The Allan McKay Podcast
060 - Jami Jeffcoat from Bungie Games creators of Destiny

 

Jami works at Bungie in Seattle, WA well known for Halo and Destiny among other high profile projects. This episode we dive into her role at Bungie on Destiny, as well as her experiences graduating from college and going into video games, and how she managed to literally walk into a job at Bungie and a lot of the key reasons behind that which I think is really fascinating. As well as sharing her own female perspective of working in the video game industry as well.

There's a lot of really valuable takeaways from this episode as well as just being an all-round fun episode to listen to!

 

For show notes visit :  http://www.allanmckay.com/60/

Jami's Twitter : https://twitter.com/justjamij

Jami's GDC talk handout : http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1021793/Animation-Bootcamp-The-Missing-Link

 

Direct download: ep60_mixdown.mp3
Category:careers -- posted at: 3:30am EDT

059 - Matt Conway - Avatar, Game of Thrones and Avengers

Matt Conway is a Digital Matte Painter having worked on movie projects such as Avatar, Avengers Age of Ultron, Shutter Island, Game of Thrones and dozens of others.


During this interview we discuss everything from his initial upbringing and transition into VFX to travel, techniques and superbowl, as well as Stallone and Arnie and a heck of a lot more.

We dive into lots of good stuff, lots of goofy stuff, we do talk sex and censorship and other ridiculous things - so those who might be a bit sensitive maybe skip ahead if hearing words like 'boobs' offend you.

 

Matt Conway's Website : http://mattconwayart.com/

Artist Insight Series :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kScuvirgjjI

 

Direct download: ep59_mixdown.mp3
Category:careers -- posted at: 3:31pm EDT

058 - Dreamworks Animation Character TD Omar Garcia

Omar is a character TD at Dreamworks Animation in Los Angeles working on projects like Kung Fu Panda 2, How to train your dragon 2, Rise of the Guardians and many others. During this episode we cover a lot of really great subjects and particularly dive into his experience going from a student into a character TD role at one of the biggest animation studios in the world, and many of the struggles we typically face that he was able to overcome.

 

Direct download: ep58_mixdown.mp3
Category:careers -- posted at: 2:29pm EDT

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