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Fu Yang and Johnny Knittle

A series of interviews with animators of all mediums about the short films they make as they share tips and peeks into their processes.

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01:29:33

022: Dave Joly - creator of Midnight Snack

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2025/01/14

Dave Joly!Dave is an illustrator and animator working in 2D and 3D and has been at the forefront of animation technology since its earliest days at Atari! For the last 30+ years Dave has been teaching university students how to create their own works of art! Find Dave at: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dave.joly YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/davejoly LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davejoly Behance - https://www.behance.net/DaveJoly?locale=en_US Show Notes Atari -

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01:33:14

021: Stefie Gan - Creator of Joss Lotuses to Grandma

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2024/12/27

Stefie Gan studied architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University, and drew from her expertise in spatial awareness as she used environmental metaphors in her films. As an MFA graduate at the University of Southern California, Stefie has experience working with researchers and scientists at the USC Wrigley Institute of Environmental Studies where she made an animated video depicting Life at the Rocky Intertidal Zone and the importance of plankton to marine life. Her award-winning film, Plastic

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00:41:08

020: Lindsay Berkebile (Pt. II) - Adult Swim...

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2023/12/13

Today we have more with Lindsay Berkebile!!!! Lindsay is an LA and Portland based Stop-Motion Animator and Director working in tv, ads, and films. You may have seen some of her amazing work in Wendell & Wild, I’m a Virgo, Robot Chicken, Crossing Swords, or many other super awesome projects. Today we talk to Lindsay about how she created an incredible stop-motion vomiting mandible bumper for Adult Swim!Visit the links below to watch her finished Maya and the Three and Centaurworld

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01:40:07

019: Lindsay Berkebile (Pt. I) - Making a Stop-Mo...

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2023/11/29

NS 019: Lindsay Berkebile Intro Today we have Lindsay Berkebile!!!! Lindsay is an LA and Portland based Stop-Motion Animator and Director working in tv, ads, and films. You may have seen some of her amazing work in Wendell & Wild, I’m a Virgo, Robot Chicken, Crossing Swords, or many other super awesome projects. Today we talk to Lindsay about the cutout animations she did with Netflix for Maya and the Three and Centaurworld as she walks us through how she and her team brought those into

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01:12:26

018: Cami Kwan (Pt. II) - Creator of American Girl...

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2023/06/21

Cami Kwan is a stop motion director, producer, and one of the amazing partners at Apartment D Films, an animation studio in Burbank, California! Over the the last two episodes we talked to Cami about making the American Girl Doll short series and what it meant to Cami to help tell the story of their first Asian-American Girl of of the Year doll. She also told us about the origins of Apartment D and how she has transitioned from animator to overseeing a full production crew. We also got to hear a bit

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01:09:32

017: Cami Kwan (Pt. I) - Creator of American Girl...

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2023/06/07

Cami Kwan is a stop motion director, producer, and one of the amazing partners at Apartment D Films, an animation studio in Burbank, California! Over the next two episodes we’ll be talking to Cami about making the American Girl Doll short series and what it meant to Cami to help tell the story of their first Asian-American Girl of of the Year doll. She’ll also tell us about the origins of Apartment D and how she has transitioned from animator to overseeing a full production crew. We’ll also get to

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01:08:04

016: Terry Ibele (Pt. II) - Creator of Let's Go Luna...

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2023/06/06

Terry Ibele is an award-winning stop-motion animator in Toronto, Canada. He’s produced and animated for television, short film, and digital media. He specializes in taking ideas from concept to completion – including design work, storyboarding, puppet/set fabrication, animation, and editing. He is also the host of the Animation Industry Podcast! In part 2 of our interview, he shows us the sets from his Let's Go Luna shorts, teaches us about paper mache, and how to use good vs bad toilet paper

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00:55:44

015: Terry Ibele (Pt. 1) - Creator of Let's Go Luna...

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2022/10/07

Terry Ibele is an award-winning stop motion animator in Toronto, Canada. He’s produced and animated for television, short film, and digital media. He specializes in taking ideas from concept to completion – including design work, storyboarding, puppet/set fabrication, animation, and editing. He is also the host of the Animation Industry Podcast! In part 1 of our interview, Terry walks us through his Let’s Go Luna shorts! He discusses creating “Evergreen Content”, teaches us the origin story of The

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01:01:17

014: Threadwood (Pt. II) - Creator of Magical Cat

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2022/08/24

Threadwood is a boutique animation studio that started in Burbank, CA and is now located in upstate New York. It's run by Emmy Award-winning animation professionals Alexis Deprey and Scott DaRos. Producing both client projects and original content, Threadwood brings unique, handmade design sensibilities to clay, stop-motion, and 2D animation projects. In part 2 they share many more great tips like how to light a fireplace in stop mo, how they balance personal projects with client projects, and how

