Rubberonion Animation Podcast

This weekend was Disney's D23 presentation so we discuss all the information that came out of that... live-action remakes, sequels, and the incredible line-up on Disney and Pixar animation film slate all the way to 2018! Stephen starts the show by giving a mini-review on the British re-dub of the Argentinian animated film "Metagol" (which in the UK is called "Unbeatables"), Rob tells a story about having poop on his shoe and Pat breaks some news. Then we're off talking about how Furries love Zootopia, why Cars 2 might get too much hate, if Donald Trump was producing the upcoming Dia de los Muertos inspired Pixar movie "Coco" and the problem with trying to make the "definitive" version of a fairy tale. Enjoy the show! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (5:13)   Stephen saw "Unbeatables" on Netflix, which is the British dub of "Metagol" which is coming out in the US as "Underdogs" (14:16)   Pat's announcement (20:04)   D23 Announcements... (25:57)   Live action remakes: "

We finally got to see what Chris Farley's SHREK would've been like in an early story reel which surfaced this week. His passing in 1997 was a big shock to us so there's a lot of discussion surrounding this topic this week. But that's not all because there's a "Bob the Builder" reboot with a new character design who looks... symmetrical, a new Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show coming to Netflix which is 2D (!) and the rights have been secured to make a Dungeons & Dragons movie. That last story also contains the skit this week is Stephen reading excerpts from Ice-T's description of his experience recording the D&D audio book (starting at 1:03:24)... so enjoy that! There are technical discussions as well surrounding the new Windows 10 and a blog post which tried (and failed) to properly compare the budgets of live-action VFX to that of fully CG Animated Films. The questions this week comes from a listener wondering if we're going to CTNx this year, which ticket we bought, and if that's right for her. This is

TMNT is getting a 2D animated special from Titmouse Inc, the "Guardians of the Galaxy" Disney XD series shows some serious action with its new trailer and Chinese animation shows it's on the rise in a big way with "Rock Dog." There were also two passings we mention this week: wrestler and actor "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, and animation historian and reporter John Culhane. In other news, apparently there's a PEZ movie coming (PEZ like the candy not PES the animator... which would be fascinating and wanted). Also, Stephen is back from traveling and as such is in front of a nice sounding mic instead of the patchwork sounds of the tablet you heard for the last few weeks. Enjoy the crisp cool sounds of jet lag! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (11:55)   New 2D Animated TMNT special announced (23:16)   New clip and 30 second trailer from Disney XD GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (38:38)   DEADPOOL trailer for the trailer (44:55)   Chinese produced animated film for western audience crosso

While there weren't a lot of media type animation stories (except for The Good Dinosaur trailer which is covered), that didn't stop this episode from turning into one of the more interesting ones filled will discussions over the roll cartoons play in a child's development, the nature of copyright in the internet age, why the Surface Pro 4 is a sign that Microsoft is doing more for the creatives of today than Apple... oh and there's an Emoji movie being developed... which ALSO turned into an interesting discussion over public domain stories! We also field a question about if these two 2D (hand-drawn) animators would/will ever dabble in 3D (computer modeling). Enjoy the last week of "Stephen's traveling audio" because next week I'll be back in the office and I'll be crystal clear! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (16:34)   THE GOOD DINOSAUR trailer (29:04)   Sony Pictures producing Emoji movie after winning bidding war (41:35)   Surface Pro 4 projection details (46:03)

The creators of the hit animated short COIN and their newest short BOLTRON NINJA MASSACRE, Chris Burns and Bob Fox of Exit 73 Studios talk to the podcast about their history, methods, goals, and video games (because of course)! We cover how COIN came to be, what prompted the creation of BOLTRON NINJA MASSACRE, how they work together to actually make those awesome shorts, the two-letter onomatopoeia that really tick Chris off and a TON more! We hope you enjoy this episode and are inspired by their tight teamwork and vision. Chris and Bob were great to talk to and if you stay until the end, there's a special surprise for regulars. It's a song. Did I spoil it? CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (4:30) Why the name "Exit 73" (5:30) The creation of Exit 73 Studios (9:50) Chris Burns' time at Augenblick Studios (12:35) Why they decided to get a dedicated studio space (14:00) Their early work up on YouTube (especially Detectaholic) (17:08) COIN! Where the idea came from, video

