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EPISODE 40

Ashley Adams // Pixologic

ALL ABOUT STREAMING FOR 3D ARTISTS

DISCUSSED DURING THE SHOW:
  • The largely male dominated 3D industry – where are all the girls?
  • How to get into streaming, and prepare for your 1st live.
  • The amazing learning opportunity in watching and participating in live streams on twitch and YouTube.
  • The vast and diverse community of practicing, industry artists hanging out in live streams and the opportunity to network.
  • How to recycle and repurpose your stream in order generate great, sharable and engaging content in order to promote your work.
  • The current changes in Twitch and how it is impacting the platform.
Art Heroes Podcast ep.40:
Ashley Adams // Pixologic
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Who is it
Ashley A. Adams (A_Cubed) is a self-employed freelance 3D concept sculptor and character artist for the animation industry and has been working professionally for 5 years. She is also a ZBrush Live weekly stream presenter for Pixologic's youtube and twitch channels.

Why should you listen
Listen to meet Ashley, a true life "artsy-fartsy" CG girl who doesn't play by the rules. She's also the 2nd prize winner of this year's live Zbrush Sculpt-Off. Ashley tells us about life as an artist in a largely male dominated industry and reveals all it takes to be a regular stream presenter for Pixologic.
About Ashley Adams
Ashley A. Adams (A_Cubed) is a self-employed freelance 3D concept sculptor and character artist for the animation industry and has been working professionally for 5 years. She is also a ZBrush Live weekly stream presenter for Pixologic's youtube and twitch channels.She has worked in-house at Arc Productions and Tangent Animation as well as remotely for a growing client list including Spinmaster, Sinking Ship Ent., Mythos Studios, and Jamfilled Ent.

Listen to meet Ashley, a true life "artsy-fartsy" CG girl who doesn't play by the rules. She's also the 2nd prize winner of this year's live Zbrush Sculpt-Off. Ashley tells us about life as an artist in a largely male dominated industry and reveals all it takes to be a regular stream presenter for Pixologic.
"Not being afraid to post your sketches online is really, really important, I think also because you're going to make a bunch of garbage, you're going to make more garbage than you're going to make a good thing honestly and like that's totally fine. That's normal. And your progression as an artist and exploration is something that you shouldn't let go of and you should embrace it if you want to."
GET IN TOUCH WITH ASHLEY
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/a_cubed
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hey_a_cubed/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hey_A_Cubed
"And it also kind of proves that like, oh, you know, just because you don't like a specific theme when you get into it and you actually give it the effort, you can grow to like it. You can you can give your little flair to it. And then all of a sudden, it's something that you might actually enjoy"
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