Character Design and Development. Birthing and bringing characters to life through Conceptualization, story development and world creation

by Nathan Jurevicius

October 7-14, 2014 in Vilnius Academy of Arts, Graphic Art department took place globally acclaimed illustrator and artist Nathan Jurevicius workshop "Character Design and Development. Birthing and bringing characters to life through Conceptualization, story development and world creation“. This workshop was designed to VAA students which are interested in illustration, characters' development and design, contemporary world of the characters and a variety of official and underground culture movements related to the field.

Varity of ivents were held doring these days.

On October 7th, Nathan Jurevicius had an open introductory lecture about today's culture characters which collected more than 100 listeners. After the lecture everybody could join N. Jurevicius solo exhibition "The album in process" opening party in the Gallery 5 Malunai, VAA, where animators from PetPunk company, Hollywood producers of art by Miguel A. Fuertes and Virginie Bourdin with the conference "Challenges of Cluster internationality and sharing of best practices in developing training programs "organizers of Lithuania could be met. There was a lively debate, autographs division, the exchange of information. Workshop was attended by 41 students from Vilnius, Kaunas and Telšiai faculty. During the workshop, Nathan Jurevicius applied and introduced its unique method of teaching illustration, animation, characters creation and sharing of best practices with the students. The results of the workshop were presented for public in a group exhibitions in the space of the gallery 5 Malunai for another three weeks.