Sean’s Guide to Success in Visdev with Sean Sevestre
$300.00
Select the spectate option for the recordings from last term!
Let’s learn about the importance of trying new things, failing, and growing as an artist. In this unique class from Sean, discover how to unlock your own personal creativity to create a body of work that sets you up for a successful artist career. Sean’s experience as a visdev artist on TMNT, along with his passion for art, movie-making, athletics, and other creative pursuits informs his deep knowledge on how to improve and gain the necessary skill to achieve any goal.
We’ll cover:
• Developing style
• How to study to get to a professional skill level
• The studio visdev pipeline
• Where creativity comes from
• How to create sincere, meaningful, and personal art
Date & Time: Sundays at 1:00 PM Eastern starting Sunday May 4th
Skill level: Intermediate skill level. Critique spots are confirmed pending portfolio review after booking
Tiers: Receive feedback or spectate without homework feedback
Format: 4-5 hour live class each week with combination of lectures, demos, and feedback. Recordings are generally provided within a couple days of each live session.
Materials: Any digital or traditional mediums. Paintovers will be done digitally
All weeks will be a combination of lecture, demos and feedback.
Week 1: Intro, my Journey + 22 THINGS
Week 2: How to really study to improve/ self troubleshooting
Week 3: What is style and how can we use it
Week 4: Make a movie!
Week 5: Everything about the visdev pipeline
Week 6: Real life visdev case studies
Week 7: Who are you as an artist and what is meaningful to you?
Week 8: Bringing it all together
Description
Sean Sevestre is an artist and director from Scotland currently living in Los Angeles. His clients include Netflix, Sony, Google, Blizzard, Riot Games and Paramount. He currently works at Paramount on the TMNT sequel to TMNT: Mutant Mayhem.
STUDENT EXPERIENCES
“Sean’s Guide to Success in VisDev was a formative and inspiring step in my journey as an artist. The people I met were varied in experience and perspective, and their critiques and ideas were incredible to see. Sean was always an upbeat and entertaining teacher, willing to engage with every student, regardless of tier, to answer questions, give feedback, and just generally be a friend. The classes didn’t drone on like some I’ve known, and the materials were concise and informative. Sean’s perspective, even aside from VisDev, was a joy to get to know and see, and he will inspire me for the rest of my career.”
—Liz Miller
“Sean is a fantastic teacher and he delivered more than he promised. We didn’t just learn about VisDev, we learned about film making and the industry way of working. He pushed us out of our comfort zones and show us our capabilities that we even didn’t know we have within ourselves. Overall, 10/10”
—Aaron Thai
“Before joining Sean’s class, I’d been stuck in a year long rut with art. I’d lost confidence in myself and while I was aware of some of the things I needed to improve, I wasn’t sure how to do it. After finishing this course I feel like I’m fully equipped to identify weaknesses and target practice them. It’s also taught me to get outside my comfort zone and try new things.
“The week where we made a short film was one of my favourite weeks and I think the most successful. If I hadn’t been here, I wouldn’t have known how fun it would be and I think this is the beauty of this class.
“Sean doesn’t just teach you about the basics of visual development. He teaches you to try different styles and how to troubleshoot yourself, but also about the value of using different mediums and how allowing yourself to be creative in things outside of drawing and painting (music, skateboarding, embroidery, filming etc) can help you develop knowledge and skills you can bring back to art.
“If you’re like me and you can’t get out of your own way, you should consider taking this course. You’ll get back in touch with the simple joy of creating.”
—Linzi G.
“Sean Sevestre does an incredible job explaining the use of style and the work of a visdev artist in a way that feels easy to understand. The assignments felt unique, and the feedback for students was well thought out and honest.”
—Kyle Myers
“Sean is a great teacher who push artists to their full potential. He is always there for everyone. He gives thoughtful feedbacks. He is a teacher who is concern of every student progression. A great artist and human.”
—Sharam Sunstrum
“Sean is an amazing teacher and really cares about his students. We learned technical tips along with how to grow creatively. He’s become a role model to me on what it means to be an artist!”
—Taylor Gee
“Sean’s class was super helpful! He was great at pinpointing aspects of my work that needed improvement and how to develop a better and more critical disposition when approaching my art. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to level up their viz dev skills!”
—Sullivan Brown
“Sean’s course completely shifted how I approach visual development. The structure, feedback, and clarity he offers helped me level up both my thinking and my artwork.”
—Nouf Alkhalifah aka menmonz
“dude Sean is so chill and talented, I never felt like I was looked down on, I always felt like he was a friend rather than a mentor or teacher, we talking more than just about art, chill dude, hope he does another class soon so I can re do it all over again.”
—Anon
STUDENT WORK
