Category Archive for ‘Inbetweens’ at The Animation Podcast

Inbetweens

My Comicon checklist

Published on July 18, 2006 in Elsewhere and Inbetweens. 12 Comments

I’m sorry to report that I won’t have a new show for a short while. We’re in the middle of a production crunch at work and I’m trying to find where all the time went.

I am happy to report that I’m going to the San Diego Comicon this weekend. In no particular order, here’s a list of the people I don’t want to miss. I plan on picking up a bunch of sketchbooks this year. The animation presence at the Con has been growing every year and this list reflects that. It’s a lot of people I’ve known in animation, or people whose work I’ve enjoyed online. I’ve tried to list where all these people will be on the show floor, as well as their weblinks. Sorry for any misspelled names, I put this together between playblasts. If there’s anything else you think I should see, leave it in the comments.

Stuart Ng Books - 5113

— Out of Picture - Peter de Seve and Blue Sky artists, Sat 12:30-2:30

— Pierre Alary - Sat 4-6 sun 2-3:30

— Ricardo Delgado sketchbook

E-ville press - 4802

— Enrico Casarosa, Ronnie del Carmen, Scott Morse, Jeff Pidgeon, Jim Mahfood, Louis Gonzales

Flight comics - 1131

— Rodolphe Guenoden

Stephen Silver - H6

Thinking Animation - Jamie Oliff - 720

1 on 1 Animation - Mike Polvani, Wayne Carlisi - 720

Rick Maki - 721

Ragnar - 722

John Nevarez - G3

Broadview Graphics - Robh Rupel - 5105

Ovi Nedelcu - at Image Comics booth - 2729

Chris Turnham - F3

Tim Biskup - 4937

Bruce Timm - 4901

Electric Tiki - Tracy Lee - at Sideshow collectibles booth 1929

ASIFA Hollywood - 5434

Conduct Happiness - Joe Moshier, Chris Sonnenberg - 5514

Academy of Art University - 4601

Alcatraz High - Bobby Rubio - 1943

Animation Magazine - 319

Atomic Monkey Inc. - 3948

Bakshi Productions, Inc. - 5003

Bill Plympton, The Animation Show - 5496

Billy West - 1332

College for Creative Studies - 519

Douglas R. TenNapel, Inc. - 1218

The Entertainment Art Academy - 1021

Gagne International - Michel Gagne - 2003

Gama-Go - 4838

Gary Ham/Dean Yeagle/Scott Tolleson - 1416

Happy Tree Friends - 3348

Louie del Carmen/ Octavio Rodriguez - H3

Sony Pictures Imageworks - 3935

Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted - 1437

Toxictoons - Eric Pigors - 321

Van Eaton Gallery - 501

Westlund Productions, Inc. - Dream On Silly Dreamer - B8

Craig Elliott - 4912

Steve Gordon, Mitchell Bernal - 4609

And some talks I may duck in to see:

State of the animation industry - Sat 12-1, room 4

Quick draw - Sat 12:30-2 room 6CDEF

Bradbury, Harryhausen, Ackerman - Sat 1-2, room 20

Comics podcasting - Sun 11:30 -1 room 8

EDIT: Almost forgot to add:
Club Coconut - Chris Sanders - 2044

EDIT 2: And another one - thanks Cartoon Brew:
John Kricfalusi - at Every Picture Tells a Story - 4721, Sat 2-5

A worthy cause

Published on July 17, 2006 in Elsewhere and Inbetweens. 10 Comments

UPDATE: TOTAL RAISED $500Skip to the end of this post for the final update.

In September, I’ll be participating in the 2006 Nautica Malibu Triathlon to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. As part of a relay team, I’ll swim a half mile in the ocean and then hand it off to my teammates who will bike and run to the finish. In honor of the movie Cars, we’ve named our team the Tri Tractor Tippers. Say that three time fast.

It is for charity and I would really appreciate your support. I know that a great bunch of people listen to this show and if just a small percent of the audience donates any amount, no matter how big or small, it will be easy to reach my goal of raising $300. All donations are tax-deductable. I already feel good knowing The Animation Podcast may help bring something positive to this cause.

Click here to go my donation page and see how much we’ve raised.
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Some GK drawings

Published on July 10, 2006 in Elsewhere and Inbetweens. 9 Comments

John Nevarez consistently delivers fantastic drawings and an un-ending list of blogs to check out. You’ll be happy if you check the first on his list from yesterday for some work from a past guest.

Question : Did the email notification work?

Published on July 6, 2006 in Feedback and Inbetweens. 8 Comments

There’s a link in the sidebar to sign up for email updates. I’m wondering if the people who added their email actually got a notification of the latest podcast. If you did or didn’t, could you please let me know. Everyone doesn’t have to reply, naturally, but I’d like to hear from at least a handful of people to know if it’s working. Thanks.

