Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features 2D Animator Jon Densk who’s currently working on a new short film called Axolodyssey. He shares how he mentored under Tom Bancroft on Cuphead, which led to him working on Space Jam, then ultimately founding Studio Fresco with his friends. He also shares the ins and outs of producing a short film and using Kickstarter to fund it. Tune in to Ibele and Densk to hear: *The eye-opening industry experience that changed how Jon ...
Aug 30, 2023•59 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Tomas Barrenechea, a CG animator from Argentina who is known online for nothing to do with CG animation - instead he’s known for a fun claymation character named Tomba, a red blob with two eyes and a mouth. Over the past three years, Tomas has learned to animate in stop motion, built a small studio in his home, and gained a growing online following for Tomba’s short antics. Tune in to Ibele and Barrenechea to hear: *How t...
Aug 23, 2023•37 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features the duo who run the stop motion studio called Mystery Meat Media - Ri Crawford and David Lauer. Over the years they’ve produced projects like Nickelodeon's Toymation Nation, The Moon’s Milk, and the stop motion sequence from I’m a Virgo. In their chat they share how they independently got into stop motion, met at Phil Tippet’s studio, formed their own studio, and managed to get a steady stream of stop motion work pouring ...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Blake Derksen, an LA-based stop motion animator who’s worked on titles like Alien Xmas, Crossing Swords, and Robot Chicken. He is going to share the process behind his independent short film called The Other Space, which is in production right now. Derksen’s film is inspired by his own journey through cancer treatment with the goal of helping other young cancer patients face their situations with courage. ~[SPONSORED MESS...
Aug 02, 2023•51 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features independent stop motion felt animator Andrea Love, who shares her journey to gaining over two million followers on Instagram, turning her love for felt into a career. She dives into all the ins and outs of running her own animation business and working with brands like Candy Crush, Hulu, and Laika. Tune in to Ibele and Love to hear; *Love’s top tips to leveraging social media *How Love pushed through the lulls to find her...
Jul 26, 2023•49 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Carina Schulze, co-founder of Los Angeles and São Paulo based studio Chatrone. She shares what it took to build Chatrone from scratch and work with Guillermo del Toro and Joge Gutierrez to produce The Book of Life as well as other projects like Ba Da Bean and O Menino Maluquinho. She also shares what the animation market is like in Latin America and how to get back in touch with your passion when you’re going through a ro...
Jul 19, 2023•58 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat is with NYC stop motion animator Catya Plate and how she produced her 19-minute, award-winning film Las Nogas. She also shares her journey from Spain to Germany to the US in pursuit of an art career and how wanting her gallery pieces to come to life led her on the path to animation. Tune in to Ibele and Plate to hear: *The biggest challenge when self-producing a stop motion film full time *Where Plate finds motivation to continue ...
Jul 12, 2023•57 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features stop motion animator Maraike Krämer who shares her path from quitting business school in Germany to getting picked up by Aardman to work on Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget in just a few short years. This is a very interesting listen for any stop motion beginners who are looking for ways to increase their skillset and get noticed by industry professionals. Tune in to Ibele and Krämer to hear: *What anyone in any situation ...
Jul 05, 2023•40 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Jason Agar, owner of Pomelo Studio in Toronto. He shares how he went from the advertising world into animation, plus how he’s switching up the traditional studio business model by creating a team of decentralized artists. Tune in to Ibele and Agar to hear: *Why Agar scrapped client reviewed storyboard cycles and what he’s switched to instead *How decentralized studio teams can pay artists more *The competitive advantage d...
Jun 27, 2023•45 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features animator, director, producer, and founder of Brooklyn-based Augenblick Studios - Aaron Augenblick. He shares his journey from producing mainly adult-oriented animation like Superjail! and Teenage Euthenasia to switching into educational kids content with his new show City Island. He also shares the four year process it took to turn City Island from a lofty idea into a fully-realized show (that PBS picked up). Tune in to I...
