Schedule
This is the entire schedule of panels and programming that happened during the 2021 LightBox Expo Online! Check out the LightBox Expo Videos page to see many of the 2021 videos!
Tuesday 9/7/2021
Welcome to LightBox Expo Online!
Welcome to LightBox Expo Online 2021! Are you ready for 6 days of ART AWESOMENESS? It all starts today, Tuesday September 7, and LBX showrunners, Bobby Chiu and Jim Demonakos, are here to share some of the amazing events that will be kicking off the event! Take a stroll through the aisles of the virtual Artist Alley, shop the exclusive LBX Merch Store, and keep scrolling to check out the incredible list of events so you don’t miss out on any of the excitement!
Story Development Art at Riot Games
Dan Norton
We will walk through what Story Development Art is and how we work at Riot.
Rewatch it now available!

Wednesday 9/8/2021
LightBox Expo x ArtStation: Q&As
Ask everything you want to know related to career advice, portfolio building, improving your skills and more during a live Q&A with incredible artists at the top of their game. Running throughout the day with Jas Dhatt (Epic – Mediatonic/ Fall Guys), Pete Ellis (Epic – Fortnite), Atey Ghalian (Envar), Madeleine Bellwoar (Freelance), Raf Grassetti (Sony Santa Monica), Alison Farmer (Epic – Unreal Engine) and Grace Liu (Monomi Park)!

Getting Started on ArtStation
Wondering how to showcase your portfolio and start building an online presence in the art community? Follow along step by step in setting up your ArtStation account and find out how to get the most out of it to take advantage of opportunities, learning passive income, learning and more.

Live Character Drawing Session
Join ArtStation and Drawing Cabaret Couture in an immersive 2 hour online drawing figure session that explores the creative world of fashion designer, Polosophia.

Thursday 9/9/2021
Hot takes with Tonko House’s Robert Kondo
Robert Kondo
Go behind the scenes at Tonko House and learn about their process, and get Rob’s first impressions of the Live brushes in Adobe Fresco.

Adobe Fresco: First impressions with Chrystin
Chrystin Garland
What the heck is Fresco? Find out about Adobe’s latest drawing app with visual development artist Chrystin Garland (Midnight Gospel, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Niko and the Sword of Light)

Crash McCreery on Making the Blueprint for Movie Dinosaurs
Crash McCreery, Renée di Cherri
Join Crash McCreery, famous for his artwork on Jurassic Park and Terminator 2 as he chats dinosaurs with Renée di Cherri from Adobe.

Friday 9/10/2021
Welcome to Friday at LightBox Expo!
This is when the floodgates open with over 400+ talks, panels, demos and presentations that happen over the next 3 days. Event ends on Sept 12, 2021 at 6pm PT!
Relax, Drink and Draw
Marie-Alice Harel
Grab your favourite drink, a sketchbook and join me for an informal chat to spend some cosy time in good company with fellow creatives (and introverts, I suspect !). Working as a creative can be very isolating, so for once let’s get out of our caves and see how that goes. We can share the things we enjoy, the things we struggle with, or just sit quietly in a corner, that’s nice too.
How to Pitch Nelvana
Athena Georgaklis
Join Nelvana’s development team as they walk you through what makes a good pitch great and how to pitch Nelvana on your story ideas.

Understanding Appeal
Iris Muddy
join me as we investigate designing delicious imagery 🙂
Character Animation in a MoCap World with Emiliano Topete
Emiliano Topete
Emiliano Topete shows how MoCap platforms such as Mixamo have allowed studios like his to save time and money. And instead focusing on pushing keyframe animation to more expressive movements and impressive effects that are necessary to make a project stand out in today’s entertainment industry.

Illumination: The Joy of Portfolios
Dawn E. Yamazi
Join the recruitment teams from LA and Paris as they share portfolio tricks that stand out and shout “You Don’t Want to Miss This!”. Founded by Academy Award® nominee Chris Meledandri, the creator of Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets and Sing, Illumination is based in Santa Monica, CA and its studio, Illumination MacGuff, is located in the center of Paris, France.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY
Passcode: 679246

Feedback Loops: Designing a video game
Leo Castañeda
Breaking the limitations of analog and digital media, artist Leo Castañeda jumps between both to create his artworks and upcoming video game. Fresh from a showcase at the HeK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel Switzerland, Leo shares his experience creating an art installation and game showcase between mediums and industries for the exhibit “Radical Gaming: Immersion, Simulation, Subversion.

Turning thoughts into Things- Cultivating the Keys to Creativity
Dave Zaboski
Join former Senior Disney Animator and Laetro co-founder Dave Zaboski as he discusses how the best artists create from imagination.
PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE WORKING ON ADDING THIS PANEL FOR REWATCH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE!

The Making of Mila
Cinzia Angelini
Director Cinzia Angelini will discuss how a personal story attracted, & eventually enlisted, hundreds of artists from 35 countries+ & a major studio to work on a production that took a decade to complete. We will explore the motivation behind using animation to take an unvarnished look at war from a child’s perspective and examine the artistic process behind getting the vision to the big screen.
Password: Cinesite

The Mitchells vs. The Machines: Inventing a Visual Style
Mike Lasker, Alan Hawkins
Join visual effects supervisor Mike Lasker and head of character animation Alan Hawkins as they discuss the challenges and successes of developing an all-original visual style for the latest release from Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks: THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES, streaming now on Netflix.

Discord Drawing Jam
David Levy, Tammy Wang, Masae Seki, Kofi Ofosu, Jorge R. Gutiérrez
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Getting Creative with 3rd Party Tools
Dave Clayton
Whilst Illustrator delivers creativity in bundles, there are some great 3rd party tools that enhance your creative workflow. In this session we’ll look at resources from RetroSupply.co and how to include them in your work, plus we’ll look at some creative plugins from Astute Graphics for Illustrator and demo.

Into the Fire: Bronze Patina Demo
Colin and Kristine Poole
During this 45 minute start-to-finish live patina demo, we’ll cover the basics of the bronze casting process. Colin will transform our newest bronze Talisman skull designs – Bobcat and Fox – plus a “Handling” from raw to finished bronze. He’ll show how all those cool colors are created using heat and chemicals. Transitions in color, layering and creating various patterns will be demonstrated.
9B Collective: Meet the Founders
Phillip Boutte, Mike Uwandi, Aldis Hodge
Come and hang with the Co-Founders of 9B Collective, the first Black owned concept art studio. They will be answering your questions on all things process, portfolios and industry.
Access Passcode: +%5%oE+8
Approaching 2D Animation
BJ Crawford
Approaching 2D Animation is both exciting and intimidating.
In this talk I will be covering two professional assignments that I worked on and one personal project in an effort to explain how I went about approaching the challenges of each.
The goal is to talk through the results of each approach and hopefully encourage and inspire my fellow animators in the industry.
From Animated Series to Creating Game
Nickelodeon and Double Stallion
Taking an Animated Series and Creating a Video Game — Join us for a panel discussion with the teams from Nickelodeon and Double Stallion that took the hit TV series The Loud House and turned it into a 2D video game. The panel will discuss the process involved with the interactive adaptation of an animated series and how producing animated assets for a videogame differs from animating for a series

Illustration with Acrylic Markers
Angela Pan
Have you ever wanted to record moments from life or highlights from your travel as illustrations? Acrylic marker is a convenient and portable art medium that you can use to capture your memories as art. I’ll be demonstrating how I recreate some of my precious travel moments as small illustrations for my upcoming art book.
Digital drawing with Michael
Michael Clarida
Michael Clarida is a professional illustrator and concept artist. He has over 21 years of illustration experience working and designing toys for Disney, Warner Bros., Marvel, Harry Potter, Sony, Illuminations, and Pixar.
He will show you the process when he creates illustrations digitally in one hour. This is going to include and not limited to the sketch phase, the color phase, and finally the rendering phase. Let’s get started!

90 Minutes Live Commission
Wendy Tan
This is a booking for a live commission with Wendy Tan at Lightbox Expo Online! She will be drawing commissions and chatting during the weekends.
Commissions will be digital and colored. Portrait, bust or full body are welcomed! Maximum 2 characters.
Samples: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f7kkf1893nsp42b/AACt10YeD2ADJbSjKskNuk_Ga?dl=0
Booking slots: https://calendly.com/wendytansw/90min
Developing with Disney TVA
Emily Carson, Kitty Walsh
Ever wonder what goes into developing a show at Disney TVA? Join some of Disney Television Animations’ development executives as they discuss their journey to development and discuss what it takes to break in and make your own show. From pitch bible to pilot; hear about all the pieces of the process.
Rewatch is now available!

Departure: Exploring and Building Worlds
John Burton
John will demonstrate and discuss how he builds worlds while sharing his insights and experience. This will be a rare opportunity to hear how John transitioned from a successful career in the fine art world into being a visual development artist for major franchises in the entertainment industry and a production designer for a feature animation. *John is an instructor at Schoolism.
Passcode: 905152
Tips and Tricks Demo with Pablo
Pablo Dominguez Aguilar
I will be doing a demo playing around with zbrush, blender and photoshop for 80min.
Bringing Animated 2D Characters to Life
Ryan Simmons, JJ Harrison
Veteran 2D animator Ryan Simmons (The Iron Giant, Cats Don’t Dance) demonstrates how he breathes life into animated characters. Moderated by JJ Harrison (Mondo, Adventure Time)

Designing Textural Monsters
Jonathan Hardesty
How do you make a monster look more slimy, fluffy, or completely repulsive? Add a textural component of course! In this presentation Jon will be introduce students to the basics of painting textures and will weave that knowledge into a cool monster design. It’s going to be three hours of fun and learning. Students can bring their own monsters (or borrow Jon’s) and paint right along with him.
Getting Into NICK – Talent Pipelining
Amy Wu, Kate Blatchford, Katherine Wells
Hear about Nickelodeon’s talent pipeline programs and specifically how you can Get into NICK! Learn about NICKternships, or the Nickelodeon Artists Program and the Nickelodeon Writers Program. You’ll takeaway key dates, how to apply, and you’ll get the chance to ask specific questions about these programs.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY

Walt Disney Animation Studios: Creating Kumandra through Collaboration
Paul Felix, Eric Provan, Benjamin Min Huang, Blair Bradley
Join Production Designer Paul Felix, Environment Modeling Supervisor Eric Provan and Environment Look Development Supervisor Benjamin Min Huang in a panel discussion about creating the land of Talon for Raya and the Last Dragon from visual development through asset production. Moderated by Production Supervisor, Blair Bradley.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY

CONCEPT ART CAREER | Things I’ve learned
Aleksi Briclot
Designer and art director for video games, Aleksi has worked on Egypt 2, ColdFear, Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Dungeon Runners, and Haze. This talk is about all the things he has learned so far in his career. From professional experiences that helped him to grow as an artist as well as a person – of course there is a lot about concept art!

LIVE STREAM 2D Animation Demo: Snow Bear
Aaron Blaise
Please join master animator & director Aaron Blaise (The Lion King, Beauty & The Beast, Brother Bear) as he demos his approach to 2D Hand Drawn Animation while working LIVE on his upcoming short film “Snow Bear”. He will be answering your questions as well!
Free Tutorial: Introduction to Creature Design in Photoshop: Armor & Weapon Concepts
Kyle Brown
This 45-minute bonus tutorial by Kyle Brown teaches armor- and weapon-design techniques for those looking to add dimension to creature designs!
Kyle’s 2-volume Introduction to Creature Design workshop demystifies the process of bringing creatures to life, from an original sketch through to a fully colored concept. With a focus on teaching quick and efficient methods for Photoshop’s simple yet effective tools, Kyle shares how to quickly convey multiple ideations to clients to offer them a variety of options. The full workshop by Kyle Brown is available on-demand at www.thegnomonworkshop.com. Be sure to visit The Gnomon Workshop’s booth in the Artist Alley during LightBox Expo 2021 for more information.

Discord Drawing Jam
Wyndham Batton, Alessandra Briggs, Clio Chiang, Robin Boonacker, Anthony Jones, Jake Parker, Naomi VanDoren, Michael Habib, Zac Retz
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Life of a Line Producer at Netflix Animation
Kathleen Zuelch, Lisa Jones, Eric Vesbit, Helen Saric, and Julie Kinman (Moderator)
Are you interested in becoming a line producer or a producer in animation? Interested in knowing what it’s like to be in production management at Netflix Animation? This panel will showcase some of our incredibly talented line producers and how they successfully managed their career journey, working at Netflix Animation, and sharing advice on the key elements to be a great producer.

The Collaboration Between Art & Animation on LUCA
Deanna Marsigliese, Jennifer Migita
Go behind the scenes with Animator, Jennifer Migita and Art Director, Deanna Marsigliese as they give an inside look at the collaboration between the art and animation departments on LUCA.

2D & 3D Visual Development at DreamWorks TV
Jessica Bulinski, Peter Markowski, Jiyoung Choi
Join Art Directors Jessica Bulinski and Peter Markowski, along with Visual Development Trainee Jiyoung Choi, for a behind-the-scenes look at the 2D and 3D design process for TV animation.

Refining your art and voice with Cody Gramstad hosted by Adobe Live
Cody Gramstad
Join Emmy Award winner and Schoolism Instructor Cody Gramstad and experienced Recruitment Manager Sandra Mondahl in an in-depth discussion about how to refine your artistic portfolio in order to catch a recruiter’s eye, as well as how to survive the interview process once you have your foot in the door. This presentation is brought to you by Adobe Live.

Linking Commissions to Personal Projects
Donato Giancola
Tapping into Personal Projects to fuel visual solutions to Commercial Commissions holds numerous benefits – from sustaining a high degree of motivational interest in the assignment, to fulfilling career milestones, developing new client bases, providing fresh and unexpected solutions for your projects, and lastly broadening your artistic aesthetics so you rarely experience professional burn-out.
All about ART ANXIETY and how to BEAT IT
Danielle Pioli
From fear of drawing, to anxiety while staring at a blank page, to feeling overwhelmed even before starting a new piece, those could be signs that you are experiencing Art Anxiety. In this talk, we’re going to talk about this feeling that has been holding us back creatively and how to reverse it.
Mastering Visual Narrative
Nathan Fox, JJ Harrison
Explore the fundamentals and process of visual narrative with illustrator and comic book artist Nathan Fox, co-creator of The Weatherman from Image Comics and Chair of the MFA Visual Narrative program at the School of Visual Arts. Moderated by JJ Harrison (Mondo, Adventure Time).

How to Light a Landscape
James Gurney
James Gurney demos and answers questions as he paints a landscape outdoors. The presentation is a 15 minute long YouTube Premiere with live chat.
Visual Storytelling
Colin and Kristine Poole
This live discussion is about how to use 2D and 3D art forms to create vivid works that draw viewers in and keep them engaged. From historical to contemporary works, we’ll show examples of extraordinary and often complex tales that are told through sculptures and paintings and explore ways to expand the story-telling potential of your own work.
Talent HyperModels Power The Metaverse
Remington Scott
The Metaverse is set to provide opportunities and capabilities beyond what has been currently possible for A List talent. Powered by Hyperreal’s HyperModel platform, digital humans of A list talent are disrupting traditional entertainment and building an infrastructure for unlimited potential in the Metaverse.

Changing Careers from Engineering to Art
Andy Cung
Andy Cung will share his journey on how he made the career switch from being an electrical engineer for 7 years to a storyboard artist and writer in animation and live action films.
How I Improved My Art – Demo with Heikala
Heikala
Heikala is an artist based in Finland. She creates fantastical colored ink paintings with a goal to tell stories and bridge the divide between mundane and magical.
Protecting Your Art
Stephen Silver, Jonas Jödicke, and Lauren Rawlins. Moderator: Jessica Foti
Sharing your art can be a distressing experience in a time of rampant theft and deception. Join Stephen Silver (Kim Possible, Danny Phantom), Jonas Jödicke (Ravensburger, Huawei, Adobe), and Lauren Rawlins (Product Manager at DeviantArt) for a panel tackling the issues artists face with art theft, what artists can do to protect themselves, and what platforms can do to protect artists. Hosted by Jessica Foti

Behind the Scenes of Production Design
Arthur Fong, Jason Scheier, Robert Kondo, Helen Mingjue Chen, Lindsey Olivares, Luc Desmarchelier
Production Designers Arthur Fong, Jason Scheier, Robert Kondo, Helen Mingjue Chen, Luc Desmarchelier, and Lindsey Olivares share their experiences working on various projects and reveal what goes on behind the scenes to bring a director’s vision to life.

