Craig Mullins is an american artist, painter and pioneer of digital art. https://www.goodbrush.com/ https://www.instagram.com/craigmullinsofficial 02:00 Introductions and The Role of AI in Art and the Future of Creativity 35:33 The Concrete Brain and Adaptation 49:09 The Overwhelming Influx of Data and Connectivity 01:06:57 The Cyclical Nature of History and Rapid Change 01:16:38 The Journey into Digital Art and the Emergence of Photoshop 01:38:36 Being Selective with Influences and Embracing Failure

Michah Dowbak aka Mad Dog Jones is a multidisciplinary artist from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Dowbak rose to fame in the world of crypto art with the recent success of his Crash + Burn series of NFT artworks, and he is now a headliner in the first major NFT art exhibition at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Michah has also designed a helmet graphics for F1 racing 7 time world champion Lewis Hamliton and livery design for winning MotoGP team VR46 Valentino Rossi.

Osean is a digital artist, musician, animation director and creator of Oseanworld. His work also include collaborating with major musicians such as 2 Chainz, Offset, Madeon and more.

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Tim Flattery is a professional concept artist and illustrator that has worked in the film industry since 1988. His projects throughout his career include Back to the Future II, Saving Private Ryan, Men In Black, Terminator Salvation and many more. Tim is currently working as a concept artist at Marvel and Disney and is former chair of the Entertainment Design department at Art Center College of Design. http://timflattery.com/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

Scott Robertson is Designer, Author, former Chair of Entertainment Design at Art Center College of Design and Founder of Design Studio Press. www.designstudiopress.com www.drawthrough.com Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing by Margaret Livingstone http://amzn.to/2e8Jda3 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artcafetv

Alexandria Neonakis is UI Designer and Illustrator at Naughty Dog, Inc http://www.alexneonakis.com/ Robert L. Herreria is Immigration Lawyer, Associate with Jackson & Hertogs, LLP in San Francisco, CA http://www.jackson-hertogs.com/

Mathias Verhasselt is an Art Director working at Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine, CA Website - http://mv.cgsociety.org/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mathias.verhasselt/

Emmanuel Shiu is a Concept Artist and Designer working in the Film and Video Game industries. His clients include Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros and Universal to name a few. http://www.eshiu.com/

Vitaly Bulgarov is industrial and entertainment designer working from Las Vegas, Nevada. His client list include Boston Dynamics, Intuitive Surgical, ILM, Paramount Pictures and more. http://www.bulgarov.com Books mentioned during our talk: Eat That Frog - Brian Tracy http://amzn.to/2cSVG2k Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long - George Leonard http://amzn.to/2czqplw Mastery - Robert Greene http://amzn.to/2cyHOxS

Shaddy Safadi is Founder and Art Director of entertainment design outsourcing studio One Pixel Brush: www.onepixelbrush.com

Scott Schneider is set designer and member of Local 800 Art Director's guild with over 25 years experience in feature film https://filmdesigner.artstation.com/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0774021/

Andre Luis is Co-Founder and Manager of Trojan Horse was a Unicorn Festival in Troia, Portugal. https://trojan-unicorn.com/ https://trojan-unicorn.com/tv

Justin 'Coro' Kaufman is founder and art director of artist collective Massive Black, which specialize in concept design and illustration for film, games and TV: http://massiveblack.com/

Sam Yang is a Toronto based artist, illustrator and entertainer known for his popular Youtube channel Sam Does Arts.

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Show Notes:
Midjourney - https://midjourney.com/
Chatgpt - https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
Getty Images AI lawsuit - https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright-stable-diffusion-getty-images-lawsuit
Stable Diffusion Class Aciton Lawsuit - https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/
ChatGPT pass parts of business law, medical exams - https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/29/chatgpt-ai-language-bot-can-pass-business-law-and-/

Aaron Limonick is a senior concept artist working for Naughty Dog, Inc, who worked on such titles as The Last of Us and Uncharted 4. www.limonick.com

Mark Chang is a concept artist from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Check out his impressive 3D style frames done with Cinema4D and Octane: https://equinoz.artstation.com/

Andrée Wallin is a concept artist working mainly with feature films and commercials. In 2013 he started creating his own IP's and is currently developing a project entitled STATE ZERO through his company Number 81 Entertainment. Andrée is represented by WME. www.andreewallin.com

Josan Gonzalez is an artist and author of Future is Now: Volume One and Two books, successfuly crowdfunded via Kickstarter. Check his amazing portfolio and kickstarter page: http://www.fsix.es/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1410842311/the-future-is-now-volume-two Discussed in stream: Paper: lana Bristol Board 250gr Pen: Tombow Penbrush Comic influences: Geof Darrow, Loisel, Manara, Otomo, Hiroaki Samura, Alfonso Font