Comic Con was this weekend and we try to cover the MANY stories that came from that: trailers, movie/series announcements, crossover comics, etc. Not to mention the stories that came out during the week not linked to the event like Harry Shearer coming back to "The Simpsons." I'm also still on the road, so I've left Rob back in NY for a trip out to the IL where I am recording with Pat in his house... or as Rob like's to call it, "The Ryan's Den!" It's a pretty energetic episode this week so enjoy the excitement -- I hope it's contagious. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (7:59)   Harry Shearer returns to the THE SIMPSONS (10:38)   New GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY animated series poster (13:01)   TRANSFORMERS: COMBINER WARS comes to Machinima (15:59)   Brad Bird's THE IRON GIANT is getting re-released in theaters (20:11)   DEADPOOL trailer (28:30)   SUICIDE SQUAD trailer (35:16)   THE KILLING JOKE is being made into an Animated Movie (along with 2 other original DC stories)

There are some amazing fan art topics this week! The BARTKIRA trailer was finally posted, Ave Espelita created a CGI tribute to Samurai Jack and Andrew Kaiko illustrates an INSIDE OUT / LOONEY TUNES mashup! We also talk about a classic Disney attraction closing at what used to be MGM and a discussion about the new Boomerang shows preview images response. Happy Wednesday! Here... have a podcast. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (13:59)   BARTKIRA trailer (22:08)   CGI Samurai Jack tribute animation by Ave Espelita (34:03)   The Magic of Disney Animation attraction is closing (39:30)   TOP CAT prequel trailer (48:59)   Artella collab site (1:04:49)   New WB Animation on Boomerang: Bunnicula, Wabbit and Scooby-Doo (1:24:46)   SHOUTOUT to Andrew Kaiko for his INSIDE OUT / LOONEY TUNES fan art Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat Ryan (@TheBadPatRyan)And please Rate/Review us on iTunes & Rate/Review on Stitcher while you're

By request, here is a spoiler FREE review of Disney Pixar's INSIDE OUT!! We don't stop there though, there are things to say about the animated short "Lava" ahead of the movie as well as an open discussion about Pixar in general. This was a really great week for art and storytelling so I love episodes like this! There are some other topics covered (which you can see in the annotations below) as well as a Rapid Fire segment and a shoutout about some fan art done which you can see below! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (9:56)   Pat's opinion on THE PEANUTS MOVIE trailer from last week (19:47)   Our Spoiler Free INSIDE OUT review!! (49:23)   Discussing the animated short "Lava" before the movie (59:37)   Open discussion about Pixar (1:13:21)   RAPID FIRE!!!!!! (1:21:16)   SHOUTOUT to Matthew Robert Davies Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat Ryan (@TheBadPatRyan)And please Rate/Review us on iTunes & Rate/Review on Stitch

I (Stephen) am back in NY on my new Wacom Companion 2 and it actually handled the recording and editing rather well! Rob and I talk 3 trailers, 2 series announcements, 3 audience questions and many more stories in our Rapid Fire segment! Of the trailers, "Peanuts" absolutely blew us away (retroactive spoiler alert). I also take the beginning of the podcast to talk about the Wacom Companion 2 and Adobe Flash CC 2015. You can check out the images under the annotations for a quick look at a weird bug I encountered and the symptom solution in Windows 8.1. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (4:54)   Stephen got a Wacom Companion 2 and Flash CC 2015 (23:00)   PEANUTS trailer #3 (39:27)   THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS teaser trailer (49:34)   Kung Fu Panda 3 teaser trailer (1:01:15)   New POWERPUFF GIRLS series with new lead voice cast (1:12:02)   New THREE STOOGES series from Titmouse Inc (1:16:03)   RAPID FIRE (1:29:20)   Audience Question: “We all heard the comment 'It looked goo

This week we have a special interview with animator Robb Pratt ("Superman Classic," "Flash Gordon Classic"). We talked about how and why he started the Classic series, his thoughts on Superman as a character, Flash Gordon and how he relates to Star Wars, various trials and tribulations navigating the business world of animation entertainment, his recent work on "Wabbit" (the Bugs Bunny animated shorts show) and his absolute love of story and art! Robb was very generous with his time and couldn't have been more fun to talk to. In particular, I loved his insights into the character relation between Bugs Bunny and Superman, the analysis of the Rancor pit scene from "Return of the Jedi" and how he got that creepy voice effect in "Bizarro Classic." Check out his YOUTUBE CHANNEL, WEBSITE and TWITTER for all things Robb Pratt! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (6:03)   Why Robb is spelled with two B's (7:08)   How the Classic series started and what impact it had (15:14)   Bu