How to Grow an Online Following
Jake Parker
With an online following of over half a million people across all social media accounts I’m sharing what I’ve learned in the last 10 years about what works with growing an audience for your work. I’ll go over timeless strategies, and not flavor-of-the-month tactics to help you get the most out of your social media posts.
Live Demo – From Clay to Digital
Andrea Blasich
I will design a character in clay and bring it to CG. A quick view of my process.
Ask Andrea your questions here: Slido
Caricature Elevated
Jason Seiler
Jason Seiler will start by sketching a few people from https://www.earthsworld.com/ while discussing the importance of exploring and pushing shape and form, which is key to developing strong character and feeling of your subject. Jason will choose his favorite sketch to paint, covering topics such as values, soft and hard edges, brushwork, aesthetics, and more!
Mental Canvas: Drawing Reimagined
Julie Dorsey and Sam Nassour
In this presentation, Mental Canvas Founder Julie Dorsey and Concept Artist Sam Nassour will introduce and demonstrate Mental Canvas Draw. Mental Canvas takes drawing to a place it’s never been with spatial and temporal strokes, 3D navigation, and free-form animations — all drawn with the ease of pencil and paper.
Colorscripts Walkthrough
Eusong Lee
Let’s talk about colorscripts! I’d love to share my experience with color design for series and shorts, including how colorscript can help art directing in a production.
Demo Reel Reviews with the R.A.T.
Vanessa Landeros, Paul Jarvis, Brandon Russert, Alessandra Mota, Alex Ferreira Simoes, Lana Bachynski, Tyler Anthony, Skylar Surra
Join us as the the Riot Animation Team comes together to do some live demo reel reviews for the Light Box Expo Online!

Mickey Mouse: A Caricature on Heritage
Asia Ellington, Cameron Thompson, and Juan Garrido
Join us as we dive into the design evolution of Mickey and other beloved characters. We’ll take a look at how decades of magic and fun inspire the humor, storytelling, and design on The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse. We’ll also look at our personal design processes from inspiration to rough sketches and final design from our unique perspectives in character/background design and art direction.

From Traditional to Digital
Yong Hong Zhong
Whether starting from a photo reference or painting a plein air, Yong will walk you through some key steps in building up a strong painting: from the importance of values and color studies, to details and polishing, all while capturing emotion in each brush stroke.

Women in Animation Art Jam
Chrystin Garland / Gabby Zapata / Victoria Ying Moderated by Alison Mann with an introduction from Jinko Goto
Hosted by Wacom — Women In Animation is “the only organization dedicated to advancing women in the field of animation.” This panel will be a chat-n-draw collab featuring Magma Studio and the following artists:
Chrystin Garland / Gabby Zapata / Victoria Ying
Moderated by Alison Mann with an introduction from Jinko Gotoh

Discord Drawing Jam
Justin Kaufman, Erika Blazevic, Noa Katzir, Monica Magana, John Burton, Nikolai Lockertsen, Thomas Fluharty, Jim Bryson
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
From Storyboarding to Directing
Michelle Lam
I will have a casual discussion about my growth in the industry from a revisionist to storyboard artist to now assistant director at Tonko House for an upcoming series on Netflix. I’ll discuss what I’ve learned along the way, the do’s and don’ts, and tips for aspiring artists and directors. This presentation will be kept casual and open for Q+A throughout on Instagram Live.
World Building Techniques
James Paick
James Paick is the founder of Scribble Pad Studios. He will cover the basics building blocks of WORLD building, create confidence with blocking an idea, get to know your tools and software and the tip, tricks and brushes that save them time and optimize their workflow.

How to Draw your Dinosaur
Michael Habib, PhD
Some of the most requested creatures for films, games, and television are dinosaurs and dinosaur-inspired creatures. Join Paleontologist-Artist, Dr. Michael Habib, for a workshop on drawing dinosaur anatomy. We will discuss the latest developments from the science of paleontology relevant to artists and consider how to apply these ideas to fantasy builds. Plus, stories from Dr. Habib’s field site!
Pastel Drawing in Procreate
Lane Brown
Lane Brown will showcase his drawing techniques in Procreate using his pastel brush set. He’ll also give advice to artists that are interested in applying traditional techniques to digital work. Questions for Lane can be posted here once Lightbox starts – https://proko.com/lbx-lanebrown
3-2-1 DRAW! w/ RossDraws and Esben Lash
Ross Tran, Esben Lash
Play along with pro artists in this LIVE Art game! Viewers will supply the panel artists with three no-context words. The artists, as well as chat, will have these 3 words and 2 hours to make 1 drawing. Ross will be playing alongside former Riot Games splash artist Esben Lash. At the end, viewers can submit their own inspired pieces to be seen and reviewed by Ross and Esben. Estimated 3-4 hours.
From School to Studio: Finding Your Focus
Rabia Abedin, Chad Welson, Christa Carr, Liz Chun, Nicole Horst
Many artists struggle deciding which path/artistic focus is the best fit for them. Are you a storyboard artist but have an underlying passion for writing? Are you currently in production but your dream is to become a vis dev artist? Come listen to DreamWorks artists share their unique stories on finding their true discipline and how they navigated career changes to find their true focus.

The Art of Following your Intuition
Mike Uwandi, Mikel Wellington, and Reggie Roquemore
Mike Uwandi, Mikel Wellington, and Reggie Roquemore discuss how relying on your instincts can help you land the industry job of your dreams and help you elevate your art to the next level.
Fireside Chat w/ Pixar’s Louis Gonzales
Louis Gonzales
Join Pixar Story veteran, Louis Gonzales, as he is interviewed by Mark Andrews (Brave) discussing the breadth of his creative career, including the creation of his upcoming directorial debut, Pixar SparkShort, “Nona” (premiering on Disney+ September 17). This talk will feature a sneak peek at the new short.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY
Passcode: 584702

Adobe Fresco Gets a Big Update!
Kyle T. Webster
The upcoming MAX release of Adobe Fresco brings you two of the most user-requested features: guided perspective drawing and motion! Kyle T. Webster will walk you through the basics of these powerful new features, as well as answer any questions you have in the live chat.

New Comics, Retro Look with Jim Rugg
Jim Rugg, JJ Harrison
Comics auteur and ambassador Jim Rugg (Street Angel, Cartoonist Kayfabe) guides us through his process of achieving an authentic retro look in his comics and illustrations with tools ranging from Procreate to Photoshop. Moderated by JJ Harrison (Mondo, Adventure Time).

Walt Disney Animation Studios: Ask Recruiters Anything
Matt Roberts, Erika Becerra
Connect with artistic recruiters Matt Roberts and Erika Becerra as they give you an inside glimpse at careers at Disney Animation. Get answers to the portfolio questions that you’ve always wanted to know!
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY

Fantastical Drawing and Illustration
Ahmed Aldoori
Do you like fantasy? Science fiction? Illustration? We will be diving into the fun creative process of creating images. It will be spontaneous, fantastical, and informative. See you there!
Character Design Hangout with Ex-League of Legends Concept Artist
Zeronis
I’ll be focusing on working on one character design illustration so come hangout, chill, and draw with me.
Casual Drawing Hangout and Animation Project
Michael Relth
I love the atmosphere at conventions and being able to walk up to an artist, say hello and build a relationship. Over the next 3 days, I’ll be doing a very interactive live stream while completing a project from start to finish. I want viewers to come up with ideas that influence the project. Come say hello while you wait for another panel, stick around and contribute ideas to the project, ask questions, or just hang out and lurk! More info here: https://michaelrelth.squarespace.com/stream-brief
Paint Night Scenes with Flash and Bang!
Nathan Fowkes
Night scenes are always a challenge, no one knows this better than Nathan Fowkes who fell flat on his face in his first and many after attempts. But Nathan has been an animation feature concept artist for over 20 years now and has figured out how to do it right, join him for this talk and demo on this very challenging subject!

Character Sculpting in ZBrush
Tim Bowser
In this session you will see how to create a character using ZBrush and a Xencelabs tablet. During the course of the presentation there will also be a discussion on how to setup your tablet and the benefits of using a tablet over a mouse.

Animation Preoccupations
Vanessa Landeros, Paul Jarvis, Brandon Russert, Alessandra Mota, Alex Ferreira Simoes, Lana Bachynski, Tyler Anthony, Skylar Surra
Please join the Riot Animation Team while we each take the time to answer a single question: What is the one thing you think about most as an animator today?

Discord Drawing Jam
Veronica Shomo, Naomi Baker, Andy Cung, Craig Mullins, Danielle Pioli, Charlotte Belland, Rad Sechrist
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Methods for Pitching with Bento Box Entertainment
Ben Jones, Brooke Keesling and Chloe Shipko
In this presentation, we will take a look at the process of creating a pitch that is both visually rich and clear in its narrative by walking through a hypothetical pitch deck. Keeping in mind industry standards, learn how to convey your idea and point of view while leaving a lasting impression.

Cheats and One-Offs
Chris Stover, Samantha Wade and Todd Jansen
Using the Previz process to develop the storytelling and cinematography of a movie, while managing complexity and providing a blueprint for downstream departments.

The Highs and Lows of Production
Ashley Laidlaw, Julie Remen, Ivan Garcia, Kenna Hornibrook, Sophie Brennan, and Jin Villanueva
Sharing experiences in the rewards and challenges of working in animation production.

Inside the Art of Baobab Studios
Maureen Fan, Eric Darnell, Larry Cutler, Anika Nagpal, Kane Lee, Yi-Jen Liu, Eusong Lee
Go behind the scenes with 8-time Emmy® winners Baobab Studios, the leading interactive animation studio, as they share never-before-seen concept art, character explorations, and stories from their award-winning films including Crow: The Legend, Baba Yaga, and Namoo.
Panel features Maureen Fan (CEO), Eric Darnell (CCO), Larry Cutler (CTO), Anika Nagpal (Production), Kane Lee (Head of Content), Yi-Jen Liu (Art Director), and Eusong Lee (Art Director, “Namoo”).

An Artist’s Journey Continues
Henry De Leon
I’ll be taking people through my journey as a Main Title Designer/ Graphic Designer to following a new career path in Animation. I’ll walk the audience through my work on Game of Thrones, Carnival Row and other title work to speak to what I learned and how I started to shift gears to doing illustration work in Character Design, Visual Development and concept art.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY
Passcode: 3pabcf
Early Viz Dev and Mastering Many Styles
Jose Zelaya
Join us as Jose Zelaya takes an in-depth look on character design from the inside out – the value of drawing in different styles and finding a way to make a character feel likable and real.

Draw, Chat, Webcomics!
Lucy Xue
Join me for a casual stream and ask me anything while I work on a promotional illustration for my webcomic, Ash in the Wind!
Design & Sculpt Animated Characters
Brookes Eggleston
We’re creating designing and sculpting a secondary character live on stream for the Stormfellers animated pilot. We’ll talk about matching the style of the existing world, fulfilling the design needs of a character, and translating 2D to 3D.
The World of Photoshop
Scott Kelby
Scott Kelby is the world’s #1 bestselling author of books on photography technique for the past six years straight. He will be reviewing what’s new in the world of Adobe Photoshop, new features, new directions, and what is up and coming,

Riot Games Animation Team AMA
Vanessa Landeros, Paul Jarvis, Brandon Russert, Alessandra Mota, Alex Ferreira Simoes, Lana Bachynski, Tyler Anthony, Skylar Surra
Please join the Riot Animation Team as we answer any and all questions LIVE from the chat for our annual LBX AMA!

Painting Demo with Cárcamo
Gonzalo Cárcamo
I will be doing a 60 minute painting demo.
Animation Crash Course for Illustrators
Manu Mercurial
Every day, Illustrators decide to animate their artwork. Either for fun, running with some inspiration, or just to create social media content. But most get caught by the common pitfalls. Join 2D animator Manu Mercurial (Disney’s Descendants: The Royal Wedding, Lackadaisy) as he dives into the key elements that will make animating your illustrations and characters a passionate blast.

Animation Careers with Brooke Keesling
Brooke Keesling
Brooke Keesling, Head of Animation Talent Development at Bento Box Entertainment, will spend an hour with LightBox Expo attendees discussing tips and tricks to enter and develop a lasting career in the animation industry. Brooke will start with some basics and will leave plenty of time for Q&A from the audience.
Limited to 300 people.

DreamWorks Technical Directors
Alexis Jackson, Sean Wallitsch, Brent Williams, Kara Bressler, Bryce Melvin, Nomish Bhardwaj, Rachina Ahuja
A general discussion on what it means to be a Technical Director at DreamWorks!

The A.R.T. System in action for AREA21 – How we landed the spaceship!
Jeremy Polgar
How I was able to create an animated music video series from start to finish for AREA21. Much of the success can be attributed to my A R T Leadership System which follows my personal set of management values that I’ve learned throughout the years of working on good and bad productions. I will also share exciting behind the scene stories and breakdowns of the animation, design, and CG process!

The Animatic Storyboard Challenge
Sergio Paez
Join us for an update on our Lightbox Activity event. Create an animatic story reel working from a script. 60 minute streaming event with Q&A.

Discord Drawing Jam
Mia Araujo, Alexandria Neonakis, Nathan Fowkes, Karla Castaneda
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Creating a Character for Video Games
Dave Greco
Dave Greco is a concept artist and illustrator whose past and present clients include Blizzard, Marvel, and Wizards of the Coast. In this panel, he’ll be taking you through the process of designing characters meant to be played as and interacted with, not just seen. But one look at his Artstation will show you his talent for it.

So What Do You Really Wanna Know?
Colin and Kristine Poole, Craig Elliott, Howard Lyon, Vonnart, Allen Williams
In this free-form discussion, a panel of top creatives from the fields of dimensional Concept Art, Fantasy and Imaginative Realism answer your burning art-related questions from process to business to inspiration. Bring it on!
45 minute live Panel Q&A
Passcode: 290043
Entertainment Design at ArtCenter
ArtCenter students, faculty and leadership
ArtCenter College of Design introduces our Entertainment Design program, which encompasses Concept Design, Animation and Game Design. Students enrolled in the program bring stories, characters and landscapes to life, and graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Entertainment Design. Our alumni establish careers in fields like animation, video games, film, television and theme park design.

The importance of portfolio storytelling
Travis Blaise + Wink Winkler
Sketch To Animate Presents: The importance of story in your Portfolio
In this session they discuss the importance of story and how it relates to every aspect of your portfolio presentation. From the importance to reflect your own personal story through your portfolio, and onto the specifics of story as it relates to Character Design, Story Boarding and animation.

Reference Inspired Sketching
Peter Han
Peter Han will teach you how to use multiple references to inspire creative sketching. This demo is to highlight the Proko Challenge that starts at the beginning of Lightbox and is open to any artist that wants to participate. Challenge info, references and prize list can be found at https://proko.com/challenge
3D Art: From Concept To Final Render
Dom Qwek
Dom will walk you through his process of creating his recent piece “Monolith” from concept to final render. We’ll talk about concepting, 3d modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering. The session will provide you with an understanding of the process from start to finish and also showcase the tools and techniques used.
Join Dom in the LBX Discord after for a LIVE Q&A!
We Black Y’all: Creatives of Color
Brie Henderson, Marlon West, Bimpe Alliu, Chrystin Garland, Peter Ramsey, Abelle Hayford, DJ Welch, Everett Downing, Phil Boutte Jr.
Black artists from across the entertainment industry celebrate their stories and discuss their unique experiences during this live panel presentation. Moderated by Phillip Boutte, Co-Founder of 9B Collective
Creating Hyper-Realistic 3D Characters
Marlon R Nunez
During this presentation Marlon R Nunez will show his workflow for creating hyper-realistic 3D characters for cinematics, from sculpting to grooming and lookdev. He will demo the process with the model of Tyrion, developed for Game of Thrones videogame cinematic.
Marlon R Nunez is a lead 3D character artist specialized on digital humans.