Disney Family Albums

Published on June 29, 2006 in Elsewhere and Inbetweens. 9 Comments

Amid mentioned this on Cartoon Brew on Sunday, but listener Jeff Zirky doesn’t want anyone to miss it and I think he’s right. The Disney Family Albums aired on the Disney Channel in the ’80s and unless you taped them then, they are hard to find. Not any more, thanks to the wonder that is YouTube. Here’s what Jeff had to say:

If you click on the link below, you will find 3 of the Disney Family Albums. Frank Thomas, Marc Davis, and Ward Kimble Video interviews, in parts. This is not just inspirational, but a great sorce for learning. For example Frank talks about how he took the difficulty he had in life, and put it into his scenes. This is a great tool for creating charater.(Reminded me of your Nick Ranieri interview when he talkes about his scene in Rescuers.) I hope you share this with all of your listeners.

Check them out while they last.
Here’s the link.

Thanks Jeff!

Survey Results: Favorite Character

Published on June 26, 2006 in Feedback and Inbetweens. 15 Comments

Here are your top picks for the Listener Survey question “Who is your favorite animated character?” The variety of results were amazing. There were 113 characters that each received one vote. I’ll post those here soon.

Here are the Top Ten (plenty of ties here):

10. Buzz Lightyear
10. The Iron Giant
10. Jack Skellington
10. Mike Wazowski
10. Samurai Jack
9. Ariel
9. Pinocchio
9. Roger Rabbit
9. Wile E. Coyote
8. Baloo
8. Donald Duck
8. Goofy
8. Gromit
8. Homer Simpson
7. Kuzco
7. Mickey Mouse
7. Mr. Incredible
7. Scrat
7. Sully
7. Totoro
6. Aladdin
6. The Genie
6. Shere Kahn
5. Stitch
4. Tarzan
3. Bugs Bunny
2. The Beast
1. Daffy Duck

More to come

Published on May 15, 2006 in Inbetweens and News & Info. 16 Comments

Hey everybody! I’ve been trying to find the time to work on the next shows (with a NEW guest), so when that all comes together, you’ll be getting Show 16. In the meantime, while I’m not editing audio, I’ll be taking a fresh look at my email inbox to see if I can whittle down the pile and respond to you if you’ve contacted me. Thanks for the patience. I know there are a lot of different places you can go on the web for animation information, and I’m happy to have you stop by here.

On a side note, I’ve been getting questions about unfinished interviews. I’ve got more Nik Ranieri audio to make a few more shows (and then we’ll get together again to bring it to the present). You’ve heard all the Ron & John audio I have, but now that they’re back at Disney, we can finish what we started. Like I said in Show 15, I’ll be meeting again with Glen, so if you want to ask him a question, use the Voicemail link in the header and record yourself.

You’ll hear from me soon.

-Clay

BBC Motion Gallery widget for OSX

Published on May 4, 2006 in Elsewhere and Inbetweens. 5 Comments

The BBC Motion Gallery is a fantastic resource for video reference with comprehensive categorization of all its movies. I’ve spent hours combing through the clips. If you’ve got a Mac and OSX Tiger, they’ve released a Dashboard search widget to make finding just the right clip a snap. Separate search words with spaces and it will pare down the results. I searched ‘dog fight’ and it came up with a charming clip of prairie dogs fighting. Amazing!

Here’s the download page.

Thanks to The Unnofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) for the link.

Get email updates. Also, testing a more compact look.

Published on May 3, 2006 in Inbetweens, News & Info and Noteworthy. 3 Comments

For those of you who aren’t subscribed in iTunes, and for the people who don’t get updates via the RSS feed - basically anyone using the internet like it’s still the 90s - I’ve added the option to get an email when a new show is released. I haven’t exactly tested it, but when the next show comes out we’ll see how it works.

You’ll only get an email when a new podcast is posted.

You can find the link in the sidebar or just click here.

I’m also trying out this new layout that puts the focus on the shows and makes them easier to see on the page. Everything else will be placed under the category ‘Inbetweens’ - what else? - and truncated to show just the title.

If you’re afraid you’ll miss something important, always read the posts in the ‘Noteworthy’ category. They have the cute little heart icon. Isn’t that special?

Happy Birthday Animation Podcast!

Published on April 30, 2006 in Inbetweens, News & Info and Noteworthy. 28 Comments

It was one year ago today that the first show was released. The site’s been around for a bit longer than that, and the idea is even older, but this seems like the right date to celebrate. Podcasting wasn’t even a hobby over two years ago so I could have never imagined that I would spend so much of my spare time doing it. When I started, there were about 3,000 registered podcasts on Podcast Alley. Today there are over 18,000. Many have come and some have gone, but The Animation Podcast is still going strong at the ripe old age of 1.

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