Animation Podcasts | Skwigly

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Penny Whitehouse in conversation with Alex Davy, storyboard artist and director at Blue Zoo. Born in London and based in Newcastle, Alex’s work includes storyboarding for BBC Bitesize (Arcus Studios), 'Incredible Ant' (Wildseed Studios), 'Norman Picklestripes' (Factory-Create) and a range of shows at Blue Zoo including 'Millie & Lou' and the sec...

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Academy Award®-winning director Everett Downing Jr. ('Hair Love') and story artist/writer Patrick Harpin. The pair have recently joined forces to create and exec produce 'My Dad the Bounty Hunter', a new animated action-comedy Netflix series that drops today. The show tells the story of siblings Lisa and Sean, w...

In the seventh episode of 'Independent Animation', our companion podcast series to the Skwigly tie-in book 'Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films' (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press), we welcome back Sean Buckelew to discuss his latest indie animated short film 'Drone', which is released online February 5th. Produced by Jeanette Jeanenne (GLAS Animation Festiva...

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Academy Award®-nominee Richard Linklater, director, writer and producer of the Netflix film 'Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood' as well as co-producer and Head of Animation Tommy Pallotta. The film, presented in a uniquely elaborate 2D animation style that combines rotoscoping with traditional processes (brought...

Presenting episode 108 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we welcome Oscar-winning writer/filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (famed for such films as 'Pan's Labyrinth', 'Hellboy' and 'The Shape of Water') and stop-motion industry veteran Mark Gustafson, directors of the highly-anticipated stop-motion adaptation of 'Pinocchio' that dropped on Netflix earlier this month to universal praise...

Presenting the sixth and final episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 4, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In the first ever live episode of Intimate Animation, recorded during the Manchest...

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Steve Henderson in conversation with the Academy Award® nominated ('The Breadwinner') Cartoon Saloon co-founder Nora Twomey, director of the animated feature film 'My Father's Dragon', out now on Netflix. Based on Ruth Stiles Gannett’s book of the same name, the film is produced by Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn of Mockingbird Pictures and Paul Yo...

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ryan Gaur in conversation with Roy Conli, producer of Disney Animation’s Strange World. Strange World follows a family of historically great explorers, the Cades. The film focuses on three generations of men in the family. Jaeger Clade mistakenly abandoned his son, Searcher, after his lust for adventure sees him transported to the titular Strang...

Presenting episode 107 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we welcome acclaimed director Henry Selick, whose work includes the beloved stop-motion feature films 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', 'James and the Giant Peach' and 'Coraline'. His latest project 'Wendell and Wild', co-written by comedy-horror visionary Jordan Peele, is released on Netflix October 28th and tells the story...

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Tonko House talents Dice Tsutsumi, Robert Kondo and Sara K. Sampson. The studio's latest project is 'Oni: Thunder God’s Tale', a four part animated series released today on Netflix that takes place in a world filled with the oddball gods and monsters of Japanese mythology, where one of the creature’s free-spirit...

Skwigly and the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival have partnered up for I’M FINE! – a selection of the most relevant artistic expressions about emotional burnout and creative crisis. I’M FINE! is a reflection on the emotional burnout from the best independent animation creators. In addition to animation films, the project will present a series of interviews and podcasts on Skw...

Presenting episode 106 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we meet Matthew Walker and Jane Davies, directors of 'Lloyd of the Flies', the latest animated series to come from the much-celebrated Bristol studio Aardman Animations, beginning on CITV this week. Also discussed: The premature demise of the Young Audiences Content Fund, notable projects from the recent Disney D23 Expo, the...

Skwigly and the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival have partnered up for I’M FINE! – a selection of the most relevant artistic expressions about emotional burnout and creative crisis. I’M FINE! is a reflection on the emotional burnout from the best independent animation creators. In addition to animation films, the project will present a series of interviews and podcasts on Skw...

Welcome to another episode of Animation One-To-Ones where we speak with Peter Sohn, the voice of Sox in Pixars latest feature Lightyear which is streaming on Disney plus now. The feature film shares the origins of the character of Buzz Lightyear in a time bending adventure as Buzz attempts to save his people from the villainous Emperor Zurg. As well as voicing robot companion Sox, Peter Sohn has p...

Skwigly and the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival have partnered up for I’M FINE! – a selection of the most relevant artistic expressions about emotional burnout and creative crisis. I’M FINE! is a reflection on the emotional burnout from the best independent animation creators. In addition to animation films, the project will present a series of interviews and podcasts on Skw...

Skwigly and the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival have partnered up for I’M FINE! – a selection of the most relevant artistic expressions about emotional burnout and creative crisis. I’M FINE! is a reflection on the emotional burnout from the best independent animation creators. In addition to animation films, the project will present a series of interviews and podcasts on Skw...

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Cardiff-based animator Lauren Orme. Having previously appeared on the Skwigly Animation Podcast to discuss her work as head of the Cardiff Animation Festival and its associated Cardiff Animation Nights screening events as well as her work as an animation director, Lauren joins Animation One-To-Ones to talk about...

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Steve Henderson in conversation with Josh Weinstein, showrunner and co-creator of Disenchantment, which streams on Netflix. The fantastic medieval fantasy drama series from the minds of Matt Groening and Josh Weinstein has returned to Netflix for part four which sees reluctant Royal Princess Bean, Elfo the Elf and her personal demon Luci travers...

Presenting episode 105 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we meet Angus MacLane and Galyn Susman, director and producer respectively of Disney/Pixar's 'Lightyear' which arrives in cinemas June 17th. We also welcome the team behind the recently released 'Bob's Burgers Movie' - director/writer Loren Bouchard, co-director Bernard Derriman and co-writer/producer Nora Smith. Also discuss...

Presenting the fifth episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 4, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we welcome back Lori Malépart-Traversy, who has followed up her enormously s...

Skwigly are proud to present the second in a two-part series of exclusive podcast minisodes from the 2022 edition of the Cardiff Animation Festival. In episode 2 we hear from attending filmmakers in conversation with Laura-Beth Cowley as part of the festival's Filmmaker Brunch sessions. Featured in this episode: Jana Kattan - 'Checkpoint' Cliona Noonan - 'Soft Tissue' Alisa Stern & Scott Ampleford...

Skwigly are proud to present the first of a two-part series of exclusive podcast minisodes from the 2022 edition of the Cardiff Animation Festival. In episode 1 we hear from attending filmmakers in conversation with Ben Mitchell as part of the festival's Filmmaker Brunch sessions. Featured in this episode: Joanne Fisher - 'Stache and the Inner Walk' Emlyn Davies - 'Foo Fighters: Chasing Birds' Joa...

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Steve Henderson in conversation with Director Domee Shi and Producer Lyndsey Collins from Pixar’s Turning Red. Turning Red has been delighting film fans everywhere as it tells the tale of Mei Lee (voiced by newcomer Rosalie Chiang), a young, booksmart, eager to please tween on the cusp of puberty who lives for three things, for her close nit set...

Presenting the fourth episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 4, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we meet Alberto Mielgo, whose film 'The Windshield Wiper' is nominated for...

In our latest Skwigly Animation Podcast special we round up the winners of the 2022 edition of the biennial British Animation Awards that took place at London’s BFI Southbank last week. This episode features exclusive post-ceremony chats with event director Helen Brunsdon and producer Kieran Argo as well as some of the awarded attendees: Joanna Quinn and Les Mills (director and writer of "Affairs...