Animation: Movement That Means Something
Kat Kosmala
Join us as Kat Kosmala talks about animation. No, not the medium. The craft. Embark on an odyssey of appreciation for the nature of the work and the line mileage it takes to get there. Learn that in the end some of the most important moments are the ones that come inbetween.

Where do we go from here
Maxx Burman
I don’t want to talk about how to accomplish your goals, I don’t even want to talk about what it’s like to accomplish it. In this talk, lets look at what happens afterwards. It’s something we rarely talk about and if you’re goal driven like I am, you are probably so focused on accomplishing your goals that you haven’t thought much about what happens afterwards.
Aki Talk- Mental Health for the Artist
Amber Aki Huang
After popular demand after last years LBX 2020, Aki is bringing back her Mental Health for the Artist Talk!
This is an open discussion on mental health, burn out, art block, and tips and tricks to help you establish a better emotional relationship and confidence with you art !
Walt Disney Animation Studios: Sketching with Story
TBD
Join a sketching session with story artists from Walt Disney Animation Studios as they share their approach and techniques in quick, visual storytelling.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY

Small is the New Big
Tiffanie Mang
In this demo, Tiffanie will show how to take your photo reference and distill the most important parts into a readable thumbnail that is just as effective as a larger painting. Thumbnails are powerful for many reasons, and are wonderful for figuring out the mood, lighting, and balance of shapes and values in half the time and effort!

Jump Into Sketching Ideas Digitally
Spencer Nugent and Renee Di Cherri
Whether you’re just starting out, or looking to sharpen up join designer and creator Spencer Nugent as he shows a bit of his design sketching process creating compelling product sketches using Adobe Fresco. Spencer will cover digital workflow tips, sketching basics, light, shadows, amd texture and Live Brushes.

Create your own giant killer I.P.
Paul Tobin
Join concept designer and co-creator Paul Tobin, as he shares insights and advice on the three years journey of creating, making and marketing Weta Workshop’s GIANT KILLER ROBOTS IP and board-game.

Legacy Effects: From Concept to Puppet
Alan Scott, Damon Weathers, Darnell Isom, Adam Milicevic, Bodin Sterba, Peter Clarke, Matt Alavi
Go behind the scenes with Oscar nominated, Emmy winning FX studios Legacy Effects as they take us on a tour of their studios in real time. Witness their process and learn about concept designing, fabrication and shooting with a final puppet as we meet and interact with their artists, makers and puppeteers. With Alan Scott, Damon Weathers, Darnell Isom, Adam Milicevic, Bodin Sterba, Peter Clarke, Matt Alavi and maybe even a guest appearance from Shane Mahan
Rewatch passcode: 13JyL8$B

Discord Drawing Jam
Christopher Sanders, Rae Crawford, Michael Relth, Jonathan Hardesty, Sam Yang, Jennifer Wuestling, Betsy Bauer, Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn, Luna Vargas
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Action-Themed Character Design Session!
Rad Sechrist, Norm Lemay, Cassey Kuo
Spring into action with artists Rad Sechrist, Norm Lemay, Cassey Kuo, & Aleksi Briclot as they take on the challenge of collaborating on this action character design drawing board and create some truly badass characters that could stand with the likes of Ellen Ripley, John Wick, Rambo, and the Terminator.
Featuring MagmaStudio.io

LBXO Maestro’s Drawing Club
Special onsite Guests
Join former Senior Disney Animator and Laetro co-founder Dave Zaboski in his personal studio for an evening of drawing, relaxing, and learning! Surprise guest artists will make an appearance both evenings!

Visual Language in Character Design
Aleksei Kalibin
This talk consists of 2 parts. In the first one we will explore tools of visual language: shapes, rhyme and rhythm, visual contrasts and others. In the second part Aleksei will show how he using those tools to create characters for Supercell’s games. This presentation will be interesting for all sorts of artists, game designers or anyone who would like to understand visual arts better.

Drawing Creatures in Col-Erase
Brynn Metheney
Join me for a session of drawing creatures in pencil! I’ll cover the basics of working in Col-Erase Pencils and show techniques I like to use with a variety of drawing tools on paper. Come ready to draw along! This session will be recorded and available to watch after the live broadcast!
Middlemost Post Showrunner Chat
John Trabbic, Dave Johnson, Lianna Cohen
Hear from John Trabbic and Dave Johnson, co-executive producers of Nickelodeon’s newest cartoon-y original series Middlemost Post. Moderated by Lianna Cohen.
About the show:
When a reformed raincloud teams up with a shipwrecked sea-postman and a magic walrus, the three form the Middlemost Post — the wackiest and most loveable postal service on Mt. Middlemost

TIPS for your Animation Career!
Christophe Lautrette, Diana Ling, Isaac Orloff, Perry Maple
This panel includes Vis Dev artists and Art Directors talking and sharing tips for an Animation career. It will explain how to go from being an art student to becoming a Vis Dev artist, leading to art direction and production design.
Access Passcode: 0H2nj3$e
How to Get into the Animation Industry
Melissa Graziano, animator on Paradise PD at Bentobox, Pete Michels, Director on Rick and Morty, Family Guy and The Simpsons, Brooke Keesling, Bentobox Recruiter and Special Guests TBD
You’ve got your portfolio together, you’ve taken tests, you’ve done the networking, but still not getting the call-backs? You may start to wonder if you are in the right business. Before you let self-doubt creep in, let us help you find your voice! Learn from recruiters, supervisors, directors and fellow artists ways of getting noticed, staying current, getting out there, and getting the job!

Forging Your Artistic Journey
Iain McCaig, Armand Baltazar, Paul Tobin
Join Master Storyteller, Concept Artist, and Filmmakers: Iain McCaig ‘Lucasfilm/Marvel Studios, Armand Baltazar ‘Pixar/Disney/DreamWorks and Paul Tobin ‘Weta Workshop as they share their advice and insights from a career spent in the entertainment industry and reflect on how those experiences shaped and inspired their own creative projects.
Procreate 5.2 in preview
James Cuda and Claire d'Este
Be one of the first to get see the upcoming Procreate 5.2 in the wild. Join CEO James and COO Claire from Savage to discover what’s new in this exciting update as they explain how painting directly on 3D models works, how Procreate is about to become a lot more accessible, and more.

Truth in Expressing Yourself Through Art
Jo Gray
Jo Gray is the Lead Interactive Media Designer Walt Disney World Technology & Digital. She is a multimedia graphics designer and technologist during her day at Disney, but by night she’s a Halloween-loving comic book artist! Her comic strip Little Bernice is about a sister and brother, Bernice and Hamilton, who want to make it Halloween every day!

Tea time and draw together!
Daisy Muradyan
Hello, I’m Daisy, a freelance illustrator based in Seattle. I haven’t followed a traditional path (a.k.a. art school) to becoming a professional artist. Instead I’ve grown through self-directed online tutorials and classes from amazing artists. Grab your tea, coffee or favorite drink and join me while we relax, chat and create characters based on your suggestions! You can find more information at https://ladychamomile.ink/
Grab a Beer and a Pencil
Danielle Pioli
Super casual hangout to sketch and answer your questions on Art Anxiety, burnout, mental health, and whatever questions you may have 🙂
Game Industry Ready (Portfolio Review)
Raf Grassetti and Dela Longfish
Raf and Dela will talk about what to focus on and how to prepare your portfolio for the game industry by talking about experiences and reviewing portfolios from the attendees. Link for portfolio review will be sent out prior to the presentation on social media channels.
Designing a Fantasy Creature
Luis Huerta
I will explain my character design process from start to finish. From research and thumbnailing to final color illustration.
Amphibia S3 Q&A with Matt Braly!
Matt Braly (Executive Producer), Roxann Cole (Director), Joe Johnston (Director), and Jessica Chandra (Associate Producer)
Join Executive Producer, Matt Braly, series Directors Joe Johnston and Roxann Cole, and Associate Producer Jessica Chandra, as they show off never before seen material and discuss the ins and outs of production.

Discord Drawing Jam
Yingjue Chen, Jie Deng, Cassey Kuo, Monika Norcross-Cerminara, Amber Aki Huang, Brigitte Roka, Bernard Lee
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Character Design Cage Match
The Bancroft Brothers
Join twin Disney animators and podcasters, Tom and Tony Bancroft, as they host the exciting LIVE “Character Design Cage Match” game show. 3 LEGENDARY CHARACTER DESIGNERS will draw what YOU suggest in real-time and YOU will help the Bancroft’s decide who is the ULTIMATE WINNER! Our contestants are your online heroes: @rodgontheartist, @theanimatedlife and @dereklaufman! Prizes will also be awarded to the “crowd” for correct guesses from trivia contests throughout the challenge. Are you reeaadddy to RUUUMMBBLLE?!? Sponsored by Wacom.

LatinX Artists Panel
Daniel Arriaga, Karla Ortiz, Fernando Peque, Pedro Conti, Mia Araju, Niki Lopez, Humberto Ramos
LatinX in Animation will lead a discussion with artists Daniel Arriaga, Karla Ortiz, Fernando Peque, Pedro Conti, Mia Araujo, and Niki Lopez about the industry in their respective countries, the scope of their projects and work, and the future of the animation for Latin American studios.

Live Sketching and Coloring
Samanta Erdini - SPANISH SESSION
Samanta does freelance work for brands like Disney, Lego, etc. doing mostly Visual Development, Character Design and Story Board work. In this session you can join her as she creates characters for the industry, sketching from the beginning and adding color as well!
*This will be presented in Spanish*

BRIC Creative Academy + Nickelodeon @ LBX
This will be a “How what you saw got made” Middlemost Post themed creative academy where underserved students from across California will join Nickelodeon creatives to learn about the animation process and draw with visual development artists.

CAA + 9B Drink & Draw
Phillip Boutte, Michael Uwandi and Aldis Hodge
Join 9B Collective Co-Founders Phil Boutte, Mike Uwandi and Aldis Hodge for a fun art hang session. The key words for the night are DIASPORA, SPIRIT, HERO, VILLAIN, ROYALTY, ANCIENT and GOD. We want to know, what comes to mind when you hear these words and challenge you to create something beautiful inspired by those thoughts. Come hang and share your creativity with us for the night.
Access Passcode: g!9+C8?T

Black N Animated – Breaking in While Black
Breana Williams, Waymond Singleton, Neil Wade, Myra Thompkins
BNA leaders will share advice for prospective black creatives seeking careers in the animation Industry. Our Presenters will give a brief introduction to who they are, then discuss broad topics such as navigating breaking in to the industry from a black perspective, and offering financial advice for moving, school alternatives, networking, community and share more about BNA as a whole.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY
Passcode: 807440
Story Artist Veteran Roundtable
Robert Valley, Derek Thompson, Sergio Paez
Robert Valley (Love Death Robots, Gorillaz) and Derek Thompson (ILM, Pixar) join StoryboardArt host Sergio Paez to chat about their journey as visual storytellers. 60 minute streaming event with Q&A.

Character Design & Story Boards
RC Aradio
RC Aradio is a creative leader, director, and Sr. Concept Designer with 20 years of professional experience dedicated to providing fast and powerful visual & technical solutions. His high energy and diverse skill set and application of the DNA principles ( Design • Narrative • Art ) embodies his workflow ethics and capabilities.

Discord Drawing Jam
Karla Castaneda, Alix Harris, Syd Weiler, Noa Katzir
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Character Design Demo: Part 1
Greg Baldwin
Greg Baldwin will be livestreaming his process and techniques for designing stylized characters. Each night will focus on different examples of designing characters, such as peculiar creatures, overzealous robots or even brooding demons. Rough sketches will be available for each stream for free to download on Gumroad for those who feel like drawing along.
How to draw like Kim Jung Gi
Kim Jung Gi
This is Kim Jung Gi’s first appearance in 2021 for fans in the United States.
Kim Jung Gi will share his creative thinking process, share his methods and techniques with a traditional medium.
The entire presentation will be translated into English and we will take Q&A through the comment thread in the youtube stream.
Marvel Studios Visual Development: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Andy Park, Jackson Sze, Anthony Francisco, Jana Schirmer, and Adam Ross
Join Marvel Studios Visual Development artists Andy Park, Jackson Sze, Anthony Francisco, Jana Schirmer, and Adam Ross as they discuss their experience creating designs for the latest MCU film installment, Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Plein air painting/Pintura al aire libre
Gloria Felix
Gloria is an illustrator and vis dev artist from Michoacan Mexico. In this presentation she will talk about what she uses to do plein-air studies to inform her use of color for concept art. She will do a quick demo using watercolor.
Gloria will be answering questions about pleinair painting and working in the industry in english and spanish.
Mech Design : Let’s SKETCH!
Esther Wu
Only mechs are allowed! We’ll go through prompts to start designing and sketching, only focused on quick ideation, and shape design.
We’ll go over shape language, visual hierarchy — Sketch along if you want! It will be a mix of lecture & demo.
Journey of Tonko House Year 7
Daisuke Tsutsumi, Robert Kondo, Sara K. Sampson
Tonko House celebrates it 7th year with their biggest project to date, Oni. The obstacles have never felt so challenging. But the rewards have never felt so great. Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi share insightful anecdotes of running an independent studio.
– WIP work from ONI.
– Upcoming projects in development
– Our next big dreams.

Discord Drawing Jam
Rio Skywalker, Tristan Yuvienco, Karla Circe, Esther Wu, Kofi Ofosu
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Saturday 9/11/2021
Forever Fighting the Habit Rabbit
Even Mehl Amundsen
Thoughts and rambling ruminations about concept design and how to do noble battle against the beasts that lurk in the shadows of unconscious habits, breeding cliches.
Discord Drawing Jam
John Nevarez
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Discord Drawing Jam
Aleksi Briclot
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Discord Drawing Jam
Armand Serrano, TB Choi
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Social Media For Artists
Stanley Lau (@Artgerm), Laura Brouwers (@Cyarin), Javeria Khoso (@javi_khoso) Moderator: Matt Buchholtz (@ggMattB)
Stanley Lau, Laura Brouwers, and Javeria Khoso get together to share their insights on being an artist on social media. Watch as they navigate the challenges of adapting to the ever-changing social media landscape, being their authentic selves, and maintaining a healthy headspace. Hosted by DeviantArt’s Head of Social Media, Matt Buchholtz.

Life as a Freelancer – Worklife Balance
DJ Welch, Karla Ortiz, Armand Baltazar, Brian Matyas
Lightbox joins DJ Welch on his channel Animators vs Games as he talks with mega-talented artists Brian Matyas, Armand Baltazar and Karla Ortiz. They tell stories of the entertainment industry, how they met/worked together, and how to stay healthy working over the years, while mitigating injuries. Also, they goof a lot.
Let’s Get Pumped!
Bobby Chiu
Get ready to get sweaty because we’re going to be working out with Bobby today! Channel your inner Thor for this ribbiting…*ahem* riveting exercise that will put your physical and artistic strength to the test. And if you’d rather just sit back, relax, and enjoy watching to see how Bobby fares doing this absurd and entertaining challenge, we don’t blame you!

Discord Drawing Jam
David Levy, Yori Narpati, Michael Daley, Noa Katzir, Gloria Félix, Charles Santoso, Gary Plummer
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
3D Painting in Procreate with Samy Halim
Samy Halim
Painting on 3D objects.

All-Star Artists Character Design Panel #1
Sylvain Marc, Kei Acedera, Aurelie Neyret, Masae Seki, Pernille Orum, Borja Montoro, Félix Delep
Find out how artists Sylvain Marc, Kei Acedera, Aurelie Neyret, Pernille Orum Borja Montoro, Félix Delep, and Masae Seki tackle the challenge of designing compelling characters while they talk about what good character design entails and how to design them with purpose.

