Take a look at Terry Ibele’s Animation Business Podcast that includes a brand new podcast each week specializing in the tales of at present’s animation professionals – how they acquired to the place they’re and what they discovered alongside the best way. Now residence to 213 episodes, the podcasts cowl all areas of the trade, together with storyboarding, writing, animating, directing, visible growth, and sport design. Friends have included returning visitor Aaron Augenblick; the infamous JJ Villard; Spike & Mike’s Spike Decker; Disney Director John Musker; Sony Lead Animator Humberto Rosa; Frederator’s Fred Seibert; Tumble Leaf’s Scarlet Nelson; and lots of others from main animation studios everywhere in the world.
Episode 213: Aaron Augenblick and His Pitch for PBS Present Metropolis Island
This chat options Brooklyn-based Augenblick Studios founder Aaron Augenblick. The animator, director, and producer shares how he pivoted from producing primarily grownup animated content material, resembling Superjail! and Teenage Euthanasia, to academic youngsters’ content material – Metropolis Island. Augenblick outlines the four-year course of of remodeling the present’s lofty concept into an precise collection – subsequently picked up by PBS and now obtainable on PBS Youngsters YouTube channel.
Tune in to Ibele and Augenblick to listen to:
- Augenblick’s “secret sauce” to the right pitch bundle
- The varied phases of remedy a pitch goes via earlier than it airs
- The influences that went into making Metropolis Island distinctive
Ibele has begun to publish the interviews as movies as properly – you will discover earlier interviews right here!
Learn extra about Augenblick on AWN… together with ‘Metropolis Island’: Aaron Augenblick’s Most Autobiographical Mission But, after which take a look at Augenblick’s Social Hyperlinks:
Ibele, himself a stop-motion animator (see AWN’s Recent Takes piece on his whimsical quick, The Foolish Duck Wizard), deftly digs into all method of subjects, encouraging interviewees to share insights and opinions on a variety of subjects like pitching reveals, advertising your work on-line, key abilities studios search for after they carry on expertise in storyboarding, vizdev, character design, and animation.
In 2018, Ibele, who lives in Toronto, determined to stop his profession as a Marketer and pursue his love for animation. Since then, he’s grow to be well-known for his viral animation productions, which embrace the beforehand talked about Foolish Duck Wizard, which is how A.W.N. first got here to know him and his work.
Be taught extra about Ibele’s work and podcast by visiting terryibele.com. You’ll find all The Animation Podcast episodes on his Soundcloud website: https://soundcloud.com/animation-podcast.
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
