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Welcome to another episode of Animation One-To-Ones where we speak with Megan Nicole Dong, the creator of Netflix Animation's latest offering Centaurworld, which streams from the 30 July. "A war horse is transported from her embattled world to a strange land inhabited by silly, singing centaurs of all species, shapes, and sizes. Desperate to return home, she befriends a group of these magical creatures and embarks on a journey that will test her more than any battle she's ever faced before." Megan has worked in features for Dreamworks and on tv series for Nickelodeon before being scooped up by the streamer to bring us centaur world musical cavalcade of muppety mayhem with a surprise around every corner, filled with magic sparkles and merriment and action adventure. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch more One-To-Ones and subscribe to the Skwigly Podcast feed from your favourite podcast provider.  Guest: Megan Nicole Dong Presented, edited and produced by: Steve Henderson Music and graphics: Ben Mitchell Clips courtesy of Netflix

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Laura-Beth Cowley in conversation with award-winning London-based director Elliot Dear. Elliot Dear is an almost indecently talented animator, illustrator and director. His dazzling mixed media films are consistently groundbreaking, emotive and atmospheric. Elliot’s work displays a range and skillset rarely seen. Incorporating live action, stop motion and both hand drawn and 3D animation, his films feel like a throwback to the golden age of animation, whilst managing to be utterly contemporary and cutting edge. Elliot's notable mixed-media works include the John Lewis campaign 'The Bear & The Hare' and the BBC spot 'The Supporting Act'. Having built a superb body of work as a director at BLINKINK, Elliot's latest project is another Xmas-themed animation 'All Through the House', a season two episode of the Netflix anthology series 'Love, Death + Robots'. Animation One-to-Ones are available to download and stream via your preferred podcast provider or on our YouTube channel - like and subscribe for more. Interview conducted by: Laura-Beth Cowley Guest: Elliot Dear Presented, edited and produced by: Ben Mitchell Music: Ben Mitchell Thanks to Clive Olamiju and Reed Wiles

Presenting episode 102 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast! In this episode we review and discuss highlights from this year's Annecy International Animated Film Festival, including standout shorts in competition, Mikey Please and Dan Ojari's upcoming Aardman/Netflix special 'Robin Robin', Erick Oh's immersive short 'Namoo', Marq Evans's Will Vinton documentary 'ClayDream', Alberto Vázquez's 'Unicorn Wars', Jorge Gutierrez's 'Maya and the Three', Netflix's adult animation slate including the stop-motion anthology series 'The House'. We also welcome the legendary filmmaking team of Joanna Quinn and Les Mills to discuss their filmography and working history including their latest short 'Affairs of the Art', which received the Special Jury Distinction for Direction at Annecy. Also discussed this episode: Reflections on ten years of Skwigly for Ben and Steve, the announcement of Robert Morgan's feature film debut 'Stopmotion', the fiddly UX of online animation festivals and the Manchester Animation Festival's current call-for-entries. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Interview conducted and edited by Steve Henderson Edited and produced by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with award-winning London-based animator and director Anna Ginsburg. Following on from our first conversation with Anna in episode 2 of our podcast series Intimate Animation to discuss her Random Acts film 'Private Parts', in this episode we discuss some of the major projects she has worked on with Strange Beast in the five years since, including her viral CNN film 'What is Beauty?' (a visual overview of the ever-changing pressures on women to conform to body shape ideals), her more recent collaboration 'Typically' with Caitlin McCarthy (an animated celebration and destigmatisation of periods for Bloody Good Period and Mother) and her boldly-designed and beautifully animated Breast Cancer Now short film 'A Love Hate Relationship', playing this week in competition as part of Annecy 2021's Commissioned Films programme. Produced by Strange Beast with agency Weber Shandwick, the film conveys the different journeys, and accompanying emotions, women go on with their breasts; from pride and embarrassment as their breasts develop, to their breasts attracting attention from others, to breastfeeding and attending mammogram appointments. Animation One-to-Ones are available to download and stream via your preferred podcast provider or on our YouTube Channel - like and subscribe for more. Interview conducted by: Ben Mitchell Guest: Anna Ginsburg Presented, edited and produced by: Ben Mitchell Music and graphics: Ben Mitchell

