This chat is with Cut the Mustard Animation Studio Director Liam Gilbey. Gilbey was featured as a guest on episode 67 of this podcast back in the spring of 2020, when he had just graduated university and was starting Cut the Mustard with a group of friends. Fast forward to today, Gilbey gives an update on how far the studio has come and where it’s going. Tune in to Ibele and Gilbey to hear: *The struggles of finding your footing with a new studio *How to find consistent work that will keep you a...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 18 min
This chat features Dutch multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker, Robert-Jonathan Koeyers, who shares the ins and outs of creating his recent 2D animated film, “It’s Nice in Here.” Koyeres studied animation at Rotterdam and this is his first film out of school which premiered at Cannes and has since been Oscar shortlisted. Tune in to Ibele and Koeyers to hear: *How Koeyers received funding to hire a full animation team *The secret behind Koeyer’s super-captivating storytelling *What the animation...
Jan 11, 2023•48 min
This chat is with a 2D animator from Portugal named Laura Gonçalves. She is known for animated films like Drop by Drop, Three Weeks in December, and her most recent, The Garbage Man. She shares how she worked with the BAP Animation Studio collective to produce her film. Tune in to Ibele and Gonçalves to hear: *How Gonçalves received funding for her film in Portugal *What options you have pursuing animation as a career in Portugal *Gonçalves’ complete process to produce her super unique style and...
Dec 14, 2022•54 min
This chat features German stop motion animator Eliott Deshusses, who shares what the stop motion industry is like in Germany and how he got into it. Deshusses studied at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and has an incredible reel of really fascinating and unique stop motion projects that have included work with some big brands like Audi, Miracle Whip, Universal, and Yamaha. Tune in to Ibele and Deshusses to hear: *What opportunities exist for stop motion animators in Germany *How Deshusses got a r...
Dec 07, 2022•49 min
This chat features legendary Disney Animator, Chris Bailey, who’s animated on The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, The Lion King, and more. Most recently Bailey directed The Great Wolf Pack: A Call to Adventure, Great Wolf Lodge’s first animated feature film - bringing about an interesting discussion around branded animated films. Tune in to Ibele and Bailey to hear: *Bailey’s number one tip to master hand-drawn animation *How to go from animator to director *Behind-the-scenes of directi...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 10 min
This chat features Filmmaker, Faculty of Sheridan College’s Animation Program, and Author of the go-to-book on stop motion filmmaking, Chris Walsh. Walsh shares how he used the pandemic's lockdown to set up a home stop motion studio and produce an 8-minute film about a skeleton assassin looking to mend a broken heart. Tune in to Ibele and Walsh to hear: *The cost to build a home stop motion studio from scratch *The most challenging part about self-producing a short film *The number one thing Wal...
Nov 23, 2022•52 min
This chat features two seasoned stop motion animators - Malcolm Lamont and Jeff Riley. Together, Lamont and Riley have worked on nearly every major stop motion feature film including Corpse Bride, Coraline, Box Trolls, Kubo, and most recently, Wendell & Wild where they both served as Animation Supervisors. In this chat they share how they worked their way into feature stop motion as well as all the behind-the-scenes of how Wendell & Wild came together. Tune in to Ibele, Lamont, and Riley...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 6 min
This chat features Future House Animation Studio’s Director and Animation Supervisor Ryan Bird and Founder Adam Sidwell. In our chat they’re going to share how they’ve been building client projects within the metaverse like virtual concerts, sales meetings, and games, and how they started working in VR in the first place. Tune in to Ibele, Bird, and Sidwell to hear: *How Future House sells clients on Metaverse projects *What software you need to build within the Metaverse *What sort of animation...
Nov 08, 2022•52 min
This chat is with animation editor Stephanie Earley, who’s worked on The Awesomes, Bob’s Burgers, and Central Park. She shares how she got her start as an assistant editor and worked her way up to lead, as well as the ins and outs of the job, including what software studios use, how she makes cuts, and how editors are hired for animation. Tune in to Ibele and Earley to hear: *How much social media plays into becoming a professional animation editor *The differences between editing different genr...
Nov 02, 2022•57 min
This chat is with Planetary Science Video Producer and Animator, James Tralie, who shares how he took a u-turn from geophysics into animation. Throughout his career he’s also worked with clients like Facebook, Taco Bell, MIT, Marshmello, and Fiji Water - and on top of this he also runs a YouTube channel teaching Blender. Tune in to Ibele and Tralie to hear: *How Tralie broke into the industry with a degree in geophysics *What Tralie has done to grow his Instagram to 145K followers *What being a ...
