RubberOnion Animation Podcast

INTERVIEW! This week we talk with illustrator and animator Robert Valley who just released an amazing Indie Animated Film "Pear Cider and Cigarettes" on Vimeo. We discussed the Kickstarter back in episode 109 and in it we said that we'd love to get him on the show... fast forward 6 months TO THE DAY (that episode was released Feb 10th and this is August 10th) and here he is! We talk the impact of...

SEGMENT EPISODE! This week there are some heavy topics and some fun, surface-level ones but we weave them together into a chat like only we can. Enjoy! Preorder my book coming out in 2016 Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!   Topics & Timestamps: (6:26) "How You Doin" (11:42) Animation News... (13:07) "Justice League Action" Highlight Reel (23:03) New...

SEGMENT SHOW! This week we talk all sorts of news from last weekend's SDCC and beyond Preorder my book coming out in 2016: Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!   Topics & Timestamps: (7:07) How You Doin'? (15:26) Don vs Raph by Jhonen Vasquez (31:51) Turtles Take Time (and Space)' by Brandon Auman (45:37) Ben 10 reboot clip (48:07) Hey Arnold character...

This week we spoke so much about June's #RubberOnionBattle that we made it into an entire show! Don't forget to vote for your favorite and submit your cartoon for July's Battle (topic is "Mustache Problems"). Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!   Topics & Timestamps: (13:07) Jason Zayas (22:11) Greg Pugh (31:08) Xenia Bougaevsky (38:43) Waymond Singlet...

This week we have a completely unplanned, loose chat about anything that came up during the time. We talked about Gamera's "fart flying," we invent a theme park around Forest Gump, and talk about what Pokemon, Go means for the future success of other augmented reality games... and invent some of our own! Preorder my book coming out in 2016 : Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen...

INTERVIEW! This week we talk with animator Joel Furtado who most recently created the "X-Men: Danger Room Protocols" animated series which was unceremoniously pulled from YouTube, Vimeo and other destinations due to Marvel copyright claims. We discussed that situation back in episode 109 and now we get to discuss it all with the man himself. He was very open about it and it led into very interesti...

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 139 "Brexit Through the Gift Shop" Follow Paul "Otaking" Johnson on  Twitter  and  Youtube   (Follow @RubberOnion )

SEGMENT SHOW! This week the world was talking about the "Brexit," so we talk with Steve Henderson of Skwigly about what possible impact it could have on animation production. We have a creator spotlight interview with Paul "Otaking" Johnson who did that excellent TIE Fighter fanimation . There's an audience question which might have spawned a brand new segment and of course Rapid Fire! Preorder my...

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 138 "Onion Knuckles" Read the full Top 5: Animated Music Videos blog post!!   (Follow @RubberOnion )

SEGMENT EPISODE! This is an all media week: trailers, clips, music videos... and we talk all about them! We finally get to see the first trailer for Disney's MOANA and the last trailer and clip for FINDING DORY and its Animated Short PIPER. But we also saw three trailers for films that kind of snuck up on us. But that's not all, TOP 5 is back and this time we're listing off our favorite animated m...

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 137 "Two Cheeseburgers and a Slice of Cake" Support Cinzia Angelini's "Mila" IndieGoGo Campaign Follow @MilaFilm on Twitter Visit the MilaFilm.com website   (Follow @RubberOnion )

SEGMENT SHOW! This week we talk with Indie Filmmaker Cinzia Angelini about her film "Mila," we get a question about our animation influences, and talk all about your awesome submissions to May's #RubberOnionBattle ! Support Cinzia Angelini's "Mila" IndieGoGo Campaign Follow @MilaFilm on Twitter Visit the MilaFilm.com website Preorder my book coming out in July 2016 Please Rate & Review us on iTune...

