Stephen Brooks

RubberOnion Animation Podcast

Arts EN ↓ 333 episodes

This show is about everything animation: weekly news stories, reviews, interviews with professionals and indie creators, etc. We also have fan-art contests, play trivia, do character skits and a ton of other community interaction... because entertainment! I'm Stephen Brooks and I run Rubber Onion, a boutique studio that creates hand-drawn animation, and am the author of 'Tradigital Animate CC: 12 Principles of Animation in Adobe Animate.' My best friend and fellow animator, Rob Yulfo, joins me for this weekly podcast. Imagine going out for drinks with a group of animators after work and merge...

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Stephen Brooks

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190 Britney Pickle Spears 10.05.2017 1:26:59

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes HOW YOU DOIN SHOW! We riff about Pop Stars and what their food chains would be. Seriously. And it's hilarious. Comically. And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps (5:15) How You Doin (Radio, Cassettes, and CDs) (28:37) Pop Stars' Food Chains (37:00) Mr Softee (42:32) Music,...

189 Pile of Dogs 03.05.2017 1:10:35

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes SEGMENT SHOW! We got Cars, we got Dogs, we got Gorillaz... we got everything you want wrapped up in our witty and humorous banter with musical punchlines edited in. What more could you want?! And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps (6:43) Trailer Talk... (7:12) Cars 3 (36:...

188 LIVE from Brooklyn 3 28.04.2017 1:07:07

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187 Short vs Long Content, What to Choose, and Why 19.04.2017 1:53:03

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186 Mustache Rides 14.04.2017 1:56:07

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185 LIVE from Brooklyn 2 14.04.2017 1:36:04

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184 Humble Bumble 30.03.2017 1:35:03

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes SEGMENT EPISODE! Animation News of the Week (which is "month" this time) is back! Laika CEO Travis Knight is directing the Transformers spinoff movie "Bumblebee," comedian Tim Minchin's animated film was scrapped at Dreamworks, and a special guest joins me to discuss The Simpsons 30th anniversary...

183 Prince and the Plopper 23.03.2017 2:03:00

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes TRAILER TALK! We ended up having more than a couple really interesting discussions on the Trailer Talk segment that it became the entire show! There's about 20 minutes of extra discussion uploaded to Patreon , so consider supporting there and get that and other cool stuff! And you can now listen...

182 Cartoon Cartel 16.03.2017 1:36:13

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes SEGMENT EPISODE! We return to the much loved format with Animation News of the Week (which is "month" this time)! Two reboot discussions, a conclusion to the wage fixing lawsuit, and a mini review of "Rock Dog." And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps (6:49) Rock Dog mini-...

Segment - Creator Spotlight: Joanna Davidovich 10.03.2017 1:13:43

This segment is included in #RubberOnionPodcast 181 "Screenings and Other Thingings" Follow Joanna Davidovich on Twitter and Tumblr (Follow @RubberOnion )

181 Screenings and Other Thingings 08.03.2017 2:26:41

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content Please Rate & Review us on iTunes SEGMENT SHOW! We have two interviews on this show: Joanna Davidovich about her awesome Indie Animation and Taylor Armstrong about the Brooklyn film fest Animation Block Party. We've talked with Taylor before and he returns to drop some more festival knowledge and even provide another awesome prize...

Segment - Creator Spotlight: Taylor Armstrong 2 07.03.2017 27:29

This segment is included in #RubberOnionPodcast 181 "Screenings and Other Thingings" Follow Taylor Armstrong on Twitter Submit a film to the Animation Block Party (Follow @RubberOnion )

180 LIVE from Brooklyn - 2016 Battles 01.03.2017 1:33:04

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes FIRST LIVE SHOW! Thank you so much to everyone who came out to our first live event in Brooklyn!! It was such a big success that we're going to have another live show this month... Wednesday, March 27th at 8:30pm come see us at "Freddy's Bar" For this first live event we screened all 132 submiss...

