Animation For Adults: The AFA Podcast

Well, hello there and welcome back to The AFA Podcast, the official podcast of animationforadults.com . This is another interview special, this time with Shea Wageman, the CEO of Icon Creative Studios, Canada's largest independent animation studio, and the director of the upcoming film Dragoons, the trailer for which is set to be unveiled at this year's Annecy Festival.

Bore Da and welcome back to the  AFA Podcast,  the official podcast of animationforadults.com. This is a very special episode where we celebrate the  Cardiff Animation Festival,  which takes place April 23-26 in  Cardiff, Wales.  To mark the occasion we hopped on Zoom and sat down (virtually) with five of the most talented animators in the UK, all of whom have a film in this year's festival! W...

Well, hello there, and welcome back to The AFA Podcast interview series. This time around we spoke with Sevan Najarian, animator, director, editor and effects whizz who directed The Whitest Kids U Know's Mars, the first (and last) animated feature written by and starring the cult comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U Know. We spoke about his origins at Channel 101, the making of the movie and the c...

Welcome back to  the AFA Podcast , and another edition of our interview specials. This time we got to speak with  Ricard Cusso  and  Elise Allen,  the director and writer respectively of  The Pout Pout Fish,  the new animated feature released in North America on  March 20. Presented and produced by  Chris Perkins.

Well, hello there, and welcome once again to The AFA Podcast and another interview special! This time we got to speak with David Feiss, animation legend and creator of the classic Cartoon Network series Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel. David's new series Armorsaurs is now streaming on Disney Plus and sees his foray into live-action/animation hybrid directing. We spoke about his entire career,...

Well, hello there... and welcome back to The AFA Podcast, and another interview special. This time around we spoke to Ugo Bienvenu, French animator, illustrator and director. Ugo is the director of the new sci-fi feature Arco, which has been doing really well on the awards circuit, being nominated for a Golden Globe and an impressive five Annie Award nominations. The film will be released in the U...

Well, hello there and welcome once again to the  AFA Podcast.  We're back with another interview episode! This time we got the chance to speak with  Oscar- nominated filmmakers  Chris Lavis  and  Maciek Szczerbowski  ( Madame Tutli-Putli ), directors of the wonderful stop-motion short  The Girl Who Cried Pearls.  As well as the new film, we discussed their career paths, their unconventional pr...

Well, hello there, strangers, yes indeed  The AFA Podcast  is back. And do we have a show for you, because not only does this episode mark the first episode we've put out since this podcast turned 10 years old (believe it or not) but we're also celebrating  Manchester Animation Festival,  the biggest animation festival in the UK. We spoke with some of the filmmakers behind some of this yea...

Welcome back to  The AFA Podcast:  Interview Series. This time we got to speak with  Trey Toy,  who is the co-composer on the recently released  Castlevania: Nocturne,  now streaming on  Netflix . We discussed what makes Nocturne unique, his inspiration and his career so far. It was a pretty wide-ranging, very interesting chat! Have a listen, although beware if you haven't seen  Castlevania No...

Welcome back to  The AFA Podcast,  and another interview special. This time we spoke with  Mike McMahan  the creator/show-runner of  Star Trek: Lower Decks.  The Star Trek animated comedy recently wrapped its fifth and final season, with the finale episode airing on  Paramount Plus  from  December 19.  We didn't get a lot of time with Mike but there's some good stuff there: we talk about his caree...

Well hello there, and welcome to  The AFA Podcast: The Official Podcast of animationforadults.com-  Interview Edition. This time (thanks to the magic of Zoom) I was able to speak to  Torill Kove.  Torill is a Norwegian-born,  Oscar -winning animator now based in  Montreal, Canada.  We discussed her new film  Maybe Elephants,  which has qualified to be nominated at the 2025  Academy Awards,  and al...

Welcome one and all back to  The AFA Podcast:  Interview Series. This time we got chance to sit down (virtually) with  Elizabeth Cox,  the founder and CEO of  Should We Studio ,  a studio with an emphasis on tech-ethics and emerging technologies. The studio will release their first production  Ada,  which will explore these themes, this autumn. Listen to the interview to hear all about Ada, as wel...

