This chat features Pedro Medeiros, a Pixel Artist, and indie video game Art Director known for such titles as Celeste, Towerfall, as well as the unreleased Earthblade, and Neverway. In their chat, Medeiros shares how he got into pixel art through video game development in Brazil (when there wasn’t any game industry there yet), as well as his process of developing a game’s art style from scratch.
Tune in to Ibele and Medeiros to hear:
*What to do to become a professional pixel artist
*How much coding knowledge you actually need to become a video game art director
*At what stage a video game starts to look for an art director
Social Links:
*Check out Medeiros’ website: https://saint11.org/
*Follow Medeiros on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saint11
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This chat features Pedro Medeiros, a Pixel Artist, and indie video game Art Director known for such titles as Celeste, Towerfall, as well as the unreleased Earthblade, and Neverway. In their chat, Medeiros shares how he got into pixel art through video game development in Brazil (when there wasn’t any game industry there yet), as well as his process of developing a game’s art style from scratch.
Tune in to Ibele and Medeiros to hear:
*What to do to become a professional pixel artist
*How much coding knowledge you actually need to become a video game art director
*At what stage a video game starts to look for an art director
Social Links:
*Check out Medeiros’ website: https://saint11.org/
*Follow Medeiros on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saint11
Episode 250: Rand Fishkin & How He's Funding Snackbar Indie Game Studio
Animation Industry Podcast
50 minutes 21 seconds
1 year ago
Episode 250: Rand Fishkin & How He's Funding Snackbar Indie Game Studio
This chat features Rand Fishkin, Creative Director and CEO of Snackbar Studio, a new video game studio working on its first title. Fishkin, who is better known for founding the SEO software company Moz, and the consumer intelligence company SparkToro, shares why he made the jump from the world of business into video games. Fishkin also covers the extensive research he did to figure out exactly what type of game to make, and how he put together a winning team.
Tune in to Ibele and Fishkin to hear:
*How Fishkin is funding Snackbar studio (and for how much)
*How Fishkin’s research led him to set the game in 1960’s Italy
*What three criteria Fishkin thinks will lead to any video game’s success
Social Links:
*Check out Snackbar Studio’s website: https://snackbarstudio.com/
*Follow Rand on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@randderuiter
*Follow Geraldine DeRuiter on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@theeverywhereist
Animation Industry Podcast
This chat features Pedro Medeiros, a Pixel Artist, and indie video game Art Director known for such titles as Celeste, Towerfall, as well as the unreleased Earthblade, and Neverway. In their chat, Medeiros shares how he got into pixel art through video game development in Brazil (when there wasn’t any game industry there yet), as well as his process of developing a game’s art style from scratch.
Tune in to Ibele and Medeiros to hear:
*What to do to become a professional pixel artist
*How much coding knowledge you actually need to become a video game art director
*At what stage a video game starts to look for an art director
Social Links:
*Check out Medeiros’ website: https://saint11.org/
*Follow Medeiros on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saint11
