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Join Disney Publishing Illustrator Casey Robin and Glow in the Dark studio owner Katia Grifols on a Zoom discussion on how to grow your network in another episode in the series "Flourish" Monday, Aug 31 at 11am PDT. Donate $10 or join FREE with the code COVIDRELIEF
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Thank you Tina and Casey for organizing such a cool event and letting me be part of it!!!
While this virus is spreading around, we decided at the studio to play it safe and work from home to protect us and our loved ones. It’s been a hard adjustment.. but if we all do it will go away soon! So keeping it positive! After all… working from home is not that awful!
And while it’s been an adjustment, for sure!!! We also decided to keep being creative: comfortable and “semi-operational” work-from-home-station, lots of tea and coffee, adjusting to a new work flow.. and well staying creative on social media! We started an initiative on our Instagram: #quarantips where our #creativeblips
give some tips to stay sane and creative! The idea is promote a fun dialog with our followers and make everybody feel “we are together on this!”.
But with the ones we resonate the most are with the kids…! The ones who we rite our stories for. Can’t imagine what is it to be little, not really understanding and feeling trapped. So we thought.. we had to do something about it!!! And here is how our #QuaranTinyArt started!!! We decided to create little pieces of lifework-art for the “little-and not so little- ones in the house” and immediately our Pirateers (of course!) sparked that initiative! So from now on, till we are back to the office we will post line-art-activities free to print for anybody that needs to brighten up their day.. or just to be entertained!
This Pirateers Crossword puzzle, to dress-me up color-me activities are just a sneak peak of the fun activities we are preparing at the studio to help stem your boredom!!!
We created a very handy Linktree where you both download these activities now and start coloring, but also see additional pages as we‘ll be updating weekly! Make sure you click on the first tab!
Hope you like it!! And please if you know people with little ones… let them know about it!!!! Stay creative and busy!!
So happy we have been part of the Art Lectures provided by nonprofit Light Bringer Project through Locavore Literary LA. It’s always very refreshing to visit the next generation of artists and be able to share our journey with them! Thanks for listening, and for all those awesome questions!! Katia had a blast visiting Fairfax High School and Pasadena High School, and we can’t wait to see what they do with their art!!
Finally, it’s out and published a small piece Katia worked for “Literature for Life”. The assignment consisted on illustrating a short fictional story from Vivian McInerny.
Katia: “ I really loved the dark and decadent tone of the piece and talked about a topic that is very relevant and close to my heart: Emotional Orphans and Unappealing Children. The text is been given in several highschool classes to read as a discussion topic and I am very happy and proud to be able to help on such a matter! As an artist, the ending really appealed to me, I wanted even if it was a hard reality to have a bit of “strange hope” kind of a feeling, so I chose neon-bright colors and I tried to give it a peaceful atmosphere for the privacy of the characters. I hope you like it!”
Please read here the story: https://locavorelitla.org/?story=the-home-for-emotional-orphans-and-unappealing-children
So excited about this 37 Comic Barcelona Festival! Not only because I love comics and it happens in my home city, but also because for the very first time ever I will be part of it! Super thrilled to be sharing some comic knowledge with the little ones at the Comic Kids section, but also to be part of the educational program with the “not so little anymore” future pool of artists! Here at Glow in the Dark, we are all about of giving back to the community, and what a better way for me than sharing some knowledge and tips in Barcelona!
Stay tuned for more news!
Once more we were very happy to be part of a great industry panel at the Woodbury University, courtesy of their wonderful Animation Club!
Along with Annushka Almendros (APM at WB/ GITD Co-creator), Benson Shum (Disney Animator/Children Book Artist), Melissa Maryn (Toy Designer at Moose), Ryan Hansen (Story board at Dreamworks TV), Heather Gregersen (Story Revisionist at Dreamworks TV), Maureen Macomber (Studio Manager at GITD) and Katia Grifols (Mastermind at GITD) we spent our evening talking about our personal career paths and answering questions of young artists that want to make it into the industry! Was a very refreshing and fun night!
