This episode features legendary stop motion animator Anthony Scott who shares how he made a career out of the wonderful world of stop motion animation. He also shares: *How he went from being a janitor to animating Jack Skellington on The Nightmare Before Christmas *The old-school tool Anthony still uses that trumps all of today’s stop mo tech *The best path new animators can take to get into today’s core group of stop motion professionals ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by Bloop Animation, which is an animation learning platform packed with premium online video courses for aspiring animation filmmakers. They have courses for all major animation programs like Maya, Animate CC, Toon Boom, Blender, TVPaint, and many others, as well as some non-software courses like a storyboarding course, Animation foundations course, and even one about making graphic novels, which covers absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish. The courses are all in video-form, so there’s no deadlines or application process, you simply pick a course and start learning in seconds. They even offer a free ebook titled “Making an animated short”, which covers their entire process, step-by-step, of how they made one of their films, from coming up with the idea, to storyboarding, animation and all the way to exporting the film. You can get that book for free at www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry. You can check out their complete course library at www.bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: www.bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about Anthony Scott: Anthony Scott has animated on nearly every stop motion feature film including The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Corpse Bride, Coraline, The Little Prince, and the upcoming Wendell and Wild. *Check out Anthony’s website: http://anthonyscott.net/ *Follow Anthony’s work on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anthonyscott.animation/ *Learn more about this podcast: https://terryibele.com/animation-industry-podcast/