you're not if you're not looking yeah that's why that's why i just left it actually i'm going to make that kind of it's the first time i've seen you blending a character into an actual photo photographic background i love it i used to do this a lot with other um with other characters you've done it on a few streams in the past but yeah i just haven't done it in a while the last one i remember was uh was with the photo that i took while we were doing the course for the uh well i think it was like fairy design or something like that yeah yeah all right so now i've got to let's see here hmm when you were working at disney uh you've talked about going home at night and painting to show your uh your working galleries yes um do you think that helped advance your career at disney as well i think it did yeah because i i kept my it kept me going in other mediums and kept me fresh i think so yeah well i'll give you a perfect example the the the grizzly bear painting that's the inspiration for brother bear right oh yeah that's right it's true you got a good point for those that don't know he's mentioned it on previous streams there's a oil painting that he did in alaska of a grizzly bear and that he you know he ran that into tom schumacher's office and was like i want to make a movie like this yep can it help me get to get the role absolutely there that's working a little better how do you combine multiple creatures to make a natural looking fictional creature um it's it's it's mixing them in ways that seem logical now you can get over logical honestly you just end up with something that looks like everything else and that's kind of what i was running into when i first started this one is uh i um i ended up with it's just kind of a deformed looking cat and i had to really force myself because i start my thing is i start thinking about the logic of of the environment and how an animal would evolve in this environment and then so as i start thinking about it i end up with an animal that looks like the animals that have evolved in that environment so i'm going to force myself to to step out of it a little bit i know you're still working on it but um i just noticed when i had it in a small thumbnail the [Music] it looks a little flat where the arm is the bent arm yes right here in the middle yeah yes are you talking because i think i need to go darker behind it exactly yeah it's just not popping from the yep right back here yeah i i concur i didn't really notice it until i happen to have it smiling angry wholeheartedly well the tips you mentioned for animation illustration be useful for children's book illustration at all which ones uh mentioned for uh animation illustration just the character design just character design oh yeah yeah like any any of those tips would those be useful for children's book yeah yeah absolutely absolutely yeah that's too much color the face is really looking well defined though looks nice thanks getting too dark under the belly now look at that you gotta do something let me get rid of that because i don't like that hey i know what i need to do do you although that didn't bring the arm out more it did but to the local color of that fur underneath should be later so i got to just brighten the arm is what i need to do twitch comment the way the body is leaning downwards on its left side it could be an idea to have its rear leg sloped down hanging on the other side of the tree that's actually a good idea good except he's already in his position i think they're thinking the other leg might be could be hanging down even the way you're sitting that's what they're what they're getting at the like the leg on the back side of you right i gotcha i still think just for the fun of it you should cut the baboons out and see the people's clubbing on i think top will might look silly but it could be super cool i think i will and then you just give the baboon a helmet put some reins in its hand let's get in there what's the point of uh which of uh mark davis's works in animation and imagineering are your favorites well i like i love the the stuff he did for bambi probably some of my favorite stuff all his little character designs he did imaginary and it's going to be haunted mansion yeah he did emma jensen says it's a bit disconcerting that you can see the baboon's hand sticking out under we're getting there there i snorted which harry potter character movie is your favorite not quite a big fan uh i don't know you tell me dustin i don't really have a favorite harry potter i've never really gotten into them probably the first one but probably the only one i think the one that i remember best is hagrid they say character movie both hagrid is a character no no i know i was just they're asking about both yeah i think my favorite of the movies prisoner of azkaban the third one oh yeah where they do the time travel and all that the longer aaron perfects this this creature the more i want to pit the creature erica bay says i haven't even seen harry potter really wow they're fun that's such a big piece of pop culture it's like saying never seen star wars that's pretty that's pretty wild that's wild wild stuff there erica bay wild stuff did you ever see a star wars star wars i illustrate in pencil and color with uh alcohol pens but i'm trying to transition to uh digital not quite working though uh do you think i just haven't found the right digital brushes yet or that i just need much more practice practice the brightness you know you should be able to do it