Alina Chau is an experienced illustrator, animator and book author from Hong Kong living in Los Angeles with more than 10 years in experience in the animation and video game industry. She has worked in projects such as God of War, Gears of War, Saint Row, Spyro, Line Rider and Star Wars the Clone Wars (3D). She also has published many books like Double Happiness, The Year of the Sheep, The Treehouse Heroes and more.
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Alina Chau also has a successful only store and a YouTube channel where she does Art Tutorials. We found Alina’s work in CTNX last year, she also was recommended to us by Casey Robin in a previous interview. Once we found her work we knew why. Alina Chau is a well rounded artist with many years of experience in many areas of art, which is rarely seen as many people specialize in one area.
You can check her work here:
Alina Chau.com
Her YouTube Channel
Her Fan Page
Her Twitter
Her Instagram
Interview with Alina Chau:
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In this Episode, You Will Learn:
- Alina Chau’s Story
- Animation for Video Games
- How to publish a book
- How to adapt when things go really bad
- Networking for introverts
Actionable Steps
- If you survive through hardships it will be easier to do so in the future.
- Have a space to create your own style and experiment, don’t try to copy others.
- If you focus too much in the career and the commercial you can lose the love to do art, since art is pretty much putting our self in our work, if you have to focus on the career, make a space to do art for yourself.
- If you are a shy person, try to become real friends with artist and people in your profession, so that way it will be easier for you to network, as friendships is less stressful for shy people.
- The idea of a dreamjob is usually unrealistic, there are many elements in reality you’re not taking into consideration, the real deal will always look different..
“TAKE EVERY OPPORTUNITY YOU GET, SMALL BIG, JUST TAKE IT SERIOUSLY AND LEARN.”
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Now it’s Your Turn!
Got questions or any advice or thoughts you want to share about this interview or anything you learned that helped you on your way to freedom? What’s one thing you can take from Alina Chau’s Journey? Please feel free to share in the comments section below!
Thanks so much for watching the interview with Alina Chau, I truly appreciate YOU!
Until Next Time!
Rodrigo
