Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is HUNTER SPARAGNA! Hunter is a 3D character artist, concept artist, and toy designer whose work can be seen in games Spirit of the North 2 and Dreamscape VR, as well as various action figures for McFarlane Toys.
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to HUNTER about A COYOTE ATTACK, LIVING OFF OF WILD BOAR, PROBLEM SOLVING IN 3D, and so much more!
While we talk, we doodle on a MAGMA, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, NEWGROUNDS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!
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1:38 where did you get started?
4:03 Hunter Feeds a dog
11:38 Weird Time in the Industry/Financial Advice
19:15 Save money by eating wild boar!
26:30 Moving to LA
41:55 Personal Work outside of Work Work
43:03 Spirit of the North 2
54:01 Brute Forcing Assets
Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is MACIEJ GLIWA! Maciej is a writer, director, storyboard artist, and animator whose work can be seen on the Clone Wars, The Bad Batch, and is also the developer and designer for Vision add-on for blender.
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to MACIEJ about REASON FOR DEVELOPING VISIONS, GOING FROM LAWYER TO CODER TO ANIMATOR, LEARNING BY DOING, and so much more!
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0:58 Developing Visions
7:48 Blender being Daunting
10:21 How Visions Works
15:30 Going to school for coding
17:12 Why not law school?
18:42 Why do you like blender?
28:54 Best way to learn blender
50:10 Learning by doing and problem solving
Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is NICOLE GOUX! Nicole is an illustrator and cartoonist whose work can be seen in her comic Pet Peeves, Forest Hills Bootleg Society and Fuck Off Squad written Dave Baker, and in the recently published This Place Kills Me written by Mariko Tamaki.In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to NICOLE about SENDING OUT POSTCARDS FOR JOBS, COLLABORATING, SELECTING COLOR PALETTES FOR HER BOOKS, and so much more.While we talk, we doodle on a MAGMA, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, NEWGROUNDS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals! ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Thank you to our Patreon Blockheads for supporting the show!Want to become a Patron? ► https://www.patreon.com/crtvblockHit subscribe and follow our socials for updates! ►https://bsky.app/profile/crtvblock.bsky.social ►https://x.com/crtvblock ► https://www.instagram.com/crtv.block/ ► https://www.threads.net/@crtv.block ► https://creativeblockpod.newgrounds.com/■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Follow the hosts!VEE! ► https://x.com/violainebriat ► https://www.instagram.com/violainebriat ► https://www.threads.net/@violainebriat ► https://www.violainebriat.com/SEAN! ► https://linktr.ee/lordspew ► https://x.com/lordspew ► https://www.instagram.com/lordspew/ ► https://www.threads.net/@lordspewFollow the guests!NICOLE! ► https://www.nicolegoux.com/► https://linktr.ee/nicolegoux ► https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/ngoux/ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Editing by Clemence Briat ► https://twitter.com/clem_n_mProduced by Marco Beltran ► https://twitter.com/orcsocksReels/Shorts by Ebuka.PNG ► https://www.instagram.com/ebuka_0fomaTheme song by Louie Zong ► https://twitter.com/everydaylouie■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■0:38 Sending out postcards for work ("I don't recommend this")5:48 Advice!8:50 DAVE BAKER AND PERKS OF COLLABORATING13:16 ADVICE FR GIVING NOTES TO OTHER CREATIVES15:23 FEELING ANXIOUS ABOUT LETTING SOMEONE ELSE DRAW HER IDEAS20:13 MAKING BIG CHANGES LATE IN THE GAME23:18 FIRST BOOKS AND SELF PUBLISHING 27:59 ADVICE FOR ILLUSTRATORS TRYING COMICS30:07 BALANCING ILLUSTRATIONS TO MAKE SOME STAND OUT37:07 BREAKDOWN OF BOOK AGE MARKETS 42:39 DREAM PROJECTS AND ADAPTATIONS46:02 PICKING COLOR PALETTES FOR BOOKS48:39 ADVICE FOR STARTING COMINGS
Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is HARPER SIMS! Harper is a storyboard artist, illustrator, and background artist whose work can be seen on Tiny Toons Looniversity, Adventure Time: Side Quests, as well as her comic Little Myths!
