Animation history – Joel Adams interview
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Joel Adams is an artist who worked on character designs for King of the Hill. He’s worked on numerous other character design and animation projects and we talked about his work, inspirations, and the state of character design work today.
0:30 – Joel talks about his work as lead character designer for King of the Hill and other work.
He talks about how he got into the artwork business.
3:00 – Joel talks about King of the Hill and how he designed characters. He gets into the process of character design.
5:53 – Joel talks about his favorite comic characters.
7:26 – Joel talks about the rules that apply when designing characters.
9:30 – Joel talks about his other projects.
13:30 – Joel talks about what inspired various King of the Hill characters.
16:40 – Joel talks about recent changes in character design. Technology changes and style changes.
23:45 – Joel can be found on JoelAdamsart.com.
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Guests: Joel Adams
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: animation, character design, King of the Hill, Incredible Hulk, Tarzan, X-Men, Batman, Burroughs, Power Rangers, fifth element, captain america, marvel
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