The Ink and Paint Folk Podcast

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, Whitney Tang!   In college, she was undeclared, starting out in industrial design until she found her way to animation. She’s worked o...

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 writer, Lexie Kahanovitz! From New York to Los Angeles, Lexie climbed the ladder from production assistant to story editor over the course of working o...

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 writer, Eva Konstantopolous! Eva’s journey from development assistant to staff writer for beloved preschool animated shows is a winding one. One that i...

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 Senior Lighting Technical Director, Jasmine Katatikarn!   Jasmine currently works at Blue Sky Studios and her lighting credits span multiple projects that include Ferdinand, Peanuts, Rio 2, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Rio, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ghost...

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 producer, director, writer, and artist, Thandiwe Mlauli! Thandiwe founded Studio Yezi to focus on developing animated stories for African audiences and is passionate about equalising the playing field for black creatives on the continent & in the world. Her fir...

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 background painter and illustrator, Jessica Kleinman! From pre-school to adult animated series, Jessica has worked on shows like "Disney Jr. Nursery Rhymes" to "We Bare Bears" to "Thundercats Roar" to "Bojack Horseman" and more! She talks about hoping for freel...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday and guest host, Adam Holmes   This is part 5 of our Anime & Manga conversation with Vivian Lee and Vanessa Yee!   Vanessa Yee is a Chinese American female and third generation Angeleno. She directed "The Laundromat", a documentary about issues of silence, shame, and cyclical fami...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday and guest host, Adam Holmes   This is part 4 of our Anime & Manga conversation with Vivian Lee and Vanessa Yee!   Vanessa Yee is a Chinese American female and third generation Angeleno. She directed "The Laundromat", a documentary about issues of silence, shame, and cyclical fami...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday and guest host, Adam Holmes   This is part 3 of our Anime & Manga conversation with Vivian Lee and Vanessa Yee!   Vanessa Yee is a Chinese American female and third generation Angeleno. She directed "The Laundromat", a documentary about issues of silence, shame, and cyclical fami...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday and guest host, Adam Holmes   This is part 2 of our Anime & Manga conversation with Vivian Lee and Vanessa Yee!   Vanessa Yee is a Chinese American female and third generation Angeleno. She directed "The Laundromat", a documentary about issues of silence, shame, and cyclical fami...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday and guest host, Adam Holmes   This is part 1 of our Anime & Manga conversation with Vivian Lee and Vanessa Yee!   Vanessa Yee is a Chinese American female and third generation Angeleno. She directed "The Laundromat", a documentary about issues of silence, shame, and cyclical fami...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! This is another interview in our Parenting in Animation series! Hosted by Katya Bowser   Today’s guest is visual development artist, Xochitl Thienes! With the long term goal of breaking into the animation industry, Xochitl found herself 8 months pregnant when she got the phone call that she got a prop de...

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 script coordinator and writer, Christina Kishpaugh! What I adore about Christina, is that she is herself in any room she walks into. But in a professional environment where others can sometimes try to put you in a box of how an assistant should act or speak, it...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! Hosted by Cassie Soliday with guest host, Stephanie Meyer!   Today’s guest is director and animator, Careen Ingle! With experience as a freelance and in-house artist, Careen has done work for Dreamworks TV, Warner Brothers, and even for late night shows like Conan O’Brien and Samantha Bee! She even teach...

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 creator, Ashlyn Anstee! Ashlyn is an amalgamation of all that she loves. She’s a writer, author, illustrator, and storyboard artist- not only writing and storyboarding for animation, but she writes and illustrates her own adorable kid’s books. With a reservoir fu...

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 production manager, Tiara Little! She’s worked for Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and is now at Netflix. With a bright eyed bushy tailed beginning as an intern at Nick, she went on up the production path from production assistant to coordinator to where she is now...

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 character designer, Melany Altuna!    Melany currently designs on the Disney Jr. show “Puppy Dog Pals” at Wild Canary, and has worked for clients such as Nick Jr., WB, Sesame Street, and Spin Master, to name a few. Originally from Venezuela, she shares with us...

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 revisionist, Kristen Pileri!  She shares how she went from production assistant to storyboard revisionist and how she pushed herself forward even when she felt all her hard work wouldn’t pay off.  Some people love working in production, but it just was...

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 writer and creator, Emily Brundige! Emily is a writer and creator, having created the hit Shut Up! Cartoons series “Pubertina” for YouTube, as well as most recently developed “Harvey Girls Forever!” for Dreamworks TV and Netflix. But her accolades don’t stop ther...

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 Lizzie Waterworth! She's a BAFTA nominated voice artist, for her title role in the British animated series, “Horrid Henry.” With various animation credits including Team Jay, Alphablocks, and Bob the Builder to name a few, she shares with us how she found her...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! --- Today’s episode is about International Artists and navigating the Visa Process from two amazing artists who have been through it themselves. Storyboard Artist, Yvonne Hsuan Ho and Prop Designer, Nooree Kim, are passionate animation professionals from Taiwan and Canada, who have moved to the U.S. to p...

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 background painter and visual development artist, Audrey Gonzalez. “Be prepared. Be genuine.” These words are my favorite take away from speaking with Audrey, and I can’t wait for you to take a listen! We discuss being in the right place and right time and h...

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 Kate Moran, freelance writer and production secretary. She worked her way from barista to temp positions to finally production secretary on beloved Disney shows like Gravity Falls and Mickey’s Roadster Racers where she’s often found in the writers room! Amon...

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Girls podcast- a look at animation through the women who make it! This is another installment of our "Parenting in Animation" series. Hosted by Katya Bowser and Cassie Soliday. --- From India to Los Angeles, Pragya Tomar has been working in CG animation at places like Disney Feature and Nickelodeon for over a decade.  As a working parent, she’s open about the successes...

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 Laura Hohman, CG texture artist and supervisor. Originally shooting for the stars and dreaming of being an astronaut at NASA, Laura pivoted to working in 3D still fueled by her affinity for physics. She got her first job on Nickelodeon’s 2012 “Teenage Mutant...