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This week I interview the incredible digital sculptor Gio Nakpil! Gio has worked on tons of blockbuster films and currently works on the Adobe Medium team. We talk about his childhood as a horror fan, his early desire to become a makeup effects artist, learning digital modeling, breaking into the digital animation business, working with Carlos Huante, getting out of the film industry after 12 years, his new job as the Adobe Medium evangelist, the exciting possibilities of using Adobe Medium and Substance Painter to create digital sculpture in VR (!!!) and lots more!!! I'm a recent convert to VR so I am SUPER EXCITED about the possibilities that Adobe Medium offers! This was such a fun interview and it really got me psyched to get back into digital artwork.

Also a quick art life update and new subscribers.

Interview starts at around 8:54

Lélia's Instagram:
@lelia_wattez

Lélia's Facebook:
www.facebook.com/wattezlelia

The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar.
Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety
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Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com
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This week I interview French sculptor Lélia Wattez! We discuss her unusual path to creating creating her incredible creature sculptures, growing up in a small French village, her difficult work as a stone carver for 10 years (and the trauma of that experience), leaving that industry and going to makeup effects school, learning to code and getting a job in IT, how she designs her beautiful monsters and more! This is a deep episode and it gets very emotional at times!

Also a quick art life update and new subscribers.

Interview starts at around 10:27

Lélia's Instagram:
@lelia_wattez

Lélia's Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/wattezlelia

The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar.
Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety
Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar
The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety
Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com
The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including the following platforms:
SoundCloud: @darkartsociety
iTunes: apple.co/2gMNUfM
Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?fid=134626&refid=stpr
Podbay: podbay.fm/show/1215146981
YouTube: bit.ly/2nNYPre
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This week's interview is with an old makeup effects pal of mine, master mold maker Rob Freitas! Rob has worked on TONS of amazing films and is regarded as one of the very best mold makers in the industry. We discuss: being a "monster kid", the influence of his grandfather, leaving Northern California to get into the FX biz, being mentored by Moto Hata, Working for Rob Bottin (on an all weekend gig), working for Rick Baker and much more! This was a really fun interview and I honestly forgot we were recording a few times- always a good indicator of great conversation.

Also a quick art life update and new subscribers.

Interview starts at around 7:51

Rob's Instagram:
@rob_freitas_

The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar.
Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety
Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar
The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety
Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com
The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including the following platforms:
SoundCloud: @darkartsociety
iTunes: apple.co/2gMNUfM
Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?fid=134626&refid=stpr
Podbay: podbay.fm/show/1215146981
YouTube: bit.ly/2nNYPre
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For the first episode of the new year I catch up with my old co-host of The Dark Art Society Podcast, Mike Correll. To make this episode special we recorded video as well (which you can see on the DAS Patreon: Patreon.com/darkartsociety) but as you will hear it was a bit of a disaster. But the conversation was still good and it was great to hear about Mike's crazy adventures on the road!

Please help "Chet Zar: I Like To Paint Monsters" get on to Netflix: help.netflix.com/en/titlerequest

Also: the Art Life update and new Patreon subscribers

Mike's Patreon's:
Patreon.com/EmailsFromInfinity
Patreon.com/LandOfEnchantmentTours

The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar
Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety
Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar
The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety
Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com
The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including the following platforms:
SoundCloud: @darkartsociety
iTunes: apple.co/2gMNUfM
Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?fid=134626&refid=stpr
Podbay: podbay.fm/show/1215146981
YouTube: bit.ly/2nNYPre
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This week I interview the legendary Dark Artist Allen Williams (and his wife Vicki says hello). I'm a huge fan of his graphite and paint work and was really excited to interview him here! Some of the topics we cover: moving around when he was young and being a 'monster' kid in a small town in the south, drawing from a very early age, beginning his career creating art for role playing games in the 80s, the importance of keeping your own artistic 'thing' while doing contract work, creating artwork for book covers, working as a creature designer, his process for creating his work, justifying Dark Art, developing his style and a lot more! This was a really great interview! Very inspiring!

Also a quick art life update and new subscribers.

Interview starts at around 8:00

"Covenant" project on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fleskpublications/covenant-the-art-of-allen-williams/description

Allen's website:
www.AllenWilliamsStudio.com

Allen's Instagram:
@I_JustDraw

Allen's YouTube:
www.youtube.com/AllenWilliamsStudio

Allen's FaceBook:
www.facebook.com/AllenWilliamsArt

The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar.
Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety
Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar
The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety
Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com
The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including the following platforms:
SoundCloud: @darkartsociety
iTunes: apple.co/2gMNUfM
Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?fid=134626&refid=stpr
Podbay: podbay.fm/show/1215146981
YouTube: bit.ly/2nNYPre
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This week I interview prolific painter, tattoo artist and Dark Art Society member Brian Brown. We talk about his life growing up in a family of 14 kids (!), building childhood guillotines, mask collecting, art collecting, skull collecting, living in Egypt and stealing a mummy skull, seeing auras, his freeform oil painting and tattooing techniques, and a ton more! I could have kept going for another couple hours so we will do a part 2 in the future!

Also a quick art life update and new subscribers.

Interview starts at around 6:00

InstaGram: @MR._NME

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brian.n.brown.3

Website: (in the works) brianbrowntattoo.com

The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar.
Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety
Chet’s Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar
The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety
Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com
The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including the following platforms:
SoundCloud: @darkartsociety
iTunes: apple.co/2gMNUfM
Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?fid=134626&refid=stpr
Podbay: podbay.fm/show/1215146981
YouTube: bit.ly/2nNYPre
DarkArtSociety.com
Copyright Chet Zar LLC 2019