Skwigly are proud to present the second in a two-part series of exclusive podcast minisodes from the 2022 edition of the Cardiff Animation Festival. In episode 2 we hear from attending filmmakers in conversation with Laura-Beth Cowley as part of the festival's Filmmaker Brunch sessions. Featured in this episode: Jana Kattan - 'Checkpoint' Cliona Noonan - 'Soft Tissue' Alisa Stern & Scott Ampleford - 'Posted No Hunting' Sacha Beeley - 'Babeheaven: Craziest Things' Lina Kalcheva - 'Other Half'...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Skwigly are proud to present the first of a two-part series of exclusive podcast minisodes from the 2022 edition of the Cardiff Animation Festival. In episode 1 we hear from attending filmmakers in conversation with Ben Mitchell as part of the festival's Filmmaker Brunch sessions. Featured in this episode: Joanne Fisher - 'Stache and the Inner Walk' Emlyn Davies - 'Foo Fighters: Chasing Birds' Joanna Quinn & Les Mills - 'Affairs of the Art' Daniel Gray - 'HIDE' Laura-Beth Cowley - 'Crafty Wi...
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Steve Henderson in conversation with Director Domee Shi and Producer Lyndsey Collins from Pixar’s Turning Red. Turning Red has been delighting film fans everywhere as it tells the tale of Mei Lee (voiced by newcomer Rosalie Chiang), a young, booksmart, eager to please tween on the cusp of puberty who lives for three things, for her close nit set of friends, for the dashing boyband 4*town and for the good graces of her parents, particularly her...
Mar 23, 2022•11 min
Presenting the fourth episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 4, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we meet Alberto Mielgo, whose film 'The Windshield Wiper' is nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 2022 Academy Awards. The film, which premiered last year at the Cann...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 6 min
In our latest Skwigly Animation Podcast special we round up the winners of the 2022 edition of the biennial British Animation Awards that took place at London’s BFI Southbank last week. This episode features exclusive post-ceremony chats with event director Helen Brunsdon and producer Kieran Argo as well as some of the awarded attendees: Joanna Quinn and Les Mills (director and writer of "Affairs of the Art", winner of Best Short Film, Writers Award and Best Voice Performance) Jeroen Jaspaert an...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Presenting episode 104 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we meet Jared Bush and Charise Castro Smith, the directors of Disney's 'Encanto' coming to Disney+ on December 24th, as well as the film's producer Clark Spencer. We also welcome directors Jac Hamman, Sarah Scrimgeour (Magic Light's 'Superworm') and Massimo Fenati (Eagle Eye Drama's 'The Abominable Snow Baby'). Also discussed: The recent passing of respected animation historian Giannalberto Bendazzi, MAF 2021 event highligh...
Dec 21, 2021•2 hr 8 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Czech filmmaker and educator Michaela Pavlátová. Having previously appeared on the Skwigly podcast strand Intimate Animation to discuss her short film work including the Annecy Cristal-winning 'Tram', Michaela's latest project is 'My Sunny Maad', a feature-length animated adaptation of Petra Prochazkova's 'Frišta'. Produced by Negativ, Sacreblue Productions and BFILM, the film tells the story of Herra, a Czech...
Nov 15, 2021•26 min
Presenting episode 103 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we preview event highlights from this year's upcoming Manchester Animation Festival and welcome Mikey Please and Dan Ojari to discuss their Aardman/Netflix seasonal short 'Robin Robin'. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Interview conducted by Laura-Beth Cowley Edited and produced by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Presenting the third episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 4, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we meet Renee Zhan, whose film 'Soft Animals' is presently screening as part of this year's Encounters Film Festival having premiered earlier this year at Annecy. Since beginni...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Marie Valade, a Quebec-based animation filmmaker whose latest film 'Lolos ('Boobs'), premiered earlier this year at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Festival. Both equally poignant and witty, the film sees a young woman drawn in ink who is forced to deal with paper breasts appearing on her chest. She must quickly come to terms with these new strange things. Her breasts lead her into increasingly ...