Skwigly are proud to present the milestone tenth panel from Visible In Visuals, an organisation pushing to make the animation and VFX industries more diverse and inclusive through honest, open conversation. Episode 10 features a chat with people instrumental in getting ViV off the ground, discussing what progress has been made and what still needs to be done. Panel: Bimpe Alliu - VFX Concept Artist Mohamed Orekan – Animator Paula Poveda-Urrutia – Line Producer Tanya J Scott - Art Director Chair: Hodan Abdi This panel was recorded in May 2021 Illustration by Mohamed Orekan

Skwigly.com presents the Animation One To One Podcast with Ross Bollinger, creator of the hit YouTube show Pencilmation. With over 18 million subscribers and nearly 10 billion views for the elastic antics of pencil mate and pencil miss the success of the channel has allowed ross financial and creative autonomy on what he can do next, which has led him to create a brand new series Gil Next Door. We sat down with Ross to find out more about his work and running an animation empire on YouTube Animation One to Ones are available to download and stream via your preferred podcast provider or on our YouTube Chanel - like and subscribe for more. Presented by: Steve Henderson Guest: Ross Bollinger Edited and Produced by Steve Henderson Music and Graphics: Ben Mitchell

Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Laura-Beth Cowley in conversation with Mike Rianda, director of the Sony Pictures Animation/Netflix animated feature 'The Mitchells vs. The Machines'. Mike’s animation career includes his hugely successful CalArts film ‘Work’, as well as his role as creative director and writer on Disney’s critically-acclaimed and BAFTA-winning series 'Gravity Falls'. In his new film, co-written and co-directed with Jeff Rowe and produced by Oscar winning duo Phil Lord, Chris Miller as well as Kurt Albrecht, we follow creative outsider Katie Mitchell whose hopes of a new start at her dream film school are dashed by her nature-loving dad’s insistence on one final road trip where the two might finally bond. The already-doomed venture is scuppered further by a technological uprising, with every gadget from smartphones to Furbys joining forces to capture and rid the world of humans. The Mitchells will have to work together in order to stop the robot apocalypse. Animation One-to-Ones are available to download and stream via your preferred podcast provider or on our YouTube Chanel - like and subscribe for more. Interview conducted by: Laura-Beth Cowley Guest: Mike Rianda Presented, edited and produced by: Ben Mitchell Music and graphics: Ben Mitchell

Skwigly.com presents the Animation One To One Podcast with Maryam Mohajer, director of the BAFTA award winning Grandad was a romantic. Based in the UK Maryam fills her work with flavour of her Iranian birthplace through visual and musical collaborations, creating work that can make you laugh and in the case of her previous work Red Dress No Straps, creates devastation drama that leaves the audience profoundly affected. Animation One to Ones are available to download and stream via your preferred podcast provider or on our YouTube Chanel - like and subscribe for more. Presented by: Steve Henderson Guest: Maryam Mohajer Edited and Produced by Steve Henderson Music and Graphics: Ben Mitchell

Join Steff Lee as she chairs an informative and enlightening discussion on what it is like to be a parent working in animation. The conversation includes a range of topics including how they coped as new parents, the balance between work and family life and how the industry responds to parenthood. This panel is a diverse range of parents with children of varying ages. Panelists: Emma Fernando - Series Producer at CN Jim le Fevre - Freelance director and educator Evgenia Golubeva and Myles Mcleod - creators, writers and series directors. Robert Nelson - storyboard artist at Blue Zoo Marcia Rojas - 2D clean-up artist, animator and designer Rachel Thorn - 2D animator and animation designer Chaired by: Steff Lee Illustration: Marcia Rojas