An animated bomb called "Klaus" was dropped on the community this week screaming that hand-drawn animation can visually compete with CG in today's climate. And then the creator, Sergio Pablos, says that he'll talk about the techniques used to create the short trailer at an Annecy talk. That's about as close to a mic-drop as we get in the animation field... so we talk about it... a lot! Other stories include Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur" teaser, Mega Man getting a TV show, Disney adapting another animation into live-action and a bunch more actually (which is why this episode is almost 2.5hrs long)! Also, I drop an announcement this week about the special episode we have coming NEXT week so be sure to listen for that and send me all your questions via this blog post comment section and/or the #RubberOnionPodcast tag on Twitter and Facebook. To the show!! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (16:06)   KLAUS teaser short animation is beautifully and mysteriously hand-drawn (1:0

With Stephen and Rob taking on this episode alone with only their wits to guide them, stumble they do into a discussion about how and when to charge for your animated content thanks to a Vanity Fair interview of Don Hertzfeldt. We also field a question at the end about whether a listener should go into Freelance, move to a different city for a salary job or both. It's an all your-stories episode this week so strap in for the shoutouts and name drops! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (13:42)   Dreamworks tapped Jason Reitman to write/direct adaptation of "The Adventures of Beekle" (15:58)   Anime Studio 11 streamlines production for various types of animation (18:13)   Oscar Nominee Don Hertzfeldt interview on Vanity Fair (59:54)   "Kung Fury" (1:07:06)   Charter Communications acquiring Time Warner Cable in $78.7 billion deal (1:09:58)   Trailer for Blender’s New Open Source Film ‘Cosmos Laundromat’ (1:14:03)   Patrick Osborne ("Paperman") and Aardman Join Google’s Sp

This week's episode is discussing ALL VIDEOS. We have four main stories made up of 6 videos (embedded below): three CN pilots, Muppets trailer, a French student film & Robb Pratt's excellent "Flash Gordon Classic." If that wasn't enough, in the Rapid Fire segment has even more videos to embed (4 to be exact) and a discussion about studio expansions, Cannes, Disney's upcoming animated films and SO. MUCH. MORE!! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (7:25)   Cartoon network posts three cartoon pilots (26:15)   The Muppets (ABC) trailer (40:51)   French student film “Celles et Ceux des Cimes et Cieux” (“Girls and Guys from the Summits and the Skies”) by Gwenn Germain (47:29)   Flash Gordon Classic animated short by Robb Pratt (1:06:14)   RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!!! (1:37:38)   Shoutouts! Chris McEwan (who's graduating this year), Chris Kennet (who did art for "The Empire Strikes Back" Little Golden Book), and to those who showed love on a specific Facebook post this week: Jeff Yo

So here's what happened this week. The "Disney reuses animation" video mashup went around again and people got really negative. Harry Shearer's future with The Simpsons is in question and people got really bitter. The Simpsons released a couch gag featuring Rick & Morty and people called for an early termination for The Simpsons like it was worthless. Then Rob and I get on a call to discuss what happened during the week and I lose my mind a bit. Enjoy. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (10:08)   The "Disney Reused Animation" video mashup makes its rounds again... (22:35)   Harry Shearer's contract isn't renewed, out of Simpsons lineup (1:03:15)   Simpsons / Rick & Morty Couch Gag (1:31:08)   RAPID FIRE!!!!! Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat Ryan (@TheBadPatRyan)And please Rate/Review us on iTunes & Rate/Review on Stitcher while you're at it (=

Varying style of animation are being discussed here: claymation, digital warm-up pencil-tests, oil painting comic style and puppetry! We also had a lot of great RAPID FIRE topics submitted by you listeners and a Slow Burn question about ONLINE vs FESTIVAL distribution of your short film. Also, coffee + whiskey and suggestive gummy candies. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (8:58)   Spanish claymation horror film "Pos Eso" (English title, 'Possessed') by Sam. (20:20)   Geoff King's "30 Days of Animation" short project (30:24)   Benjamin Renner (dir. "Ernest and Celestine") directing 30min special based on his comic "The Big Bad Fox" (40:16)   The Muppets return to TV with ABC show (47:23)   RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!! (1:09:41)   Slow Burn Question: "I want to get your thoughts on what you think the most effective method of publishing an original short is? What are the implications of going the festival route as opposed to publishing online immediately, if any? Is there a criter

