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INTERVIEW: DOUG CHIANG

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about the film industry is that it’s really all about in developing his skills and was so wonderful to be in that
your portfolio, not your resumé, or how many fi lms point of view. “Being in that environment and get a taste of
you’ve worked on. If you have the skills and are environment, where everybody what real film design is all about.

willing to work hard, you’ll get the job. So, I was was so open and sharing “The nice thing about being
fortunate enough that Rick Carter, the production with their techniques, I really in that environment—where all
designer, gave me an opportunity to come into blossomed in terms of my art the artists had very distinct styles
the art department to design, and that became my skills. And I was also the new and techniques—was that I could
second “professional” art school. I was in a room kid so I felt very inadequate and cherry pick techniques and adapt
with a half a dozen artists, and they were all some could barely keep up. It was them for myself. I really liked
of the industry’s best.” like an intensive three or four that kind of environment because
Chiang says this concentrated period was crucial months of design school, but it I literally could go, ‘Oh, I love

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