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Wesley Louis | Animation Director & Co-Founder (The Line)

07/07/19 • 31 min

As diverse storytelling dominates the creative scene we went to one source of all the action to learn about putting your sauce into action - Wesley Louis, Co-Founder of The Line studio and Animation Director.

His recent animation short, The Mighty Grand Piton, took a familiar story (child meets robot) and remixed it sending shock waves through social media. We had to talk about his work and he told us about the feedback he’d received including one moving reaction. We found out how he balances being a studio Co-Founder and creator for multiple big name brands like Viceland and LeSean Thomas, what unexpected motivators led him to making a career change, what advice he’d give to aspiring/emerging talent, why the story matters and what it means to him to do it #ForTheCulture. He shared so much with us that this is going to be a double dose of episodic enlightenment. This being the first and the second will follow next week. Lucky you!

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Culture in the Craft

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SPECIAL GUEST:

Wesley Louis

The Mighty Grand Piton

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BEACON/SIGNAL MAKER:

John Djob NKondo - Animator Extraordinaire

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FASCINATION FOR ANIMATION:

Laputa Castle in the Sky, Thundercats, Ultra-man, Ulysses (31), Black Dynamite, Bebe’s Kids, The Boondocks, The Proud Family, Akira and Dragon Ball/Z.

THE CAST/COLLECTIVE:

Esther | Designer - 2D diverse animation ambassador

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Lor | Resident Head of Production & Snr VFX Producer - C/Suite collaborator & pioneering projects evangelist

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Our thanks to -

Fabio

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