Ryan Benno's guest appearances

Ryan Benno

Script Lock

Sarah Elmaleh

Meg Jayanth

Karla Zimonja

Brad Muir

Matthew Burns

Anna Kipnis

Tim Schafer

Jill Murray

Sean Vanaman

Robin Hunicke

Walt Williams

Marc Laidlaw

Mike Laidlaw

Cissy Jones

Jon Ingold

OwlTail

Ellen Shelley

We've got another art-focused episode for you this month as we're joined by Ryan (environment artist on Hunted: The Demon's Forge, The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead, Sunset Overdrive, Ratchet and Clank, and the senior environment artist on Marvel's Spider-Man. He's also one of the hosts of the Environment Art Podcast) and Ellen (currently a lighting artist at Supermassive Games, previously a 3D artist at Sony’s London Studio, a 3D Environment Artist at Little Wolf Studio Ltd, and a VR developer at Yelo Architects) to talk about whether degrees are necessary anymore to find work, where do you start when making an environment, style guides, navigating creative disagreements, environmental storytelling, the overabundance of sci-fi hallways, narrative/visual techniques that games still haven’t tried much, soft cardboard boxes, starting with the blank page, the difference between making a twentysomething-year-old’s apartment vs Peter Parker’s apartment, what can’t you tweak when you’re building an environment that everyone knows, breaking walls that were not meant to break, readability, accessibility, and know that not everything you make needs to be at 11. Our Guests on the Internet Ryan on Twitter. Ellen on Twitter. Stuff We Talked About Artstation Marvel's Spider-Man Hunted: The Demon's Forge Our theme music was composed by 2Mello, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita.

We've got another art-focused episode for you this month as we're joined by Ryan (environment artist on Hunted: The Demon's Forge, The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead, Sunset Overdrive, Ratchet and Clank, and the senior environment artist on Marvel's Spider-Man. He's also one of the hosts of the <a href="https://twitter.com/envartpodcast?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Environment Art Podcast</a>) and Ellen (currently a lighting artist at Supermassive Games, previously a 3D artist at Sony’s London Studio, a 3D Environment Artist at Little Wolf Studio Ltd, and a VR developer at Yelo Architects) to talk about whether degrees are necessary anymore to find work, where do you start when making an environment, style guides, navigating creative disagreements, environmental storytelling, the overabundance of sci-fi hallways, narrative/visual techniques that games still haven’t tried much, soft cardboard boxes, starting with the blank page, the difference between making a twentysomething-year-old’s apartment vs Peter Parker’s apartment, what can’t you tweak when you’re building an environment that everyone knows, breaking walls that were not meant to break, readability, accessibility, and know that not everything you make needs to be at 11. Our Guests on the Internet Ryan on <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanRenno" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Ellen on <a href="https://twitter.com/artofel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Stuff We Talked About <a href="https://www.artstation.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Artstation</a> <a href="https://insomniac.games/game/spider-man-ps4/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marvel's Spider-Man</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunted:_The_Demon%27s_Forge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hunted: The Demon's Forge</a> Our theme music was composed by <a href="http://2mello.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2Mello</a>, and our logo was created by <a href="https://lilynishita.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lily Nishita.</a>

Ryan Benno & Ellen Shelley