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Karla Ortiz (She/Her)

Concept Artist Director
Karla Ortiz is a Puerto Rican, internationally recognized, award-winning artist. With her exceptional design sense, realistic renders, and character-driven narratives. Karla has contributed to many big-budget projects, including Jurassic World, World of Warcraft, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Marvel's Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther, Infinity Wars, Loki Season 01 and 02, Eternals, and most notably her design of Doctor Strange for Marvel's Doctor Strange. Karla's work is also recognized in the fine art world, showcasing her figurative and mysterious art in notable galleries, such as Spoke Art and Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, Nucleus Gallery, Thinkspace, Maxwell Alexander Gallery in LA, and Galerie Arludik in Paris. She currently lives in San Francisco with her lovely cat, Bady.

PARTICIPANT SCHEDULE

Symbolism in Character Design: From Visuals to Narrative

Room 211 | Rob Salkowitz | Inkwell | Clinton Jones aka Pwnisher | XPPen | Karla Ortiz | David "D.SLOOGS" Liu

Explore the art world with XPPen, the industry-leading digital art innovation brand dedicated to empowering creators and artists. We invite panelists to shed light on the relationship between storytelling and character design in illustration, games, and 3D. Moderated by Rob Salkowitz (Forbes senior contributor), the panel features visionary artists: Clinton Jones (@pwnisher), 3D artist and founder of 3D Community Challenges; Karla Ortiz (@kortizart), notable for her design of Doctor Strange for Marvel’s Doctor Strange; Dustin Panzino (@Inkwell), freelance illustrator who has collaborated with Disney and Blizzard;and David Liu (@dsloogie),2D animator with extensive industry experience. For all levels, this panel offers practical tips and insights on creating characters that resonate.

The Fight for Artists Against GenAI

Ballroom G | Karla Ortiz | Mia Araujo | Ben Y. Zhao | Deana Igelsrud

This panel will cover the victories and challenges the art community has faced in the world of GenAI and the tools (Glaze, Nightshade, Hemlock) that can help us.

Each one of these panelists has helped shape the fight against unethical GenAI scraping and corporate overreach. Listen to how you can also join the fight to protect artists rights, human rights and combat overreaching and unethical GenAI

This panel’s guests are Ben Zhao (Professor at U of C + Creator of Glaze and Hemlock), Karla Ortiz Artist right’s advocate, plaintiff and Concept Artist for Film and games and Deana Igelsrud (Legislative & Political Advocate, Concept Art Association)

Moderated by Mia Araujo

Life Drawing Session hosted by Karla Ortiz

Room 103 | Karla Ortiz

Let’s take a moment to practice our human anatomy with a good old life drawing session. Hosted by renowned concept artist Karla Ortiz!

Join our host, Karla, as she draws alongside attendees, gives helpful tips to better improve your life drawing skills and overall have a fun time drawing together! Get there quickly, as seating is limited!

Life Drawing Session hosted by Karla Ortiz

Room 103 | Karla Ortiz

Let’s take a moment to practice our human anatomy with a good old life drawing session. Hosted by renowned concept artist Karla Ortiz!

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