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The Futur with Chris Do

170 - Into the Creative Unknown — with Tuna Bora

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Design, Self-improvement, Education, Business, Marketing, Arts

5976 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Tuna Bora is an acclaimed Turkish visual artist whose clients include Google, Nike, Netflix, and Coca Cola. She’s won awards for her unique design work on several VR and AR projects and continue to explore new creative spaces. In this conversation, Tuna shares her story of immigrating to the United States alone in hopes of pursuing a career working in feature film animation. But after graduating in 2008—right at the start of the financial collapse—was met with very few opportunities. She talks about unintentionally starting a daily drawing Instagram account (thats been going strong for seven plus years), directing projects with DreamWorks, and why she’s stoked about working in new, unexplored creative spaces like VR and gaming Tuna also shares her experience with the unhealthy downsides of working with extreme focus and why just because you put more hours in does not mean the work is better. Sponsored by Nearside - https://nearside.com/thefutur Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I don't think there is anything wrong with kind of pushing yourself where you need to, but as I get older, I kind of realize putting in more hours doesn't necessarily mean you are more productive or that the work is good and I think it takes a lot of

0:16.4

experience to kind of really understand that balance. The It's not that often I'm able to talk to an artist who I actually know in real life and such as the case with my guest today.

0:50.0

For people who don't know who you are, can you introduce yourself, please?

0:54.0

Hi, my name is Tuna. I am a visual artist from Turkey, and I'm based in Los Angeles, and I had the privilege of working with Chris before.

1:07.4

Yes, we've actually, we've been in the same physical space doing work together and actually I believe you worked on that

1:15.3

crate and barrel spot with us right so your hand I think your hand is in it my hand

1:21.3

is in it wait yeah like you were painting with a brush.

1:25.0

Oh, yeah, but I don't.

1:28.0

Wasn't that for the, um, the sting, um, trailer? The one for the musical you you may have me here with the

1:38.8

it just goes to point out one thing we've worked with each other for many years on different projects so maybe the projects are blurring together.

1:46.7

Yes, we did do something with you for Sting. I thought it was you for also Creighton Barrel

1:52.4

with all those kind of paintings as well. I thought it was you for also Creighton Barrel

1:52.6

with all those kind of paintings as well,

1:55.0

but maybe I'm mistaken here.

1:56.7

Maybe.

1:57.3

We've done a few sort of specialty things together.

2:02.1

And maybe it is my hand.

2:03.5

Now I gotta see it.

2:04.6

Now I gotta see the hand.

2:07.0

I just remember you, but maybe somebody else.

2:09.7

Maybe I haven't missed, I'm blurring all the artists that we work together but okay so visual artists.

2:16.3

You know what the most must sorry to interrupt you but one of the most memorable things is not just

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