Welcome back to The AFA Podcast interview series. This time we boldly go and spoke to Barry J Kelly, an episode director on the adult animation sci-fi comedy Star Trek Lower Decks. He talks about his career so far, his history with Star Trek and what makes Lower Decks so "Star Trekky". Just as a heads up, we had a slight issue with the sound because for some reason it recorded with my in...

Welcome back to  The AFA Podcast.  It's another interview special- this time featuring  Bryan Lee O'Malley.  Bryan is a Canadian cartoonist who created the original  Scott Pilgrim Vs The World  graphic novel and more recently acted as executive producer and c0-showrunner on the  Netflix  animated series  Scott Pilgrim.  It's short and sweet but you'll learn some interesting things...

Welcome back to  The AFA Podcast  and another special interview edition. This time we spoke with  Pablo Berger,  the director of the  Oscar- nominated,  Annie, Cesar  and  European Film Award- winning animated feature  Robot Dreams.  Pablo comes from a live-action background and with Robot Dreams worked in animation for the first time. We talked about how that came about and how he's become a...

Welcome to another edition of The AFA Podcast Interview series. This time, we spoke with Hugh Welchman co-director of 2017's Loving Vincent and the new oil-painted movie The Peasants. We discussed the story behind Loving Vincent as well as hearing all about The Peasants, which opens in UK cinemas on December 8.

Well hello there listener, and welcome back to another edition of The AFA Podcast Interviews. On this Edition, we spoke with Robert Chandler who is the producer and co-director of the new adaptation of Oscar Wild's The Canterville Ghost, which is coming to US Cinemas for October 20. He spoke about his early career, the film's long journey to the screen and the challenges of adapting the sh...

Welcome back to  The AFA Podcast  and another edition of our Interview series. This time we were lucky enough to speak with  Jeremy Purcell  of  Cartoon Saloon.   Jeremy previously worked on  The Secret Of Kells, Song of The Sea  and  The Prophet  and is the director of  Puffin Rock And The New Friends,   the film spin-off from Cartoon Saloon's TV series.

Welcome back to The AFA Podcast and another edition of our interview series. It's a bit of a different one this time as we spoke to documentary film maker Leslie Iwerks. Leslie started her career with the film The Hand Behind The Mouse on her grandfather and Disney Legend Ub Iwerks. She also directed The Pixar Story and most recently co-directed Superpowered: The DC Story that is now streaming...

Well hello there listener and welcome to another fine edition of The AFA Podcast Interview Series. This time we spoke with Caroline Foley who is an animator, story artist, storyboard artist and story editor whose credits include BoJack Horseman, Rick and Morty and Robot Chicken. We spoke about everything from Caroline's early career to what it's like working in kids shows for the first tim...

Welcome once again to the AFA Podcast Interview series. This time we spoke with Mark Evitts, who is the composer and songwriter for the Apple Original series Frog and Toad. It was an interesting conversation that covers Mark's earlier career and his road to Frog and Toad, what it was like working on the show and more. We hope you'll find it to be a good listen.

Welcome back to another edition of The AFA Podcast's Interview series. This time we were lucky enough to chat with Pat Irwin. Pat is a musician and composer whose animated credits include the soundtracks to Rocko's Modern Life, Pepper Ann and Spongebob Square Pants. The soundtrack to Rocko's Modern Life has just been released on Nickelodeon Records. We talked about Pat's career, hi...

Welcome back to The AFA Podcast. This week in our latest interview special we sat down with filmmakers Sean Godsey and Nic Collins. Sean and Nic's short Thoron The Conqueror is available as part of Adult Swim's Smalls program. We talked about their careers, how Thoron came to be, the best cartoon villains and more.

Welcome back to The AFA Podcast. We're here with another special interview episode. This time Chris spoke with Sam Lanier, the director of two of the shorts in another batch of Adult Swim Smalls shorts coming to Adults Swim's YouTube Channel this April. Sam is a Brooklyn-based animator and comedian, part of the comedy group Simple Town, as well as co-host of the podcast Raisin Man Arena. ...

Yvonne Grzenkowicz interviews director Svilen Dimitrov and producer Mila Voinikova of the film “REW DAY” (produced by Miramar Film) featured in Program 76 of our In Competition Films for Season 8 of Animation Nights New York.