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 help him return to Brackenwood for more films!

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This week I bring you a very special interview with DON BLUTH (Dragon’s Lair, Secret of NIMH, American Tale, Land Before Time). His Indie GoGo campaign to make a sizzle reel for a “Dragon’s Lair” movie pitch closes this Friday, January 15, so if you want some of the perks like autographs, tutorials, animation cells, a masterclass, and more you should check out the page!

We talk about his time at Disney and decision to leave, his thoughts on sequels, CGI, the current landscape of animation and the internet, the importance of not dumbing things down for kids, and a bunch more stuff. We also took some of your questions so thanks to those of you who submitted!
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Listen for animatronics, dog sneeze, cgi and hormones, Gary’s playboys, and death… this was a fun episode!

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This week we saw Glen Keane (the master animator behind Ariel from “The Little Mermaid”) draw in Virtual Reality, and then Batman et al beat up sea creatures (including Ariel) in the new Batmetal animated music video. We finally get to see what “Wabbit,” Bugs Bunny’s new series, will look like and learn about a Spongebob Squarepants musical and a possible Avengers-style teamup movie of your favorite 90s NickToons. These next two episodes are a little special, and not just because they precede our 100th episode LIVE show! With Stephen traveling this week, two episodes were recorded in one session. The split between them is a cliffhanger of epic proportions (I may be overselling that)! Enjoy and leave the evening of Sunday, September 27 open to join us for our 100th episode, LIVE!

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Glen Keane sketching characters in Virtual Reality with an HTC Vive headset in this short, “Step Into The Page”

 
BATMETAL RETURNS

 
Trailer for WABBIT, the new Bugs Bunny series

 
NerdWriter video essay on “Children of Men” camera narrative (referenced at 14:41)

 
Adam Phillips’ fan-made music video for Ween’s “Transdermal Celebration” (referenced at 29:24)

 
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With Stephen and Rob taking on this episode alone with only their wits to guide them, stumble they do into a discussion about how and when to charge for your animated content thanks to a Vanity Fair interview of Don Hertzfeldt. We also field a question at the end about whether a listener should go into Freelance, move to a different city for a salary job or both. It’s an all your-stories episode this week so strap in for the shoutouts and name drops!

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“Kung Fury”

 
“Cosmos Laundromat” pilot trailer

 
“Texas Rising” main titles by King and Country

 
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Layoffs, lawsuits, and cats — OH MY! Stephen and Rob talk about the tough subjects of foreign VFX subsidies and the troubles fighting them, the abrupt closing of PDI/Dreamworks Redwood City campus, and a Kickstarter campaign so ridiculously popular it brings up the topic of how democratic is the internet really. But with all the negative subjects, we also got a few questions from you listeners so we end on some positive thoughts! Oh also, it’s my (Stephen) birthday and we totally didn’t mention it once… so there’s that. Enjoy!

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I like to call these episodes “classic.” We’ve got news from the animation world and an interview with one of our #RubberOnionFanArt competition winners (Andrew Kaiko)! Lucasfilm surprised us with a new movie coming out in 2 months, new point-and-click game by The Neverhood creators is coming soon, and we talk a whole bunch about the PEANUTS hi-res images (this was one-day before the trailer leak!)… and we have a new segment: RAPID FIRE! Here we take the stories that you suggested which we didn’t have too much to say about and we blast through them with out little derisive or supportive comments.

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Andrew Kaiko’s new series “Tidbits: With Norm & Cory”

 
“Armikrog” trailer

 
RAPID FIRE stories…

 
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This week we have a very special interview: Alan Becker, creator of the hit “Animator vs Animation” stick-fight series joins us to talk about his experience with Kickstarter, what happened when his first short went viral, and how he actually does the things he does! There’s a lot of really great stuff here for young and old animators from the Indie scene, especially when he starts talking about when and how he had to navigate the murky waters of a viral hit. And be sure to check out his work embedded below!

