Animation Industry Podcast

Apr 16 2024 252 ep. 61 mins 301

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Welcome to AIP, the Animation Industry Podcast! Here you'll find interviews from today's top leadaers in the animation industry on topics like: *the best way to pitch a show *how to successfully market your work online *what kind of skills will get your dream job *and more! Who's running this podcast? My name is Terry, and I'm a stop motion animator. I'm soaking up as much knowledge about the animation industry as I can, and sharing what I learn along the way. For more information about this podcast, visit https://terryibele.com/animation-industry-podcast/

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Episode 252: Celeste Art Director Pedro Medeiros & How To Become A Professional Pixel Artist

Apr 16 2024 54 mins

This chat features Pedro Medeiros, a Pixel Artist, and indie video game Art Director known for such titles as Celeste, Towerfall, as well as the unreleased Earthblade, and Neverway. In their chat, Medeiros shares how he got into pixel art through video game development in Brazil (when there wasn’t any game industry there yet), as well as his process of developing a game’s art s

Episode 251: Video Game Art Director Ole Tillmann & Creating The Stop Mo Style For Harold Halibut

Apr 16 2024 85 mins

This chat features Ole Tillmann, a German indie video game Art Director at Slow Bros Studio. He worked on the game Harold Halibut, which has become known for its super unique style. Everything in the game - the characters, backgrounds, assets, etc. - were all meticulously hand-crafted in a stop motion style, then 3D scanned and composited and animated in CG. In their chat, Tillmann

Episode 250: Rand Fishkin & How He's Funding Snackbar Indie Game Studio

Apr 09 2024 50 mins

This chat features Rand Fishkin, Creative Director and CEO of Snackbar Studio, a new video game studio working on its first title. Fishkin, who is better known for founding the SEO software company Moz, and the consumer intelligence company SparkToro, shares why he made the jump from the world of business into video games. Fishkin also covers the extensive research he did to figure

Episode 249: Ben Osroosh & Custom-Making Motion Control Rigs And Winders For Stop Motion

Apr 02 2024 79 mins

Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theAIP This podcast features Ben Osroosh, a stop motion artist originally from Iran, now living and working in LA. Osroosh has become known in recent years for his mastery and construction of stop motion rigging devices and now, after nearly 2 years of development, he has launched his own Motion Control Kit. His simple devic

Episode 248: Catino World & Animating Cat Memes As A Career

Mar 26 2024 65 mins

Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theAIP This podcast features Alec, the creator of the bouncy, orange, meme cats featured in Catino World on social media. In the chat, Alec shares how he came up with the concept after being fired from his job during the 2021 pandemic lockdown. Since then, Catino World has grown to nearly 100 million views across all social

Episode 247: How Emmy Robinson Gained 100K Followers By Making Stop Motion Animations In Her Bedroom

Mar 19 2024 64 mins

This chat features budding stop motion animator Emmy Robinson, who gained over 100,000 Instagram followers for her bedroom-made stop motion animations in only eight short months. She shares how she played to Instagram’s algorithm to get attention for her work, and then how she capitalized on the niche she discovered. Tune in to Ibele and Robinson to hear: *How much money Robinso

Episode 246: How Indie Game Developers Will And James Made Thank Goodness You're Here!

Mar 12 2024 57 mins

Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features indie game developers James Carbutt and Will Todd. The English duo are best known for their free-to-play 2019 title The Good Time Garden, but they’ve been hard at work at another game called Thank Goodness You’re Here - set to release this year. In their chat, Carbutt and Todd discuss quitting t

Episode 245: Exit 73 Studios Indie Game Dev Journey With #Blud

Mar 05 2024 58 mins

Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features the co-founders of Exit 73 Studios - Chris Burns, and Bob Fox. Over the years they’ve done many projects for TV, commercials, websites, video games, and more, but currently their in-production game called #Blud, set to release this year. In their chat, Burns and Fox share how they began their indi

Episode 244: Lachlan Pendragon & How His Stop Motion Film Became Oscar-Nominated

Feb 27 2024 60 mins

1 free 3-month license of Toon Boom Harmony Premium: https://forms.gle/WKDzQEUdQPFav8vJ9 This chat is with Oscar-nominated Australian stop motion animator Lachlan Pendragon. Pendragon is best known for his stop motion film, An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It, which went on to receive international recognition last year and ended up making the shortlist o

Episode 243: Lee Griffin On Picking Up Blender And Going Viral

Feb 20 2024 47 mins

Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theAIP This chat features Lee Griffin, a 25 year old data analyst who started learning Blender as a hobby. Since then he’s developed a unique style of animation - a modern twist on old Nintendo 64 graphics - that has gone viral on social media. In the last six months, his short animations have gained him over 60 thousand f