Animation Industry Podcast

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Keika Lee, founder of Greyscale Animation, known for its viral short Odd Dog, and upcoming Oren’s Way. In their chat Lee shares how she went from the production side of things at studios like Electronic Arts and DreamWorks to founding her own animation studio, funding her own films, and building her own team of animators. T...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Damien James Webb, a super talented and very cool Miniature Artist and Modelmaker who’s currently working at Little Canada in downtown Toronto. Damien got his start building sets for theater and then kept scaling down smaller and smaller until he was building tiny sets for miniature projects. In their chat Webb will share h...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features animator, writer, story editor, and set designer Caroline Foley whose most recent projects have included story editing for the YouTube series Toca Life Stories and Blippi Wonders. She also worked on Bojack Horseman, and Rick and Morty, and she’s started her own animation studio called Tiny Lion Animation. Besides all this,...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Nathan Pyle, creator of the massively followed Strange Planet webcomic on Instagram which features blue aliens having very matter-of-fact conversations. He shares his journey from zero to six million followers and turning the webcomic into t-shirts, plushies, a book, and even a TV series for Apple TV+. Tune in to Ibele and...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat is with Senior Art Manager at Firaxis Games Kaye Vassey and her journey coming out as trans in the gaming industry. She also shares how she switched from TV and Feature Film animation into CG Gaming, gives an overview of the skill level needed for technical artists, and dives into the short film she’s currently producing. Tune in to...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features 2D Animator Jon Densk who’s currently working on a new short film called Axolodyssey. He shares how he mentored under Tom Bancroft on Cuphead, which led to him working on Space Jam, then ultimately founding Studio Fresco with his friends. He also shares the ins and outs of producing a short film and using Kickstarter to fun...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Tomas Barrenechea, a CG animator from Argentina who is known online for nothing to do with CG animation - instead he’s known for a fun claymation character named Tomba, a red blob with two eyes and a mouth. Over the past three years, Tomas has learned to animate in stop motion, built a small studio in his home, and gained a...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features the duo who run the stop motion studio called Mystery Meat Media - Ri Crawford and David Lauer. Over the years they’ve produced projects like Nickelodeon's Toymation Nation, The Moon’s Milk, and the stop motion sequence from I’m a Virgo. In their chat they share how they independently got into stop motion, met at Phil Tippe...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Blake Derksen, an LA-based stop motion animator who’s worked on titles like Alien Xmas, Crossing Swords, and Robot Chicken. He is going to share the process behind his independent short film called The Other Space, which is in production right now. Derksen’s film is inspired by his own journey through cancer treatment with...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features independent stop motion felt animator Andrea Love, who shares her journey to gaining over two million followers on Instagram, turning her love for felt into a career. She dives into all the ins and outs of running her own animation business and working with brands like Candy Crush, Hulu, and Laika. Tune in to Ibele and Love...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Carina Schulze, co-founder of Los Angeles and São Paulo based studio Chatrone. She shares what it took to build Chatrone from scratch and work with Guillermo del Toro and Joge Gutierrez to produce The Book of Life as well as other projects like Ba Da Bean and O Menino Maluquinho. She also shares what the animation market is...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat is with NYC stop motion animator Catya Plate and how she produced her 19-minute, award-winning film Las Nogas. She also shares her journey from Spain to Germany to the US in pursuit of an art career and how wanting her gallery pieces to come to life led her on the path to animation. Tune in to Ibele and Plate to hear: *The biggest c...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features stop motion animator Maraike Krämer who shares her path from quitting business school in Germany to getting picked up by Aardman to work on Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget in just a few short years. This is a very interesting listen for any stop motion beginners who are looking for ways to increase their skillset and get no...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Jason Agar, owner of Pomelo Studio in Toronto. He shares how he went from the advertising world into animation, plus how he’s switching up the traditional studio business model by creating a team of decentralized artists. Tune in to Ibele and Agar to hear: *Why Agar scrapped client reviewed storyboard cycles and what he’s s...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features animator, director, producer, and founder of Brooklyn-based Augenblick Studios - Aaron Augenblick. He shares his journey from producing mainly adult-oriented animation like Superjail! and Teenage Euthenasia to switching into educational kids content with his new show City Island. He also shares the four year process it took...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Spencer Moreland, an independent animator, filmmaker, freelance storyboard artist, and the director of programming for TAAFI. Over the years Moreland has worked on projects like Loud House, Pinky Malinky, Miss Persona, DC Superheroes, and a number of independent films. He shares how he pursued, worked his way up, then quit...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Colin Giles, the Head of the School for Animation & VFX at Vancouver Film School. Over his career Giles has worked on many animation projects as an animator, timer, and an animation lead including Sausage Party, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, and Ren and Stimpy ‘Adult Party Cartoon’. Now at Vancouver Film School, Giles s...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features veteran stop motion animator, Brett Long. During his career, he’s worked on quite a few shows including M.O.D.O.K., Robot Chicken, Crossing Swords, Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World, and most recently, Shape Island. In their talk, Long shares how he transitioned from Canada to the USA in pursuit of a sto...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Adam Fuchs, an Animation Director at Adult Swim & Cartoon Network, who shares how his love for animating indie music videos led to developing an animation app called PX12. If you’re wondering what it takes to develop your own app, Fuchs dives into how he found and teamed up with a developer, the type of investment it took t...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP Get a 25% discount from www.chicagoreviewpress.com using the code DISNEY25. This chat features a special guest who gives a little bit of a history lesson behind Disney’s unionization. He is a New York-based writer, artist, and current animation history professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. His name is Jake Friedman and he’s lately a...

This chat features 2D animator, Tina Nawrocki, who shares how she’s helping keep hand-drawn animation alive with her short film in production, Syrenka: Legend of the Warsaw Mermaid. This is actually the second time Nawrocki has been on this podcast, first appearing in episode 27 where she shared how she became one of the original animators on the Cuphead video game. Now she’s back to share some be...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat is with Matt Haworth, an Art Director and Background Supervisor at Mukpuddy, an animation studio based in Auckland New Zealand. In our chat he’s going to share how difficult it was to build an animation career in New Zealand when there weren't any steady long-term gigs going around. He’s also going to dive into what it was like help...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Vancouver-based 2D Animation Director, Anik Rosenblum. Over the years Rosenblum has won many awards for his commercial work with brands like General Motors, Tim Hortons, Pfizer, and more. In their chat, Rosenblum shares his journey from Lithuania to Israel and finally Vancouver in pursuit of an artistic career. Tune in to I...

Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Italian Creative Director, and Animator, Margherita Premuroso, who’s worked in nearly every animation medium - CG, stop motion, 2D, rotoscope, hand-drawn, and more. She shares how she started her own animation studio in Italy before becoming a creative director for Elastic in the United States. Her work has included the tit...

This chat features the creator of strata cut stop motion animation, David Daniels, who shares everything you ever wanted to know about the art form. Daniels is also a director, filmmaker, and the co-founder of Portland-based Bent Image Lab studio. Over the years Daniels has made strata cut animations for clients like Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Sesame Street, and MTV. Tune in to Ibele and Daniels to hear...