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“Animator vs Animation 4”

 
Behind the scenes video

 
His Flash tutorials

 
“Animator vs Animation 3”

 
“Animator vs Animation 2”

 
“Animator vs Animation 1”

 
“If Water Had Eyes”

 
Spirited Away MineCraft project

 
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Stephen teaches food chemistry, a video of Pat is unearthed, Rob & Pat flirt over text message, a couple fans get in a Facebook fight on our page, and we all do impressions of Ray Romano. We also talk about Alan Becker’s new short “Animator vs Animation IV,” the strangely infamous new “Rocky & Bullwinkle” clip, and much more! We’re getting close to our one-year anniversary and things are starting to ramp up. Enjoy the insanity!

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Alan Becker’s “Animator vs Animation IV”

 
Pixar’s “Inside Out” teaser

 
“Justice League: Throne of Atlantis” trailer

 
The Lion King 20th Anniversary Tribute by Eduardo Quintana “The Madness of King Scar”

 
“Rocky & Bullwinkle” animated short clip

 
“Asterix & Obelix” teaser

 
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While Pat’s off being all married and stuff, Rob and I talk about Signe Baumane’s “Rocks in My Pockets,” Bento Box keeping jobs in the US, and the “Hullabaloo” IndieGoGo campaign and why 2D ISN’T DEAD YOU GUYS jeez! I can’t WAIT for the comments on THIS episode

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Trailer for Signe Baumane’s “Rocks in My Pockets”

 
“Simpsons”/”Futurama” crossover promo image

 
Angry Birds Transformers VHS trailer

 
Making of the sound & music of the Angry Birds Transformers VHS trailer

 
Guillermo del Toro announcing his “Scare Me” competition

 
“Hullabaloo” IndieGoGo campaign video (click here to go to the campaign page)

 
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This week we talk about the new Spongebob Squarepants movie, Studio Ghibli might be closing, and Ross “rubberNinja” O’Donovan breaks down why YouTube’s algorithm is hurting Indie Animators. Oh also, guess what? We made it to 40 episodes! Not a traditional milestone but who cares… we haven’t completely fallen on our faces yet and that’s something. Thanks for listening and discussing the episodes and all the stuff we say — means a lot to us, or something.

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“The Spongebob Squarepants Movie: Sponge Out of Water” trailer

 
“Star Wars Rebels” 7 minute preview

 
Ross “RubberNinja” O’Donovan breaks down why YouTube’s algorithm is hurting indie animators

 
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We have a monster of an episode this week! Two weeks of stories jam packed into one awesome episode with the entire crew: Stephen, Rob, & Pat. We talk about an email exchange between a writer and a producer, Glen Keane’s new animated short “Duet,” and some kid made a Kickstarter campaign to make potato salad and for some reason has earned $70,000+ (as of this post). Oh also, Rob met Shaggy and made a new animated short (not related)! Enjoy this delicious 2 hour episode… we hope it’s as fun to listen to as it was to record!

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BATMETAL

 
Rob Yulfo’s new short “Wait for it…”

 
Guillermo del Toro’s Special Message about Pacific Rim

 
Glen Keane’s new animated short “Duet”

 
Asterix & Obelix teaser trailer (in French)

 
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It’s Rob’s Birthday!! It was Pat’s Birthday last week!! And I still make them talk to me about cartoons! This week, we actually start the discussion with the Angry Video Game Nerd movie, because as Indie creators ourselves we’re happy when one of our own (same medium or not) breaks ground on a huge development like this. And you know what? It doesn’t stop there, Signe Baumane is another Indie creator who is making her first feature length animated film, “Rocks in my Pockets” and it’s got a trailer! Ari Folman is making a jump to a western screen wide release with his hybrid movie and it’s got a trailer too… and “Bojack Horseman” is the first original adult animated programming on Netflix and it’s got a trailer. Oh and Rocky & Bullwinkle disappoint us. But before all of that… we must sing to you one of the great 90s cartoon anthems. Behold.