Oct 19, 2022•43 min
This chat features CEO of Brain Zoo Studios - a studio he founded in LA 27 years ago - Mo Davoudian. During his time at Brain Zoo, Davoudian has worked with clients like Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy, Call of Duty, and Lego. In this chat he shares what it takes to keep an animation studio ahead of the game after all this time. Tune in to Ibele and Davoudian to hear: *Davoudian’s formula for a successful animation studio *How Brain Zoo evolved during the pandemic *How Brain Zoo continuously lan...
Oct 12, 2022•57 min
This chat features David Kaye, voice actor extraordinaire. Throughout his career he’s worked on TV shows and movies like Transformers, He-Man, Ben 10, Ducktales, Up, Scooby Doo, and Eternals, plus video games like Assassin's Creed, Ratchet and Clank, Call of Duty, and Kingdom Hearts. In this chat he shares how he got his start in voice acting, transitioned into animated films, TV shows and video games, and how anyone else with a knack for making voices can do the same. Tune into Ibele and Kaye t...
Oct 05, 2022•53 min
This chat features Justin Rasch, a stop motion and CG animator. Over the years Rasch has worked on stop motion productions like Paranorman and Kubo and the Two Strings, and CG productions like Blizzard’s Overwatch and World of Warcraft shorts. In this chat, Rasch shares how he got his start, worked his way up in the animation world, and now how he’s making a name for himself on social media. Tune in to Ibele and Rasch to hear: *What compels Rasch’s perfectionist mindset in everything he does *Th...
Sep 21, 2022•1 hr 12 min
This chat features self-taught Turkish stop motion animator Özgürcan Özdamar. A note about this chat is that Özgürcan Özdamar only speaks Turkish and Terry Ibele only speaks English, so Merve Çaydere, a set designer at Laika, has volunteered to translate back and forth in the interview. In the chat Özdamar shares how he got his start working on commercials, then branched off to publish his own work on YouTube - receiving more than four billion views for his funny stop motion videos for kids. Tun...
Sep 06, 2022•58 min
This chat features storyboard revisionist Dorsa Bidhendi who Terry Ibele met back in 2018 in Sheridan College’s animation program. Bidhendi recently graduated this spring and in this chat she shares how she got her first storyboard revisionist contract fresh out of school. Tune in to Ibele and Bidhendi to hear: *The interesting way Bidhendi got her portfolio to stand out to recruiters *What exactly a storyboard revisionist does *The advantage having a previous fine arts degree gave Bidhendi in a...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 6 min
This chat features Ryan Summers, a veteran motion designer who was just tapped as Senior Creative Director at the creative studio Spillt. Over his career, Summers has worked on projects for Warner Bros, Starbucks, Pokémon, and Google and in this chat he’s going to share how to put together a portfolio to get hired in motion design. Tune in to Ibele and Summers to hear: *The four phases of animation *How Summers got his start *Summer’s best advice to quick starting a career in motion design today...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr 9 min
This chat features Eugene Fong, who Terry Ibele met through a pitching workshop at the Toronto Animated Image Society. What’s interesting about this chat is that Fong is not himself an animator, or even in the animation industry. Instead he does global supply chain as his day job, but he’s currently researching everything he can to make the jump into animation - something Ibele did just a few years ago. So, in this chat you’ll hear them talk about the risks of switching careers later in life, th...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 53 min
This chat is with Marcos Meson, one of the original founders of the 2D animation app FlipaClip. Meson shares how he started FlipaClip along with his brothers as a side project and grew it into the app that is used by millions today. He also shares what it was like building the team from scratch, how he’s created a very involved international animation community, and their plans for the future of the app. Tune in to Ibele and Meson to hear: *How schools are using FlipaClip *Why social media influ...
Aug 10, 2022•48 min
This chat features Brent Forrest who has worked as a special effects animator, storyboard artist, director, and is currently a Technical Director at Marza Animation Planet Inc. in Japan. Forrest shares how he created the concept for his short film Samurai Frog Golf, pitched it to Marza, and then worked with them to get funding and produce the full short. Samurai Frog Golf will premiere at SIGGRAPH on August 8th in Vancouver and at The Virtual Electronic Theater (For those who can't be there in p...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 5 min
This chat features the Nice Shorts animation podcast cohosts Fu Yang and Johnny Knittle. Besides interviewing animators on their short film process, Fu Yang is an award-winning stop motion and 2D animator and Johnny Knittle is a music composer who focuses his talents on concert hall works and animated short films. In their chat, Yang and Knittle share the behind-the-scenes of running an animation podcast as well as their ins and outs of their careers. Tune in to Yang, Knittle and Ibele to hear: ...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 50 min
This chat features Eric Larson, a freelance illustration and motion graphics designer who shares how he went from a professional ballet dancer into animation. He also shares how he’s modeled his career after Joey Korenman’s The Freelance Manifesto: A Field Guide for the Modern Motion Designer, which helped fasttrack him to where he is today. Tune in to Ibele and Larson to hear: *Which course Larson took to learn motion graphics *How Larson prices out his work *The number one way Larson sets hims...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 4 min
This chat features Mike Caron, a seasoned Nickelodeon Director and Producer known for his work on Game Shakers, Henry Danger, and most recently, Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder. Caron shares how he worked his way up from an actor on The Young and the Restless to Directing some of Nickelodeon’s biggest shows. He also shares the unique pipeline they created for the live-action/animation mix on Fairly Odder, as well as the technique they developed to get the actors interacting with the animated cha...
