Presenting episode 111 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we welcome Charles Huettner, Sean Buckelew and Benjy Brooke of Green Street Pictures, whose new series 'Scavengers Reign' will kick off this month on Max. In 'Scavengers Reign', the brainchild of visionary creators Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner, the remaining crew of a damaged interstellar freighter ship find themselves stranded on a beautiful yet unforgiving alien planet – where they must survive long enough to escape o...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 45 min
In the ninth episode of 'Independent Animation', our companion podcast series to the Skwigly tie-in book 'Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films' (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press), we welcome back Signe Baumane to discuss her latest indie animated feature film 'My Love Affair with Marriage', which is about to embark on its US theatrical run following a multi-award-winning festival journey. My Love Affair With Marriage is an independent animated feature f...
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Presenting episode 110 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we welcome Peter Sohn and Denise Ream, director and producer respectively of the latest Disney/Pixar feature film 'Elemental'. Also discussed: Annecy highlights, MAF developments, the return of 'Futurama' and the strange new phenomenon of animators being spotted in the wild, Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Interview conducted by Ryan Gaur Edited and produced by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 43 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Janice Nadeau. Continuing her relationship with the National Film Board of Canada and French animation studio Folimage, Janice has recently followed up on her short films 'No Fish Where to Go' (2014) and 'Mamie' (2016) with 'Harvey', which plays in competition this week at the 2023 Annecy International Animation Festival in the Young Audiences category. An adaptation of the children’s graphic novel 'Harvey: Ho...
Jun 12, 2023•38 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Janet Perlman. With a solid filmography of funny, quirky animated films under her belt, including 'My Favourite Things That I Love', 'Penguins Behind Bars', 'Invasion of the Space Lobsters' and the Oscar nominated 'Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin', Janet’s work over the years has also included contributions to 'Sesame Street', the NFB’s 'ShowPeace' series and the collaborative project 'Pink Komkommer'. This ...
Jun 05, 2023•30 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ryan Gaur in conversation with Magdalena Osinska, director at Aardman Animations. Magdalena directed the recently released ‘I Am Your Mother’ which blends together the expansive universe of the Star Wars franchise with the look, wit and ingenuity of the much loved UK studio Aardman. The short sees young pilot Anni (Charithra Chandran), who is embarrassed by her sweet, but clingy mum Kalina (Maxine Peake), who she inevitably must team up with f...
May 15, 2023•22 min
In the eighth episode of 'Independent Animation', our companion podcast series to the Skwigly tie-in book 'Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films' (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press), Skwigly contributor Mel Cionco meets Tracy Butler and Fable Siegel, the creative duo behind the smash-hit indie animated short film 'Lackadaisy'. Adapted from the Eisner-winning comic series of the same name, the highly anticipated, 27-minute film was released at the end of M...
Apr 21, 2023•39 min
Presenting episode 109 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we welcome thrice-Oscar-nominated directing duo Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, whose body of work includes the incredible NFB short films 'When the Day Breaks' and 'Wild Life', speaking about their career and their latest project 'The Flying Sailor', loosely based on real events. We also welcome back 'Turning Red' director Domee Shi to talk about the Disney/Pixar film's positive reception and road to the Oscars. Also discus...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 56 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Mel Cionco in conversation with veteran TV animation executive Rich Magallanes. Having dedicated 20+ years to creating content for children, Rich has served as lead Content Creator, Developer, Showrunner, and Executive Producer for high-profile networks such as Nickelodeon, Saban Brands, Funrise Inc., and Mattel. The youngest of five brothers, Rich grew from welfare and government food stamps to becoming Senior Vice President of Production and...
Mar 21, 2023•32 min
Skwigly at Cartoon Movie 2023 Podcast Special, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Steve Henderson. Special guests: Alberto Vázquez (Decorado)Matisse González Jordán (Cursed Children) André Pereira (The Bird Kingdom) & Mark Mullery & Paul Young (Julián) Produced and edited by Steve Henderson Music by Ben Mitchell
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Penny Whitehouse in conversation with Alex Davy, storyboard artist and director at Blue Zoo. Born in London and based in Newcastle, Alex’s work includes storyboarding for BBC Bitesize (Arcus Studios), 'Incredible Ant' (Wildseed Studios), 'Norman Picklestripes' (Factory-Create) and a range of shows at Blue Zoo including 'Millie & Lou' and the second season of 'Pip & Posy'. In 2022 Alex’s role with the studio expanded to shorts directing...
