Craig Caldwell
Professor of Digital Media
Craig Caldwell is a USTAR Professor, Film and Media Arts, and co-founder of the Masters in Games Program Entertainment Arts & Engineering at the University of Utah. He was honored as a DeTao Master at the Institute of Animation and Creative Content, SIVA Campus in China. His industry experience includes Head of Creative Training at Electronic Arts, Tiburon Studio and 3D Technology Specialist, Walt Disney Feature Animation (Mulan, Tarzan, Chicken Little, Bolt and Meet the Robinsons). His academic background includes being head of the largest film school in Australia at Griffith University and Chair of the Media Arts Department at the University of Arizona.
Events featuring Craig Caldwell
Bringing characters to life
Whether it is animation, VFX, or immersive media… character development in storytelling is tough to get right. It can seem like an impossible task to create engaging characters that your audience can emotionally connect to. No matter what genre you prefer, fantasy, medieval, comedy, drama... the characters must be complex, knowable, and feel real. In this workshop, Craig Caldwell covers how to flesh out characters, beginning with their motivations, backstories, psychology, and external relationships.
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