Silly Ugly Simple
Danielle Pioli
Com draw silly, ugly, simple little things to beat perfectionism, anxiety, creative block – on MAGMA Studio.
Join me in rediscovering the joy of drawing with freedom and playfulness after almost quitting art.
Moving Forward in your Creative Career
Pablo Carpio - SPANISH SESSION
The talk will mix all the little details that I have learned during my career to get to where I am right now, not only the ones related to the technical side, and how I’ve improved my work, but also the ones that have made me develop as an artist and have helped me to find jobs and get in contact with clients.
*This will be presented in Spanish*

Get the Gig!
Ariel Goldberg
Ever wonder, “Why don’t I EVER get a response to my emails?” Or… “Why does every recruiter give me portfolio advice that COMPLETELY CONTRADICTS what the last recruiter said??” Ariel Goldberg was both a struggling artist and a working artist before becoming a recruiter. This presentation offers you his well-rounded perspective and a METHOD you can apply to getting work in Animation and Games.
From South African Creatives to Disney Showrunners
Lucy Heavens, Nic Smal
Creators and executive producers Lucy Heavens and Nic Smal talk about their careers and the lessons they’ve learned on the road to the green light for their new animated series “KIFF,” produced by Titmouse in association with Disney Channel.

Visual Development for Picture Books
Noah J Klocek
This will be a big picture presentation about how to build characters and worlds for Picture Books using Visual Development. We will go from the manuscript breakdown to the final illustration, with stops in character design, environment design, color design, and more. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A.
Creativity and Mental Health
Marie-Alice Harel
A lot of us suffer in silence from burn out, impostor syndrome and various other fears and blocks related to creativity… without realizing that these struggles are very common. I’d like to open an informal discussion about mental health for artists, where we can share our experiences and tips to develop a better mindset and relationship with our art.

Visual Development
Mehrdad isvandi
I will draw, sketch and explain what’s good for CG production.
Free Tutorial: Introduction to ZBrush Quickstart Guide Pt. 1
Madeleine Scott-Spencer
This 45-minute video tutorial provides a taste of what The Gnomon Workshop’s Introduction to ZBrush 2021 by Madeleine Scott-Spencer has to offer.
Quite possibly the most comprehensive video training series available for Pixologic’s industry-leading digital sculpting software available anywhere, Maddie’s 65-chapter workshop provides 51 hours of lessons and is an ideal introduction for everyone from complete beginners to experienced users looking to pick up new and professional tips and tricks.
Maddie’s full workshop is available on-demand now at www.thegnomonworkshop.com. A free 3-day trial is available for new customers! Visit The Gnomon Workshop’s booth in the Artist Alley during LightBox Expo 2021 for more information.

Painting New Worlds Live Demo
Andrès Martinez
Come hang with Concept Art Association member and Colombia-based concept artist Andrès Martinez. He will creating a new environment in Photoshop. Come hang out, chat and discover his process. Presentation will be in Spanish with an English translator.
Rewatch passcode: ?9GKV1NL

Ship Building in Perspective
Peter Sakievich
Peter will show you how to craft an incredible spaceship in perspective, with the use of Infinite Painter’s perspective system and shape tools, all while teaching useful concepts in vehicle design.

Environment Painting
Kalen Chock
Let’s talk about Environment Design, some of the tips and tricks on how I approach them, as well as common mistakes and how to solve them!
Passcode: ALOHALBX20211234
Character Animation in Cinema 4D – Storybook Style with Alex Parker
Alex Parker
Alex Parker goes behind the scenes of her trademark storybook style, breaking down her go-to tips in Cinema 4D for stylized character creation and animation.

Discord Drawing Jam
John Hoffman, Wendy Tan, Chase Conley, Christophe Lautrette, Brynn Metheney, Thomas Fluharty, Robert Kondo, Jason Seiler, Elsa Chang, Sarah Dahlinger
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
My Life in Movies
Jayme Wilkinson
Jayme Wilkinson spent time at Walt Disney Animation Studios feature animation as CGI Supervisor working on Lilo and Stitch, Brother Bear and My Peoples. He then spent 12+ years working with Blue Sky Studios, and is currently working at Lightstorm Entertainment on James Cameron’s Avatar Sequel project, the first of which is due for feature release in 2022.

Live Demo – From Clay to Digital – Day 2
Andrea Blasich
I will design a character in clay and bring it to CG. A quick view of my process.
Ask Andrea your questions here: Slido
Character Design Process
Karl Kopinski
See how fantasy illustrator and sketch artist Karl Kopinski approaches character design using traditional materials (pen, pencil, paper). Submit questions for Karl during the demo – https://proko.com/lbx-karlkopinski
Discovering new shapes for design ideas
Stephen Silver
In this one hour drawing session we will be drawing the whole time as we dive into finding character and shape inspiration through a variety of objects that I will be providing. This is a great way to loosen up and truly tap into your creativity. I will open up the session at the end for Q&A.
Illustration Demo Live
Richard Méril
Hi, Everyone! I’m going to show you, humbly, how I create some of my art by creating a new illustration live just for the occasion !
It’s gonna be a good opportunity to talk about the process, illustration, the animation industry, etc… Hope to see you there!
Tactile Portraiture
Bernard Lee
Join illustrator and painter Bernard Lee as he shares his perspective and straightforward approach to painting a tactile portrait in Photoshop. This 60-90 minute demo will be great for traditional artists looking to bridge the gap to digital or even vice versa!
Negotiation Skills for Artists
Anoosha Syed
While negotiation might seem like a difficult, or even foreign topic in the world of illustration, as a freelancer it’s a skill that is important to learn! In this lecture, professional illustrator Anoosha Syed will be sharing negotiation tips so you will have the confidence and knowledge to be able to fight for fairer fees and contracts.
Live Digital Painting
Jason Chan
Digital Artist, Jason Chan, will be painting live and talking with the audience, sharing tips, stories, and answering questions. This will be an informal stream for hanging out, doing art, and chatting.
Production Assistants on Breaking In
Bryan Dimas (LXiA), Angel Ruvalcaba (Walt Disney Animation), Matt Acuña (Bento Box), Maansi Sunkara (Lucasfilm)
Production Assistants play an essential role in the animation industry and are often the first position many early-career professionals take on. But how DO you land this first gig? And just WHAT should you expect? A panel of current and former production assistants will dig into this vital segment of the industry’s workforce.

Schoolism Interview with Carlos Grangel
Carlos Grangel
LightBox Expo is excited to present this exclusive interview with Carlos Grangel! Carlos Grangel is a renowned Spanish character designer who has worked on films like “Kung Fu Panda,” “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Madagascar,” “Hotel Transylvania,” “The Prince of Egypt,” “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron,” and many, many others. Alongside his brother Jordi, Carlos owns the Barcelona-based studio, Grangel Studio, which specializes in character design for animated films. Find out about the critical role Jordi plays in the success of their studio, why Carlos doesn’t work on movie sequels, and hear some of the fascinating stories from Carlos’ 30+ years in the industry in this interview!
Carlos will join us for LIVE Q&A after the interview. You can ask your questions here: https://app.sli.do/event/jmsjmkuj

Level Up Your 2D/3D Animation Hybrids
Ross Maudsley
Looking to combine the production worlds of 2D and 3D? Join Nelvana’s manipulators of dimension and experience the joy and heartbreak of (2+3=5)D.

Managing A Successful Career From Home
Djamila Knopf, Lorena Lammer, Kim Myatt, Luisa Preissler
Join four freelance artists as they talk about managing a successful art career from home: How to get started, present yourself online, manage the day-to-day, take care of your mental and physical health, and much more!
@djamilaknopf, @amaretta_, @ysvyri, @luisapreissler
Making a Stylized Environment in Blender
Sonja Christoph
In this presentation Sonja is going to talk about how she created a stylized, snowy landscape scene in Blender. She is going to share her inspiration and showcase the techniques used to create some of the assets in the scene. There will also be a bit more information into the technical aspects of this piece like the procedural snow material and particle simulation

Using Unreal Engine by Andrew Leung
Andrew "Drew" Leung
A demonstration of the concept design process utilizing Unreal Engine by Andrew “Drew” Leung, a member of the Hollywood Art Director’s Guild.
Access Passcode: adgLocal#800

Why Representation Matters
Phillip Boutté Jr (9B), Jinko Gotoh (WIA), Magdiela Duhamel (LXiA), Bobby Pontillas (RUA) and Austin Balaich (Signing Animation). Moderators: Nicole Hendrix and Allison Mann
BRIC — Break, Reinvent, Impact, and Change — is a foundation dedicated to bringing more diversity to the creative industries. Not only do they run an annual summit, they’ve partnered with a laundry list of the biggest companies in entertainment to bring more women and POC to their studios. They’ll be doing their thing at Lightbox this year with a panel on why their mission matters.

How to Paint Light! Digital Paint Demo
Aaron Blaise
Watch as artist & animation legend Aaron Blaise, (The Lion King, Mulan, Aladdin) demos his approach to digital painting in Photoshop. He will be focusing on how to get believable light & shadows and more. He will also be answering your questions.
Growing on Social Media for Artists
Michelle Lam
A casual conversation about the benefits of growing on social media for any artists out there. Whether if it’s for professional or personal reasons, there are many ways social media can help an artist grow a business or seek their authentic voice. This conversation will be open to Q+A at the end on Instagram Live.
Painting & Animating a small scene in Procreate and Lumafusion
Nikolai Lockertsen
I will paint an environment in Procreate and make it into a small movie-scene in Lumafusion. I will put in a already animated character, but the rest we do on the fly.
A small taste of things I am doing in my NEW Schoolism course!!!
Sketching Session with Ironwood Wolves
Charlotte Belland
Join Charlotte Belland as she hosts wolf ambassadors from Ironwood Wolves for an interactive sketch session. On-line guests can join via IG Live and Central Ohio guests can join in-person (limited reservations). Enjoy the playful personalities of ambassador wolves as you fill your sketchbook with wolf drawings.
Coloring with gradient maps demo
Vixiearts
In this demo I’ll show you how to take a b/w drawing to color using gradient maps in Photoshop
Interpreting Complexity
Tiffanie Si Liang Mang
So many times when we see a photo we want to paint, we are bombarded with all the small nuances that make up picture. How do we push past the complexity to truly see the simple cogs that make up the image, and translate that into our own painting? In this demo, I will be showing how I interpret a photo from the inside out to be able to quickly create a readable engaging image in no time.
Character Design-A-Thon: 2!
Nicholas Kole, James Castillo Murphy, Claire Hummel
Character Design-A-Thon 2 is the much anticipated sequel to last year’s first ever Character-Design-A-Thon: an all-day, live character design stream hosted by Nicholas Kole (Spyro, Crash Bandicoot 4), with guest artists Claire Hummel, James Castillo, and more! We’ll walk through our processes from idea to finished art, and chat casually about the industry, while answering questions from the chat.
Creating a Character Design
Gabby Zapata
Come watch Gabby draw a character and ask any questions you may have during live Q+A!

Let’s paint a landscape!
Angela Sung
Grab your iPad/gouache/pencil/whatever medium you want and paint a landscape with me! We will be doing a quick block-in to practice our simplification, design, and color knowledge! I hope you enjoy it 🙂
Creating an illustration – A to Z
Denis Zilber
Creating a cartoon style illustration from the very rough sketch to the final color.
Passcode: lightbox
Character Concept DEMO for Film
Rodney Fuentebella
I will be going through my process of how I come up with character designs that I have used in my 10+ years working in Marvel Studios. Please join me as I will go through the how to create iconic characters and what I go through to think of designs that has worked in the various movies, shows, and attractions in my years working in the entertainment industry. It should be fun!
Story at Pixar: Crafting a Compelling Story Portfolio
Derek Thompson, Brian Kalin O’Connell
Have you ever wondered what makes a story portfolio stand out at Pixar? Story Artists Derek Thompson and Brian Kalin O’Connell give a behind the scenes look at Pixar’s story department while diving deep into our story portfolio review process and the do’s and don’ts of creating a compelling story portfolio.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY

A Journey of an Artist
Atey Ghailan
My own journey from law school to working in the entertainment industry and ultimately opening my own studio. I want to share the things I’ve learned and where I failed, and I hope my experiences can help other upcoming and professional artists.
The Secrets to Creating a Portfolio
Justin Copeland
I’ve been working in animation for just over 11 years and a few things stick out to me for artists who want to break in. Most struggle with even getting started on a portfolio! What are directors looking for? How can my portfolio stand out from the rest? Follow me as I walk you through what I would put into my portfolio!
Advocating for Diversity in Animation
Magdiela Hermida Duhamel (LXiA), Lexie Chu (AnimAsians), Way Singleton (Black N’ Animated), Monica Lago-Kaytis (Rise Up Animation), Onyi Udeh (Animation Club), Elizabeth Garcia (Wacom Americas)
Everyone has a story to tell. Unfortunately, some stories are rarely represented in mainstream narratives. This panel will dig into why it’s critical to have diverse representation in animation from page to post. Advocates from across a variety of organizations will share their insights for advancing animation into a future that is more equitable, inclusive, and enriched.

Dungeon Mysterium
Voodoo Val
Watch Adobe streamer Voodoo Val create fantasy characters live in Adobe Fresco & Photoshop

Rendering Cuteness!
Ellie Horie
Come watch me render one of my original characters! See my workflow and how I approach painting a furry and cuddly character.
Conversation with Producer Justin Leach
Justin Leach, Sergio Paez
Founder of Qubix Pictures and showrunner on the original Netflix series “Eden” , Justin Leach is a storytelling veteran working many roles in his long career at studios like Blue Sky, Lucasfilm, and Production I.G. 60 minute streaming event with Q&A.

Drawing People with Viktor Kalvachev
Viktor Kalvachev
Learn the fundamentals in drawing people with Viktor Kalvachev.
We will explore shapes, perspective, anatomy, among many of my other techniques.

Embracing an Adventurous Career
Betsy Bauer
Careers are rarely a straight path–this is an in-depth discussion on my personal experience with taking big leaps, rolling with the punches, and embracing the journey.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY
Passcode: 069514
Visual Storytelling Through Illustrations
Stephan Martinere, Marie-Alice Harel, Irene Gallo, Iris Compiet, Jen Bartel, Greg Manchess, Donato Giancola, Dan Dos Santos, Victoria Ying
In this book illustration panel, artists Stephan Martinere, Marie-Alice Harel, Irene Gallo, Iris Compiet, Jen Bartel, Greg Manchess, Donato Giancola, Dan Dos Santos, and Victoria Ying will tap into their collective wealth of knowledge and decades of illustration experience to discuss their processes for creating drawings that enhance the narrative they want to tell and bring stories to life.

Painting an Alleyway in Gouache
James Gurney
Gurney demonstrates how to paint a realistic street scene using a gradient wash created with a brayer.
Design and Sculpt an Animated Character
Brookes Eggleston
Part II of our process designing a character intended for animation! This character will be used in the pilot for the Stormfellers animated series- we’ll continue our talk on understanding the needs of the design, and translating a 2D design into a 3D rig!
Torch and Flame: Bronze Patina Demo
Colin and Kristine Poole
During this start-to-finish live patina demo, we’ll cover the basics of the bronze casting process. Colin will transform a Grand Tusker Warthog and Mink Talisman Skulls plus a “Handling” from raw to finished bronze. He’ll show how all those cool colors are created using heat and chemicals. Transitions in color, layering and creating various patterns will be demonstrated.
From Storyboarding to Screenwriting
Andy Cung
Andy Cung will share his experience of bridging the gap from storyboarding to screenwriting and how they both have worked together to reinforce and re-inform one another.
Coffee and Draw with Me
Calista Loh
During this year’s Lightbox Artist Alley you can choose to come and chill out with me, Calista, a working video game concept artist! We’ll be streaming on Saturday the 11th of September and the following Sunday. Sit back, grab a cup of coffee, for we will be discussing on Saturday techniques, practices, and things learned along the way. On Sunday, however, it will be a unique topic of discussion; “Style Identity Crisis”. Have you been there? Can’t wait to meet you all!
Sketch & Stream
Dawn Carlos
A casual stream for hour or so of sketching and hanging out on Twitch with concept artist Dawn Carlos. Break out your sketchbooks or just join in for some casual conversation and drawing!
Xencelabs | Lightbox 2021
Introducing the Pen Tablet Small to our tablet family. Made for the way you work. Providing professional digital design tools for creatives, by creatives.
#CreateWithXencelabs
Join us on the journey.
Explore our New Products | www.xencelabs.com

Ask Me Anything / Art Chat
Maciej Kuciara
On Saturday afternoon I will be answering questions from live audience as well as chatting about my recent projects, learning new skills and finding your own voice in art.
Directors Round Table
Domee Shi, Maggie Kang, Jill Culton, Dice Tsutsumi, Erick Oh, Peter Ramsey, Shannon Tindle. Moderator: Maureen Fan
Directors Domee Shi (Bao), Maggie Kang (K-Pop: Demon Hunters), Jill Culton (Abominable), Dice Tsutsumi (The Dam Keeper), Erick Oh (ONI), Peter Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), and Shannon Tindle (Ultraman) join our first ever LIVE Directors round table discussion, moderated by Maureen Fan.
Featuring MagmaStudio.io

ShowStopper — Sam Yang @samdoesarts
Sam Yang @samdoesarts
Have you ever found yourself overwhelmed, staring idly at your blank canvas, trying to think of what to create that will get you lots of likes and followers on your channels? Have you wondered how the top creators manage to grow their followers and engage with their audiences on social media? Sam Yang shares how he decided to pursue his passion for digital painting and to grow his online presence.