Thank you Woodbury kids for having us!
Because Art and Stories are around the world there is nothing more inspiring to go find them!
Glow in the Dark was part of an Art initiative program promoted by the Right Hands. The volunteering promoted the Arts as a tool for Little orphan kids to not only use Art as a healing therapy but also as a possible future career for them. To learn a profession that will hopefully help their way out of poverty.
Obviously with a great story like this we had to participate! We create content for kids at the studio, hopefully to give them awesome childhood memories. What a better chance for us to give those memories.. like literally! It was a very inspiring experience, extremely heartwarming and… we got the chance to teach this little future talents a bit of photoshop!
The Right Hands provided them with Digital tablets, digital art programs, and art material for the kids so they can learn with good tools. We also participate in a lot of very inspiring activities like Museum Trips, Arts and Crafts day and even self modeling life drawing!
We will miss this girls a lot and the awesome group of Volunteers! We were soo charmed by Hanoi (Vietnam).
Thanks Right Hands for this awesome experience!
I can’t express how meaningful it was for us to put together a Visual Development Worksop for the students at the Escola Iboix, in Granollers, (Catalunya-Spain). I grew up in a small town very close to Granollers, and I was so excited to teach this kids about Visdev. Growing up we had very little resources and knowledge about the Animation/Entertainment Industry and I feel the little me back in time.. would really had died for an opportunity like this. So I felt it was an honor to give the workshop.
We prepared some exercises, some lectures and the students did an awesome job on their final presentation. We provided a lot of feedback afterwords. Was a very fun experience! We really look forward to keep collaborating and inspiring the students from the Escola Iboix!
Very happy to be able to attend to this super cool CTN Teens event organized at the CSG Gallery in Burbank as a part of inspiring and promoting Art as a Career for the next generation of Artists.
We were part of a set of Lectures along with other artists where we shared our experiences and answered Q&A from teenagers attending to a variety of the Burbank High Schools.
Can’t wait to see what they can do!
That sad time of the year when we have to say "Goodbye, see you soon!" to our intern is here again... Sadness!!! This Fall we had the pleasure to have Denise Caro helping around, currently at the Woodbury University Animation program. To have a proper farewell we visited our collaborators Alberto Corral and Ryan Hansen, at the Dreamworks Campus. We had a good time! We will miss you Denise, really thanks for your help!
This month we are very busy with lectures as well! Very excited to meet new faces, and to help the next generation!
So here our info for the upcoming ones:
http://www.ctnanimationexpo.com/
http://ctnanimationexpo.com/axEventSchedule.php
The Freedom of Freelancing Panel. Sunday Nov 19, 03:15pm-04:00pm
We also got Invited last Monday, November 06- 2017, to Alina Chau's Visual Development Class to give a lecture about our artist path. Very happy to be back at Woodbury University for it.
Here a picture of it since we forgot to take a proper one..!
We are very excited to announce that we will be part of the "Project Neverland" Panel Discussion at the Art Center College of Design and Woodbury University. "Project Neverland" will be announced and presented to the public the following April 03 2017 at 7pm on a free admission and open to the public event. Michael Dooley, former Art Center Faculty member, will be hosting the panel interviewing a great selection of artists currently working for the Entertainment Industry such as Alina Chau, Nic Gregory, Casey Robin Neal , as well as our CEO and Art Director Katia Grifols, who will be presenting their unique vision and influences that lead them to create a singular new piece of concept for "Project Neverland".
Please find more information about the event HERE.
Poster from the Animation department at Woodbury University, to promote the event.
We are very happy to announce that Glow in the Dark Concept Studio started the year with the right foot! We have been reach to provide teaching services to a new badge of Animation students at Woodbury University. Glow in the Dark will take care of Character Design for the Juniors in Animation at Woodbury for the whole Spring 2017 semester. We can't be more excited to guide this students with their art career. This will be a fun term!
