Ep. 029: Michael Yates - Story Artist for Pixar Animation Studios

If you love storyboarding, you’ll love today’s interview with Pixar Story Artist Michael Yates! Michael worked as a Story Trainee at both Disney Feature Animation and DreamWorks Animation, as well as working as a Story Intern at Pixar, before taking a full-time job as a Story Artist on Cars 3 at Pixar. In today’s interview Michael discusses the importance of working on personal projects, learning as much as you can in and outside of school, and developing a thick skin in order to improve your storytelling chops. And check out his amazing student film, The Legend of the Flying Tomato! Michael Yates’ Websites Tumblr yatesart.tumblr.com/ Twitter @yyates05 Instagram @yyates05 The Legend of the Flying Tomato https://vimeo.com/90549174 The Show Website www.theanimatedjourney.com Tumblr www.theanimatedjourney.tumblr.com Facebook www.facebook.com/theanimatedjourney Twitter @animjourney Instagram @animjourney The Host Website www.sketchysoul.com Tumblr www.sketchysoul.tumblr.com Twitter @SketchySoul Instagram @Sketchy_Soul Continuing Education I am taking courses at two online schools — check them out: The Oatley Academy – The Storyteller’s Summit Schoolism – Alex Woo’s Gesture Drawing Course Awesome find of the week: The Gnomon School Check out their live stream, Bringing “Stranger Things” to Life: An Evening with Aaron Sims Creative, and see how the Burbank, CA studio created the terrifying Demogorgon! http://bit.ly/2c7XIsw

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