Animation For Adults: The AFA Podcast

Hey there animation fans, and welcome to a very special episode of The AFA Podcast. Today we start a brand new series on the podcast- The Art Of Animation, where we look in-depth at different parts of the animation project. And seeing as we have a working animation professional on our regular team, where better to start than with Storyboarding?

Rachael is joined by regular co-host and professional storyboard artist Dan and guest Jamie Iles, who is a storyboard artist at Blue Zoo animation. They talk about the craft and challenges of storyboarding for animation, how storyboarding fits into the process of animating and discuss how to get into storyboarding.

We think you'll find it a fascinating listen, whether you are interested in getting into the industry yourself or if you are just interested in learning more!

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• Rachael Ward @fail2ninja • Dan Hamman @hammoo

GUEST: Jamie Iles @JamieIles

Welcome to another exciting instalment of The AFA Podcast's Interview series. We've got a double bill for you this time, as Evan Vernon spoke with the people behind two of the shorts that are eligible to be nominated for this year's Best Animated Short category at The Oscars, as well as the Annies and other major awards.

First Evan spoke with Amanda Miller of Psyop Studios, executive producer of the short Lost and Crowned, based on the popular mobile game Clash Of Clans that has had over 45 million views on YouTube. Amanda talks about her career so far and how the short came to be. Amanda is also the producer on upcoming adult animated comedy Devil May Care featuring Alan Tudyk, premiering on SyFy's adult animation block TZGZ on February 6 ar midnight- so we also learn all about that!

Then (from 0:19:30) Evan spoke with Diane Weis and animator Piotr Kabat about their short film Minor Accident Of War, which has also qualified for The Oscars. The film adapts a poem written by award winning poet and social activist Edward Field, based on his true life experience during World War II, when his crew crashed into the North Sea during a bombing raid on Nazi Germany.

SHOW NOTES

Amanda Miller

Directed by Borja Peña Gorostegui

Psyop

Evan Vernon interviews Jinkyu Jeon, directors of The House of Loss, featured in Program 72 of our In Competition Films for Season 7 of Animation Nights New York.

THE HOUSE OF LOSS

The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from one instance, he finds himself looking closely at their faces.

Jinkyu Jeon

Jinkyu Jeon was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1987. In 2008-2015 he studied animation at the “Korea National University of Arts”. In 2015-2017, he worked as a 2D animator at "Studio Shelter" and in 2019, he worked as a 2D animator at "Workroom Yaha". In 2018-2022, he studied animation at the “Tokyo National University of Arts”.

SHOW NOTES

00:40.000

Animation Nights New York presented the 2022 ANNY Cannes Short Film Corner Collection (Program #72 | Season 7 | In Competition Films)

Program 72

https://www.animationnights.com/screening72/

Social Media Links

https://www.instagram.com/jjk_jeon/?hl=en (Instagram)

https://www.jkjeon.com/ (Professional Website)

Interview by Evan Vernon

Theme music by Joe Lazenby

Welcome back to The AFA Podcast and another edition of our interview series. It's a bit of a different one this time as we spoke to documentary film maker Leslie Iwerks.Leslie started her career with the film The Hand Behind The Mouse on her grandfather and Disney Legend Ub Iwerks. She also directed The Pixar Story and most recently co-directed Superpowered: The DC Story that is now streaming on Max in the US and Sky and NOW TV in the UK.

Animation For Adults Presents Animation Nights New York's (ANNY) Animator Interviews. AFA and ANNY's Evan Vernon talks with British animator Chris Plimmer, whose short Man's Best Friend Forever is screening at the upcoming Februray virtual screening of Animation Nights New York and French animation Julie Rembauville and Nicolas Bianco-Levrin whose short Small Sparks is also screening.

ANNY's February event takes place Sunday, February 21, 11am - 11pm with, Mixer Events 3pm - 5pm & 8pm - 10pm EST.

SHOW NOTES Man's Best Friend Forever Director: Chris Plimmer

Chris Plimmer is a 4th year MA art student specializing in stop-motion puppet fabrication. His future hopes are to go into directing or puppet fabrication for his future career. He spends much of his free time expanding his online portfolio which is filled with sculpted stopmotion puppets and animations.

Personal Website: https://www.chrisplimmer.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chris_plim/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chris_plim?lang=en

Petite Etincelle / Small Spark Prototypes Productions

Director: Julie Rembauville

Julie Rembauville was born in Paris in 1982. She studied literature and audiovisuals at La Sorbonne University. In 2003, she published her first book for childern, Je ne me laisserai pas faire ! (I won’t let them do it !) working with the artist Nicolas Bianco-Levrin. Then, they realized films and books, working on adaptation principally. The Machino received the award of the best DVD-book for children in 2006, given by the CIELJ (International Center of Litterature for Children) She’s now working on an animated serie project for TV, KROAK, written with Nicolas Bianco-Levrin and produced by Sacrebleu productions and on a short Ombre qui vole.

Writer / Producer: Nicolas Bianco-Levrin

After studying applied arts at the Duperré school in Paris, Nicolas Bianco-Levrin publishes about twenty youth albums as an illustrator. At the same time, he co-directed about thirty animated short films with Julie Rembauville for which he designed the graphics. The films then travel to many festivals around the world. http://nicolasbianco.fr/