with any brush so the brushes it's you know it just takes time don't don't hurry don't rush it there's no magic you know everybody asks you know when they see a successful illustration you know that i get asked all the time after i've done something that people like well what brush was that it doesn't matter what brush it was i always use i use the same brush on every same brushes on every painting erica says uh responded he's saying i know but i love lord of the rings and the hobbit movies absolutely yeah i like lord of the rings a lot more did you draw made-up creatures when you were a boy too oh yeah that's the thing this is just an extension of me being a a child how do you battle against getting burnt out i don't i don't get burned out now i do a variety of stuff all the time maybe that's how i really don't get burned out i love i love what i do too much how did the song welcome in brother bear develop as the uh fishing song was cut and not used um i can't remember trying to remember how that all came about the fishing song was meant to be like an old irish kind of puppy drinking song that was kind of the model that phil was thinking about as he wrote it like everyone's getting together after you know and celebrating with the songs that you sing like like you do what people used to do um but as far as how why we switched it oh my gosh i can't remember there's so many story issues that come along you know through the course of making these films that require you to change an idea and it's so hard 15 years later to remember why why we did this thing or that thing you recently played for me the the demo cd from phil collins with a bunch of the music on it i did yes man i wish we could somehow play some of that for people but it'd probably get flagged i think that would probably get shut down in like two seconds unless we somehow get filled actually come on the stream and say it's okay there we go we're getting i think we're getting pretty close here yeah okay so here's um i'm gonna mess around with a little bit of show you some things that i like to do i feel like a tail needs a little more oh it does i haven't touched the tail yeah but i'm gonna um i'm gonna do something here all right so i'm going to turn this off off i'm going to turn this one on i'm going to go uh i'm going to blow this up this up so you guys can see it i'm going to go filter gaussian i think i'm going to blur it out that much you hit okay all right so now i'm going to turn on this top one which is on it's on top and what i'm going to do is i'm going to take my eraser oops and i'm going to go on top here slowly start to erase away of the foreground stuff stuff on the bottom you get a little bit of blur any plans on the uh animal farm course almost this is almost turned into almost like a tilt shift no nothing yet it's no longer to do this now what did you see i can get like a little see i'm getting a little bit of a blur effect on there like a shallow depth of field and then the other thing i can do on here is erase all of this background now it doesn't look like i'm doing much but it's softening i'm getting an even softer there we go it's really looking like if you shot it like an f like yeah f 2.8 or something very shallow so now i can go in with the cat or whatever the animal is what's your zodiac sign aaron aquarius this is the dawning of the age of aquarius yes what did you think of the movie dinosaur 20 years ago i thought it was i thought it was great emotional too i really liked it well to be honest um i remember seeing it and uh i couldn't remember what i watched when i walked out of the theater it really did the story made no impact on okay so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take this take that i'm going to put it all into one folder so we've got that and i'm going to copy it and i'm going to merge it shoot let me let me stop that for a second let me go down here where is it what's your favorite jim carrey film ace ventura hands down truman show's pretty great liar liar oh yeah that's a classic the mask is awesome yep east ventura is probably the one i've seen the most so yeah like a glove hdsn how are you this afternoon sir all right i have a package for you all right i'm just gonna work this out here let me do this because i want to i want to merge that together but it just changes some of my shadows here so i'm going to change those that's okay we'll fix that in just a minute fix all of this i'm going to fix all of it you'll see there we go so why are you learning everything around of the feet but not defeat themselves i'm erasing i had some shadow areas that were indicated but but and they were set to multiply but when i when i merged those together for some reason it doesn't retain that property it makes everything it knocks everything back to normal and so i have to go back and erase out the areas that i had set to multiply sean would like to know are you doing the one last thing yet no i'm not there yet i am almost there this art reminds me of the time i took a photo of a hole in the yard because i could seriously see a fairy in there anyone here have a habit of illustrating on photos i've never done it before well aaron does doing what illustrating on photos like you're doing right now oh yeah were you combining specific animals for this or just something from your head something from my head why is kate buffalo easier for lions to hunt uh on the africa savannah than other than the other big cats or even say that again why why are cape