Jul 13, 2022•51 min
This chat features Dutch hand-drawn animator Lava Hijzelaar. Currently she is a student at the renowned Gobelins in Paris and in this chat she’s going to share how she got accepted as an international student and was able to completely skip first year. Plus Hijzelaar will explain why she began to prefer pencil and paper to digital animation and the benefits that come with that. Tune in to Ibele and Hijzelaar to hear: *3 skills pencil and paper animation teaches you that digital does not *Hijzela...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 1 min
This chat features four stop motion animators, Stephen Belford, Anna Harestad, Heather Little, and Tawny Therrien, who were part of the 11-person team who created Cantastoria, an award-winning stop motion film produced at Sheridan College during the pandemic. Together, they share the challenges of producing a stop motion film remotely, as well as some of the unique solutions they came up with to complete the film. Tune in to Ibele, Belford, Harestad, Little, and Therrien to hear: *Why the group ...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 7 min
This chat features Chris Rodgers, who is a stop motion animator living and building a studio in South Korea. Over the years Rodgers has worked on projects for Frederator, The Lego Movie, and Big 5, a South Korean children’s program. Tune in to Ibele and Rodgers to hear: *What opportunity made Rodgers pack up his bags in the USA and pursue stop motion in South Korea *What the South Korean stop motion industry is like *How Rodgers stays connected to US-based projects overseas ~[SPONSORED MESSAGE]~...
Jun 22, 2022•56 min
This chat is with 2D animator and storyboard artist Grahaeme Cowie, who is most recently known for his short film, “Everything is Going to Be Okay.” Cowie’s skills have been sought after by animation powerhouses like WildBrain and Titmouse and in this chat he shares how he worked his way up to animation supervisor, then threw that all away to start over from scratch as a storyboard artist. Tune in to Ibele and Cowie to hear: *How to completely self fund your own film (and get noticed for it!) *T...
Jun 14, 2022•59 min
This chat is with Karen and Bill Drastal, the co-founders behind the Chubby Beagle animation studio. Karen and Bill are both seasoned animators, having worked in 2D, production, storyboarding, and directing with companies like Google, Bento Box, and Warner Brothers. In this chat they also share how they came to work on the first ever drag queen superhero feature film, Maxxie LaWow. Tune in to Ibele and the Drastals to hear: *Where Maxxie LaWow got its funding from *What it took to start their ow...
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 16 min
This chat features Luis Ribeiro, who is currently a Partner and Executive Producer at LOBO, the creative design, 2D, 3D, and stop motion animation studio based out of São Paulo and New York. Over the years Ribeiro has worked with brands like Coca-Cola, Disney, and 7Up and in this chat he shares his journey from Brazil to the USA and how he prioritized risky career moves to become the producer he is today. Tune in to Ibele and Ribeiro to hear: *The surprising skill that will have opportunities kn...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 5 min
This episode features Karen Disher, who was the first female Director and Story Artist at Blue Sky Studios where she worked on Robots, Ice Age: Dawn on the Dinosaurs, and Ferdinand. Currently she is the Creative Director in Development at Spire where she’s working on their new feature film. In this chat she’s going to share how she got her start, what she’s learned about story and where to find the confidence to build your own path. Tune in to Ibele and Disher to hear: *The chance way Disher got...
May 25, 2022•52 min
This episode features stop motion animator Jace Wertz, who quit his job in retail to pursue his dreams of becoming a professional filmmaker. Since then he’s set up a complete studio in his home and has gone on to become a stop motion animator, cg animator, editor, director, audio wizard, and more. In fact, he was recently featured in a WEDU Arts Plus documentary and his work on the Chompin’ Stompin’ music video was nominated for a webby this year. Tune in to Ibele and Wertz to hear: *The change ...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 35 min
