Retakes

Retakes Podcast

Retakes Podcast is the 'self-help section' for Industry Animators, discussing the mindset and mental health side of one of the most creative careers in the world!

Hosted by Dani Abram

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Top 10 Retakes Episodes

Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Retakes episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Retakes for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Retakes episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

How to Freelance (and Stay Alive!)

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06/13/22 • 96 min

Dani and Leah talk about their freelance animation careers and the differences in being self-employed.

We talk about getting clients, the many, many client Red Flags to avoid, and the ANIMVFX UNION RATE CARD. What the hell.

As always, humble adoration and maximum respect to James Keeble for music and sound: http://www.jameskeeble.co.uk/

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What is Burnout?

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05/16/22 • 68 min

Leah and Dani talk about their experiences with being burned out in the animation industry, and discuss some possible solutions. SPOILERS: we all need to take more breaks!!!

MUSIC! AND SOUND! By James Keeble: http://www.jameskeeble.co.uk/

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Challenging Animation Snobbery

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02/26/24 • 18 min

Retakes Podcast is the self-help animation podcast for Industry Animators. Find us on social and join in the conversation!

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Animating Through A Pandemic

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05/02/22 • 68 min

Dani and Leah talk about their experiences of being sent home by studios and working their little butts off for two years through the Covid Pandemic.

They also talk about the differences in communication as animators and the importance of emerging into the new world with new hobbies!

Also: the first question submitted to GRANI DANI! (Agony Aunt name TBC!!)

Disclaimer: This does get a bit mental healthy (obvs) and if you're not feeling up for that, please skip it!

MUSIC! AND SOUND! By James Keeble: http://www.jameskeeble.co.uk/

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How To Get The Animation Job You Want

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05/30/22 • 70 min

WARNING: listening to this episode may cause your DREAM JOB, and then there'll be no jobs left for the rest of us. SO THINK ON!

Dani and Leah discuss in-depth how they approach finding - and actually getting - work in animation, something they're pretty much expert level at by now.

Dani has a Six Step Formula for success, and Leah has a Kill List.

We can't wait to hear your thoughts on this one, because the hustle never stops!!!

As always, genuine gratitude and adoration for James Keeble for music and sound: http://www.jameskeeble.co.uk/

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What is a Retake?

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04/16/22 • 55 min

Welcome to Retakes Podcast!

We (Dani and Leah) are two deep-thinking and always-striving freelancers working in the UK animation industry. We talk about retakes, and how we can apply them to our careers!

This is our first episode and we introduce ourselves to you, talk about our careers so far, the importance of taking breaks and what we hope this podcast will become!

One of the topics we touch upon is mentoring, and the many schemes available to animators right now. These include She Drew That and Screenskills! Both are free and VERY BRILLIANT!

Also mentioned: Cardiff Animation Festival shorts programme and Turning Red.

Thank you so much for coming along :D

Music: Defunct by Metre (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Metre/defunct/defunct)

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How To Animate

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06/27/22 • 92 min

Leah and Dani discuss how they actually animate, including briefing themselves, making their own plans, using reference (or not!) and taking their work through to final! This causes Dani to have a wee mental breakdown... STANDARD.

Some things we touch upon include Successful Drawing by Andrew Loomis and What Is Subtext? Animation Lessons from a Dreamworks Animator.

Also, follow Kayvon Darabi-Fard, the master storyboarder that BLEW DANI'S TINY MIND!

Let us know if you find this useful! We'd LOVE to hear from you on Twitter, Insta, or email [email protected]

As always, humble adoration and maximum respect to James Keeble for music and sound: http://www.jameskeeble.co.uk/

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Personal Work

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07/11/22 • 70 min

In this episode, Leah and Dani discuss the concept of personal work, including the What, How and Whyyy.

If you're struggling to find time, or the pep, to complete your own work around an already worky career, tune in to this one for a whole heap of tips!

MUSIC! AND SOUND! By James Keeble: http://www.jameskeeble.co.uk/

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Nightmare Freelance stories!

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10/31/22 • 68 min

TRICK OR TREAT?! What's this? A NEW EPISODE OF RTKS?? The time has finally come when Dani and Leah read out your terrifying freelance tales. Turn the lights low and grab a bowl of treats as we read out some of the scariest stories known to the freelancing world.

🎃🎃🎃HAPPY HALLOWEEN!🎃🎃🎃

We'd LOVE to hear from you on Twitter, Insta, or email [email protected]

A huge thank you to everyone who emailed in with a spooky tale - We're sorry if your story didn't get featured on this episode of RTKspodcast but there is always next Halloween >:)

As always, humble adoration and maximum respect to James Keeble for music and sound: http://www.jameskeeble.co.uk/

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