MOVIE REVIEW! Back in 2014 we did a full review and side-by-side comparison of TMNT (2014) with TMNT (1990) ... now we're taking on the modern sequel "TMNT: Out of the Shadows" (2016). We discuss the sequel in the original TMNT trilogy, "Secret of the Ooze" and compare it with this modern sequel. Does it hold up? What does Stephen think about how the Turtles were treated? What happened to April O'...

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 135 "Virtual Reality and Emerging Technologies" (*Recorded in 2011) Check out Dave Johnson's Twitter Page  and Website   (Follow @RubberOnion )

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 135 "Virtual Reality and Emerging Technologies" Check out Peter "Pikapetey" Casey's Patreon Page  and YouTube Channel   (Follow @RubberOnion )  

SPECIAL TOPIC SHOW! This is our longest episode yet featuring 2 interviews ("Pikapetey" and Dave Johnson), a movie review of "The Jungle Book" (2016), discussion about Virtual Reality and other emerging technologies, and listener submitted feedback on those topics! It's a jam packed episode and over the next few days you'll see the movie review and both creator spotlight interviews be posted on th...

SEGMENT EPISODE! Nintendo announced that they're finally getting into the film-making business , the animators on the "Warcraft" movie were told not to change anything about the mo-cap performance, and Paul Johnson (otaking) is back with another awesome fanimation! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!   Topics & Timestamps: (7:19) "How You Doin" (8:59)...

SEGMENT EPISODE! We got clips, we got news stories, we got skits, we got jokes... plenty to enjoy! There's a new clip for Dreamworks' TROLL movie - does it hold up? How about the full trailer for VOLTRON - is it what we wanted? There's a new TV-series from Lord & Miller called "Son of Zorn," Amazon gets into the user streamed video with Amazon Video Direct, and Disney will lay off up to 300 employ...

SEGMENT EPISODE! This week we also have a 'special' feature being that this episode is mostly UNEDITED; I mean I put in music and stuff but awkward pauses?... totally intact. We talk about studios skipping Comic-Con, Eric Goldberg's awesome couch gag for "The Simpsons" and of course the fact that Comcast just bought Dreamworks Animation for $3.8bil! Taylor Armstrong, festival manager for Animation...

HOT-COCOA SHOW! While Jon Favreau's "The Jungle Book" is wowing audiences it's also kicked up a conversation about the role of Motion Capture in movies and if it should be considered Live-Action or Animation. We've talked about mo-cap on the podcast but this time I decided to do my research on the path that the technology has taken over the years and how it relates to the distinction in what the f...

Adam Phillips (@chluaid) talked with us all about creating his amazing Brackenwood series, working at Disney, Bob's Burgers and switching from Flash to Toon Boom and his book ! He opened up about some health issues, education, his views on working from home, experience with popularity on the internet and the ill-fated Kickstarter for the Dashkin game. Check out his Patreon page which is going to h...

SEGMENT EPISODE! Benedict Cumberbatch will tap into his inner Boris Karloff to voice 2017's animated Grinch film, Blue Sky is the first to settle in the huge animation studio wage-fixing lawsuit, and the Astro Boy Reboot gets a poster... we also talk about Tax Day and the new TMNT movie trailer. You also get a preview of next week's episode (our interview with Adam Phillips), there's an audience q...

SEGMENT EPISODE! This week we get to talk about the BFG, Roald Dahl's dirty mind, and a possible new Speedy Gonzales movie! But we really have fun going through all of YOUR awesome animation submissions to March's #RubberOnionBattle and talking about them! Preorder my book coming out in July 2016 Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps:...

SEGMENT EPISODE! Busy + tired = Stephen is grumpy. But you listeners saved me by providing all the stories and topics you wanted covered and we ran through them all (saving some for later episodes as well because they were just so good)! It's a brisk 1hr episode this time so enjoy! Preorder my book coming out in July 2016 Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundC...

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 126 "Voltron-and-on" Check out Alex Dudley's Patreon Page  and YouTube Channel   (Follow @RubberOnion )