Sep 13, 2021•28 min
Presenting the second episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 4, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we catch up with Will Anderson, whose film 'Betty' is released online this month following a festival run including screenings at Pictoplasma, Encounters and Animafest Zagreb ...
Aug 18, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Presenting episode 9 of Animation One To One's, the Skwigly podcast that showcases the talent behind some of our favourite animation. In the latest podcast we take a trip into the multiverse with Stephan Franck, the Animation Supervisor behind Marvel’s What If...? series which is streaming now on Disney Plus. With an extensive history in animation, story creating, boarding and directing and an equally illustrious career in comic publication Stephan is perfectly placed working alongside director ...
Aug 12, 2021•15 min
Welcome to another episode of Animation One-To-Ones, the Skwigly Podcast which puts the animation community front and centre. In this episode we're joined by two talents from Sony Pictures latest animated Feature Vivo, Director Kirk DeMicco and Screenwriter Quiara Alegría Hudes. The animated musical adventure features all-new songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony, Grammy, and Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of Hamilton and In the Heights. And follows a one-of-kind kinkajou, who spends his days ...
Aug 08, 2021•21 min
Welcome to another episode of Animation One-To-Ones where we speak with Megan Nicole Dong, the creator of Netflix Animation's latest offering Centaurworld, which streams from the 30 July. "A war horse is transported from her embattled world to a strange land inhabited by silly, singing centaurs of all species, shapes, and sizes. Desperate to return home, she befriends a group of these magical creatures and embarks on a journey that will test her more than any battle she's ever faced before." Meg...
Jul 20, 2021•19 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Laura-Beth Cowley in conversation with award-winning London-based director Elliot Dear. Elliot Dear is an almost indecently talented animator, illustrator and director. His dazzling mixed media films are consistently groundbreaking, emotive and atmospheric. Elliot’s work displays a range and skillset rarely seen. Incorporating live action, stop motion and both hand drawn and 3D animation, his films feel like a throwback to the golden age of an...
Jul 07, 2021•50 min
Presenting episode 102 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we review and discuss highlights from this year's Annecy International Animated Film Festival, including standout shorts in competition, Mikey Please and Dan Ojari's upcoming Aardman/Netflix special 'Robin Robin', Erick Oh's immersive short 'Namoo', Marq Evans's Will Vinton documentary 'ClayDream', Alberto Vázquez's 'Unicorn Wars', Jorge Gutierrez's 'Maya and the Three', Netflix's adult animation slate including the stop-mo...
Jun 21, 2021•2 hr 23 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with award-winning London-based animator and director Anna Ginsburg. Following on from our first conversation with Anna in episode 2 of our podcast series Intimate Animation to discuss her Random Acts film 'Private Parts', in this episode we discuss some of the major projects she has worked on with Strange Beast in the five years since, including her viral CNN film 'What is Beauty?' (a visual overview of the ever-c...
Jun 17, 2021•27 min
Skwigly are proud to present the milestone tenth panel from Visible In Visuals, an organisation pushing to make the animation and VFX industries more diverse and inclusive through honest, open conversation. Episode 10 features a chat with people instrumental in getting ViV off the ground, discussing what progress has been made and what still needs to be done. Panel: Bimpe Alliu - VFX Concept Artist Mohamed Orekan – Animator Paula Poveda-Urrutia – Line Producer Tanya J Scott - Art Director Chair:...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 26 min
Skwigly.com presents the Animation One To One Podcast with Ross Bollinger, creator of the hit YouTube show Pencilmation. With over 18 million subscribers and nearly 10 billion views for the elastic antics of pencil mate and pencil miss the success of the channel has allowed ross financial and creative autonomy on what he can do next, which has led him to create a brand new series Gil Next Door. We sat down with Ross to find out more about his work and running an animation empire on YouTube Anima...
May 27, 2021•22 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Laura-Beth Cowley in conversation with Mike Rianda, director of the Sony Pictures Animation/Netflix animated feature 'The Mitchells vs. The Machines'. Mike’s animation career includes his hugely successful CalArts film ‘Work’, as well as his role as creative director and writer on Disney’s critically-acclaimed and BAFTA-winning series 'Gravity Falls'. In his new film, co-written and co-directed with Jeff Rowe and produced by Oscar winning duo ...