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01:05:27

013: Threadwood (Pt. I) - Creator of Magical Cat

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2022/08/17

Threadwood is a boutique animation studio that started in Burbank, CA and is now located in upstate New York. It's run by Emmy Award-winning animation professionals Alexis Deprey and Scott DaRos. Producing both client projects and original content, Threadwood brings unique, handmade design sensibilities to clay, stop-motion, and 2D animation projects. In part 1 of our interview, they take us on a deep dive into all things Magical Cat.. from doing their own theme song and sound design to nailing down

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00:45:02

012: Martyna Koleniec (Pt. II) - Creator of Hidden

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2022/07/27

Martyna Koleniec is an independent, self-taught animation director, animator and character designer from Warsaw, Poland. She mainly specializes in stop motion music videos that she created by herself from puppets, scenography to animation. Currently, she’s working on her debut feature film for children. In part 2, we talk about Hidden -- a mixed stop-motion and 2d music video exploring creative lighting. Martyna talks about making the most of a project’s budget and dives deeper into her journey

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00:44:22

011: Martyna Koleniec (Pt. I) - Creator of Photons

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2022/07/20

Martyna Koleniec is an independent, self-taught animation director, animator and character designer from Warsaw, Poland. She mainly specializes in stop motion music videos that she created by herself from puppets, scenography to animation. Currently, she’s working on her debut feature film for children. In part 1, Martyna talks about Photons, a stop-motion animated music video. She talks about working in small spaces with clay during a hot summer. We discuss her lifelong battle with good lighting

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00:48:40

009: Casey Follen (Part 1) - Creator of Stuck at Home...

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2022/06/15

Casey Follen is an LA-based creative producer and founder of Catalyst Castle Studios, her freelance practice. Casey also manages stop motion and mixed-media productions for many other studios. In addition she teaches at the College for Creative Studies as well as LCAD. On top of all that she is even a co-founder of Animation Wild Card! In part 1 we’ll learn about how she made Stuck at home with Neville… and how making that during the pandemic led to starting Animation Wild Card with her friends

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00:44:31

008 - Jack - Creator of Shi-Fu

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2022/03/05

Join us as Jack walks us through the making of his animated short, Shi-Fu! Sharing tons of behind the scenes content from boards to animatics to 3D models to a finished product! Links Shi-Fu short film Shi-Fu Follow Jack Instagram Portfolio Shi-Fu Composer 王文星 Wenhsing Wang Nice Shorts is... Fu Yang https://fuyang.wixsite.com/fuyang/about https://www.instagram.com/cuckoostuff/ Johnny Knittle https://johnnyrk.com/ https://www.instagram.com/johnnyrk/

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01:44:09

007 - Eddie & Stephanie - Building Worlds and...

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2022/02/18

(This is a video-heavy episode so please find it on YouTube to get the most out of it!) Find out why they only have to write one resume for the both of them, how LARPing is good for acting in animation, how they went from building worlds in long word docs to refined packets, the importance of representation, Stephanie’s color ideas, Eddie’s thoughts on obtaining joy from completing ideas rather than how many likes they get after, reworking content to fit the target audience, dealing with burn-out,

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02:03:02

006 - Bailey and Natalie - Til Death Brings Us Together

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2022/02/04

Join us as Bailey and Natalie talk about rigs, project management, what working at a studio during their co-op taught them between their 3rd and 4th years as animation students, their experiences at Sheridan College, and then more about rigs… because they are obsessed with rigs… we mean it… obsessed! But in a good way! Timeline 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:03 - Greeting 0:03:12 - Sheridan College 3rd Year Animation Group Project: Schedule 0:07:13 - Sheridan College 3rd Year Animation Group Project:

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01:07:42

005 - Mee Huh - Creator of Ruff and Buff

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2022/01/22

Meet Mee! Mee talks about drawing inspiration from daily life such as her buff dog. She discusses applying to LCAD, being rejected, then flying from Iowa to California to find out why. An experience that pushed her to improve her drawing skills, skills that helped her overcome social anxiety and even allowed her to start using public transportation. Hear about her perfect timing of attending LCAD the one semester they had a stop motion professor from Open the Portal, then turned that opportunity

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004 - Zaldy Dingle - Creator of Streetball

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2021/12/24

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01:12:15

003 - Nathania Zaini (Nia) - Creator of Pebbles

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2021/12/05

Join us as Nia talks about giving birth to a kidney stone, embracing creative momentum when it happens, growing up in Jakarta with her brother and making their own entertainment, fabricating to keep her hands busy, using set design and objects to tell stories, being a part of a government-funded crafting community, being inspired by murder documentaries and fashionable grandmas, planning set design around what can fit in an uber, and dealing with work visas for stop motion animation. 0:00:00 -

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01:23:20

002 - Yu Yu - Creator of The Island of Us

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2021/11/17

Yu Yu shows us Froggy (her puppet-eating puppet), tells us about the Taiwan stop motion community, her approach to directing other animators and how she treats her films as collaborative efforts, explains her fascination with horror and all things eerie, dives a little into stop motion in VR, and many other wonderful tidbits! Join us as we take a tour through the world of Yu Yu! 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:25 - Greeting 0:01:52 - Inspiration & Concept 0:04:06 - Yu Yu's Background before Stop Motion

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