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to HARPER about DESIGN WORK IN CHICAGO, REVISIONS PIPELINE, HER COMIC LITTLE MYTHS and so much more.
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1:08 MOVING TO LA
2:41 LESSONS FROM EDITORIAL
4:37 ANIMATING SANDWICHES
7:30 CHICAGO PRINTERS GUILD
15:10 HEAVY MANNERS
16:54 SEAN’S WORKSHOP
24:42 REVISIONS + LOONIVERSITY PIPELINE
29:05 ADVENTURE TIME: SIDEQUEST TALK
33:51 LANDSCAPING YOUTUBE CHANNELS
39:37 GHOULS! OOOWEEE (SCARY SFX)
42:02 SOCIAL MEDIA (SCARY SFX)
46:25 LITTLE MYTHS
49:49 ART MEDIUMS AND MARKER TALK
55:36 HARD THINGS TO DRAW
1:03:07 DEALING WITH CREATIVE BLOCK
Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is BRANKO KJLAJIC! Branko is a storyboard artist and animator who worked on Teen Titans Go!, Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam, and Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans!
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to BRANKO about WORKING SMARTER IN FLASH, POOPIN’ OUT ANIMATION, and so much more.
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0:00 TIPS FOR WORKING SMARTER IN FLASH
9:14 “POOPING OUT ANIMATION” TO LEARN
13:07 HOW DO YOU FIND JOY DOING THIS WORK?
18:56 PRE-SHOW HAIR CALLBACK!
25:11 DEVELOPING HIS ART STYLE
33:39 BRANKO AND SEAN WORKING TOGETHER
44:23 COMMUNITY ENERGY OF TEEN TITANS GO!
48:49 EQUIPMENT TALK
Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is STEVE WOLFHARD! Steve is a storyboard artist, director, and writer who worked on Adventure Time, Fiona and Cake, StuGo, and is currently directing on Super Mutant Magic Academy.
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to STEVE about LIVING IN A FOREST, TURNING DOWN ADVENTURE TIME, STORYBOARD PRO, and so much more.
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0:00 CRYING FROM STRESS/LIVING IN A FOREST
5:40 SAYING NO AND YES TO ADVENTURE TIME!
15:10 ANIMATION IN CANADA VS LA
17:55 MOVING COUNTRIES AND JOBS
28:03 X, FORMERLY TWITTER
32:38 WHY DID THEY BOARD ON PAPER?
34:00 STORYBOARD PRO, A NECESSARY EVIL
47:32 PITCHING FOR A BIG IP
Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is KEITH PAKIZ! Keith is an animator, director, and storyboard artist who worked on Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Wylde Pak, and animated various A Studio Digital shorts.
In this episode, SEAN talks to KEITH about MOON COUNTY, CREATING MUSIC FOR THEIR ANIMATED SHORTS, WRITING A SEGMENTED STORY, and so much more.
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0:00 KEITH’S SHORTS
4:02 LEARNING TO ANIMATE
9:14 “I PRIDE THE TIME THAT IS MINE”
11:48 Musical Sequences
13:28 SOUND DESIGN IN THEIR SHORTS
16:09 “Vee wanted me to ask you about SKA”
21:02 A Studio digital/creating long form stories
28:09 Strange Comments
29:34 Listener Questions
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guests are VEE and SEAN? HUH? That’s right! Vee and Sean invite you to sit at the cafe table with them as they catch up with each other and chat about all things going on in and around animation.
In this episode, VEE and SEAN ABOUT VEE’S CHILDHOOD AI FRIEND, SEAN’S “REGULAR GUY” TRAINING, “SEXUALLY CHARGED MOANING,” and so much more.
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Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is RYAN GILLIS! Ryan is a storyboard artist, director, and animator who also worked on Pickle and Peanut, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, and is the creator of StuGo!
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to RYAN about DEVELOPING STUGO, PITCHING PROCESS, FEELING SAFE TO SAY YOUR WORST IDEA, and so much more.