Classical Portrait of Cap’n Crunch
Jonathan Hardesty
In this session Jon will be creating a classically-inspired alla prima portrait of the infamous Cap’n Crunch.

How To Make the Leap Into Directing Animation
Michelle Wong (Producer, VIVO), Justinian Huang (VP, Creative, Sony Pictures Animation), and moderated by Alison Mann (Fourth Wall Management, CEO/Co-Founder of the BRIC Foundation). Produced by CAPE.
The pathways to becoming a director in animation have evolved as the desire for authentic storytelling and diverse ideas is opening the door to historically underrepresented creatives. Join a producer, film exec, and manager as they discuss this new paradigm, how you might prosper in it, and the inaugural CAPE Animation Directors Accelerator! Followed by a Q&A.
Presented by BRIC Foundation & CAPE.
Drawing Tips & Tricks
Eva Balloon
On this stream I’m going to show my drawing process and share some useful tips & tricks of rendering.
Paint-over Feedback
Esben Lash
Want to learn how to improve your paintings? Let’s dive into others’ work and learn how we can from each other’s mistakes.
Zbrush work session with Damon Bard
Damon Bard
Zbrush character demo.
ArtCenter Presentation
Ken Bielenberg, Marlon Nowe, Guillaume Aretos, Christophe Gomez, Tim Campos
Introduction to ArtCenter College of Design with an emphasis on Entertainment Design and Illustration. The leadership of the Entertainment Design programs will discuss the industry, the concept Design program as well as the Animation Program and the Game Design program.
We will talk curriculums, professional experience and applications for all three tracks.
The talk will be followed by a Q&A.

How to Push the Character Proportion
TB Choi
Join TB Choi for a small workshop on character design.
LIVE-Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast w/ Chris Sanders!
Tom and Tony Bancroft, Chris Sanders
Tom and Tony Bancroft bring a LIVE edition of The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast with special guest – Chris Sanders!
Join in with the BBros as they chat with Sanders about working together at Disney on films like Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Mulan and Lilo and Stitch. As well as his Dreamworks films, How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods and many more. Be a part of the fun as the podcast unfolds with you in the audience! Audience Q&A too! This will be live-streamed at Pencilish Studios YouTube page. Be waiting on the page right at 1pm PST!
Painting Textured Animals in Adobe Fresco
Anna Daviscourt
Join children’s book illustrator Anna Daviscourt as she uses Fresco brushes to add lush textures, colors and light to an adorable animal illustration.

Painting Powerful Ladies
Din Duarte (Mad Boogie)
Amanda (Din) is going to be painting one of Gus’ drawings live, and encourages anyone to join in!
A file with some finished lines will be available for download, and we’ll be talking about process, bringing life to drawings through colors and rendering techniques.
Amalgamation: Creating Hybrid Creatures
Terryl Whitlatch; Michael B Habib, PhD
Creating compelling creatures for film, television, and games often involves combining aspects of multiple real organisms. Join legendary creature designer, Terryl Whitlatch, and animation consultant, Dr. Michael Habib, as they provide expert tips for building everything from griffins to C’thulhu monstrosities! They will demo a build and provide a prompt for the audience to build along with them.

Infinite Painter: Features & Highlights
Andrew Theophilopoulos
Take a deep dive into the inner workings of Infinite Painter! Digital and traditional painter, Theonidas, will expose the hidden power of the sleek yet utilitarian painting app for IOS and Android. Learn about the perspective tools, shape snapping, pattern making, and more while sketching with amazing brushes. Customize your interface, create your own brushes and empower your creative spark.

WIA Presents: Showing Up! How to Navigate Your Career
Anna Kvorning, Matt Roberts, Doeri Welch, Melanie Young, Moderator: Camille Eden
Join recruiters from some of the top studios for gaming, features, television and stop motion animation as they share best practices, helpful tips and walk you through how to navigate your job search from prep through follow up.
Moderator: Camille Eden VP, Animation Recruitment – Nickelodeon Animation Studio & Talent Development Chair, WIA
Anna Kvorning, Head of Staffing – LAIKA
Doeri Welch, Senior Manager People Acquisition, Creative at Madison Square Garden Entertainment Company – MSG Sphere
Matt Roberts, Senior Artistic Recruiter – Walt Disney Animation Studios
Melanie Young, Manager, Recruitment – Nickelodeon Animation Studio
From God of War to the MCU and Beyond
Charlie Wen
Charlie Wen, founder & former Head of Marvel Studios Visual Development department and creator of God of War’s Kratos, discusses getting into the industry, leading across multiple mediums, overcoming the hurdle of heading & building the core design of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and through it all, continuing the passion.
You can also check out Charlie on his Discord here
The Art of Ninja Turtles the Last Ronin
Ben Bishop, JJ Harrison
Take a totally radical tour behind the scenes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics with series artist Ben Bishop. Moderated by JJ Harrison (Mondo, Adventure Time).

Discord Drawing Jam
Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn, Everett Downing, Michael Knapp, Louis Gonzales, Hicham Habchi, Chiara Benedetti, Dan LuVisi, Erika Worthylake, Stephen Silver, Victoria Ying
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Casual Drawing Hangout and Animation Project
Michael Relth
I love the atmosphere at conventions and being able to walk up to an artist, say hello and build a relationship. Over the next 3 days, I’ll be doing a very interactive live stream while completing a project from start to finish. I want viewers to come up with ideas that influence the project. Come say hello while you wait for another panel, stick around and contribute ideas to the project, ask questions, or just hang out and lurk! More info here: https://michaelrelth.squarespace.com/stream-brief
Eclipse Universe project
Marcin Rubinkowski
Eclipse Project – Chronicles from Collapsing Universe personal project that each of us should roll in free time to not related only to clients but to ourselves. Next steps review and some short demo.
3D Shop Talk – Concepts, Creatures and Clays II
Colin and Kristine Poole
A panel of top sculptors from the fields of dimensional Concept Art, Fantasy and Imaginative Realism chat on a number of topics including the good, the bad and the ugly in sculpting materials and concept and creature development.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY
Passcode: 064797
Costume Design Drawing Jam!
Phil Boutte Jr., Mike Uwandi, Griz Lemay, Karla Ortiz, Kei Acedera, Imogene Chayes, Brie Henderson
This group of artists certainly know how to dress to impress! Join artists, Phil Boutte Jr., Mike Uwandi, Griz Lemay, Karla Ortiz, Kei Acedera, & Imogene Chayes, for this costume design drawing jam!

Character Design Hangout with Ex-League of Legends Concept Artist
Paul Kwon
I’ll be focusing on working on one character design illustration so come hangout, chill, and draw with me.
Faery Workout with Watercolors
Iris Compiet
Join Iris Compiet (Faeries of the Faultlines) as she creates a brand new faery using watercolor!
Caricature for the Character Designer
Manny Avetisyan
Award-winning Caricature artist Manny Avetisyan takes you through process he uses to create his highly-exaggerated caricatures of people – a skill that’s great for any artist to acquire, but especially useful for character designers. The 2-hour presentation will be done live via zoom.
Access Passcode: %1f*L=zf
An Animation Mukbang
Maggie Kang, Linda Chen, Helen Chen, Andy Cung
Last year’s event was such a hit we decided to do it again! We’ll be talking animation industry stuff, sharing personal stories from our experiences working at various studios and productions, and taking Q’s from the audience – All while eating spicy buddaecchigae. It’ll be casual, fun and who knows?… Maybe some surprise guests will make an appearance!
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY
Passcode: 811080
Lighting Basics
Jake Panian
A short presentation regarding basic lighting concepts and how these concepts relate to process and style.
Finding Your Artistic Style! – with J. Scott Campbell
J. Scott Campbell
Artist J. Scott Campbell gives you his own personal take on the age old discussion of “discovering your own personal art style!” A creator with nearly 3 decades in the business, Campbell has had great success in the fields of comic books, creator owned properties, statue design and much more and has had a great deal of experience in the areas of marketing and branding his own unique signature style.
Character Illustration Demo and Q&A
Grace Kum
Come bring your drinks and chat together as Grace will attempt to do a live demo and answer your questions about attending school and classes. Then how she entered into the industry and learned to adapt and goof around.
We’ll talk about your curiosities of work environments, learning to how one can adapt, and the general strive to keep up with building mental health in demanding environments.
Passcode: LBX21
The Comic Book Corner
Bill Presing, Sanford Greene, Stephan Franck, Joelle Jones, Tula Lotay, Jen Bartel. Moderator: Jim Demonakos
From comic books and graphic novels to cartoons in newspapers and magazines, these top comic illustrators know a thing or two about creating illustrations in a variety of formats. Today, they’re coming together to talk about their design choices, art styles, and the creative freedom they have working as comic artists.
Imaginative Environment Painting
Nathan Fowkes
Join fine art painter and animation artist Nathan Fowkes as he demonstrates painting imaginative environments from photo reference. Nathan will take you through his process of gaining believability from photo references but transforming them into imaginative environments that don’t exist in real life.

VR + UNREAL + PS Demo Presentation
Armand Serrano
Armand will demonstrate his environment design process starting with the use of Oculus VR using Adobe Medium App, then set dressing/rendering using Unreal Engine, then final paint over in Photoshop.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY
Passcode: serrano
Academic Demo
Jeff Watts
Fine artist, teacher, and founder of the Watts Atelier, Jeff Watts, will go live and continue working on a long graphite figure drawing and talk about graphite figure rendering techniques. If there’s time for questions Jeff will be taking them from the Proko community – https://proko.com/lbx-
Intro to Kidlit for Illustrators
Steph Laberis
A comprehensive guide to working in children’s book illustration, covering topics from basic terminology to how find an agent, how to approach publishers, common portfolio mistakes & more. I will also relate my particular journey into kidlit & how it has overlapped with my career in animation. Live painting demo plus Q&A session if time permits!
A Story Artist’s Journey
Donna Lee
Donna Lee is an LA based story artist who has worked at Disney Animation, Netflix, DreamWorks and more. In this panel, Donna will be sharing how she got into industry and her insight of what it’s like to be a story artist in feature animation. Topics such as how to build engaging story portfolios, what to expect in a job, and how to hone your voice will be included.
The Power to Create
MSI Computer Corp
MSI is globally recognized as a trailblazer and top brand in content creation. Built around MSI’s decade-long pioneering tech in gaming, The Creator Z16 packs stunning color accuracy, long-lasting battery life, and excellent performance into a portable, stylish chassis for graphic designers, 3D animators, video editors, and other professionals, check out what other creators say about the new Z16.

Nelvana’s Creative Artists Spotlight
Robin Budd, Jason Groh, Adrian Thatcher
Get inspired and learn from some of Nelvana’s award-winning talent behind show favourites such as Hotel Transylvania: The Series, Bravest Warriors, Ruby Gloom, Wishfart, and more! Follow Nelvana @NelvanaEnt on Twitter and Instagram for more details on each presentation.

Supervisor School
Jake Hollander & Crystal Kan
The Animation Guild’s Storyboard Committee is hosting a panel with three incredible artists and supervisors including Monica Davila, S. Panelists will be discuss supervising methods, team expectations, time management, and communication. Quality leadership is the foundation of a well run production and our panelists have years of experience as supervisors and are here to discuss how they do it.

The Art Directors Guild presents STORYBOARDS: The Unseen Art of Hollywood
Moderator: Tim Burgard and panelists Trevor Goring, Benton Jew, Warren Drummond, Marc Vena and Tracey Wilson
This year the book Storyboards: The Unseen Art of Hollywood has been published with artwork going back to the beginning of Hollywood. This will be a discussion with the book’s co-author Trevor Goring and some of the artists featured in the book. We will show illustrations from the panelists as well as from the men and women that came before us in the profession of film storyboarding.
Access Passcode: adgLocal#800

Designing Marvel Studios’ Scarlet Witch!
Andy Park with special guests: Jackson Sze, Jana Schirmer, Anthony Francisco, and Phil Saunders
Marvel Studios’ Director of Visual Development Andy Park LIVE discussion about helping to design Wanda Maximoff through the years to her emergence as the Scarlet Witch in the hit Disney+ show WandaVision! Special appearances by Visual Development team members Jackson Sze, Anthony Francisco, Jana Schirmer and Phil Saunders! Since this will be LIVE questions will be welcomed. Join us for the fun!
Creating the Illustrated Novel, Part 2
Armand Baltazar, Iain McCaig, Victoria Ying, Greg Manchess, Betsy Peterschmidt, moderated by Mia Araujo
Whether you’re creating an illustrated novel or a graphic novel, writing and illustrating your own story is an epic undertaking! Join artist-authors Armand Baltazar, Iain McCaig, Victoria Ying, Greg Manchess, and Betsy Peterschmidt for a conversation moderated by Mia Araujo about the next step in bringing your own story to life.
Draw, Chat, Webcomics!
Lucy Xue
Join me for a casual stream and ask me anything while I work on a promotional illustration for my webcomic, Ash in the Wind!
Discord Drawing Jam
Brie Schmida, Harmony Gong, Heidi Neunhoffer, Tyler Ellis, Wendy Tan, Alix, Seo Kim, Trent Kaniuga, Michael Bear, Kim Herbst
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Creativity & The Inner Child
Danielle Pioli
How to unleash your creativity and be more playful in your creations and life.
In this talk, we’re gonna go through what the Inner Child represents, how it manifests when wounded, how it manifests when healthy, and how we can begin to heal the inner child to improve creativity and playfulness as artists.
Digital Painting with Photoshop
Wink Winkler
Watch Wink and learn how to paint realistic creatures and humans using Photoshop digital painting techniques.

The Art of Plussing: An Old School Disney Panel and Perspective
Don Hahn, Andreas Deja, Tom Sito, Eric Goldberg, Travis Blaise, Mike Cedeo moderated by Dave Zaboski
Experience legendary Disney Animators Andreas Deja, Tom Sito, Eric Goldberg, Travis Blaise, Mike Cedeno, and Disney classics producer Don Hahn in their discussion of how an idea survives the creation process, what we can do to cultivate a creative culture in remote working, and how to reinvigorate the camaraderie which built the animation industry into a storytelling powerhouse.

Draw From Sketch to Finish with Dannifs
Danni Fisher-Shin
A casual hangout with animator / illustrator Danni Fisher-Shin (@dannifs) as she walks through the process of creating one of her illustrations, from concept through finished piece. This will be a pre-edited process video with a thorough workflow breakdown and Q&A throughout. Draw along if you like, ask questions, and just chat as if we’re all hanging out IRL at the expo!
Portfolio Review with the Art Directors Guild
William Thompson
The Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800 is excited to provide Concept Art and Storyboard portfolio reviews for live action feature film and television.

Studying a flower in my garden
Yangtian Li
A relaxing live stream on ipad doing a study in my garden
Portfolio Advice from Titmouse Recruiter
Ellen Su
Join the Titmouse recruiter, Ellen Su for a quick 30 minute presentation about best practices for portfolio formatting and how to make your application stand out! The presentation will be followed by a 30 minute Q&A.

