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Nathan Fowkes
ImagineFX
|October 2018
Double the fun The digital animation artist and traditional painter makes the most of both mediums in his LA studio
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Welcome to my studio! I live on the farthest north-east reach of Los Angeles, where the city ends and the neighbourhood rolls up into the local canyons. It’s the peaceful life that I’ve always hoped for and finally acquired in recent years, after working in-house at DreamWorks Animation for 15 years.
The studio is a separate building in my backyard and I work here full time, freelancing primarily on feature animation projects. I often work for local studios like Disney and Paramount Animation, but do my work at home, driving in for key meetings and art reviews.
This story is from the October 2018 edition of ImagineFX.
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