buffalo easier for lions to hunt why why are they yeah like why why is it easier for the lions to get k buffalo it's not they don't get became buffalo very often i don't know where you got that information but that's wrong and wrong no they don't they don't get kate buffalo unless there's a whole bunch of them lions that is dragon dreams on twitch says just so you know if you use your multiply layers etc as a clipping mask when you merge it won't revert back to the effects i know i know that but i i didn't do the clipping mask because i wanted the layers to be on top of some other layers that i didn't want to do clipping masks and it just turned into a mess so you didn't want to put a layer on top of a layer that's already on top of the layer that's the lower layer correct well knowing is half the battle the other half is red and blue lasers giant we go let's see that's kind of close enough so now what i want to do is i want to push the color on this a little bit that feels a little better do that and i'm going to blur out his tail so it sits back there with the log better should one try to draw from one's head to get better at it or is it just something you get better at after drawing a lot from reference and not something you have to practice separately see that again should one try to draw from one's head to get better at it basically draw from your imagination or is it just something you get better at after doing a lot of reference drawing oh it's both it's it's just something you get better at after you do a lot of reference drawing that's my main that's the main thing i can tell you for sure how would you feel about making your own movie about uh dragons like how similar to how to train your dragon but instead cg is traditional that'd be cool huh citizen citizen seagull says why every time you do a stream someone makes a dislike to the stream that it's only one person all the time because they got to be different baby it's always that one guy that's all right i have a theory on that but i'm not going to say anything i don't know why they even have a dislike button actually do you know that both likes and dislikes help you get more views on youtube i did not know that you could have a whole bunch of dislikes and you'll still get it basically any interaction is considered positive by youtube very interesting all right all right who is uh joe grant and have you met him uh or worked with him at disney yeah joe grant um was a story guy idea guy he started during snow white when i worked with him he was 96 98 something like that wow he came on and helped us out with king of the elves um the cricket in mulan was his idea he was always great at coming up with little characters that can spice up uh spice up the animation spice up the story i'm gonna do something now oh i see i was feeling wrong do you ever miss working for disney i miss the people i miss the people that i used to work with a lot yeah the people we work with now are terrible it was fun working in a studio you know but i'm remembering you know me being 21 22 23 years old all the stuff we did back then if i went back now as an old man it would be different so quiet huh i'm getting there i'm almost there it's almost done almost there it's been a very long time since we've done stream this long can you remember the last time i wanted to do what the heck's going on what what's that what the are you still in touch with any of the end of your old crew oh yeah tony bancroft don holland yeah the whole game don hahn wrote the forward for our new for the new book nice yes you did what is your favorite part of doing our like the sketching or anything particular um this stage i really like the finishing stage almost there i'm so freaking close hey here i know the parent hey i know it depends on the complexity of the painting but in general um what which do you think takes you longer to paint in digital media or with cup or with watercolor oh watercolor for sure digital is always faster should the grass in the center under the log be blurred yeah yeah you're probably white yeah you're probably right it's awfully cheeky of you why are hippos considered the most dangerous animals in africa because they kill the most people in africa i'm using my smudge tool and getting in there and just kind of blurring it out with my airbrush brush airbrush brush my airbrush brush all right boy this is a long stream wasn't it yeah sorry guys that's right now 4 14. hey you're getting paid shut your mouth a quick question what's the difference between both membership types greetings from mexico city the streaming um is cheaper monthly on a month from a monthly standpoint but what you don't get um the the new courses that come out you have to wait 60 days and um the brushes uh you get a discount on but you know they're not included in the membership whereas if you become a member you get everything when it comes out and you have access to everything yeah the big difference is the you know the idea with the streaming course is it's more affordable up front it's like a smaller monthly chunk versus right instead of one big chunk but the annual is definitely the way to go if it's in your budget because it works out it's a better deal yeah as far as what you get but the streaming's great too oh yeah we love all of our members there we go just adding a little bit of a little bit there we go nelly again someone's asking what screen you're using this is a wacom cintiq 32 inch there oh it was fun yeah there it is folks zoom and