Jun 21, 2023•58 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Spencer Moreland, an independent animator, filmmaker, freelance storyboard artist, and the director of programming for TAAFI. Over the years Moreland has worked on projects like Loud House, Pinky Malinky, Miss Persona, DC Superheroes, and a number of independent films. He shares how he pursued, worked his way up, then quit studio life to pursue a freelance career, and how that changed everything for him. Tune in to Ibele ...
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Colin Giles, the Head of the School for Animation & VFX at Vancouver Film School. Over his career Giles has worked on many animation projects as an animator, timer, and an animation lead including Sausage Party, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, and Ren and Stimpy ‘Adult Party Cartoon’. Now at Vancouver Film School, Giles shares where the industry is heading and what the school is doing to stay current to today’s ...
Jun 07, 2023•50 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features veteran stop motion animator, Brett Long. During his career, he’s worked on quite a few shows including M.O.D.O.K., Robot Chicken, Crossing Swords, Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World, and most recently, Shape Island. In their talk, Long shares how he transitioned from Canada to the USA in pursuit of a stop motion career and everything he’s learned along the way. Tune in to Ibele and Long to hear: *H...
May 31, 2023•37 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Adam Fuchs, an Animation Director at Adult Swim & Cartoon Network, who shares how his love for animating indie music videos led to developing an animation app called PX12. If you’re wondering what it takes to develop your own app, Fuchs dives into how he found and teamed up with a developer, the type of investment it took to build, and what he’s learned about marketing it on the App Store. Tune in to Ibele and Fuchs t...
May 24, 2023•1 hr
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP Get a 25% discount from www.chicagoreviewpress.com using the code DISNEY25. This chat features a special guest who gives a little bit of a history lesson behind Disney’s unionization. He is a New York-based writer, artist, and current animation history professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. His name is Jake Friedman and he’s lately added published novelist to his resume with his book, The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Anima...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 8 min
This chat features 2D animator, Tina Nawrocki, who shares how she’s helping keep hand-drawn animation alive with her short film in production, Syrenka: Legend of the Warsaw Mermaid. This is actually the second time Nawrocki has been on this podcast, first appearing in episode 27 where she shared how she became one of the original animators on the Cuphead video game. Now she’s back to share some behind-the-scenes of her production and the wonderful team of women she’s built to work on it. Tune in...
May 03, 2023•53 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat is with Matt Haworth, an Art Director and Background Supervisor at Mukpuddy, an animation studio based in Auckland New Zealand. In our chat he’s going to share how difficult it was to build an animation career in New Zealand when there weren't any steady long-term gigs going around. He’s also going to dive into what it was like helping build MukPuddy from a super tight-knit team into a growing studio of over 50 – and what kind of ...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Vancouver-based 2D Animation Director, Anik Rosenblum. Over the years Rosenblum has won many awards for his commercial work with brands like General Motors, Tim Hortons, Pfizer, and more. In their chat, Rosenblum shares his journey from Lithuania to Israel and finally Vancouver in pursuit of an artistic career. Tune in to Ibele and Rosenblum to hear: *How Rosenblum founded his own animation studio *Rosenblum’s number one ...
Apr 19, 2023•54 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Italian Creative Director, and Animator, Margherita Premuroso, who’s worked in nearly every animation medium - CG, stop motion, 2D, rotoscope, hand-drawn, and more. She shares how she started her own animation studio in Italy before becoming a creative director for Elastic in the United States. Her work has included the title sequence for Amend, animation for NARAKA: BLADE POINT, as well as a number of short films includi...
Apr 11, 2023•47 min
This chat features the creator of strata cut stop motion animation, David Daniels, who shares everything you ever wanted to know about the art form. Daniels is also a director, filmmaker, and the co-founder of Portland-based Bent Image Lab studio. Over the years Daniels has made strata cut animations for clients like Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Sesame Street, and MTV. Tune in to Ibele and Daniels to hear: *How to make your own strata cut animations *Who’s willing to pay for strata cut animations *How s...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Cameron Slayden, the CEO at Microverse Studios, a mechanism of action (MOA) animation producer, and Clinical Assistant Professor at UIC. What makes this chat interesting is that Slayden is in the field of medical and scientific animation - a very niche field that you need a degree in scientific illustration for. In their chat, Slayden shares how he got into this field, started his own company, and even how he’s using AI t...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 8 min
This chat features freelance stop motion artist, sculptor, and educator, Annie Wong who goes by the online persona of Headexplodie. She shares how she’s developed her unique style which brands absolutely love - that’s why she’s been able to work with clients like Vans, Giphy, and Adult Swim. She was also a contestant on the HBO reality show Craftopia. Tune in to Ibele and Wong to hear: *The activity Wong does during downtimes that gets her future work *How teaching animation changed her career g...