Live Drawing & Chatting with liliuhms
Lily Van
Come join liliuhms and talk shop! Let’s spend the day drawing, chatting, and answering any questions you may have! We might design a product from start to finish, or maybe we’ll do some drawing requests! Either way, it’ll be fun!
Storytelling Round Table with the Pros
Vaughn Ross, Stephanie Gonzaga, Alex Chiu, Chad Pickrel, Spyros Tsiounis, Sergio Paez
Join this Story Artist Roundtable with Vaughn Ross (Supervising Director, Warner Bros), Stephanie Gonzaga (Director, Warner Bros), Alex Chiu (Director, Warner Bros), and Chad Pickrel (Freelance Story Artist), Spyros Tsiounis (Dreamworks, Lucasfilm). StoryboardArt host, Sergio Paez, leads the talk on the latest trends and ways to succeed in the film industry. 60 minutes with Q&A

A Parent’s Guide to Growing as an Artist
Inmar Salvatier & Maxis Art Team
A panel discussion covering strategies to continue growing and developing as a busy professional and parent. Covering topics like managing time, optimizing practice, balancing home/work life, and tactics to stay focused and consistent.

The Science of Spontaneity
Prem Sai GS
Join Character Designer and Story Artist Prem Sai GS (Netflix, DreamWorks, Warner Bros. etc) as he explores the cognitive challenges we face in bringing life and originality into our art and how to overcome them and work towards developing our own unique styles. Prem is currently a Story Artist at Netflix Animation.
Aki Talk- Character Design & IP Branding
Amber Aki Huang
Aki has worked for Dreamworks, Netflix, Supercell Games, GUND, SpinMaster Inc. , and more !
This will be a discussion about Character Design for Animation, Games and Toys, and how to adapt to any industry.
Aki will also be talking about marketing/ branding/ merchandising Original IP and creating her own company and toy/merchandise line.
Movie Posters the Mondo Way
JJ Harrison
JJ Harrison (Mondo, Adventure Time) demonstrates how a Mondo movie poster is made—everything from the illustration to the color separations. Buckle up, this is going to get technical!

Designing with Thematic Power
Sam Nielson
Great design work relies on the power of theme, and all artists use it whether they realize it or not. This presentation will help you understand the visual language of theme and how to leverage theme to improve your character designs and other concept design work. Sam will show how to detect the themes locked inside successful designs, and show different ways to express thematic ideas.
Learn about Bay Area Animation Alliance with Baobab, Tonko, and Kuku Studios
Maureen Fan, Robert Kondo, Alex Woo, Eugene Yi
The Bay Area Animation Alliance (BAAA) tries to follow in the footsteps of the renegade Bay Area filmmakers like Coppola and Lucas who ushered in a Golden Age of Cinema through friendship, inspiration, and challenge.
BAAA founders Maureen Fan (Baobab Studios), Robert Kondo (Tonko House) and Alex Woo (Kuku Studios) discuss the community they created for independent Bay Area animation professionals

Animation Dance Party with Mike Morris
Mike Morris
A LightBox Expo tradition is returning in 2021 with Animation Dance Party: Neon Space Disco! Part animation jam, part contest, and all the animated dancing fun. Submit your 24-48 frame dance cycle for a chance to win Wacom and Toon Boom Animation prizes.

Gaining Perspective on Art Contests
Colin and Kristine Poole
The Pooles have been on juries for numerous art contests including Spectrum, IBA and the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. In this chat, we’ll give you a behind the scenes look at different ways contests work, share some thoughts about presenting your entries in the best possible light, provide perspective on results and look at the benefits of entering. Applies to all mediums.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY
Passcode: 577378
What is True Success?
ELIOLI
Our topic will be about success and the wrong generalizations on what makes someone “successful” in their field. We want to be able to give an honest, and encouraging approach to artists who struggle with comparing yourself to others, how to still have fun in an algorithm-based art platforms, and not losing your sense of fun while tackling difficult assignments. etc. Success can be different!
Creating Worlds Through Visual Development
Sunmin Inn, Arthur Fong, Marcelo Vignali, Yingjue Linda Chen
Sunmin Inn, Arthur Fong, Marcelo Vignali, and Linda Chen talk about the visual development process, the collaboration that’s involved in constructing the look and feel of a project, and the skills you need to have a successful visual development career.

From Start to Finish in Infinite Painter
Anthony Jones (Robotpencil)
Anthony takes you through the process of building a character from start to finish, all in Infinite Painter. He starts by sculpting out a character and getting his values just right. Then he finishes off by bringing in color and finer details. His process is efficient and highly tuned. Enjoy the tips he shares along the way.

Creating Dynamic Bible with Peter Han
Peter Han
Peter Han is a concept Designer and Teacher and Superani artist based in California. Take this opportunity to experience his artistry in teaching the fundamentals of art. And his creative process behind the best-selling education book “Dynamic Bible.” He will be doing a live demonstration and Q&A through the comment thread in the stream.
ZBrush for Stage Props, 3DPrints, + VFX
Daniel Enrique De León
Join Daniel + Xencelabs as they revisit some of his career highlights (including Disney, LucasFilm, Jurassic World, Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Digital Domain, Dropbox, Sight & Sound Theaters, Verizon, PDP, and many others) and how ZBrush can be enhanced with pressure sensitive tablets.

Abstract Portrait Demo
Danielle Pioli
In this demonstration, I will show you how I create abstract portraits in a free, relaxing, and playful way using coloring pencils.
Join me and make your own abstract portrait, then post it and tag me (@daniellepioliart) so I can see it 🙂
Mythical Creatures & How to Paint Them
Laurel D. Austin
A demo showcasing the design and thought process of modern versions of mythical creatures.
Krabby Patty Secret Formula
Kelley Gardner, Marc Ceccarelli, Vincent Waller, Jennie Monica, Dave Cunningham, Kaz Prapuolenis, John Cahoon
A history and look into the special sauce behind the Spongebob Squarepants franchise.
Join Co-EPs Marc Ceccarelli, Vincent Waller, and Jennie Monica as they explore the history and evolution of the iconic series, and look froward into the new stories being told in Kamp Koral and The Patrick Star Show.

Creating Art for Passion & Profit
Lauren Brown, Mia Araujo, Eric Wilkerson, Brie Henderson, Ejiwa 'Edge' Ebenebe, and Chrystin Garland
Join Painted in Color podcast co-hosts Lauren, Mia, Eric, and Esther and special guests Edge and Chrystin Garland, as we discuss how to balance making art for a living with making art that you love. We will be drawing together on a Magma Studio board onscreen during this discussion!
Fantastical Drawing and Illustration
Ahmed Aldoori
Continuing from the previous day, diving into the creative process for exploring and drawing new things!
An Hour of Zen with Lynn Chen
Lynn Chen
LightBox guest Lynn Chen is a Chinese-born, Los Angeles-based artist who’s amassed a large fandom for her cute, cheery character designs. As a bonus, we’re giving her the keys to our Instagram on Saturday, where she’ll be featuring her favorite art and tutorials from around the internet.

Scene By Scene Storyboarding Jam!
Michael Daley, Kris Pearn, Michelle Lam, John Hoffman, Seo Kim
How do some of the best storyboard artists get their story ideas onto paper? Every frame counts in this multi-artist storyboard drawing session with story artists Michael Daley (The Incredibles 2, The Peanuts Movie, Cars 3), Kris Pearn (The Willoughbys), Michelle Lam (Pebbles), John Hoffman, and Seo Kim! Watch as they work together to create storyboards in this fun collaboration! Featuring MagmaStudio.io
Passcode: 509023
Character Design: Form and Feeling
Devon Cady-Lee
For this panel I’ll be sharing how I generate ideas for characters based on prompts, scripts or experiences from life, and then how I use shape language to convey those ideas to an audience. These concepts can apply to a broad range of styles and rendering techniques.
Mythological Portraiture
Karla Ortiz
Karla will demonstrate how she makes an emotive portrait utilizing cinematic lighting, background, and additional elements to render a final portrait. After her 2-hour demo she’ll take questions from the audience. Questions will be taken from https://proko.com/lbx-karlaortiz
Lucky Boy: Creation of the Comic
Bill Presing
A pitch of Bill Presing’s new comic book Lucky Boy followed by a presentation detailing Bill’s creative process that brought the book from idea to final product.
LBXO Maestro’s Drawing Club
Dave Zaboski and Special onsite Guests
Join former Senior Disney Animator and Laetro co-founder Dave Zaboski in his personal studio for an evening of drawing, relaxing, and learning! Surprise guest artists will make an appearance both evenings!

How I Create the Art for Picture Books
Francis Vallejo
Vallejo will walk participants through the process used to create the artwork for his various picture books. Ideation, research and photo reference, sketching, studies, and the finish will be explored. As with all of his lectures, parallels will be drawn to illustrators of the past and present. Finally, advice will be given on developing an appropriate working process for your own projects!
Plein air drawing with Dong Ho Kim
Dong Ho Kim
Dong Ho Kim, an artist based in Seoul Korea, and part of the Superani Team.
Dong Ho Kim will share his creative thinking process, share his methods and techniques with a traditional medium.
He will showcase his latest published Plein air book during the presentation.
The entire presentation will be translated into English and we will take Q&A through the comment thread in the youtube stream.
Making Pixel Art for Lightweight Games
George Berger
As pixel art continues to proliferate across all platforms and genres of video games, knowing how to make pixel art without specialized programs is a valuable skill as a young artist. Let’s take a moment and work on one small character and one simple terrain block for a Unity 3D/3D hybrid title. We’ll see how to set up your base files, break up a character for coded animation and make a texture.

How to be a Digital nomad 3D artist
Marlon R Nunez
Building your career remotely is totally possible, even if you’ve got no experience and live far from a major tech hub. In this talk, Marlon Nuñez will share his nomad journey and share tips on how you can build a successful career as a digital artist while traveling the world.

All-Star Artists Character Design Panel #2
Brittany Myers, Andrew Chesworth, Chris Sasaki, Daniel Arriaga, Marion Bordeyne
Character Designers Brittany Myers, Andrew Chesworth, Chris Sasaki, Daniel Arriaga, and Marion Bordeyne deep dive into their processes for creating relatable characters that capture the audience’s attention and help carry a story.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY

Mindset to Independent Projects
Toniko Pantoja & Allan Parker
I have worked in the animation industry as an animator and a story artist, but I always invest in my own projects whenever I have the time. The journey has not been easy, but after years of maintaining a schedule and workflow, I’d love to share some thoughts and advice based on my own experiences. I will also be covering about ways to make it a career.
Tea time and draw together!
Daisy Muradyan
Hello, I’m Daisy, a freelance illustrator based in Seattle. I haven’t followed a traditional path (a.k.a. art school) to becoming a professional artist. Instead I’ve grown through self-directed online tutorials and classes from amazing artists. Grab your tea, coffee or favorite drink and join me while we relax, chat and create characters based on your suggestions! You can find more information at https://ladychamomile.ink/
5 Steps Towards Creativity
Andre Forni
Coming up with new concepts and ideas can be quite challenging, specially when so much content is being produced nowadays. In this talk Supercell game artist André Forni shares 5 steps that helps him create artwork that is not only aligned with the production needs but also helps him find new ways of approach creative challenges in both games and animation.

The 2021 Concept Art Awards
Aldis Hodge and Krystina Arielle
The third annual Concept Art Awards hosted by Aldis Hodge and Krystina Arielle, filmed at Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood. Nominees from eighteen categories will be honored by their peers and curated judges, along with a celebration of lifetime achievements to the pioneers of the field.

Comic book art with Jae Kwang Park
Jae Kwang Park
Jae Kwang Park, an artist based in Seoul Korea, and part of the Superani Team.
Jae Kwang Park will share his creative process for the comic book art using various pens and markers.
He will showcase the original artwork for published comics.
The entire presentation will be translated into English and we will take Q&A through the comment thread in the youtube stream.
Late Night Creature Doodles
Brynn Metheney
What a week! Let’s unwind with a beverage and some creature doodles! I’ll be raising money for a charity organization.
A Decade of Historical(ish) Princesses
Claire Hummel
Join Claire Hummel (Half-Life: Alyx, Westworld VR) as she revisits her historical princesses series ten years later, thanks to the inexorable march of time. Just a laid back stream redrawing some of the original entries in the series, sketching up some new ones, and a lot of discussion about designing and researching historical fashion.
Working on Animated features
Octavio Rodriguez, Nick Sung, Sergio Paez
Octavio Rodriguez and Nick Sung are storytelling veterans who collaborated together on the recent film Ron’s Gone Wrong. We discuss their experience working on films like Incredibles 2, Cars, Coco, Ratatouille. 60 minutes with Q&A

Live! Figure Drawing Night
Gallery Girls, Sean Brakefield, Andrew Theophilopoulos
Join other artists for a relaxing night of live figure drawing over Zoom! Use your favorite physical or digital medium as we move from quick gestures to long poses with two costumed models. The event is free, and Andrew Theophilopoulos will be offering light instruction using Infinite Painter. During the breaks we’ll even open up the room so you can share your piece and connect with other artists.

Live Drawing and Q&A on Instagram
Allen Williams and Vicki Williams
Come drop in and chat with Allen and Vicki as Allen does some live drawing over on Instagram at @I_JustDraw. We will be talking about art and techniques, projects and life as an artist. We have been offline a lot this year and cannot wait to jump back in with everyone.
Coloring and Mood Boards
RC Aradio
RC Aradio is a creative leader, director, and Sr. Concept Designer with 20 years of professional experience dedicated to providing fast and powerful visual & technical solutions. His high energy and diverse skill set and application of the DNA principles ( Design • Narrative • Art ) embodies his workflow ethics and capabilities.

Discord Drawing Jam
Michelle Lightfoot, Kate Rado, Dela Longfish, Dawn Carlos, Steph Laberis, Veronica Shomo
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Marvel Studios’ Recruiting Animation Team AMA
Samantha Brown, Daujenae Harps
Samantha Brown, Senior Recruiter, and Daujenae Harps, Senior Recruiter give insightful information into the world of Marvel Studios’ Animation recruiting.
Character Design Demo: Part 2
Greg Baldwin
Greg Baldwin will be livestreaming his process and techniques for designing stylized characters. Each night will focus on different examples of designing characters, such as peculiar creatures, overzealous robots or even brooding demons. Rough sketches will be available for each stream for free to download on Gumroad for those who feel like drawing along.
Character Design with Nicolas Nemiri
Nicolas Nemiri
Nicolas Nemiri, an artist based in Beijing, China, and part of the Superani Team.
Nicolas is currently working as a visual development artist for film and has published various children’s books.
He will share his creative thinking process, share his methods and techniques.
We will take Q&A through the comment thread in the youtube stream.
Portfolio review and paint-over
Anthony Francisco
Anthony will go through a few designs he had done for the MCU and then open up the floor to portfolio review, Q&A, and paint-overs.
Go to his gumroad and sign up and you will be emailed instructions on how to send one image for him to paint-over. Critiques will be 5-8 minutes for each person.
Discord Drawing Jam
Yi-Wen Leow, Vinod Rams, Artjam_Superani
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
My Setup, Equipment, and How I Stay Organized
Bobby Chiu
Between working on movies, running a studio, and organizing the LightBox Expo artist convention, things can get pretty hectic in Bobby’s life, which is why having the right set up and a good organization system is essential for him to keep the stress at bay. Check out the equipment and programs Bobby uses to stay efficient and organized in this video. Bobby’s Set-Up:
Laptop: MSi The Creator Z16
Monitor: Wacom Cintiq Pro 24
Stand: Wacom Ergo Stand
Google Nest Mini

John Nevarez: Live Demo 1
John Nevarez
John will share his process toward drawing and designing
Sunday 9/12/2021
Character Design Demonstration
Erika Blazevic
Join Erika Blazevic as she creates an original character design and answers your questions about character development, art and everything in between.
*Limited to 200 people
Discord Drawing Jam
Jody Tseng
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
ZBrush creature workshop
Glen Southern
ZBrush is well over 20 years old now and is the undisputed granddaddy of digital sculpting software. Glen started with ZBrush in 1999 and has used it and trained it for 21 years. Join this session to see how he approach creature design using just ZBrush and a very limited set of basic tools. Although ZBrush is feature-packed you can get things done with just a handful of tools and brushes.

