Interview with Gary Winnick, Animator and Graphic Novelist

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This week we chat with Gary Winnick, an indy Santa Cruz-based visual artist, about his days at Lucasfilm Games.   He shares some fascinating stories from Skywalker Ranch involving George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg from the early days of computer graphics and animation, as the first real artist to be hired by the studio, to work alongside the computer genius geeks inventing these new art forms.

We also delve into his latest project, an illustrated graphic novel series called, “Bad Dreams,”  chronicling the adventures of an odd group of dreamworld characters.  As an independent artist, Gary is exploring Kickstarter crowd-sourcing as a means of financing this creative endeavor, and we discuss this approach for indy artists in our interview with him.