Vaughan Ling is concept designer working in film and animation, Los Angeles. He's most known from his work done for Tron: Uprising TV animated series as well as amazing 3D concept renders done with Modo. Check his website: http://www.heavypoly.com/

Alex Figini is one of the guys involved in Mass Effect's 12 - Month epilogue and he will be joining us July 28th! to share a bit of his story and work, come join in on the questions and answers or just hang out and listen! Some books mentioned in this stream: Molly Bang - Picture This http://amzn.to/2a3GikN Bruce Block - The Visual Story: Seeing the structure of Film, TV and Digital Media http://amzn.to/2akZYzy

We have the pleasure of interviewing Grant Warwick, a self taught artists who teaches through his own business - Mastering CGI. http://masteringcgi.com.au/ Workflow mentioned during the stream: Creating Mastering Vray style shaders in Maya http://www.magnus-olsson.se/?p=133

This special episode was just fun conversation and hanging out with my friend and business partner Ash Thorp www.ashthorp.com

ArtStation is the showcase platform for games, film, media & entertainment artists. It enables artists to showcase their portfolios in a slick way, discover & stay inspired, and connect with new opportunities. Leonard Teo is CEO and founder of www.artstation.com Daniel Wade is a Product Manager at www.artstation.com

James Paick is a founder and Creative Director at Scribble Pad Studios. James has over 15 years of design experience and has developed many projects within the gaming, film, theme park, illustration, entertainment space and advertising fields. Hope to see you all soon! https://www.scribblepadstudios.com/

Ash Thorp is a director,, designer and a visionary artist based in California, known for batmobile designs for latest The Batman movie, Ken Block's rally Ford Cosworth car, designs for films such as Ender's Game, Captain Marvel to name a few and a director at ALT Creative, Inc.

https://www.altcinc.com
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Show notes:
Mid Journey Forbes Article - https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2022/09/16/midjourney-founder-david-holz-on-the-impact-of-ai-on-art-imagination-and-the-creative-economy/?sh=2eda17c62d2b
Stable Diffusion explained - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CIpzeNxIhU
OpenAI - https://openai.com/ CLIP - https://openai.com/blog/clip/
MidJourney - https://www.midjourney.com/
Stability.ai - https://stability.ai/
Andrew Huberman - https://hubermanlab.com/
Concept Art Association GoFundMe - https://www.gofundme.com/f/protecting-artists-from-ai-technologies

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Join us as we interview legendary concept artist John Park as he fills us in on the history of his career, how he thinks, and where he's headed in the future! http://www.jparked.com/

We are excited to chat with Fausto De Martini a Freelance Concept Artistist with great experience in the field of video game Cinematics who recently made a move to work as an Art Department’s concept Artist/Illustrator for movies. http://www.faustodesign.com/

Beeple is Mike Winkelmann, we have the honor of picking the brain of such an awesome artist, a graphic designer from Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. His short films have screened at onedotzero, Prix Ars Electronica, the Sydney Biennale, Ann Arbor Film Festival and many others. http://www.beeple-crap.com/

This Art Cafe is going to be an amazing one! The Concept Artist at Naughty Dog Inc, will be joining us. Come join in to ask questions and get answers from the amazing Video Game Concept artist Eytan Zana. https://www.artstation.com/artist/eytan

Kirill Chepizhko is 3D concept designer based of San Francisco, California. https://www.artstation.com/artist/fett

Reviewing portfolios of Art Cafe fans!

Edon is freelance artist working from Wageningen, Netherlands. Most notably he've done some work for Star Citizen, a highly anticipated sci-fi crowdfunded video game done by Foundry42 studio. Edon also works on some undisclosed projects including more video games and films. https://www.artstation.com/artist/guraziu

The co-founders of Learn Squared want to invite you for inspiration infused chat about WHY we launched our school, what motivates us and how we envision future of art community and art education.

Marco is freelance illustrator based in Chicago, IL. Most recent and notable project he work on is Mortal Kombat X for which he created variety of awesomeness. What impress me personally the most however is his amazing traditional drawing skills as well as dedication to craft. http://marconelor.com/ https://instagram.com/marconelor

Alex is a freelance concept artist working in games, film and product design living in Cambridge, England. https://aj-brady.squarespace.com/ Levi Peterffy is a concept artist and matte painter in film industry working in London.

