Samantha Youssef

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🌟Happy 10 Year Anniversary Studio Technique ! 🌟

It's been 10 years since I officially started a training studio for professional artists in the feature film, VFX, and video game industries, working with artists from Pixar, Disney, Sony, Dreamworks, ILM, Lucasfilm, EA, Ubisoft and many many other incredible studios!

To the studios out there - Thank you for choosing me to work with your talent and productions. To the artists - thank you for working so passionately through my courses and workshops. To the academies and colleges - thank you for integrating my book, Movement & Form, into your programs.

Thank you everyone who has supported me along this journey! Here's to even more great things to come! 🥂

- Samantha Youssef

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Hi everyone! I just wanted to let you know I’ll be teaching a free online class (critique & Q&A) with the launch of the Kickstarter campaign for my 2nd book this Saturday, June 8! The campaign will go live at noon EST, there will be a special discount for the first day, and there will be a free online class on drawing at 3pm EST. Check out the Studio Technique site or Facebook event for updates and more info.

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Young Tarzan sketch for a friend! It’s been a long time since I drew this character. Young Tarzan is the first character team I had the opportunity to work on at Disney as an animator, and prior to that, while studying animation, I was always inspired by John Ripa’s work in the original film. Tarzan was such a joy to work on as an animator, so much physical and action oriented animation while also being a beautiful and subtle character!

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Continuing my series of poster art inspired by psychedelic poster designs, here is my version for Han Solo, this time with a James Bond twist! (It’s not my favourite of my series... might have to keep working on it.) But I thought I’d share it since the film just hit theaters this weekend!

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I’m so thrilled that my work has been selected to be part of an exhibit at MRG Fine Art on June 2! If you are in LA, please go check out the upcoming CGMA gallery show, SPECTRUM: Celebrating Diversity.

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May the Fourth be with You! Happy Star Wars Day! Was inspired by psychedelic poster art that I’ve seen in a few different exhibits this year. I thought I’d have fun with creating posters of iconic characters! I’ll share more soon!

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Throwback Thursday ! Some old storyboard sketches that I did when I directed a cinematic for Ubisoft ‘s Rayman Ravin Rabbids . Watch the cinematic here:

https://youtu.be/HIBoVBHw7G8

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Happy World Book Day! 📕

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Throwback Thursday! Trying to salvage some more Disney stuff to share. I really need to organize my files better! Here’s another rough animation scene of Young Tarzan and it’s final cleaned up scene. For some reason the pencil test I had was missing some frames at the start (sorry!) so I tried to match it up with the final version so the whole scene is viewable. Hope it’s still ok!

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Gesture drawing from a collaborated session with Toons on Tap .

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Rough animation key frame from a test I’m working on.

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Throwback Thursday ! Been finding old artwork and animation from my early days as an animator at Disney! One of my first scenes as an animator. So long ago! This scene had a 15 foot panning background. I remember sitting there with it spread out in the hallway trying to recalculate the pegs so that I could animate this as a cycle and not across the 15 feet as it was originally laid out.

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Since I’ve been sifting through some archives I thought I’d share some old academic studies of facial features I had done a couple years ago.

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My scribble of Pris from the original Bladerunner movie. Was watching Bladerunner on the plane from London, and sketching on the back of the inflight menu since my sketchbook was out of reach due to meal tray obstruction!

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This was one of my first scenes as a professional animator! Little Tarzan was my first character that I animated on at Disney. It was amazing for me because John Ripa was one of my biggest inspirations when I was in school. He really brought to life believable and subtle characters. John Ripa’s character in the original Tarzan animated film was truly an amazing performance and work of art!

Kala was animated by an artist from the Kala character team. This scene was cut from the sequel, as Tarzan 2 went through a major story overhaul.

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Found an old Bambi 2 scene that I animated at Disney. I loved animating Faline!

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1 - 3 minute gesture drawings from a costumed life drawing session.