The Ink and Paint Folk Podcast

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is background painter, Bonnie Branson! Originally from Kentucky but raised in Connecticut, Bonnie now lives and work in the Los Angeles area painting backgrounds for animation. Currently, she’s a background painter on the sweet and adventurous N...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Kira Rodrigues   Today’s guest is background designer, Grace Wong!   Grace went to the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, taking a BFA in Concept Art at the beginning of her journey. She graduated and took up matte painting freelance before transitioning to becoming a f...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Kira Rodrigues   Today’s guest is development assistant and founder of Asians in Animation, Lexie Chu!   Lexie started her journey by breaking in at Cartoon Network as a production intern working on The Powerpuff Girls (2016). In 2020, she moved to Netflix Animation as a prod...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is writer and story editor, Taneka Stotts! Taneka is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter who’s written for Steven Universe Future, Craig of the Creek, Young Justice, and is currently the Story Editor of Pinecone & Pony. Before animation, Taneka creat...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is writer and story editor, Taneka Stotts! Taneka is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter who’s written for Steven Universe Future, Craig of the Creek, Young Justice, and is currently the Story Editor of Pinecone & Pony. Before animation, Taneka creat...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is development and story artist, Sharon Bridgeman!   Sharon was born in Ireland and worked as an animator, supervisor and character designer for studios in Dublin, London, and Berlin before making her way to California. She’s currently a story a...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is stop motion animator and producer, Eileen Kohlhepp!   Eileen has been working since the 90s on cult classics like Daria, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, and the list continues to grow today. Animation is already a niche corner of the Ent...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is stop motion animator and producer, Eileen Kohlhepp! Eileen has been working since the 90s on cult classics like Daria, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, and the list continues to grow today. Animation is already a niche corner of the Enter...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is production coordinator, storyboard artist, and host of the Creating in Color podcast , Kaybe Wood!   Well, she does quite a bit more than that, too. She’s also an illustrator - with an etsy shop called Star Rain Studio a streamer - catch her...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Kira Rodrigues and Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is animator and production coordinator, María Azellea!   María Azellea at a young age realized there was a need to help diverse, new, and outdated companies who strived to be part of the social media shift in the new multimedi...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Kira Rodrigues and Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is comic/story artist and full-time lecturer, Deda Daniels! Deda grew up in Italy, studied in San Francisco, worked in Los Angeles, and now teaches in Singapore. While Deda is a retired storyboard and visual development artist...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is animation director and illustrator, Fernanda Frick!   Fernanda is the creator of the short film, “Here’s the Plan”, the graphic novel, “Trazos”, with many more stories in development. In this episode, she shares with us how she finds motivati...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is animation director and illustrator, Fernanda Frick!   Fernanda is the creator of the short film, “Here’s the Plan”, the graphic novel, “Trazos”, with many more stories in development. In this episode, she shares with us how she finds motivati...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s topic is #PayAnimationWriters and #NewDeal4Animation! And today I’m joined by fellow writer, Chad Quandt to talk to you about #NewDeal4Animation and #PayAnimationWriters.   You may have seen these hashtags on social media where folks are sharing some harsh truths and inequalities about working in animation. And to be hon...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is Jasmine Katatikarn, Co-Founder of the Academy of Animated Art!   Jasmine has previously been a guest on the show and was excited to come back because a lot has happened! For 10 years, she was a Senior Lighting Technical Director at Blue Sky S...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Kira Rodrigues   Today’s guest is Visual Development Artist, Nate Carvalho! Nate’s career is just getting started in their home country of Brazil. They balance freelance work in viz dev and children’s book illustration, while still continuing their education as they’re eager...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Kira Rodrigues and Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is Veteran Creative Producer and CEO of Frogbot Films, Monica Lago-Kaytis! She’s worked in the animation industry for over 25 years, 23 of them with the famed Walt Disney Feature Animation where she started as a production ass...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday and guest host, Megan Ferguson   Today, we discuss the fear of BLACKLISTING.     Learn more about Megan: ​​ https://megan-ferguson.com/     --- This podcast is produced in partnership with Women in Animation womeninanimation.org "Today, women hold only 20% of t...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is director, Megan Ferguson! By this time, who hasn’t seen Hilda on Netflix? If you have, you’ve seen Megan’s work! She’s also worked on Wander Over Yonder, Star vs the Forces of Evil, Stella and Sam, and Jimmy Two Shoes and all produced at Merc...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is storyboard artist and director, Liza Singer!   Liza has worked across TV, feature, games, and, honestly, they've done a little of everything! From working at Warner Brothers on “Harley Quinn” and "DC Super Hero Girls" to "Disenchantment" at R...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is animation artist and junior producer, Kira Rodrigues! Kira is a recent graduate from Singapore with internships under her belt and endeavoring into her first full-time film and animation industry job. She has big hopes and dreams and is excit...

Now for something slightly different! Today's episode is an entirely new podcast I'm producing with Alexis Deprey and Casey Follen from Animation Wild Card and I hope you'll check out!    Hello Stop Mo! is an educational limited podcast series to empower you with introductory knowledge of the stop motion industry to help reduce barriers of entry for newcomers as well as demystify how to navigate t...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today's guest is storyboard artist and director, Kathy Jo Larson. She’s worked for companies like PBS Kids, Joe Murray Studios, 9 Story, PrimalScreen, and more, doing all sorts of roles like storyboarding, directing, animating, and anything else she could use...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday Today's guest is associate producer, Romney Marino!   Romney enjoys working with teams and creative problem solving so it’s perfect that she loves working in production! With many years experience under her belt, you’ve undoubtedly seen titles she’s worked on l...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Jessie Juwono and Cassie Soliday Today's guest is Elissa Sussman!   She is the author of the upcoming book, DRAWN THAT WAY published by Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. The story follows highschool student, Hayley Saffitz who lands a spot in renowned animation dire...