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0:00 INTRO INSPIRATION
2:07 DEVELOPING STUGO
6:53 OVERALL (NOT THE PANTS) DEAL
9:06 PALM ROT SHORT
16:16 INSPIRATIONS FOR STUGO (RIP Manolo)
18:26 WRITING TIP
27:03 THAT STUGO STYLE
37:16 INTENTIONAL SANDBOX
41:58 PITCHING PROCESS/A TREAT FOR THE SLIDE/NUMBER FREAKS
48:22 FEELING SAFE TO SAY YOUR WORST IDEA/PICKLE AND PEANUT
1:00:03 STORY MATH
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is the duo behind TITANIUM DAYDREAM, Ben Crouse and Jacob Sluka! Ben was a staff writer on StuGo and storyboard artist on Pickle and Peanut. Jacob is a background painter and story artist, and is the animator for Titanium Daydream. Titanium Daydream is a supernatural, low-poly mystery centered around Benjamin Jacobs, who is called back to his home town in Iowa by an unknown force.
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to BEN and JACOB about HORSES, EVERY 3D ASSET IS MADE FROM SCRATCH, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EASTER EGGS, and so much more.
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0:00 Horse Talk
5:30 Starting Titanium Daydream
6:50 Making 3D assets from scratch
12:58 Time Between ideation and first episode
14:15 Episode Premises
17:57 What explorer would you compare yourself to?
19:07 Origins of “Benjamin Jacobs” + Easter Eggs
24:28 Anytime I can avoid storyboarding is a win
26:00 A window into their past!
34:57 Casting Voice Actors
44:29 Baywatch Nights
46:26 Shipping
52:37 Don’t be afraid to be Cheesy
1:00:52 Twenty-five minutes of silent drawing
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is TALYA PERPER! Talya is a storyboard artist and director who worked on Teen Titans Go! and Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs! as well as the writer for the Steven Universe comics "Crystal Clean," "Ultimate Dough-Down," and "Anti-Gravity".
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to TALYA about HER MENTORSHIP CLASSES, STARTING ON PICKLE AND PEANUT, A TYPICAL TITANS EPISODE, and so much more.
While we talk, we doodle on a MAGMA, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, NEWGROUNDS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!
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0:00 Intro
15:51 First job
30:00 Questions
41:23 TITANS
1:06:58 Outro
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is MATT & MEGS! Matt + Megs are Matt Yang and Megs McShane. They both work in animation and created Matt + Megs as an opportunity to collaborate and express themselves creatively through animated loops, shorts, and comics.
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to MATT and MEG about THE FIRST THING THEY DID TOGETHER, HOW THEIR TASTES BALANCE EACH OTHER, PLANNING, ADJUSTING TO ASPECT RATIOS, and so much more.
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0:00 Intro
1:29 Creating the channel
31:54 Planning
1:08:44 Questions
1:23:34 Outro
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is David C. Smith! David is a director, storyboard artist, and woodworker who has worked on Primos, Mulligan, Hotel Transylvania 4, and Angry Birds 2.
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to DAVID about INTERNING at CARTOON NETWORK, FINDING A HOBBY, THREE Es OF DIRECTING, and so much more.
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0:00 Intro
4:01 Interning and pitching
12:40 First job
17:33 Woodworking
27:19 Specialization vs variety
38:46 Hate on shows
45:54 The three E’s of Directing
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guests are LEE THOMSON AND SOMMER MONTENEGRO from SHORT SHORT FEST! Short Short Fest is a touring animation festival and community event organized by the Barnhouse Collective. Upcoming dates: AUGUST 2nd in Pennsylvania and AUGUST 9th in Michigan!
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to LEE and SOMMER about CREATING THE FEST, ANTHROCON, CURATING SUBMISSIONS, and so much more.
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0:00 Intro
0:45 Starting Short Short Fest
32:22 Conventions
49:50 Questions
1:16:37 Creative block
1:18:39 Outro
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is MORGAN NOLL! Morgan is a background painter and prop designer on Angry Birds: Mystery Island, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Digman!, and Tales of the TMNT.
