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| Is there a "science" to art in the digital media industry? Film maker Justin Evans says yes and explains how he has brought it to places ranging from the USA to China | | Date Created: Jun 20, 2005, 01:26 PM |
 Film maker Justin Evans - the creative force behind www.mysticarts.biz and www.animwatch.com - is a Renaissance man in the global digital media industry. His skills span direction, voice over, animation, live action, special effects, photography, cinematography, screenwriting and graphic design.
At the recent X|Media Lab in Singapore he mentored creatives and CEOs from across the digital media industries worldwide. Justin defies those who say art can't be learned. He has broken down his techniques into specific steps, with a form, a function and science behind every artistic discipline. The results have been a dramatic acceleration of skills, from student to professional, for practitioners of visual language.
Justin explains how mastery of composition and consequential storytelling can far more quickly convert amateurs into seasoned digital media people. His tools show artists how to help their audiences empathise into the deepest details of their work. "Mostly [creativity] is trial by fire and there is the belief that the few humans who have demonstrated mastery of these areas did so intuitively and by accident. I completely disagree with that," he says. In this interview he gives examples, in areas such as color symbolism, of techniques that can yield extraordinarily powerful digital media results.
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