Mar 06, 2023•44 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Academy Award®-winning director Everett Downing Jr. ('Hair Love') and story artist/writer Patrick Harpin. The pair have recently joined forces to create and exec produce 'My Dad the Bounty Hunter', a new animated action-comedy Netflix series that drops today.The show tells the story of siblings Lisa and Sean, who, feeling neglected by their dad, stow away on his latest work trip, hoping to finally get some qua...
Feb 09, 2023•23 min
In the seventh episode of 'Independent Animation', our companion podcast series to the Skwigly tie-in book 'Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films' (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press), we welcome back Sean Buckelew to discuss his latest indie animated short film 'Drone', which is released online February 5th. Produced by Jeanette Jeanenne (GLAS Animation Festival), 'Drone' takes on themes of artificial intelligence, remote warfare, the news media, social m...
Feb 03, 2023•48 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Academy Award®-nominee Richard Linklater, director, writer and producer of the Netflix film 'Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood' as well as co-producer and Head of Animation Tommy Pallotta. The film, presented in a uniquely elaborate 2D animation style that combines rotoscoping with traditional processes (brought to life by the talents of Submarine and Minnow Mountain), stars Jack Black as a man fondly narratin...
Jan 12, 2023•25 min
Presenting episode 108 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we welcome Oscar-winning writer/filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (famed for such films as 'Pan's Labyrinth', 'Hellboy' and 'The Shape of Water') and stop-motion industry veteran Mark Gustafson, directors of the highly-anticipated stop-motion adaptation of 'Pinocchio' that dropped on Netflix earlier this month to universal praise and admiration. Drawing on the classic Carlo Collodi tale, the musical adventure is set during the r...
Dec 20, 2022•2 hr 1 min
Presenting the sixth and final 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 the first ever live episode of Intimate Animation, recorded during the Manchester Animation Festival, we meet director Phil Wall and producer Chloe Beale of Strange Acre Studios, ...
Dec 13, 2022•57 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Steve Henderson in conversation with the Academy Award® nominated ('The Breadwinner') Cartoon Saloon co-founder Nora Twomey, director of the animated feature film 'My Father's Dragon', out now on Netflix. Based on Ruth Stiles Gannett’s book of the same name, the film is produced by Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn of Mockingbird Pictures and Paul Young of Cartoon Saloon with a screenplay by Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) and story by LeFauve and John Mo...
Dec 01, 2022•20 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ryan Gaur in conversation with Roy Conli, producer of Disney Animation’s Strange World. Strange World follows a family of historically great explorers, the Cades. The film focuses on three generations of men in the family. Jaeger Clade mistakenly abandoned his son, Searcher, after his lust for adventure sees him transported to the titular Strange World. Searcher himself feels a certain distance from his son, Ethan, whose interests and personal...
Nov 29, 2022•21 min
Presenting episode 107 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we welcome acclaimed director Henry Selick, whose work includes the beloved stop-motion feature films 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', 'James and the Giant Peach' and 'Coraline'. His latest project 'Wendell and Wild', co-written by comedy-horror visionary Jordan Peele, is released on Netflix October 28th and tells the story of a teenage girl blighted by misfortune who is targeted by scheming demon brothers Wendell (Keegan-...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 30 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Tonko House talents Dice Tsutsumi, Robert Kondo and Sara K. Sampson. The studio's latest project is 'Oni: Thunder God’s Tale', a four part animated series released today on Netflix that takes place in a world filled with the oddball gods and monsters of Japanese mythology, where one of the creature’s free-spirited daughters, Onari, is determined to follow in the footsteps of the mighty heroes of lore, but her ...
