The Ink and Paint Folk Podcast

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday Today's guest is the project director and co-author of “Talking Threads: Costume Design for Animation, Games, and Illustration”, Jessie Kate Bui!   Jessie is an author, designer, and educator who specializes in costume design! She also uses personality psycholo...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday Today's guest is Producer, Suzanna Olson!   As a dedicated animation production professional she has committed herself to supporting creatives and finding ways to be always improving the production pipeline, ways to improve herself and her interactions with oth...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday Today's guest is Storyboard Artist, Michelle Rincon Eloren!   Michelle got her start as a production assistant on "Let’s Go Luna"! But it this isn’t your usual PA gig because she also did storyboard revision work. That’s right, it was a hybrid position- both ar...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday Today's guest is Storyboard Artist, Michelle Rincon Eloren! Michelle got her start as a production assistant on "Let’s Go Luna"! But it this isn’t your usual PA gig because she also did storyboard revision work. That’s right, it was a hybrid position- both arti...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday Today's guest is Storyboard Artist and Production Coordinator, Ashley Lam!   Ashley has worked for studios like Stoopid Buddy, Joe Murray Studios, and Walt Disney Animation- which means she’s worked in both TV and Feature- and even more than that, she’s worked...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday Today's guest is Director, Sabrina Cotugno! This is part 2 of our interview. Be sure to check out part 1! Sabrina has been a storyboard and/or director on shows like Gravity Falls, Star vs the Forces of Evil, The Owl House, as well as had an overall deal for th...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday Today's guest is Director, Sabrina Cotugno! Sabrina has been a storyboard and/or director on shows like Gravity Falls, Star vs the Forces of Evil, The Owl House, as well as had an overall deal for their own development work. But everyone has to start somewhere!...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday Today's guest is 3D Character Animator, Mylene Santos!   She was pursuing fine art, graduating college with a BFA when the animation industry was hit with a new form of animation: 3D! And the studios needed CG animators, stat! Recently graduated and in need of...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today's guest is storyboard artist, Apoorva Gaitonde!   Apoorva has worked at companies like Gold Valley Films, Nickelodeon, Rooster Teeth, Wild Canary Animation,  on tv projects like “The Casagrandes” and the upcoming Disney Jr show “Chicken Squad”, as well...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today's guest is animation writer and story editor, Kendall Haney! Kendall is an emmy-nominated TV writer who has worked on Disney’s The Lion Guard, Disney Jr’s Rocketeer, an upcoming show for HBO Max titled Little Ellen, and is currently story editing on an...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Katya Bowser and Cassie Soliday   Today's guest is creator, Elizabeth Ito! With experience in both TV and Feature animation, Elizabeth shares her journey from storyboard artist to supervising director to developing her own short at Cartoon Network to creating and running her...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday This week is all about Dino Ranch! Today's guest is producer, Anna Keenan! Working from the ground up in production, Anna used every experience to become the brilliant producer she is today. She shares with us how she sees production as a creative role full of...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday This week is all about Dino Ranch! Today's guest is animation supervisor, Caitlin Menard!   Obsessed with Disney movies, World of War Craft, and Lord of the Rings, Caitlin found herself wanting to work in CG- but not as an animator. That was a surprise! But she...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday This week is all about Dino Ranch! Starting with today’s guest: production coordinator, Andrea Serralde!   Amazingly, Andrea saw Dino Ranch at its earliest development stages. Interested at the first mention of dinosaurs, she later found herself working on the...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday This week is all about Dino Ranch! Starting with today’s guest: animation writer, Caitlin Langelier!   Falling in love with TV at an early age, Caitlin kept that fire alive well into adulthood. She shares how she transitioned from stand up comedy to animation,...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   This is part 2 of my interview with writer, Mia Resella!   From studying at UC Santa Barbara to getting their MFA at UCLA, Mia went on to write for studios such as Nickelodeon, Disney, Wild Canary, Dreamworks, Bad Robot, and more! They also participated in th...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is writer, Mia Resella! From studying at UC Santa Barbara to getting their MFA at UCLA, Mia went on to write for studios such as Nickelodeon, Disney, Wild Canary, Dreamworks, Bad Robot, and more! They also participated in the Nickelodeon Writing...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is post-production supervisor, Meghan Caporali!   After seeing How to Train Your Dragon, Meghan knew she wanted to work in Animation. But how would she get there? When there’s so much that you can’t control when looking for work, the one thing you can control...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women folk who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is writer and creator, Sandra Payne!   Sandra is a multi-faceted talent who has written for print, web, film, and TV, with titles you may have heard of like Barney and Friends, and Puppy Dog Pals. She shares how she found the writing path after a winding road...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is storyboard artist, Jean Kang! With credits under her belt from companies like Dreamworks TV, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, IDW Publishing, Oddbot, and so many more, she shares what she’s learnt about staying sane while working hard! She believes we should take...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guests is May Grehan, Writer and Director of the film, "Zombie Bro"! May is an actor turned writer and director, who saved up her own money to produce her debut indie feature film, Zombie Bro. She shares how she found mentorship, how she figured out how to make a film a...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guests are from Animation Wild Card! Alexis Deprey , production designer designer and art director from Threadwood Cami Kwan , creative producer from Apartment D Casey Follen , assistant director and production manager from Catalyst Castle All from boutique animation st...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   Today’s guest is storyboard artist, Keely Propp! With a handful of animated features under her belt like “The Addams Family,” “The Willoughbys,” Guillermo del Toro’s brutalist fable-take on “Pinocchio,” and others, Keely is a storyboarding machine! But just because she’s talent...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   This week is all about the writers and artists of the Amazon series “PETE THE CAT” produced at Surfer Jack. Today’s guest is storyboard artist, Fadia Alhallak!   Fadia’s journey has taken her from being a child of war in Syria to an animation professional in America. She shares...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday   This week is all about the writers and artists of the Amazon series “PETE THE CAT” produced at Surfer Jack. Today’s guest is storyboard artist, Patricia Pham!   She straddled academics and pursued animation in college until she was sure she could follow her heart and commit ful...