Schoolism Interview with Sonja Christoph
Sonja Christoph
You may know Sonja Christoph from her work as a Lead Environment Artist, 3D Generalist, and Matte Painter on such films, shows and games like “Dr. Strange,” “Tomorrowland,” “Agent Carter,” “Seventh Son,” “The Division 2,” or “Hitman 3,” but many might not know that her career in the industry spans far beyond her work as an artist! In this interview, Sonja talks about her past as a Production Assistant and Assistant Director, why she changed careers, her newest role as Schoolism instructor, and what students can expect to see in her upcoming course, “Introduction to Blender with Sonja Christoph”!
Sonja will join us LIVE for a Q&A after the interview. You can ask your questions here: https://app.sli.do/event/svix2qon

Discord Drawing Jam
Dalibor Dejanovic “Dado”, Arthur Fong
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Coffee and Draw with Me
Calista Loh
During this year’s Lightbox Artist Alley you can choose to come and chill out with me, Calista, a working video game concept artist! We’ll be streaming on Saturday the 11th of September and the following Sunday. Sit back, grab a cup of coffee, for we will be discussing on Saturday techniques, practices, and things learned along the way. On Sunday, however, it will be a unique topic of discussion; “Style Identity Crisis”. Have you been there? Can’t wait to meet you all!
Creature Sculpting in Zbrush
Sarah Dahlinger
Come sculpt a Baby Swamp Drake with me in ZBrush!
A basemesh, concept art, brushes, and reference images will be provided and we can make a creature together.
Basic Zbrush knowledge is recommended and a quick start guide is also provided to help everyone get ready to sculpt.
Click Here for some resources for you to jump in and sculpt with me!
Sketch Session with Ambassador Journey
Charlotte Belland
Join Charlotte Belland as she hosts Ambassador Journey for a relaxed sketch session. Journey is looking forward to sharing fabulous poses with all of his LBX friends.
A Career Journey in 3D
Todd Daniele
A general discussion on the path Todd took to becoming a successful 3d artist. It will cover his art background, inspiration, and software. Learn about where to find helpful info and tools for aspiring 3d artists. Gain insights by learning about some of the projects he has worked on for both commercials and episodic television VFX, the importance of problem solving and teamwork in a production set

Rogue Rascals: A Magma Studio Comic Book
David Levy, Antonio De Luca, Yariv Newman
Magma Studio & Pitch Dev Studios Presents a collaborative comicbook adventure done using new co-developed features in Magma Studio. Join us for this sci-fi western tale of two pages as we follow the story of two drunken rascals on a treacherous desert planet as they hunt for loot. As we draw it out in real-time, we will discuss the entire process of how to bring an audience into a story.

Asian American Badass Animation Directors
Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Stephanie Stine, Megan Nicole Dong, Maureen Fan
“Kung Fu Panda” 2 and 3 and “Love, Death & Robots” director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, DWA director Stephanie Stine, Netflix’s “Centaurworld” EP/creator Megan Nicole Dong discuss their career paths, what being Asian-American means to them, their parents’ influence, how they learned to “take space” to turn their vision into a reality, and how recent anti-Asian sentiment has impacted them.

A Day in the Life of a Concept Artist
Michael Uwandi - Marvel
Michael Uwandi is a Marvel concept artist from South Central LA, and in this panel, he’ll be taking you through just what that job entails on a day-to-day basis and the kind of work schedule you might have to be prepared for in the business. He’ll also be talking about his founding of 9B Collective, the first black-owned, primarily POC, concept art studio.

Fireworks: Bronze Patina Demo
Colin and Kristine Poole
During this start-to-finish live patina demo, we’ll cover the basics of the bronze casting process. Colin will transform our new Cormorant Talisman Skull and Ibis designs plus a “Handling” from raw to finished bronze. He’ll show how all those cool colors are created using heat and chemicals. Transitions in color, layering and creating various patterns will be demonstrated.
You Choose, I Draw
Danielle Pioli
Come join me while I create a collaborative illustration based on polls from my Instagram (@daniellepioliart), and of course, during the live stream!
Discord Drawing Jam
Armin Rangani, Prem Sai GS, Tyler Ellis
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Charles Santoso’s Open Studio
Charles Santoso
Charles Santoso will take you to visit his working space. He will talk about picture book making & book illustration in general also show books and art that inspired him. Participants could interact and ask questions in the session.
Lifestream Drawing with Elsa Chang
Elsa Chang
Join Elsa as she draws some of her followers requests and answer questions about the animation and children’s book industry on Twitch.
Relax, Drink and Draw
Marie-Alice Harel
Grab your favourite drink, a sketchbook and join me for an informal chat to spend some cosy time in good company with fellow creatives (and introverts, I suspect !). Working as a creative can be very isolating, so for once let’s get out of our caves and see how that goes. We can share the things we enjoy, the things we struggle with, or just sit quietly in a corner, that’s nice too.
True Warriors: Women in the Entertainment Industry
Amy Brenneman, Karla Ortiz, Jericca Cleland, Casey Robin, Brie Schmida, moderated by Archer Dougherty
Join visionaries Amy Brenneman, Audra MacDonald, Karla Ortiz, Alice Dewey Goldstone, Jericca Cleland, Casey Robin, and Brie Schmida as they discuss their trials as women creators, the unique challenges women face in today’s industry, and the healthiest practices for paving the way for equality.

Creating a Perfect Picturebook Portfolio
Anoosha Syed
There are a lot of things that go into becoming a successful illustrator for picture books, but the most important thing you need is a good portfolio.
In this lecture, award-winning illustrator Anoosha Syed will go over all the things you need to create a well-rounded portfolio that will attract art directors if are looking to work on picture books, chapter books and covers!
The Sims 4: Concepting Clothing & Hair
Concept Art Team
The Concept Team will give an overview of our creative process for clothing and hair designs in The Sims 4.

Surviving 30 Years as a 3D Artist
Kim Lee
Learn about his work in both the digital and physical realms includes commercials for clients such as JPMorgan Chase Bank, American Express Company, Google, and Lexus as well as feature-film development at Walt Disney Animation Studios. His recent work blends his strong background in digital production with electronics, programming, carpentry, and mechanics with 3d printing.

Surviving a Career in Concept Design
Phil Saunders
A frank discussion with Marvel Vis Dev concept designer Phil Saunders about tackling all the personal struggles you assumed would go away once you’d “made it.” Imposter syndrome, blank page paralysis, performance anxiety, it’s all fair game. If you’ve ever felt alone in your creative journey, this one’s for you. You won’t learn that magic Photoshop trick but it may improve your quality of life.
Portfolio Review Max Koz & Farid Sandoval
Maxim KOZHEVNIKOV
In this panel, Max Koz and Farid Sandoval will go through preselected aspiring artist’s portfolios while answering frequently asked questions and talking about key elements needed to enter the visdev industry in film.
Design That Serves Story and Concept
Tim Flattery, James Clyne, Scott Chambliss, Sean Hargreaves, Betsy Bauer
A discussion with industry veterans about what aspects of the design process resonate and connect best to narrative. Presented by College for Creative Studies.

Script to Screen: Production Pipelines
Jeanette Moreno-King, Supervising Director on Little Demon and Animation Guild Executive Board President, Cecilia Aranovich, Supervising Director for Harley Quinn; Anthony Lioi, Supervising Director/Producer on Big Mouth
Sure, you’ll find some similarities between production pipelines at different studios, but not all shows or films follow the same blueprint. Consider a CG feature or an action-packed 2D superhero show, how are they different? How are they the same? We explore the creative process of different genres and learn from the pros who make them.

Painting an Alla Prima Portrait of Sam
Jonathan Hardesty
The idea of painting a portrait can seem daunting or even intimidating, but nothing is further from the truth! In this presentation, Jon will demystify the process of a portrait. Jon will show, step by step, how he creates a successful and emotive portrait. Each section of the process will be clearly explained and students can’t paint right along with Jon using the reference provided!
Light and Color for Storytelling
Alexey Andreev
I will be talking about my experience of art directing episodes for Love Death and Robots TV series as well as other projects. With the focus on story, light and color I will share some of my thoughts on how to convert verbal storytelling into visuals in a meaningful way. I’ll show all my process from early script analysis to tweaking final CG renders, including some visual development and painting techniques.
Pastel demo with Dado
Dalibor Dejanovic "Dado"
I this demo I will show you how I use soft pastels outdoors, en plein air style. I will paint several quick studies that will focus on capturing the story and feeling of the landscape.
Live Q&A at the end.
Portfolio Reviews with Greg Manchess and Irene Gallo
Greg Manchess, Irene Gallo
Have your portfolio personally critiqued in a relaxed and informal class-room-style environment by award-winning painter and freelance illustrator; Greg Manchess and publisher and creative director of Tor.com and Tor.com Publishing; Irene Gallo! Greg and Irene will be choosing 10 lucky artists for this session!
To have your portfolio reviewed please email your website, Instagram, ArtStation, etc. to portfolioreviews2020@gmail.com. We’ll review the first 10 people.

Drawing Demo with Miacat
Miacat
Live streaming will last for 60~90 minutes.
Picture Book Illustration Process
Benson Shum
Hello! I’m Benson Shum, a professional children’s book author and illustrator and animator. Whether you’re a professional illustrator, or curious to know more about children’s book writing and illustrating, come join me on this behind the scenes picture book making process. I’ll use my book SLOTH WENT (published by Bloomsbury) as a case study.
How to Paint an Optical Illusion
James Gurney
James Gurney shows how to paint an optical illusion in acrylic using gradients to fool the eye. The cylinder is covered with a checkerboard of light and dark squares arranged so that the dark square in light is the same paint mixture as the light square in shadow. The diagram demonstrates how our visual system uses context cues to override the raw information coming from our eyes.
Animation Festivals and Their Offerings
Bryan Dimas (LXiA), Margarita Cid Lizondo (Chilemonos), Alejandro R. González (ANIMA), Stephanie Berrington (Ottawa International Animation Festival)
A screening for a quirky movie you might not have otherwise watched, a short film that tugs at heartstrings, a new professional connection – animation festivals offer a variety of opportunities and unforgettable memories. This panel features three different festivals from around the world, delving into the resources and community they offer to emerging and seasoned professionals alike.

Sci-Fi Character Sketching in Adobe Photoshop
Chris Blackstock
Join illustrator and Character Designer Chris Blackstock as he takes you through the process of sketching for character design, the importance of reference, and how to make your characters your own.

The Art & Inspiration of Marvel Studios’ ‘What If…?’
Ryan Meinerding, Stephan Franck, Paul Lasaine, Cynthia Halley, Kristina Vardazaryan
Join the artistic visionaries behind Marvel Studios’ “What If…?” as they discuss their inspiration, art, experience, and journey to bring this show to life. The panel includes Ryan Meinerding – Head of Visual Development & Character Design, Stephan Franck – Animation Supervisor, Paul Lasaine – Production Designer, Cynthia Halley – Art Director, and Kristina Vardazaryan – Art Director.
Passcode: 397100
Drawing our D&D Characters
Din Duarte, Ellie Horie & Gus Lima
Din, Ellie and Gus will be together on Magma Studios drawing their OCs, talking about discovering D&D in their 30s and developing a major hobby (and dice collection) throughout the pandemic.
Behind the Scenes of Toy Making
Freddy Tutivan
In this live stream, you will learn the process of how to develop toys from original and working with entertainment properties from Freddy Tutivan, Sr, Art Director Toys at Nickelodeon.

Live Portfolio Critique with Angie Duran
Angie Duran
Join Angie as she dives into submitted portfolios and helps artists with their portfolio concerns! Throughout the review, she will be going over what you can do to create a strong portfolio for the TV and feature industry, answer your questions, and share some industry tips!
Sign up HERE: https://forms.gle/pzW4gaHnWXsmwUZr9
Discord Drawing Jam
Wyndham Batton, Yangtian Li, Lynn Chen, Viktor Kalvachev & Karl Kopinski art jam, Eva Balloon, Pablo Dominguez, Madi Harper, Karla Castaneda
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Designing an Animated Series Cast!
Brookes Eggleston
Character Design for Series animation often walks a fine line between appealing, engaging characters, and efficient, easy to animate designs. We’ll talk about character design in earnest as we design and contrast a cast that goes together!
Character design sketch session and Q&A
Melany M Altuna
Join Character designer Melany Altuna on an hour sketch session Sunday morning.
Grab your sketchbook and let’s draw together. We’ll go through the process of sketching for character design and the different tips we can use to push our imagination. She will be answering all your questions during the session.
Multi-Artist Character Design Drawing Session!
Kofi Ofosu, Daniel Arriaga, Chrystin Garland, Sylvain Marc, Nikolai Lockertsen, Wouter Tulp
Artists Kofi Ofosu, Daniel Arriaga, Chrystin Garland, Sylvain Marc, Nikolai Lockertsen, & Wouter Tulp collaborate on a character design drawing board using Magma Studio (MagmaStudio.io)

Sketching Outdoors in Watercolor
Marco Bucci
Painting outdoors is, in my opinion, the best way to increase your visual vocabulary and understanding of light and color. Wet media, such as watercolor and gouache, offers an ideal way to capture the light outdoors quickly and accurately. Join me in my Lightbox presentation as I show you my sketching process and answer questions along the way!
Draftsmen Podcast Call-In Q&A
Stan Prokopenko and Marshall Vandruff
You’ll have the opportunity to call in and ask Stan Prokopenko and Marshall Vandruff your art questions live on air. Details for calling in will be available during Lightbox at http://proko.com/lbx-draftsmen.
Turning thoughts into Things- Cultivating the Keys to Creativity
Dave Zaboski
Join former Senior Disney Animator and Laetro co-founder Dave Zaboski as he discusses how the best artists create from imagination.

The (Mostly) Foolproof Art Student
Airi Pan
Being awake at 5AM for an assignment due at 8AM. A drive full of Gumroad tutorials with enough content to last a lifetime. A pile of studies taller than the desk. Every artist was a student at some point, so the question is, how can we be the most effective student? From the broad like habits and mindset, to the details like best sleep strats on a couch, let’s discuss how to be the best student.
Passcode: 374372

Painting demo with Chiara Benedetti
Chiara Benedetti
Live drawing session done in Photoshop – 60 minutes
I’ll show my workflow when it comes to Visual Development, especially for pitch projects and early stage of visuals .
From my research to a defined sketch/concept of a character/story moment or environment.
3D Character Artist Portfolio review
Daniele Danko Angelozzi and Marlon R Nunez
Bring your portfolio and get some solid feedback from 3D character artists, working in film, games and collectibles industries – Marlon R Nunez and Daniele Danko Angelozzi.
Get actionable tips and understand what direction you need to be taking!

Portfolio Review with Andy Park!
Andy Park
Join Marvel Studios’ Director of Visual Development, Andy Park, for a LIVE portfolio review session. Here’s your chance to join Andy live on his YouTube channel and get live feedback on your work. Questions from viewers will also be welcomed as well. Submission rules can be found here: https://2021.
Street to Screen
Patrick O'Keefe
Patrick will discuss his meandering career from Graffiti artist, to Video Games concept designer, TV show Background Painter, Advertising Illustrator and finally Art Directing feature Animated Films. He will breakdown his path and process as well as give insight into his work on the Academy Award winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
My Art Journey: From China to the US
Yingzong Xin
Yingzong Xin went from working in the game industry in China to immigrating to the US and becoming a character designer for Pixar, of which she’s “loving every minute.” She’ll be talking about her work, her designs, her workflow, and how her background still influences the way she draws.

My Unexpected VFX Journey
Luciano DiGeronimo
Luciano DiGeronimo is an Emmy nominated compositing supervisor with over 20 years in the industry. He got his start as an animator and was a major contributor on projects such as Cartoon Network’s “The Venture Brothers”, ABC’s “Animated Alias”, Disney’s “Lizzie McGuire” movie/series, and HBO’s “Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales”.

