Boiled Over

After a brief hiatus, Boiled Over is back with an incredibly fun interview featuring Raman Djafari! Raman and I sat down last October, and while I had to put the podcast on hold due to medical shenanigans and work, I've been incredibly excited to share this episode with you all!I truly cannot begin to express what a joy it was sitting down to edit the episode after all of this time

This week I’m sitting down with one of my all-time favorite animators: Elenor Kopka. I’ve been a huge fan of Elenor’s work for years and years, so it was an absolute joy getting to finally speak with her about her process and take a peak behind the scenes into how she crafts her grainy and gorgeous worlds. We had a lot to talk about, so strap in and welcome back! :-) Recorded

This week's interview is with someone who truly knows how to embody the natural playfulness in the medium of animation: Magda Kreps! I've been a fan of Magda's work for awhile now, and am particularly interested in her character animations and sense of the cartoon body. In this episode, we talk about her sense of character proportions and what it means to break away from traditiona

Today’s interview is with one of my all time favorite animators: Weronika Marianna. Weronika’s animated worlds are filled with beautiful colors and absolutely incredible painterly textures—I highly recommend familiarizing yourself with her work on Instagram (@weronikamarianna) if you haven’t already before listening. I couldn’t be more excited to share our conversation wi

In this episode, I sat down with multidisciplinary artist, animator, and game designer Jenna Caravello! In this incredible conversation, we discussed everything from the grey area between video games and the fine art world to the ethics of using other people's tools to create your own work and so much more. With her performance piece, 'lovelike' coming up this Friday (08/18) in Los

To kick off season 2, I had such a lovely chat with Yuval Haker: a multidisciplinary animator with a wealth of stories to share about his journey in discovering his artistic voice, finding one's footing in freelance, and so much more. I'm so excited to be back in the swing of things, and couldn't be happier to finally be sharing this episode with you. Find more of Yuval's work on I

Wow! It's been a minute since we've seen each other last. Welcome back to Boiled Over, where this week, we're sitting down with one of our favorite experimental animators: Ted Wiggin! Ted has made a handful of films that we feel challenge what animation is and can be in its traditional sense. In addition to producing animated films, Ted works to build unique programs that serve as

This episode of Boiled Over features one of our favorite animators and dear friends: Anna Firth! Join us in episode lucky number 13 as we ask Anna about her process, her funky anthropomorphic characters, and her new screening series: Soft Screen! Follow Anna on Instagram @tallgrill Featuring music by Butter Bean / Arius Zaiee (@the.marooned) Recorded by Kohana Wilson & Lije Mor

After a brief hiatus and a couple of very long months, we're back! Join us for this episode of Boiled Over where we sit down with one of our long-time favorite animators: Sarina Nihei! We discuss Sarina's unique style and how it developed with influences and inspiration ranging from Estonian animation to her history in graphic design. We've been incredibly excited to release this e

This week, we got the incredible fortune of getting to sit down with animator, illustrator, and cartoonist Roman Muradov! We spoke with Roman about his recent adventures into the world of 3D animation and Blender and what it's been like learning such a new medium coming from a very different background having done hand drawn still images. Discussing his experiments with digital ani