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Ian Gooding, who has been a production designer and art director at Disney for over 30 years, joins us to discuss how he approaches visual development for film and animation. Gooding’s credits include Encanto, Moana, Wreck it Ralph, Princess and the Frog, Treasure Planet, Chicken Little, and more. Gooding will address how these classic and popular films are developed visually; how to build a career in film and animation as an artist; and the challenges of working on major, longform projects, and how to overcome them. Gooding will be joined by Umakanth Thumrugoti, a League instructor and prolific artist and filmmaker. This lecture, part of Umakanth Thumrugoti's Concept, Character and Storyboarding class, is free and open to the public. The speaker will be joining us via Zoom.
Ian Gooding is a thirty-three year Walt Disney Animation veteran who worked as a visual development artist, art director, and production designer, on films such as Aladdin, Tarzan, Pocahontas, Hercules, Mulan, Fantasia 2000, Treasure Planet, Chicken Little, The Princess and the Frog, Wreck It Ralph, Moana, and Encanto among others.
Umakanth Thumrugoti is an artist, writer, and filmmaker who started his career at Walt Disney Feature Animation working on films such as Lion King, Pocahontas, Fantasia 2000, Treasure Planet, Chicken Little, and Bolt among others. While at Disney, he worked in various capacities - Technical Director, Lighting Supervisor, Sequence Supervisor, Visual Development Artist and finally as a Co-Art Director. His books include Figure It Out: A Thin Book on Figure Drawing and Broken Parts - Pies R Squared, a graphic novel. His film 7 Days In Slow-Motion was called “a bright and cheerful comedy” by Roger Ebert and won many awards.
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