I recorded this episode with Rob today... about 3 hours ago. There's basically no editing on this episode and that's why the title is "You Get What You Get." You, the listener, saved this episode because I had SO MUCH to pull from! About half of the topics this week are pop culture related and half are specifically animation. Well done everyone... team effort! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (14:24)   Animated Spider-Man movie coming in 2018 written and produced by Lord & Miller (20:32)   Tyler Perry cast as Baxter Stockman in TMNT2 (2017) (25:30)   Brian Tee cast as Shredder in TMNT2 (2017) (30:55)   Stephen Amell cast as Casey Jones in TMNT2 (2017) (37:15)   Bebop & Rocksteady confirmed to appear in TMNT2 (2017) (46:51)   First Look at Will Smith as Deadshot in Suicide Squad (49:18)   Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run film (50:22)   Fox renews The Simpsons for seasons 27 & 28 (57:42)   Pixar artist Sanjay Patel gets personal with 'Sanjay's Super Team' (1:02:23)

"What is a Creative?" That's the theme of this week's podcast where Stephen and Rob are flying solo (duo?) on another 'hot cocoa show.' Check out the outline below with timestamps if you want to skip to a particular topic. We talk about why our career (animation) and creative careers in general are a bit different and sometimes hard to relate to by those that aren't in this type of field, what type of pressures we're under and how we cope with them, and the all important topic of wrestling work and personal projects at the same time. What is the deeeallll with objective and subjective criteria?? Drinking game to NOT do... sip whenever I say objective or subjective. Yea, don't do that. My hope for this week's episode is that we articulate why being in a creative field is so weird and seemingly incomprehensible to even those close to us and why that may not matter (and that's a good thing). I kept this episode clean so if you want to send this to someone who you feel doesn't understand you, wants to, and you do

Another week FULL of stories and interesting topics... and I get a fantastic migraine during the recording this week, because why not? But that doesn't stop us from recording an amazing episode for you all! Because we saw teaser trailers, Brad Bird's would-be take on "The Spirit," a 3D printed animated short, Toon Boom finally going subscription, and two new series (technically one new and one reboot)! Let me know the pain was worth it and leave a comment in this blog post (= CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! (19:29)   'World's first' 3D printed animated short CHASE ME (26:24)   THE BRAVE LOCOMOTIVE by Andrew Chesworth partly finished opening sequence (35:13)   Brad Bird’s 1980 pencil trailer for THE SPIRIT (42:32)   MTV resurrects Celebrity Deathmatch for new season (47:30)   New HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON series this summer on Netflix (56:08)   ToonBoom introduces subscription plan for Harmony (1:04:33)   RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!!!!! (1:34:17)   ... special Rapid Fire link from Mathias Sc

Where did the name 'RubberOnion' come from? Cat animation sells cars? Lynda.com sold for HOW MUCH?! We have a special 2hr episode of the podcast this week because there were so many relevant stories! A new segment debuts at the end as well where I answer some questions like what's the benefit of an LLC and how to spot a bad college. And who knows, you might be in our OTHER new segment this week: shoutouts! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (14:46)   ‘Clarence’ Episode Pays Tribute to Rubber-Hose Animation (22:07)   Studio Ghibli Does Cute Cat Car Commercial (26:54)   John Kricfalusi Makes ‘Squidbillies’ Promo For Adult Swim (32:10)   Lynda.com sold to LinkedIn for $1.5bil (42:26)   ‘Perfect Houseguest’ by Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata (52:19)   Adobe Character Animator (1:01:47)   No more Simpsons DVDs (1:09:50)   RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!!! (1:34:30)   Slow Burn Question: "Stephen, what was the benefit to going LLC for your business?" -James T. Nethery (1:40:10)   Slow Burn Ques

There aren't many main stories this week because of the high likelyhood of fakery (April Fools was a few days before this recording). But what we DO have was completely submitted by you listeners so thanks for the help! Disney is making another live-action movie off one of their animation properties, Adam West and Burt Ward are Batman and Robin again, there was a music video directed by Sylvain Chomet, and the main conversation is about the difference between a "job" and a "career," prompted by Will Finn's blog post. And, of course, RAPID FIRE! Also, this week I simul-upload to Newgrounds Audio Portal for the first time so if you're a member there give another shoutout! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (9:13)   Disney looking to make a live-action Winnie the Pooh movie (17:21)   New Animated Batman film with Adam West and Burt Ward voicing (27:55)   Will Finn posts about wanting a career vs a job in animation (51:36)   "Carmen" by Stromae music video directed by Sylva