Our guest this week is animation and gaming industry veteran Flint Dille! He’s been involved in a wide range of projects from the 80s animated Transformers movie to games like Diablo III and Pokemon GO. We sit down with Flint to find out how artists can use methods valued in game design and writing to take their study routine and education to the next level. Flint shares how you can use familiar concepts familiar to gamers, like grinding for levels, as a form of practice in order to enter a propulsion loop where you feel rewarded and fulfilled while moving forward in the “main quest” of your art journey.

Books and Resources

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The Gamesmaster

Sagard the Barbarian

A Line in the Sand

Strike Series

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay

Dead to Rights

Uncharted

Ghostbusters The Video Game

Ingress

Pokemon GO

DARPA

Transformers the Movie (animated)

The Dark Knight Returns

300 (comic)

Clapton The Autobiography

Spacewar! prototype

Avalon Hill Games

Referenced Artists:

Caravaggio

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo

Flint Dille 300 character Dilios

Paul Gauguin

Jack Kirby