Mario Macari

About

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Mario Macari has been an illustrator for the past 35+ years, buying his first Macintosh in 1985 and working with early versions of Photoshop, Illustrator and other graphic arts programs over the years. After helping pioneer the very first Desktop Color Separations for Western Publishing, he served a short stint as an in-house illustrator a music publisher doing cover illustrations digitally. He then became an instructor and consultant for an Apple VAR, finally starting his own consulting company in Chicago and touring the country with the photographer, Dean Collins for Kodak. Mario has done animations for Cochlear and Mastercard. He has worked on websites for Disney and Maytag. He has written and illustrated books for Dungeons and Dragons and Western Publishing.

What I Teach:

Adobe Products

Basic Web coding and UX/UI

Animation & Motion Graphics

Cartooning, Children's Book Illustration

What Others Have Said

Jeff W. Agency Owner

“Mario Macari is without doubt the best creative talent I have ever worked with in my entire career — it is my sincere honor to recommend Mario for any creative endeavor you may be working on. The secret of Mario is two fold; first, Mario is incredibly talented at a vast amount of critical creative functions, he’s a great video editor, web developer, interactive programmer, designer, illustrator, photo compositor, and the list goes on (I used to call Mario my one man design agency). Secondly — and most importantly, Mario Macari is the most honest, straight forward, ethical person I know. I’ve know Mario for about 15 years and can say without question, in all of that time he’s has never once let me down.”

Joe S. former CEO of BluBlocker

“Mario is a great cartoonist who I've used in the past with great results. Easy to work with, always on time and a nice person to boot.”

Anonymous Studentsquotes taken from instructor reviews

“Mario was extremely helpful and patient. I had to take this class before I graduate and he ensured that I was able to work this out and take his class. He is very responsive and allows for people to ask questions. He is very intelligent on this topic and it was a pleasure taking his class!!”

“Mario was very experienced in the field and it truly showed. He was very knowledgeable on all aspects of digital design and all of Adobe's software which was very helpful when learning. He was able to answer any and all questions regarding the software and we had a lot considering adobe has numerous advanced programs. 10/10 wonderful professor and I learned a lot during my time in this course.”

My Classes Fall 2022