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to MORGAN about LEARNING TO DRAW AT 23, CLASSIC LITERATURE, HOW LONG IT TOOK TO GET INTO ANIMATION, and so much more.
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0:00 Intro
1:50 Where did you start off?/Switching Majors
8:49 Covid :( and learning to draw at 23
14:01 Some Classic literature talk
18:23 Journey into animation
32:35 Questions
1:17:42 Creative block
1:22:23 Outro
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is MIRANDA HARMON! Miranda is a comic artist, background designer, painter, and storyboard artist whose work can be seen on Tuca and Bertie, Among Us, and the Fungies. She also illustrated the Mayor Good Boy books!
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to MIRANDA about HER ENTRYWAY INTO COMICS, BEING A CARTOON NETWORK STORYBOARD TRAINEE, DRAGONBALL Z, and so much more.
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0:00 Intro
11:11 Working alone or with others
42:30 Boards vs backgrounds
43:03 Questions
1:20:09 Creative block
1:25:07 Outro
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is BREE PAULSEN! Bree is a writer, illustrator, and comic artist who can be seen in her graphic novels Garlic & the Vampire, Garlic and the Witch, and recently released the Firelight Apprentice! She is currently working on a young adult adaptation of Dracula from the perspective of Mina Harker.
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0:00 Intro
17:36 Reviews
26:30 Getting representation
34:57 Ideas and OCs
56:18 Publicist
1:10:45 Creative block
1:15:32 Outro
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is PAUL SCARLATA! Paul was a storyboard artist, writer, and director whose work can be seen on Big Mouth and the new show Mating Season. On the side, he's been creating an animated horror film, the Van Helsing Society.
In this episode, VEE talks to PAUL about HIS JOURNEY TO BECOME A DIRECTOR, SWEAT EQUITY, BEHIND THE SCENES OF CREATING VAN HELSING SOCIETY, so much more.
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1:40 Starting as a revisionist on Regular Show
9:12 Journey to Becoming a director
13:06 Pitching Original Ideas
23:53 Sweat Equity
35:26 Creating Van Helsing Society
40:58 two takeaways from making this project
42:14 Making a Feature Over Series
46:39 Goals For Kickstarter
1:00:17 Inspirations for Van Helsing Society
1:23:25 2 Types of Creative Block
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guests are the COUCH KIDS, Ari Castleton, Colton Davis, and Andrew Brooks! Couch Kids is a comedy podcast that talks about anything and everything nerdy. The hosts all work in animation and share their whacky opinions on things all while having a good laugh all around.
In this episode, SEAN and VEE talk to the COUCH KIDS about STARTING THE SHOW AS A WAY TO HANG OUT, WHAT TO DO WHEN THE BIT IS OVER, TAKING TURNS TAKING THE HIT, so much more.
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0:00 Intro
1:49 Couch Kids Intro
3:45 Warmin' up to 'Cast
10:15 Making the podcast
14:28 "People Say our bits are MAGIC"
18:01 "It's real when you're doing it right"
20:57 What to do when the bit is over :(
25:04 Ari gets shut down (as a bit)
27:16 Taking turns taking the hit (for the bit)
28:40 Origins of Couch-O
33:08 Patreon
42:31 Strategy
54:26 Questions
Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is EMILY BRUNDIGE! Emily is the creator of Goldie on Apple+ and the Shut Up! Cartoon series Pubertina, developed Harvey Girls Forever! for Netflix/Dreamworks, and recently released a book, A Guide to Developing an Animated Show!
In this episode, SEAN and VEE talk to EMILY about CREATING PUBERTINA, HER BOOK, and UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF AS A CREATOR, so much more.
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0:00 Intro
1:38 Starting her animation writing career
7:35 Experimental Animation + Pubertina
13:07 “There are a lot of Pokemon”
17:06 Fox ADHD
18:34 “Selling” + Developing a show
23:54 Changing her pitching strategy
26:41 A lil ad break (for Emily’s book)
28:46 Figure out what you want to prioritize
35:56 Working with a Composer
54:07 Questions
1:20:27 Creative block