Apr 30, 2021•17 min
Skwigly.com presents the Animation One To One Podcast with Maryam Mohajer, director of the BAFTA award winning Grandad was a romantic. Based in the UK Maryam fills her work with flavour of her Iranian birthplace through visual and musical collaborations, creating work that can make you laugh and in the case of her previous work Red Dress No Straps, creates devastation drama that leaves the audience profoundly affected. Animation One to Ones are available to download and stream via your preferred...
Apr 25, 2021•20 min
Join Steff Lee as she chairs an informative and enlightening discussion on what it is like to be a parent working in animation. The conversation includes a range of topics including how they coped as new parents, the balance between work and family life and how the industry responds to parenthood. This panel is a diverse range of parents with children of varying ages. Panelists: Emma Fernando - Series Producer at CN Jim le Fevre - Freelance director and educator Evgenia Golubeva and Myles Mcleod...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Presenting the first Animation One To One Podcast with Erick Oh, director of Opera, a film currently competing for Best Animated Short at the 93rd Academy Awards. Having worked extensively for Pixar before recently leaving and collaborating with Tonko House, Oh's film Opera has been treating audiences to an immersive, cyclical view of society. It's a film that needs to be experienced and enjoyed on the biggest screen possible as it visually brings together the excess and drama of renaissance mas...
Apr 14, 2021•23 min
Presenting the first episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 4, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we meet Shoko Hara, whose film 'Just A Guy' offers unique and unusual insights into the relationship between serial killer Richard Ramirez and his female devotees – including h...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 17 min
The Skwigly Animation Podcast returns for its first episode of 2021. In this episode we discuss the animation highlights of the current awards season, including the BAFTA, César and Oscar nominations. We also welcome the filmmaking teams behind the Disney/Pixar feature 'Soul' (Pete Docter, Kemp Powers and Dana Murray) and the Netflix short 'If Anything Happens I Love You' (Will McCormack and Michael Govier), both of which having recently earned Oscar-nominations. Presented by Ben Mitchell and St...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 32 min
Skwigly are proud to present the eighth panel from Visible In Visuals, an organisation pushing to make the animation and VFX industries more diverse and inclusive through honest, open conversation. Join the second Women's panel with animation professionals with over 50 years of experience between them. They discuss their experiences with inclusion, struggles women face in the workplace, and ideal working environments. Panelists: Rebecca Warner-Perry - Line Producer at Illuminated Films Lauren Or...
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Skwigly are proud to present the seventh panel from Visible In Visuals, an organisation pushing to make the animation and VFX industries more diverse and inclusive through honest, open conversation. How can we look after our own mental health while working in the industry and how seriously is the crisis being taken by studios? Our Panelists discuss the realities of taking care of yourself while working in a competitive and often stressful industry, and how we can improve our understanding of men...
Feb 22, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Skwigly are proud to present the sixth panel from Visible In Visuals, a new organisation pushing to make the animation and VFX industries more diverse and inclusive through honest, open conversation. Join a panel of female animation professionals based in the UK and Ireland as they discuss their experiences and thoughts on working in a creative industry as women in an industry which has been dominated by men for so long. Panelists: Gaïa Lamiot - Director/Storyboarder Steff Lee - Creative Directo...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Presenting episode 25 of the Skwigly Animation Film Club! In our final episode of 2020 we press play on the 1993 stop-motion feature 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', directed by Henry Selick and adapted from the poem of the same name by Tim Burton. Presented by Ben Mitchell, Steve Henderson, Laura-Beth Cowley and Joseph Wallace. Produced by Ben Mitchell
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Presenting episode 24 of the Skwigly Animation Film Club! In our twenty-fourth episode we press play on the 2011 Aardman Animations seasonal CG animated feature film 'Arthur Christmas', directed by Sarah Smith and Barry Cook. Presented by Ben Mitchell, Steve Henderson and Laura-Beth Cowley Produced by Ben Mitchell
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 39 min