Mar 22, 2023•46 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theAIP Check out Luhan Wang’s art on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lu.gnaw/?hl=en Listen to Willum Maindo’s music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5W27B2CplHnE9lXLdLJNnG This chat features Toronto-based stop motion and 2D animator Terry Ibele. Ibele is actually the creator of this podcast and for episode 200, he brings on his good friend Sheldon Koufman to interview him about everything he’s been up to since quitting anim...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat is featuring Canadian Director Andy Coyle, who is best known for his work on the Annie award-winning Netflix series, Hilda. Besides this, he’s also released his own YouTube series called, “Don’t Walk Home Alone After Dark,” received nearly 200 thousand views right after he uploaded it. He’s going to share how he’s been able to create the series completely in his spare time and how it’s gained so much success so fast. Tune in to Ib...
Mar 08, 2023•59 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Harry Chaskin who’s made a career as a freelance stop motion artist. He’s worked on Netflix’s Buddy Thunderstruck, HBO Max’s Santa Inc, as well as projects for FX and Warner. Recently, Chaskin directed, produced, and animated his 15-minute original stop motion/live action mix film Steel Cut Oats. He reveals how the film was funded through Kickstarter as well as what it took to get some big-name actors involved. Tu...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Asli Bulut, a Development Production Manager at Industrial Brothers in Toronto. She shares more of the fancy business side of animation as well as the ins and outs of what she does as a development production manager. She also has an extremely interesting career journey coming from Turkey to pursue animation development in Canada. Tune in to Ibele and Bulut to hear: *What trends development execs are looking for i...
Feb 22, 2023•55 min
Support this podcast on Patreon: https://patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Pattama Homrod, a mixed media artist from Thailand who specializes in stop motion and 2D animation. She is known for her extremely cute films Little Miss Dungjai, Autumn Was Here and Heads Up!. In this chat she shares her journey of getting into animation in Thailand, including what opportunities exist there for animators, as well as how she’s branched off to follow a freelance career. Tune in to Ibele and Homrod to h...
Feb 14, 2023•50 min
This chat is with Mac Whiting who is the Supervising Animation Director at Warner Bros. Animation. Over his career he’s worked on projects like Harley Quinn, The SpongeBob Movie, Teen Titans Go Vs. Teen Titans, and most recently the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. In our chat he shares his journey from pursuing a fine arts degree to getting his first job as a storyboard revisionist and working his way up to director. Tune in to Ibele and Whiting to hear: *What Whiting did to win the Gua...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr
This chat features German art book publisher Spirodn Giannakis. Giannakis has been working in print media since 2006, but started his own book publishing business in 2017. Since then he’s published nearly two dozen art books featuring prominent illustrators like Yesper Eising, Alex Konstad, and Abigail Larson. He is also the chief editor af CGMA’s magazine ‘NEXUS’ and a creative consultant for events like Playgrounds and Promised Land. Tune in to Ibele and Giannakis to hear: *How to make your wo...
Feb 01, 2023•52 min
This chat is with Merve Çaydere, who is a Turkish animation director, designer, and model maker specializing in stop-motion animation. She is currently a Set Designer at Laika Studios, and she recently worked on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio as well. In their chat, Çaydere shares her journey from Turkey to the United States in pursuit of stop motion set building and all the ups and downs that happened in between. Tune in to Ibele and Çaydere to hear: *How Çaydere moved from Turkey to the US *Wh...
Jan 25, 2023•50 min
