Art Directors and Costumers Guild Host Panels at San Diego Comic Con

Below the Line: At the 2012 San Diego Comic Con, there were illuminating talks put on by a few below-the-line guilds, notably the Art Directors and Costumers, who each fielded a couple of panels over the weekend. The ADG’s first panel was Friday afternoon, featuring motion picture illustrators, with a second on Saturday morning featuring film and TV production designers. There was a reception in the lobby of San Diego Rep that harkened back to the roots of the craft, and also underscored something that Saturday’s panel moderator, John Muto (Species, Home Alone) said: “almost nowhere do they teach art directing.”