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Ethan Dean

Shading and Grooming Artist

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Ethan Dean is a Character Shading and Grooming artist at Pixar Animation Studios. In his time at Pixar he’s helped make characters on Coco, Toy Story 4, Soul, Turning Red, and Lightyear. Before Pixar, he worked as a look development artist for commercials and short films at Psyop and Moonbot. Ethan is passionate about making art with great collaborators. The best art is never done alone.

Classes

Grooming for Animated Characters

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Testimonials

Ethan is a great artist and also a great instructor, he helped with every problem I had even when they were not related to groom so that was great.

Ricardo

Ethan it's an awesome teacher, the way he answered all of our questions was super clear, and even if he came across a problem he doesn't know 100% he looks into it to teach us the way to solve it

Javier

It really helped me understand some of the intricacies about the pipeline for animated grooms. The reviews were also really helpful.

Kamran

It develops your eye and attention to detail. This is an excellent course. Walking my instructor through my grooming scene in Houdini and getting real time feedback on things was perfect, I loved that. Having your work reviewed by such a talent really made me want to push the hard work for me. I'm grateful for that because you feel always motivated.

Ignacio