My name is Amber Dalcourt. I’m Canadian and a graduate of Graphic Design. I currently work as a Digital Asset Manager for March Entertainment, an animation company up in Northern Ontario. In my free time I like to design websites, layouts, and write. I’m currently working on my first novel, though I have three halve of three different series written.

I’ve been doing small commission works since High School, generally for local plays and school themes. I won an award for ‘Jour D’ a small documentary that I directed for film class. As mentioned before, I graduated from Graphic Design, and a year later I ended up in the Animation Industry, where I worked a number of odd jobs around the studio from Pre-Production through to Post-Production.

I don’t actually remember the details. I probably heard of it through a friend or something. This sort of thing really isn’t how I operate and I generally treat it rather casually. The idea was to use this place to see my personal growth as an artist, but now I think I’m getting a little more serious about my work, thus I’ve become more picky about what I present. Of course I have to problem posting experiments successful or not, so its hard to say what exactly I’m using DA for anymore.

Depends on my mood and if your willing to wait an eternity for it. To me a request is a someday/maybe kind of thing – kind of like a wish list. I don’t do personal favors cause generally the favor is never returned, it’s never good enough, and it’s already somewhat forced on me. Unless I volunteer, it’ll just get thrown on an idea list somewhere. The problem is that I’m super busy 90% of the time. The 10% is when I’m procrastinating which means nothing will get done anyway.

I most certainly can as long as it’s within my range of skills and knowledge. As a fair warning it may take a while as mentioned with the Requests section, and I tend to be rather direct. I don’t like to fluff my critiques much because it has been my experience that my point gets completely missed. I also recommend that you join as I moderate this group and place a higher priority on these critiques than on anything I receive myself.

Sure, but I want credit for Line Art which means a link to the original piece and a mention of my name, and I want to see the finished piece. Of course it’s just good manners to let me know what you’re doing.

Drawing: Traditionally
Inking: Traditionally/Adobe Photoshop CS3
Digital painting/coloring: Adobe Photoshop CS3
3D: Maya/3Ds Max
Animation: Flash