Toon Talks Podcast

A tremendous amount of fun and inspiration was shared over a cuppa tea in my hotel room at CTN, chatting with these guys. Nayoun Charoenchai, Tony Chau and Justin Rasch join me to discuss how it is, these days for animators looking to break into features. I thought there would be lot of people out […]

It was such a pleasure to have Studio Technique’s Artistic Director, Samantha Youssef on to chat about drawing and traditional animation! Samantha has studied at prestigious art academies around the world, she is a graduate of Sheridan College, Canada as well as the Gobelins intensive program in Paris and holds a degree in Film from […]

I had Bret in mind to be one of the first people I interviewed and I’m so delighted it finally happened! Bret comes from a performance background, graduating from Oberlin College in 1991 with a Bachelor’s in English and Performance. She started her (currently) nineteen year career in animation at Pixar as a Production Assistant. […]

Carlos Baena’s work has been a huge inspiration to me over the years and so I was super excited when he agreed to come on and chat with me! Native to the Canary Islands, Carlos found his way to San Francisco to attend the Academy of Art University. After graduating he started working on commercials […]

I’m delighted to have the very lovely, and wonderfully talented Darrin Butters on the show to talk acting and animation! A Commercial Art student who found his way in Disney through his acting background. Starting out on Dinosaur, working his way through a number of movies including Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen […]

I was truly honoured that Sergio Pablos accepted my request to chat. Such a humours and genuine person it was a pleasure to have him on the show and I’m delighted to share it with all of you! A graduate of Cal Arts, currently directing at his own studio in Madrid, the SPA Studio. In […]

One of the most amazing animators I’ve ever known, and yet so approachable. It was such an honour and a pleasure to have Mark Oftedal as a guest on the show! I feel like Mark always had a unique sense of appeal and design in posing, as well as movement… that seemed to be ‘built […]

Supervising animator on Olaf, and generally awesome guy Hyrum Osmond joins me for show number seven. Hyrum honours his lineage of famous Osmonds, with his incredible work on the hugely acclaimed ‘Frozen’ as well as ‘Tangled’, ‘Wreck it Ralph’, ‘Bolt’, ‘Prep and Landing’ and ‘Paperman’. In this interview Hyrum talks about his time at Avalanche […]

I was very excited to sit and talk with the incredibly insightful and very lovely, Mark Henn. I felt like Mark was in a particularly unique position to answer not just questions about Disney (Having spent his entire 36 year career there), but about appeal and what makes a great shot… We discuss his process […]

With twenty six years of experience I knew Mícheál (AKA Brock Stryker, to his DW buddies) would have great industry stories and lots of ‘golden nuggets’ of advise to share. … he didn’t disappoint. Having never gone to animation school, Mícheál learnt the art of animation from the old school Disney folks that made up […]

My WS4… and soon to be WS5 iAnimate Instructor Tal Shwarzman joins me to chat about his time in animation. A graduate of Sheridan College, who found his way to some to the top studios of our time. Tal talks about his start in animation, finding his feet at Blue Sky, to his days in […]

Friendly banter ensues as Jason Ryan, founder of iAnimate current animator at Disney Feature Animation, joins me to talk about animation. Jason hardly needs an introduction! But anyways… With a strong traditional background, Jason soon found himself heading to Disney Feature Animation fairly early in his career. Leaving to pursue his plans for what was […]

While at CTN back in November 2014, I had the pleasure of borrowing a few minutes from the highly respected, Ted Ty…for my second podcast. A graduate of Cal Arts, who continued his studies at Disney Talent Dev program. Ted grew as part of the Disney team for nine years before moving to pastures new, […]

I am super excited to bring you my first podcast with Animation Veteran Keith Sintay Keith has an immense wealth of experience covering his 20 years in the industry. In this interview we talked about how he started at Disney’s internship as a cleanup artist to later become an inbetweener and animator. He talks in-depth […]