Joshua Davis is an American designer, technologist, author, and visual artist in new media. He is best known as the creator of praystation.com, winner of the Prix Ars Electronica 2001 Golden Nica for "Net Vision / Net Excellence”.

https://joshuadavis.com/ https://www.instagram.com/praystation/?hl=en
https://www.zerospace.co/

The End of Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSxFAGP9Ss
Chatgpt: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

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Ross is an illustrator and concept designer based in Los Angeles, California.He designed Echo for Relativity Media but is better known for his energy-infused YouTube channel, Ross Draws: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLEVrhumRsK67JkP3G4w5cQ https://www.patreon.com/Rossdraws?ty=h

Digital Domain co-founder and VFX industry legend Scott Ross joins us to share how he got his start in the industry, the pitfalls of major visual effects films, and what he thinks are the most realistic solutions to the industry's woes. SHOW NOTES: Scott's Blog: www.scottaross.com Digital Domain: http://www.digitaldomain.com/ ILM: http://www.ilm.com/

Efflam Mercier discusses the beginnings of his career, some very technical insight regarding the science of lighting, working with references, and perservering in the face of adversity. SHOW NOTES: Jeremy Vickery's Gnomon Workshop: http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/981/Efficient-Cinematic-Lighting#.Vd9i4fZVhBc Sam Nielson on Schoolism: http://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=3 Color Correction Handbook: http://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques/dp/0321713117 Nathan Fowkes: http://www.nathanfowkesart.com/ Matt Scott's Cinematography Blog: http://mattscottvisuals.com/ Barry Lyndon: http://amzn.to/1Jmiija Eat That Frog: http://amzn.to/1F0pkbB Compound Effect: http://amzn.to/1JmlqLV Collective Podcast w/ Vitaly Bulgarov: http://www.thecollectivepodcast.com/vitaly-bulgarov/

Ash Thorp is a graphic designer, illustrator, artist, and creative director for a multitude of media, including feature films, commercial enterprises, and print. http://ashthorp.com/

André Luís is Co-Founder and Manager of Trojan Horse was a Unicorn Festival in Troia, Portugal. https://trojan-unicorn.com/

Raf Grassetti is Lead Character Artist for Sony Santa Monica. https://grassetti.wordpress.com/ Josh Herman is Character Artist and Designer working in Film industry, best known for his Iron Man Mark 2 and Mark 45 suits. http://droidsforsale.com/home/ Colin Thomas is Character Artist working for Naughty Dog, Inc. http://www.muditup.com/ Rodrigue Pralier is Principal Artist for Warner Bros., Montreal. https://www.artstation.com/artist/rodrigue_pralier

Sebastian Gromann is Berlin based concept artist at Karakter Studio. https://www.artstation.com/artist/sebastiangromann

Steven Ilous is a director, writer, producer and visual effects supervisor as well as the founder of SMI Entertainment working with New Regency, best known for his short film Polis http://smi-ent.com/ Ash Thorp is a graphic designer, illustrator, artist, and creative director for a multitude of media, including feature films, commercial enterprises, and print. http://ashthorp.com/

Shaddy Safadi is founder of One Pixel Brush, art outsourcing studio for Video Games, Film and TV http://www.onepixelbrush.com John Sweeney is Senior Concept Artist at Naughty Dog http://sweeneyillustrates.blogspot.com/

David Lesperance is Environment Artist working at Valve Software http://david-lesperance.squarespace.com/ Rafael Grassetti is Lead Character Artist at Sony Santa Monica http://grassetti.wordpress.com/ Jung Park is Lead Concept Artist at Respawn Entertianment http://www.jungparkart.com/ Ryan Hawkins is founder of Art by Papercut and artist at Valkyrie Entertainment http://artbypapercut.com/ Nick Gindraux is Senior Concept Artist at Naughty Dog http://ngindrauxportfolio.blogspot.com/ Alex Neonakis is UX/UI extraordinaire at Naughty Dog http://alexneonakis.com/ John Sweeney is Senior Concept Artist at Naughty Dog http://sweeneyillustrates.blogspot.com/

Steven Zapata is a a professional designer, illustrator, and educator for over a decade based out of New York City.

Steven’s Links Website: https://www.stevenzapata.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/stevenzapataart

Links from the show:
Git Hub Litigation: https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/
Google Sentient AI: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/
All-In Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@allin

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Dan LuVisi is a creator of Last Man Standing and Popped Culture books. Anthony Jones is an artist and educator working in film and video games out of Irvine, California.

Dan LuVisi is an artist from Los Angeles, California, creator of Last Man Standing and Popped Culture books. https://www.artstation.com/artist/danluvisiart

Ethan is a visual development artist in animation, who worked with clients such as Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, Studio Mir to name a few.
Ethan is also known his incredibly popular and funny youtube channel and probably one of most interesting personalities I've had a chance to talk with.

https://www.instagram.com/ethanbecker70
https://www.youtube.com/user/ToBelgium

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