Portfolio Reviews with Nathan Fowkes
Nathan Fowkes
Nathan will be reviewing portfolios! Please DM your portfolio link to Nathan’s Instagram. A limited number of portfolios will be reviewed, first come first served, Nathan will respond if your portfolio is chosen. Please be aware that your work will be live streamed on YouTube where anyone will be able to view, see you there!

What not to do and everything else
Lois van Baarle (Loish) and Iris Compiet
Lois and Iris will be talking about working on your own personal projects, creating books, IPs and running crowdfunding campaigns for them. Discussing the challenges, the fun parts of these adventures, and the obvious and not so obvious pitfalls.
Story process: from script to final pass
Alessandra Sorrentino
I will show how I approach a sequence from a feature film showing all the steps from script, to thumbnails, to first pass to final delivery.
Passcode: 137722

Designing for Live Action Entertainment
Karla Ortiz, Crash McCreery, Sonja Christoph, Naomi Baker, Neville Page
Learn about how designing for live action differs from designing for animation with some of the top artists currently working in live action film and television.

Sketchbook Tour & Stream!
Dawn Carlos
Join artist Dawn Carlos for a casual sketchbook and art stream on Twitch! We’ll flip through some old books for a quick tour of some sketchbooks for the first half of the stream. Hear some stories, ideas and general commentary on pages of drawings in these books. Then, stick around for a bit for some casual conversation on stream and some live sketching.
Woodland Children’s Illustration in Adobe Fresco
Codi Bear
Come take a step back into your childhood with content creator and children’s illustrator, Codi Bear, as she paints warm, whimsical animal characters and scenes in Adobe Fresco. Codi will be chatting, giving pro-tips on her art process, and asking suggestions from viewers on what to add to her illustration!

3D Character Pipeline of M4Y4
Steve Talkowski
Follow along with the creation of M4Y4, the new onboarding character for Autodesk Maya. Steve will be showing the full process from sketch ideation, to modeling in Maya, UV unwrap, textures in Substance Painter, and back to Maya for Arnold materials, lighting and render. Bonus will be exporting FBX for import to Unreal Engine (time permitting).

Animate and Composite Stylized Renders in Cinema 4D and After Effects with Jake Ferguson
Jake Ferguson
Jake Ferguson walks through the process of modeling, lighting, animating, and compositing a stylized render for an anime short. The project uses a very light workflow and fast render times. The software used in the presentation is C4D (standard render and octane), Zbrush, and AE (with a couple red giant plugins).

How to Escape The Abyss
Dan LuVisi
After recovering from a depressive period and 3-Year artistic block, I found salvation but at the lowest point—with a life-changing lesson I returned to share.
Embracing your Voice through Visual Art
Iris Muddy, Ahmed Aldoori, Lip Comarella, Devin Korwin, Sunmin Inn
This will be a discussion between artists on the importance of exploring one’s visual preferences/voice, ideas, personal way of communicating with art. Questions will be curated by Iris Muddy!
Discord Drawing Jam
Sylvain Marc, Phil Saunders, Devon Cady-Lee, Nicholas Kole, Ryan Lang, Terryl Whitlatch, Esben Rasmussen, Heidi Neunhoffer
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
Rendering one of my characters
Travis Louie
I get asked every now and again by students and collectors what my process is when drawing or rendering some of my characters. So I decided to do a quick demonstration with graphite and mixed media (mostly dry media)
Casual Drawing Hangout and Animation Project
Michael Relth
I love the atmosphere at conventions and being able to walk up to an artist, say hello and build a relationship. Over the next 3 days, I’ll be doing a very interactive live stream while completing a project from start to finish. I want viewers to come up with ideas that influence the project. Come say hello while you wait for another panel, stick around and contribute ideas to the project, ask questions, or just hang out and lurk! More info here: https://michaelrelth.squarespace.com/stream-brief
Developing Your Unique Artistic Voice
Colin and Kristine Poole, Ed Binkley, Scott Gustafson, Donato Giancola and Allen Williams
A panel of top creators from the fields of Concept Art, Fantasy and Imaginative Realism share how they developed their distinctive style and chat about how to use inspiration to hone your own unique voice while avoiding imitation. Applies to all mediums.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY
Passcode: 664255
Gouache for digital artists
Alexandria Neonakis
For many of us who work in entertainment, digital tools are our main workflow. It’s what we know the most about and some of us learned art fully digital. I’m going to go over some ways that I’ve used my knowledge of digital painting and tools to learn and improve my use of traditional mediums like gouache and pastel.
The Joy of Paintsploration
Sinix
Find the joy in the process of creating art instead of the product of creating art by exploring your visual library. Sinix will be doing an unplanned digital painting that will shift and mold itself chaotically as the presentation goes along. Discussions about the benefits of such exercises and the importance of experimentation and non-attachment will be had.
Magma Studio: The Art of Collaboration
Maureen Fan, Masae Seki, Magma Studio
Join Maureen Fan (Baobab Studios), Masae Seki (Imaginism Studios) and the Magma Studio team to learn about the ins and outs of collaboration process within an art studio, get a sneak peak into upcoming Artspaces beta, and… find out the winner of our Collaborative Drawing Contest!

Horns, Wings, and Other Things: Creature Design Drawing Jam!
Alex Konstad, Brynn Metheney, Steph Laberis, Terryl Whittach, Wes Burt, Jason Chan, Lynn Chen, Wouter Tulp
Featuring the imaginative creatures of artists Sunmin Inn, Alex Konstad, Brynn Metheney, Steph Laberis, Terryl Whittach, Wes Burt, Jason Chan, Lynn Chen, & Wouter Tulp in this creature design drawing jam!

a Quick character rendering
Travis A Louie
I’ll be presenting a quick rendering of one of the preliminary character studies that I usually do as a setup for a painting.
Visual Development for Series Animation
Bobby Pontillas, Samantha Kallis, Angela Mueller, Baptiste Lucas (tentative)
Learn what it’s like work in visual development on various projects for Series and TV Animation with veteran art directors!
Art of Balance: Kids + Career Presented by Adobe
Griselda Sastrawinata, Neysa Bove, Shreya Shetty, Eda Kaban
Working in the entertainment industry is notoriously demanding, and it can often be hard to balance work and life- and what happens when you add kids to that equation? We discuss the age old question of “can women have it all?” with top industry artists from the world of animation. Moderated by Concept Art Association Founders Rachel Meinerding and Nicole Hendrix and presented by Adobe.

The Sims 4: Concepting Props & Worlds
Concept Art Team
From Blue Sky to Final Concept, the Concept Team will breakdown the process of creating appealing and authentic designs that empower player customization and storytelling.

Paint n’ Chill with Chrystin Garland
Chrystin Garland
Has it been a year already? Come hang out with visual development artist Chrystin Garland, who has worked on several animated series including “The Midnight Gospel”, “Solar Opposites”, and “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power”.

Schoolism Interview with Naomi Baker
Naomi Baker
Naomi Baker is a freelance Concept Artist and Illustrator based in Washington, and while she may have a quiet demeanor, her artwork speaks VOLUMES! Naomi is currently freelancing for Marvel Studios and has previously worked for companies such as Sony Sucker Punch, Netflix, ArenaNet, and others, so she is certainly proof that you don’t need to be an extroverted artist who is constantly promoting their work to make it in the industry. In this interview, Naomi and Bobby take a deep dive into her work and discuss her creative process, all while Bobby asks her a bunch of questions to get to the bottom of how she became so talented!
Naomi will be joining us for LIVE Q&A after the interview. You can ask your questions here: https://app.sli.do/event/narg3rpd

Story in Direction with Chris Sanders
Christopher Sanders
A discussion of my experience learning the art of story, and how that foundation allowed me to be successful with my transition into writing and directing.
From Study to Concept
John Park
Studies are very helpful, they inform us of lighting, mood, composition, story, etc. However, sometimes we may hit road blocks on how to apply the studies into our own creations. I will share my painting process for studying images to converting them into your own design ideas.
Access Code: 563-293-419
Draw, Chat, Webcomics!
Lucy Xue
Join me for a casual stream and ask me anything while I work on a promotional illustration for my webcomic, Ash in the Wind!
It’s Dangerous To Go Alone! Watch This.
Ben Mauro, Yangtian Li, Raphael Lacoste, Claire Hummel, Alexandria Neonakis, Sonja Christoph, Jennifer Wuestling
Ever wonder how video game artists begin to create the look and feel for a video game? Level up your knowledge of video game design and find out how the visual elements of a video game are created in this talk with artists Ben Mauro, Yangtian Li, Raphael Lacoste, Claire Hummel, Alexandria Neonakis, Sonja Christoph, and Jennifer Wuestling.

Discord Drawing Jam
Alexandre Mandradjev, Tony Bancroft, Laurel Austin, Betsy Peterschmidt
Come and listen in to these amazing artists as they draw together on Magma Studio and chat about art!
To watch the drawing jams, please click into the LBX Live section and then click into the “Live Drawing Jam”
John Nevarez: Live Demo 2
John Nevarez
John will share his process toward drawing and sketching
Costume Design- Process & Inspiration
Neysa Bové
An overview of Costume Design Process & Inspiration, and getting artwork production ready.
Jumpstarting a Stagnant Art Path!
Abe Taraky
Has the trajectory of your artistic path stagnated? Are you stuck in a loop, consuming and generating the same content? Join me as we discuss how you can take more chances in your art, looking beyond the superficial trends and ask yourself the meaningful questions that you need to be asking, in order to expand your growth as an artist.
Redrawing Neopets 20 Years Later
Claire Hummel
Before working at HBO and Valve, Claire’s first job was at Neopets way back in 2001—it’s been 20 years, and she wanted to commemorate the occasion as she slowly turns to dust. Join Claire and some other ex-TNT folks for a casual stream re-drawing old Neopets art, talking shop, and answering questions about drawing pet paintbrushes during those halcyon days of the early 2000’s.
Making of Issunboshi: A Graphic Novel
Ryan Lang, Mingjue Helen Chen (moderator)
A discussion on how and why I made Issunboshi: A Graphic Novel. Starting with some of the earliest iterations of designs and influences, we’ll discuss the process of creating the graphic novel, lessons learned about sequential storytelling, drawing, and the evolution of the story. There will be a lengthy Q&A.
Creature Creation and Finding the Light
Wade Acuff
Join Adobe streamer Wade Acuff in this live painting stream, where he will share his tips and tricks for creature design with Adobe Fresco and Photoshop.

Storytelling Q&A Session
Sergio Paez
Taking your questions about all things story related. Director and Story Artist, Sergio Paez, leads this talk about visual storytelling. 60 minutes with Q&A

“Manu Walkabout” “Exploring Inspiration”
manu carrasco
Presenting a special “Manu Walkabout” made for Lightbox Expo 2021
In the Creative Mind of a Toy Designer.
Peter Palijo
Toys have been a part of everyone’s lives and have given kids of all ages some of the best memories of play. Creating toys is a form of art that tells stories, explores innovation and focuses on fun. In this presentation, you’ll journey into the creative mind of a toy designer and how some of the best play experiences are made.

The Process of Digital World Building
Jason Scheier
Production designer and art director, Jason Scheier will show his process for creating digital background art, including showing step by step how his image-making process works for world-building.

Photographing Your Masterpiece
Colin and Kristine Poole
A non-photographer’s guide to making your brilliance look professional. Painters and Sculptors, we’ve got you covered – no more snapping a quick shot while strolling by at midnight with your masterpiece propped against the bed. Colin will review a number of photography setup approaches, give an overview of post production and touch on hacks for those bereft of professional photography equipment.
Art of Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Yingjue Chen, Alfonso Blaas, Francisco Ruiz Velasco
A presentation of the artwork from Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE ON ZOOM AND MAY HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY
Passcode: 928091
Doodling with Dong Ho Kim
Dong Ho Kim
A 2 hour demo where you’ll get to see Dong Ho’s doodling process using traditional medium (pen, marker, and paper). If there’s time for questions Dong Ho will take them from the Proko community – http://proko.com/lbx-dongho
Extraordinary Locations Environment Design
Raphael Lacoste, Craig Mullins, Cathleen McAllister, Elena & Olivia Ceballos, Pablo Carpio
Join artists Raphael Lacoste, Craig Mullins, Cathleen McAllister, Elena & Olivia Ceballos, and Pablo Carpio for this talk about the visual development process and what’s involved in creating the perfect setting for your film, game, or TV show.

LATAM Artists in the Creative Industry
Gloria Felix, Luis Huerta, Omar Lozano
In this talk, we’re gonna cover our personal insights, struggles, and experiences of working in the Creative Industry as Latinx artists from LATAM.
We will tackle topics from education, career path, work experiences, and visa stuff.
The Devil Is In The Details
Frank Svengsouk: Disney Art Director
Frank Svengsouk discusses his career as an Art Director at Disney and what goes into molding the creative process for social and interactive content.

Design To Manufacture Ghost In The Shell
Adam Middleton + Rebekah Tisch + Flo Foxworthy
A deep dive into the thoughts and processes behind bringing Major’s Thermoptic suit to life in Ruper Sanders’ “Ghost in the Shell”

Exaggeration Extravaganza: Multi-Artist Caricature Drawing Session!
Jason Seiler, Thomas Fluharty, Masae Seki, Stephen Silver, Seo Kim, Lindsey Olivares, Bright Ackwerh
Who said becoming a caricature of yourself was a bad thing? During this Caricature Drawing Jam, we’ll have the audience submit their photos for a chance to be turned into a caricature during this multi-artist drawing session with Jason Seiler, Thomas Fluharty, Masae Seki, Stephen Silver, Seo Kim, & Lindsey Olivares! Your features may be exaggerated, but we’re not exaggerating when we say this is going to be one of the most entertaining events of LBX! Featuring MagmaStudio.io

Character Design Demo: Part 3
Greg Baldwin
Greg Baldwin will be livestreaming his process and techniques for designing stylized characters. Each night will focus on different examples of designing characters, such as peculiar creatures, overzealous robots or even brooding demons. Rough sketches will be available for each stream for free to download on Gumroad for those who feel like drawing along.
Finding Joy in your Personal Work with Rachel Ashley from Riot Games and Nickelodeon Recruiting
Rachel Ashley
Join Rachel Ashley from Riot Games and Nickelodeon Recruiting talk about finding joy in your personal work!

Creating Comic Strips
Danielle Pioli
Join me in this demonstration where I show how I create comic strips and how you can use your personal experiences to create your own comics. In this presentation, I’ll talk about how art can help us process life events, regulate emotions, and tell stories that really help us connect with other people.
LIVE Q&A with Sanford Greene
Sanford Greene
Come hangout and ask Sanford Greene any of your questions during this casual Q&A!
Sanford Greene has worked professionally in comic illustration and related industries for over 15 years, including work for mainstream publishers such as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image Comics.
The Road to Story Driven Cinematic Illustration
Alexander Mandradjev
Live Demo of Cinematic Keyframe Illustration
Tea at Karla’s
Karla Ortiz, Iain McCaig, Lauren Panepinto, Gregory Manchess
Karla Ortiz and Iain McCaig have a time-honored tradition, where at the end of events they gather a few good friends for a late-night chat and a cup of tea in Karla’s room, a last uplifting moment before saying goodbye. This year, Karla and Iain invite YOU to listen in, offer topics and enjoy the conversation. With guests Greg Manchess and Lauren Panepinto. Register in advance for this free event.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/tea-at-karlas/register
Scribble and Chill
Don Dixon: Senior Animator at Reel FX
Join Don Dixon as he hangs out, sips his favorite drink, and draws.

Tea time and draw together!
Daisy Muradyan
Hello, I’m Daisy, a freelance illustrator based in Seattle. I haven’t followed a traditional path (a.k.a. art school) to becoming a professional artist. Instead I’ve grown through self-directed online tutorials and classes from amazing artists. Grab your tea, coffee or favorite drink and join me while we relax, chat and create characters based on your suggestions! You can find more information at https://ladychamomile.ink/
Visual Story Telling
Cliff Cramp
We will discuss the process of developing a compelling and satisfying illustration through the understanding of visual story-telling.

A Final Word from the Creators of LightBox Expo
Bobby Chiu, Jim Demonakos, and you
Words cannot express the thanks we have for everyone involved in LightBox Expo 2021… but we tried anyways. Thank you everyone for attending!