Show 28 Glen Keane

12/18/17 • 17 min

This was my second time meeting Glen, I don’t mind telling you, that my first time I was too shy to talk. This time, I done a little better.

The legendary Glen Keane. He is the most well known animator alive today... perhaps due to how his characters makes us feel. Ariel, Pocahontas, Beast, Aladdin, Rapunzel... Tarzan. All of these stirring vast amounts of emotion like no other character before. Glen really does animate from the inside out.
So you can imagine my exhilaration (and nerves) as I got a few moments to ask his advice about animation. I tried hard to find questions that would reap the most beneficial information. I feel this interview is unique in that, we drive right into the heart of animation to try and discover what is at the foundation of making a legendary animator.

The making of Dear Basketball

Duet

Keane Art

This was my second time meeting Glen, I don’t mind telling you, that my first time I was too shy to talk. This time, I done a little better.

The making of Dear Basketball

Duet

Keane Art

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Show 27 Scot Stafford

The man behind the music of pretty much all my favorite short films, such a delight to chat with composer extraordinaire, Scot Stafford!
In this interview we discus the ins and outs of making incredibly engaging music. We talk about the challenges of creating music for Spotlight Stories’s 360 short films Vs music for regular film. We also chat about his production company Pollen as well as the charity work he does with Cambodian Living Arts. Scot has collaborated with the animation genius’s that are Glen Keane, Doug Sweetland, Jan Pinkava, Mark Oftedal and Shannon Tindle and he has won AICE’s 2015 Best Music Award for his work on Duet. As he says himself, anything he can stay about music, is applicable to any creative field, so no doubt all creatives will find some inspiration in this episode. Check out the links below for more information and I hope you enjoy the show!

Sonaria
Sonaria: Behind The Scenes
Pollen Music Group Website
Huff Post chat with Pollen Music Group
Sound Explorations with Scot Stafford
Pollen Music Group on Twitter
Cambodian Living Arts

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Show 29 James Chiang

It is such a pleasure to be able to share with you all, the inspiration I get every time I chat with James.

I’ve known James for a few years now, and he really is one of my top five all inspiring people to talk to. His engaging conversation always makes me look at things in a new way. I feel like I level up both as an animator and a human, after I chat with him. Having worked on Open Season and Robots as an animator, Oddbods as co-creator and the originally director, Surfs Up and Ice Age 2 in pre-production James now continues to teach and inspire the next generation of animators at Animation Mentor and Paint masterpieces (they really are, I’ve seen them!). Clearly this was a really fun chat for me, I thoroughly enjoyed it, I hope you do too.

Animated Spirit – Art, Animation and Film Analyis
Animation Mentor Profile