Double Fine Art Director Scott Campbell visits Oct. 19

The CIM Visiting Artists Series is proud to present:

Scott Campbell

Painter, illustrator, comic artist, and Art Director at Double Fine Games

The DePaul School of Cinema & Interactive Media Visiting Artist Series is excited to announce our second guest for the Fall 2012 quarter, Scott Campbell. On Friday, October 19th, Campbell will present a program of his work, followed by a moderated conversation and question and answer session.  During the day he will conduct a participatory workshop in character design, so bring your sketchbooks.

Scott Campbell (Scott C)  is a maker of paintings, illustrations, comics, kid’s books and video games. He studied illustration at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, focusing on comic and children’s book illustration.  Soon after graduating, he began at Lucas Learning as concept artist on children’s video games.  Four years later, he joined Double Fine productions as Art Director on such games as the critically acclaimed Psychonauts and Brutal Legend.  Alongside this career in games, he has published numerous comics and created paintings that have appeared in galleries and publications around the world. Some of his most notable projects include theGREAT SHOWDOWNS series, “Igloo Head and Tree Head” series, Double Fine Action Comics, Hickee Comics, the children’s book’s Zombie In Love and East Dragon, West Dragon, and Psychonauts and Brutal Legend with Double Fine Productions. The book Amazing Everything: The Art of Scott Ccollects many of his paintings over the past few years. Scott lives in New York City.

You can find out more about Scott Campbell’s work on his website http://www.pyramidcar.com/

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Visiting Artist Talk

6pm Friday, Oct. 19th

DePaul CDM Theatre

14 E. Jackson - LL105

Open to the public

Character Design Workshop

2pm Friday, Oct. 19th - 243 S. Wabash - CDM 924

DePaul students and faculty only