Signe Baumane Interview 22.02.2017 1:22:57

CHECK OUT SIGNE'S KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN FOR HER NEW FILM (ending Friday, Feb 24th @10:01am ET) Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes INTERVIEW! Signe Baumane is an Indie Animator/Filmmaker from Latvia and based right here in New York City who has a brand new project called "My Love Affair With Marriage." Her Kickstarter campaign end...

LEGO Batman Review 15.02.2017 1:16:16

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes MOVIE REVIEW! We went to see the "LEGO Batman Movie" at a theater in Brooklyn with 3 friends and listeners of the podcast: Andrew Kaiko , Waymond Singleton, and Bryan Alvarez. After the show, we all reviewed the movie. I reviewed "The LEGO Movie" and loved it... what do you think we thought of th...

Battle Talk January 2017 LIVE 09.02.2017 1:34:37

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes BATTLE TALK! Here's the edited together version of our special live episode of the podcast talking about all your awesome submissions to the #RubberOnionBattle for January 2017 ! And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps (4:54) Battle Talk (5:11) Jzork (9:55) Josie Smith (16...

Four Ponies of the Apocalypse 01.02.2017 58:31

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes So many things happened last weekend and even MORE is happening in February... this is a show all about that. And other things... you'll see... And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps (5:49) Recap: Book Signing at Carmine Street Comics (8:37) Recap: B-Day Party / #RubberOn...

Bourbon Dictionary 25.01.2017 2:24:07

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes SEGMENT EPISODE! In preparation for Stephen's Birthday this weekend , we sip bourbon and talk about power rangers, wax intellectual on Patreon, and discuss the impending return of Samurai Jack. You know where this is going... And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps (5:56)...

Battle Talk December 2016 LIVE 19.01.2017 1:23:15

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes BATTLE TALK! Here's the edited together version of our special live episode of the podcast talking about all your awesome submissions to the #RubberOnionBattle for December 2016 ! And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps (5:01) Battle Talk (8:05) Jzork (12:41) DeAndre Reid...

Cujo and the Three Kings 11.01.2017 1:21:22

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes SEGMENT EPISODE! For our first segment show of 2017 we pair it up as half a Road Trip episode too! We talk about media in all forms in this show, between long and short, online and theater distribution... and oh yea, the Golden Globes happened. Enjoy! And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! T...

Resolutions and How to Keep Them 05.01.2017 1:44:49

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes HOT COCOA SHOW! To kick off the new year, we talk about how to make a plan and follow through with it and why so many resolutions fail. And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps (11:03) Our Resolutions (31:27) Failing at keeping Resolutions (45:42) How to avoid that failure...

Top 10 of 2016 28.12.2016 1:17:16

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes NEW YEARS EPISODE! Here are 10 stand out moments from this calendar year of the podcast, use the links in the topics and timestamps section to listen to the entire shows that spawned them. Happy New Year! And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps (2:20) "Live and Let Die" fr...

Christmas Episode 4 21.12.2016 57:43

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes CHRISTMAS EPISODE! For the 50th anniversary of the Chuck Jones directed "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" animated short film we talk about the Grinch throughout the decades from the book, to the cartoon, to the 2000 movie and the upcoming 2018 animated film! And you can now listen to us on SoundC...

Battle Talk November 2016 LIVE 15.12.2016 1:26:10

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes BATTLE TALK! Here's the edited together version of our special live episode of the podcast talking about all your awesome submissions to the #RubberOnionBattle for November 2016 ! And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps (6:19) Jzork (11:21) Tim Bergeron (16:58) Xenia Bouga...

Quickie Pecker 07.12.2016 41:26

Support this podcast on Patreon and get exclusive and early content! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes SEGMENT EPISODE! This is probably the quickest one of these episodes that we've ever done but it might have the funniest opener too... there's really nothing more to say about it... enjoy! And you can now listen to us on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps (7:41) Trailer Talk: "Woody Woodpecker" (18:...