ERIK ELIZARREZ
Erik Elizarrez is a Prop Designer, Cleanup Artist, and Comic Book Cover Artist with 23yrs of experience in the Animation Industry. He has been extremely fortunate to work for some amazing show runners and studios, including Disney, Warner Bros, Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, Netflix, Bento Box, and Titmouse. Some of his most recent shows have been the Animaniacs, Proud Family, Tiny Toons Looniversity, and Krapopolis. In his spare time he has started doing variant comic covers for Image, TopshelfComic, and Skybound.
Erik has done lectures for the Nickelodeon outreach school programs both at Nickelodeon and in the classroom.
Story Driven Character Design
Designing Props For Animation at The Art Club will guide students through what it takes to create effective, production-ready prop designs for animated shows. The course explores core concepts such as understanding basic structure, matching established design styles, and developing new visual styles for your own concept art.
By the end of the course, students will have the tools to confidently design props that enhance storytelling, reinforce worldbuilding, and align with a show’s visual language.