Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective, the podcast about illustration, how to do it, how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art.

I'm Jake Parker. I'm Lee White. And I'm Will Terry. And all three of us are professional illustrators, or at least we try to be professional

at most of the time.

We've all illustrated children's books for all the major publishers.

We've published somewhere around 50 or 75 books together, and we've all taught illustration

in art schools.

Each week we come at you guys with a fantastic new topic in the field of illustration.

Sometimes we argue, sometimes we agree, but each time you're going to learn something brand new.

Sounds good.

Lee, you were just saying you have something you wanted to talk about.

This is just tangentially, tangently related to to illustration so we're storytellers right right i mean that we deal

with story it's funny because our i guess our job is drawing but really our job is

storytelling yeah which is an interesting little distinction if it and it's funny to start

thinking yourself that way.

So I saw a movie, you know, we went into Jake's movie rating system a couple of weeks ago, right?

I guess it'd be a couple months ago depending on when this podcast comes out.

But it just drives me crazy when stories are not taken to their potential and I'm seeing a bunch

of movies that in the first 20 minutes 30 minutes I'm like oh this is a great idea and I kind of

I kind of you know go into my storytelling mode as an illustrator and I think to myself okay here's

the premise you know they built this thing and then they totally wreck it and I think it myself, okay, here's the premise. You know, they built this thing. And then they totally wreck it.

And I think it's a, I think it's a, I'm just going to go out on a limb here.

It's American cinema.

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