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Rocky & Bullwinkle on GEICO commercial

 
Ari Folman’s “The Congress” trailer

 
Signe Baumane’s “Rocks in my Pockets” trailer

 
“Butter Ya’Self” by Julian Petschek music video

 
“Bojack Horseman” trailer

 
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We kicked off June with another LIVE episode of the podcast! We talked about Reading Rainbow, gushed over Mukpuddy’s work, loved the “Song of the Sea” trailer, and discussed Sony VFX house Imageworks leaving the US for greener tax credit pastures of the great north in Vancouver. But not before we could talk about Godzilla and Maleficent, however… two movies on opposite ends of the spectrum in numerous ways. Thanks to everyone who showed up for the live taping and joined us in the chat room… you’re all awesome! This week’s title comes courtesy of Andrew Kaiko in the chat, Pat Ryan simultaneously coming up with it in the podcast, and all off Rob’s weird, periodic ramblings. Oh, and we finished with some limericks and Pat serenades us with an original song after the music at the end.

 
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Reading Rainbow team reacting to getting funded

 
Storyboard timelapse for “Broken Egg” short that Stephen referenced

 
Mukpuddy’s “Dead End Job” animated short

 
Demo of Autodesk’s new Draco program

 
“Song of the Sea” trailer

 
“Book of Life” trailer

 
Clip from episode 2.10 of “Comedy Bang! Bang!” which was centered around a long comedic commentary on greenscreen/VFX

 
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New York City – Tuesday, November 12, 2013

If  you’ve never seen the art doc THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON about the artist / musician who created his own genre of music which has been covered by some of the world’s best bands, add it to your que ASAP.   His insane life of art, recording cassettes over and over manually…as in, pressing record, then singing and playing the songs in order,  over and over for each cassette he would make, and hand drawing the cassette cover (because he didn’t access to a two cassette capable machine).

Followed by his dark slide into madness spurred by a bad acid trip at a butthole surfers concert.  It is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen.  The cinematography is so crisp, the story plays out brilliantly.  I have seen thousands of documentaries and dozens of artist specific documentaries and this film is what they all should aspire to.

All this being said, a group of filmmakers are collaborating with Daniel Johnston to create a psychedelic short film narrative mashing-up interviews with Daniel talking to his younger self, and his art and music coming to life.  The bar has already been set pretty high.  But this may just be the follow-up documentary fans of the original have been waiting for   They trying to raise $35,000 on Kickstarter to fund this project.  At the time of this posting they have raised $3,331.

The rewards are pretty great, including original Daniel Johnston drawings for $500, or for just $500 more a commissioned Daniel Johnston portrait of yourself.

“It’s been a fun seance, but if it goes any further, believe me…we could go crazy.” – Daniel Johnston

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Only one week left to crowfund-to-own a piece of the Manhattan jigsaw puzzle on Kickstarter.  A massive art undertaking that needs financial support if it is to ever exist. Artist Marshall Roshto explained the concept to me:

“The project is to create 500 large puzzle-piece sculptures that all connect to form the island of Manhattan.  In doing so, each supporter essentially “owns” a piece of the city while being connected to all the other supporters as well.  Each piece is a completely unique piece of artwork, and will be about 2.5 feet wide and 2.5 feet long.  They will be made out of 1 inch thick MDF (medium-density fiberboard), which gives the real look of a puzzle piece while providing durability that will last a very long time.  The artwork itself is a stylized map of Manhattan using black and gray tones, and will be applied to the MDF using a vinyl laminate.” -Marshall Roshto

Unlike buying miniature Manhattan buildings in the Queens Museum, you would actually own your puzzle piece (which could be 3 blocks wide), and hell, if you have enough money you could buy up all of central park, or your entire neighborhood.

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