Presenting the first Animation One To One Podcast with Erick Oh, director of Opera, a film currently competing for Best Animated Short at the 93rd Academy Awards. Having worked extensively for Pixar before recently leaving and collaborating with Tonko House, Oh's film Opera has been treating audiences to an immersive, cyclical view of society. It's a film that needs to be experienced and enjoyed on the biggest screen possible as it visually brings together the excess and drama of renaissance masterpieces alongside the technical brilliance that can only be achieved in animation. Animation One to Ones are available to download and stream via your preferred podcast provider or on our YouTube Chanel - like and subscribe for more. Presented by: Steve Henderson Guest: Erick Oh Edited and Produced by Steve Henderson Music and Graphics: Ben Mitchell

Presenting the first episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 4, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we meet Shoko Hara, whose film 'Just A Guy' offers unique and unusual insights into the relationship between serial killer Richard Ramirez and his female devotees – including his long time girlfriend Eva O – through testimonials as well as the director’s own personal correspondences. The film’s raw visuals and agile animation style, combined with elements of collage and archive footage, create a rich visualisation of the fascinating world of death row relationships and the women who nurture them. With festival selections including Annecy, ITFS Stuttgart, OIAF, Interfilm Berlin, Animafest Zagreb (winner of the Grand Prix) and Krakow Film Festival (winner of Best Short Film), the film handles the duality of ethics, emotions and love in the most unlikely of places. Also discussed in this episode: Short film highlights from recent and upcoming festivals including new work by Joanna Quinn, Marcel Barelli and Martina Scarpelli; inscrutable European TV offerings such as 'John Dillermand' and 'Monsieur Flap'; the return of 'Big Mouth'; and the unusual sexual politics of the new 'Space Jam' movie. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley Interview conducted by Laura-Beth Cowley Produced and edited by Ben Mitchell

The Skwigly Animation Podcast returns for its first episode of 2021. In this episode we discuss the animation highlights of the current awards season, including the BAFTA, César and Oscar nominations. We also welcome the filmmaking teams behind the Disney/Pixar feature 'Soul' (Pete Docter, Kemp Powers and Dana Murray) and the Netflix short 'If Anything Happens I Love You' (Will McCormack and Michael Govier), both of which having recently earned Oscar-nominations. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson. Interviews conducted by Steve Henderson and Martyn Warren. Edited and produced by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

Skwigly are proud to present the eighth panel from Visible In Visuals,  an organisation pushing to make the animation and VFX industries more diverse and inclusive through honest, open conversation. Join the second Women's panel with animation professionals with over 50 years of experience between them. They discuss their experiences with inclusion, struggles women face in the workplace, and ideal working environments. Panelists: Rebecca Warner-Perry - Line Producer at Illuminated Films Lauren Orme - Animator/Creative Director Picl Animation/Festival director CAF Helen Piercy - Animation Lecturer NUA Animation & VFX Beth B Hughes - Animation Series Director Jane Davies - Director at Aardman Animations Panel organised by Tanya J Scott and Hodan Abdi. Chaired by Hodan Abdi Illustration by Jane Davies

Skwigly are proud to present the seventh panel from Visible In Visuals, an organisation pushing to make the animation and VFX industries more diverse and inclusive through honest, open conversation. How can we look after our own mental health while working in the industry and how seriously is the crisis being taken by studios? Our Panelists discuss the realities of taking care of yourself while working in a competitive and often stressful industry, and how we can improve our understanding of mental health at work. Panelists: Evgenia Golubeva - Director Steff Lee - Co-owner of Kino Bino Studio Ben Mitchell - Skwigly Magazine/independent Filmmaker Sarah McCaffrey - Psychotherapist Mohamed Orekan - Animator Chaired by Tanya J Scott Illustration by Evgenia Golubeva

Skwigly are proud to present the sixth panel from Visible In Visuals, a new organisation pushing to make the animation and VFX industries more diverse and inclusive through honest, open conversation. Join a panel of female animation professionals based in the UK and Ireland as they discuss their experiences and thoughts on working in a creative industry as women in an industry which has been dominated by men for so long. Panelists: Gaïa Lamiot - Director/Storyboarder Steff Lee - Creative Director of Kino Bino Christine Peters - Lead Animator Paula Poveda-Urrutia - Line Producer Narissa Schander - FX Supervisor