Oct 21, 2022•18 min
Skwigly and the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival have partnered up for I’M FINE! – a selection of the most relevant artistic expressions about emotional burnout and creative crisis. I’M FINE! is a reflection on the emotional burnout from the best independent animation creators. In addition to animation films, the project will present a series of interviews and podcasts on Skwigly with artists who share their experiences of going through emotional burnout, as well as worksho...
Oct 10, 2022•20 min
Presenting episode 106 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we meet Matthew Walker and Jane Davies, directors of 'Lloyd of the Flies', the latest animated series to come from the much-celebrated Bristol studio Aardman Animations, beginning on CITV this week. Also discussed: The premature demise of the Young Audiences Content Fund, notable projects from the recent Disney D23 Expo, the 'South Park' 25th anniversary concert, excitement for upcoming Netflix features 'Wendell & Wild'...
Sep 20, 2022•2 hr 2 min
Skwigly and the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival have partnered up for I’M FINE! – a selection of the most relevant artistic expressions about emotional burnout and creative crisis. I’M FINE! is a reflection on the emotional burnout from the best independent animation creators. In addition to animation films, the project will present a series of interviews and podcasts on Skwigly with artists who share their experiences of going through emotional burnout, as well as worksho...
Sep 19, 2022•15 min
Welcome to another episode of Animation One-To-Ones where we speak with Peter Sohn, the voice of Sox in Pixars latest feature Lightyear which is streaming on Disney plus now. The feature film shares the origins of the character of Buzz Lightyear in a time bending adventure as Buzz attempts to save his people from the villainous Emperor Zurg. As well as voicing robot companion Sox, Peter Sohn has played a key role in Pixar productions in the past, not only behind the microphone voicing Emile in R...
Sep 12, 2022•11 min
Skwigly and the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival have partnered up for I’M FINE! – a selection of the most relevant artistic expressions about emotional burnout and creative crisis. I’M FINE! is a reflection on the emotional burnout from the best independent animation creators. In addition to animation films, the project will present a series of interviews and podcasts on Skwigly with artists who share their experiences of going through emotional burnout, as well as worksho...
Aug 29, 2022•24 min
Skwigly and the LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival have partnered up for I’M FINE! – a selection of the most relevant artistic expressions about emotional burnout and creative crisis. I’M FINE! is a reflection on the emotional burnout from the best independent animation creators. In addition to animation films, the project will present a series of interviews and podcasts on Skwigly with artists who share their experiences of going through emotional burnout, as well as worksho...
Aug 09, 2022•24 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Cardiff-based animator Lauren Orme. Having previously appeared on the Skwigly Animation Podcast to discuss her work as head of the Cardiff Animation Festival and its associated Cardiff Animation Nights screening events as well as her work as an animation director, Lauren joins Animation One-To-Ones to talk about the ways in which she has steered both Cardiff Animation and Picl in a more eco-conscious direction...
Aug 05, 2022•27 min
Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Steve Henderson in conversation with Josh Weinstein, showrunner and co-creator of Disenchantment, which streams on Netflix. The fantastic medieval fantasy drama series from the minds of Matt Groening and Josh Weinstein has returned to Netflix for part four which sees reluctant Royal Princess Bean, Elfo the Elf and her personal demon Luci traverse their way through a world of hell, magic, dream and steam. As the show grows we’re really getting ...
Jul 20, 2022•31 min
Presenting episode 105 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we meet Angus MacLane and Galyn Susman, director and producer respectively of Disney/Pixar's 'Lightyear' which arrives in cinemas June 17th. We also welcome the team behind the recently released 'Bob's Burgers Movie' - director/writer Loren Bouchard, co-director Bernard Derriman and co-writer/producer Nora Smith. Also discussed: Reflecting on 10 years of the podcast, upcoming Annecy highlights, the inexplicable 'Better Call...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 39 min
Presenting the fifth 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 welcome back Lori Malépart-Traversy, who has followed up her enormously successful student film 'Le Clitoris' with 'Magical Caresses' ('Caresses magiques'), a five-film seri...
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 8 min