pan zoom in so when you see it up close it's kind of loose but um but when you back out from it it comes together and that's the whole idea and it was fun reversing those those spots on the uh the leopard i love experimenting with stuff like that to see what i can come up with and you know using your own photographic background you know it saves you a bunch of time there it is yeah see actually i want to try one more thing i knew it was coming always is where's the right brother it is what's the question that you ask yourself uh that we have not asked oh i don't know oh why how did i get here this is not my beautiful house what is the meaning of life always look on the bright side of life actually i'm glad i did that because i forgot to get some extra fur texture in here one more thing there it is yeah this makes him feel a little rougher by the way if you do like this uh stream please share it uh it really does help us a lot share it like it hit the subscribe buttons smash that subscribe button smash it ring that bell [Music] done with the tail pretty much i just uh i just blurred it blurt it out blur it smash it hide him dustin so that people can see the the whole piece uh full full screen it yeah it looks good hold on hold on i know i'm doing something i'm doing something but you can still hide still hide him in the meantime just yeah there you go sorry it's a lag lots of first time watchers today i'm noticing lower left darkened up the lower left thank you everybody who's tuning in for the first time today let's rotate that sucker to see if we we're still feeling good about it kind of thinking a little bit feels all right do i need to blow out any of that fur on the back like it's getting blown out by the sunlight no where are you talking about those along the back the spines on the back bridge yeah i don't know maybe a little bit feels like it needs to be blown out who came up with the idea of doing live streams was it nick no i think i don't remember how i think i think what it was is um i think you guys saw the way that i did live streams uh with my video games and you you guys had the had the idea from that no i don't think that was that dusty i'm pretty sure that wasn't it we started doing them on facebook because facebook offered us the option to do it back in the day i think i helped out with the uh the obs that's what it was yeah that was later though we used to do it on phones yeah you definitely like the feeling of the sun coming through his neck stuff yeah right here skin yeah take that a little bit harder there we go did you get the idea for the neck like like a like a gecko yeah people are saying aaron for the love of god please save oh yeah i forgot to save accidentally hits the x button yeah that feels better feels a little better record basis i remember the phone days save as it's got to go into youtube why don't be so slow oh my gosh oh my god youtube videos live stream videos oh live stream videos that's right we got a separate thing for a live stream but there it is live stream images and we're gonna call it a kegel [Laughter] oh that's not gonna go whatever you know like it's a cat and they need i'm scared to look it up i don't know i think that name is tight i think [Laughter] oh my gosh that's funny we're such little kids i know all right hold on and oh i guess come on twitch i've just tuned in i'm three hours late this week well at least she got us people want to know if you'll make this available as a prince we are going to start doing a lot more prints so yeah if you want this as a print that could be kind of cool i think we're going to remember it when you see it blown up it's a little looser than uh here there it is um there i think we're gonna do a prince of the charcoal drawing from last week too for the people that saw that stream pretty sure we're going to make prints of that available which is right over here yeah show that on the full screen so that was the charcoal from last week which was fun there's our digital painting this week see that's why i love my job doing a charcoal one week in a digital painting a made-up creature and then a real creature people are like that creepy monkey paw is still there i know i'm gonna leave it because only you guys know it's there it's a little baboon boom my little baboon all right there you go thanks you guys i had a blast um going out there and put some beauty back in the world have a great weekend uh be safe and we will talk to you next week all right bye thank you guys so much for watching glad you guys enjoyed this stream and if you're interested in a wildlife photography you can check out my instagram at dustin underscore blaze and also if you're interested in any wildlife reference packs go ahead and check out my yellowstone photo pack while waiting for my africa photos our photo packs are still all 30 off by the way yeah and i wanted to remind everybody about the sale today i kind of jumped off too quick but the the pen and ink sale you're talking about and the membership the membership sale i'll membership you get 70 off our full membership which is a huge savings and uh and um uh was it 30 or 40 percent 30 40 percent 40 off of our streaming membership so uh go on over to creatureartteacher.com and check it out and the pen and ink sale is still going on yep but if you get memberships that's included so that's that's the way to go thank you guys for watching everybody thank you see ya

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Published: Fri Oct 22 2021