Unreal Engine and Following Your Passion with Jonathan Winbush Ep 32
Winbush is a multi-award-winning motion graphics artist with over 15 years of experience working in a wide range of mediums from television, movies, to virtual & augmented reality. Over his career, Winbush has done work for Epic Games, Marvel, Netflix, DC, Warner Bros, & Happy Madison to name a few. Notable works include Iron Man, Lego Batman 2, Lego Harry Potter, Transformers, NFL on FOX, Power Rangers, Fantastic Four, Deadliest Catch, and My Little Pony.
In the education space, Winbush creates tutorials weekly through Youtube as well as speaks at conferences around the world for shows such as Adobe Max, Siggraph, NAB, and UnrealFest. Winbush is currently a part of the Youtube Black Voice Fund and was also recently awarded the MegaGrant by Epic games to further support his educational efforts. You can find more information about Winbush at JonathanWinbush.com
Highlights of the Episode:
0:13 Introduction
2:14 Jonathan's Story
3:44 Inspiration from movies
6:36 Jonathan's work on movies
8:11 Internship
11:13 Advice for breaking into the industry
15:22 Helping each other
17:03 Youtube career
21:09 Value of education
23:00 Unreal Five vs Unreal Four
26:41 Real time evolution
29:14 Time management
30:26 How to keep things interesting
33:59 Advancement in technology
35:44 Blender application
45:11 Future of green screen and unreal engine
46:40 Good complimentary platform
48:33 Prioritize to learn: Blender or Houdini
50:58 Definition of artist
56:05 Things to look out for
59:44 / jonathanwimbush
1:01:37 Mocap
1:04:30 Unreal Fest
Quotes:
“ This stuff should be fun. Like it shouldn't feel like work cuz it's like if you don't enjoy what you're doing, then it's just gonna make your day drag on. But if you're enjoying what you're doing, then it's just like the days go just like that. Like I could literally sit behind a computer for like 20 hours with no break just because I enjoy what I'm doing.“ - Jonathan Winbush
“Nothing can replace hands-on training like your internship or coming in as a junior artist, but it's also important to build the foundation and the building blocks beforehand. So you never wanna go into just cold turkey, not knowing anything. ”- Jonathan Winbush on breaking into the industry
“I had artists that I was actually under, that anytime I had a question, like no one ever turned their back to me. Like the motion graphics community was just so opening and they were uplifting each other, like everybody was helping each other..”- Jonathan Winbush
“I realized that people are coming for the educational content. So I tried to focus more on that. And as you know, like being an educator it's a process. You learn as you go. You're not only learning the software, you're learning how to relay this information to people too, to keep it interesting. Make it so they can relate and be able to take something away from it” - Jonathan Winbush
“And so there's different types of mediums in artistry. You can be a traditional painter or jar, but that's an old school mentality. That's not the only thing that's out there. Like there's an artistry to programming, there's an artistry to sculpting.” - Jonathan Winbush on definition of an artist
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