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 and Moreland to hear: *The first step in switching from studio life to full-time freelance *Moreland’s number one piece of advice for tackling a new animation skill *The best pitching advice you’ve ever heard Social Links: *Follow Moreland on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spenmore/?hl=en *Check out Moreland’s short film “Lastkinders” on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k2MMRwy4GHc *Follow Moreland on Twitter: https://twitter.com/spenmore?lang=en Community Highlight *Check out Aron Steinke’s work: https://www.mrwolfsclass.com/

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 animation students. Tune in to Ibele and Giles to hear: *The ins and outs of student life at VFS *The big investment VFS just made in their animation studio *How students have changed over the last 10 years Social Links: *Follow Giles on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cartooncolin/?hl=en

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: *How Long got a visa to work in the USA *Long’s number one tip for excelling at stop motion animation *How much school helped (or didn’t help) with Long’s stop motion career ~[SPONSORED MESSAGE]~ This episode is sponsored by HUE. Makers of colorful, Plug & Play cameras for learning, work and play. Originally designed for teachers, HUE cameras can also be used for creative activities such as capturing hand-drawn pencil tests and shooting behind-the-scenes footage, time-lapse videos and stop motion animation. The cameras have flexible, posable necks, manual focus controls and they are compatible with Dragonframe, OBS, Twitch, Zoom and many other camera apps. Visit huehd.com to learn more and follow @HUEcameras on social media for news, fun and giveaways. Get 10% off any Hue product from www.huehd.com with code: 10TERRYAIP ~~ Social Links: *Check out Long’s website: https://www.vrstopmotion.com/ *Check out Long’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alphabrette/ Community Highlight: *Check out Aalasteir’s royalty free music: https://aalasteir.newgrounds.com/audio/ *Check out Aalasteir’s podcast: https://offthewallshow.newgrounds.com/

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 to hear: *Two animation tips Fuchs learned from Richard Williams himself *What makes PX12 different from other animation apps *How to get indie music video clients for your animations Social Links: *Check out PX12’s website: https://pxtwelve.com/ *Watch PX12 tutorials on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@px1279 *Follow PX12 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/px12app/ *Check out Fuchs’ website: https://www.lilfuchs.com/ *Follow Fuchs on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilfuchs/

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 Animation's Golden Age. In the chat he shares how he ended up befriending Art Babbitt's late wife who gave him access to the animator’s personal files, diary, original animations, court cases, and everything else he had kept. Tune in to Ibele and Friedman to hear: *Why an old professor inspired him to write The Disney Revolt *Exclusive tidbits from the NLRB vs. Disney court case *Why Babbitt decided to quit Disney after forcing them to rehire him Social Links: *Check out the Book’s website: https://www.thedisneyrevolt.com/ *Check out Jake Friedman’s website: https://www.jakesfriedman.com/

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 to Ibele and Nawrocki to hear: *Nawrocki’s entire process of creating a hand-drawn film from scratch *What finally made Nawrocki ready to create her own work after 16 years in the industry. *How a simple call from Nawrocki’s mother landed her the vocalist of her dreams Social Links: *Support Syrenka on Indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/syrenka-legend-of-the-warsaw-mermaid#/ *Follow Syrenka on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SyrenkaFilm *Follow Tina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tinanawrockiart/ *Follow Tina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NawrockiTina *Follow Felicity Morland on Twitter: https://twitter.com/felicitymorland *Listen to Laboratorium Pieśni - Oj ty rzeko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4hCW1QK1xg&ab_channel=Laboratoriumpiesni *Listen to Sylwia Zelek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgz03mZoyGE&ab_channel=Mi%C4%99dzynarodowyFestiwalPiosenki%E2%80%93AnnaGerman

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 projects led to that growth. Tune in to Ibele and Haworth to hear: *The animation day-job Haworth invented for himself when there wasn’t any work *The crazy coincidence that led to Mukpuddy optioning an exclusive IP from Ireland *How many of Haworth’s graduating class still work in animation in New Zealand Social Links: *Check out Mukpuddy’s YouTube Page: https://www.youtube.com/user/mukpuddy

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 piece of advice for clients looking for commercial animation *What 10 years’ experience working on TV shows taught Rosenblum before starting his studio Social Links: *Check out Dancing Line Productions’ website: https://dancinglineproductions.com/ *Follow Dancing Line Productions on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dancinglineproductions/?hl=en

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 including Ecce, and Four. She also dives into the kind of lifestyle it takes to be a freelance animator in Italy working for companies in the United States while also producing her own work. Tune in to Ibele and Premuroso to hear: *How Premuroso entered the US industry without knowing a word of English *What the animation industry is like in Italy *How Premuroso has made so many animated personal projects Social Links: *Check out Premuroso’s website: https://www.margheritapremuroso.com/ *Follow Premuroso on Instagram: instagram.com/margherita_premuroso/?hl=en

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 strata cut will live on as a unique animation form into the future. ~[SPONSORED MESSAGE]~ This episode is sponsored by HUE. Makers of colorful, Plug & Play cameras for learning, work and play. Originally designed for teachers, HUE cameras can also be used for creative activities such as capturing hand-drawn pencil tests and shooting behind-the-scenes footage, time-lapse videos and stop motion animation. The cameras have flexible, posable necks, manual focus controls and they are compatible with Dragonframe, OBS, Twitch, Zoom and many other camera apps. Visit huehd.com to learn more and follow @HUEcameras on social media for news, fun and giveaways. Get 10% off any Hue product from www.huehd.com with code: 10TERRYAIP ~~ Social Links: *Follow Daniels on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/strata_cut/ *Check out the Strata Cut website: https://stratacut.com/ *Watch a 3-minute visualization of different strata cuts: https://youtu.be/qc50PahbFFM