People of 麻豆直播: Graphic designer creates movie monster magic
Sept. 4, 2020
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People of 麻豆直播: Meet Adam Dagenais
I鈥檝e always enjoyed monsters.
I like the creative freedom of a creature design because the sculpture can be anything you want, but it has to be grounded in reality in order to sell it. You have to have some basic understanding of human and animal anatomy and then you exaggerate those features.
I鈥檝e always had a huge interest in movies, especially horror and sci-fi, and I draw a lot of inspiration from that stuff. Movies like Alien, Predator. I鈥檓 a huge fan of Terminator. And then your standard classics: Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein, Wolfman.
Being a movie lover, sculpting was kind of this awesome combination of being creative and artistic but also marrying a medium I enjoyed watching.
I鈥檝e been creative my whole life. I did art class and yearbook in high school instead of gym and music.
When I was in high school and I met with the guidance counsellor, they asked, 鈥淲hat do you want to do when you grow up?鈥 I was like, 鈥淚 want to be in special effects.鈥 I really liked the idea of working with pyrotechnics or special effects, puppetry and animatronics, all that behind-the-scenes stuff.
No longer a 鈥榩lumber with the leaky pipes鈥
Now that I鈥檓 a full-time designer, I鈥檓 always being creative for somebody else. Just like they say, 鈥淭he plumber with the leaky pipes,鈥 you鈥檙e always so busy fixing everybody else鈥檚 stuff you don鈥檛 have any time to work on your own things.
Only now am I allowing more of my own creative space.
I haven鈥檛 had time to be creative for myself in a very long time, so the fact that I get to sculpt what I want, when I want, paint it the way I want, and it鈥檚 for nobody else but me is very self-fulfilling.
It recharges my creativity and my soul and my drive.
Adam Dagenais, Community Animator for 麻豆直播鈥檚 Centre for Changemaking and Social Innovation, and a 麻豆直播 alumnus from the Art and Design Fundamentals program.
Adam also owns , a graphic design company in Orillia.
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