Rubberonion Animation Podcast

INTERVIEW! This week we talk with illustrator and animator Robert Valley who just released an amazing Indie Animated Film "Pear Cider and Cigarettes" on Vimeo. We discussed the Kickstarter back in episode 109 and in it we said that we'd love to get him on the show... fast forward 6 months TO THE DAY (that episode was released Feb 10th and this is August 10th) and here he is! We talk the impact of music, the importance of editing, animating in photoshop, superhero oversaturation, using Kickstarter, loops, black frames, creaking doors, and coughing into your mouth (it'll make sense). Be sure to check out Robert Valley around the internet: Website Vimeo Twitter Instagram Preorder my book coming out in 2016: Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps: (3:21) Music (8:08) Voiceover (13:00) Robert's influences and history (19:26) DC Nation Wonder Woman short (25:32) Tone (30:44) Addiction and repetitive themes (39:28) Animating in Photoshop (4

SEGMENT EPISODE! This week there are some heavy topics and some fun, surface-level ones but we weave them together into a chat like only we can. Enjoy! Preorder my book coming out in 2016 Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Topics & Timestamps: (6:26) "How You Doin" (11:42) Animation News... (13:07) "Justice League Action" Highlight Reel (23:03) New "Rocket & Groot" animated shorts in style of Skottie Young (35:21) Arc Productions shutters doors under financial trouble (57:04) Alex Hirsch's "Gravity Falls" treasure hunt (1:02:54) Rebecca Sugar addresses representation as a Bisexual Woman (1:14:10) Slow Burn: "Where's the line between companies stealing art style and fan art using IP?" (question via Peter J Casey)   Media Referenced During this Episode: https://youtu.be/Pctd-ThJDOo   Check out more of your hosts: Stephen Brooks Rob Yulfo   Preorder Stephen's Animation Tutorial Book: And please Rate/Review us on iTunes  Subscribe on SoundCl

SEGMENT SHOW! This week we talk all sorts of news from last weekend's SDCC and beyond Preorder my book coming out in 2016: Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Topics & Timestamps: (7:07) How You Doin'? (15:26) Don vs Raph by Jhonen Vasquez (31:51) Turtles Take Time (and Space)' by Brandon Auman (45:37) Ben 10 reboot clip (48:07) Hey Arnold character designs (54:28) Pixar will stop making sequels (1:15:51) New Ducktales teaser art and information (1:22:20) Japanese trailer for Moana (1:33:00) Fan-O-Rama (1:46:29) New Woody Woodpecker hybrid film (1:54:46) New Pepe Le Pew film written by Max Landis   Media Referenced During this Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOj1N-u9is4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQNZcBTOgt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOuSCfJgpd8&feature=share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljik3zsGNF4 https://youtu.be/cfNRPKKF4qU    Check out more of your hosts: Stephen Brooks Rob Yulfo   Preorder Stephen's Animation Tutoria

This week we spoke so much about June's #RubberOnionBattle that we made it into an entire show! Don't forget to vote for your favorite and submit your cartoon for July's Battle (topic is "Mustache Problems"). Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Topics & Timestamps: (13:07) Jason Zayas (22:11) Greg Pugh (31:08) Xenia Bougaevsky (38:43) Waymond Singleton (47:17) Rob L (56:43) Mike Boas (1:05:42) Spencer Holmes (1:15:51) Eric Polley (1:23:22) Elizabeth Honer (1:35:13) Vicky Holloway (1:42:58) Chris Rodriguez (1:48:57) Rob Yulfo (1:58:12) Stephen Brooks Media Referenced During this Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGvRFLNBqtw Check out more of your hosts: Stephen Brooks Rob Yulfo   Preorder Stephen's Animation Tutorial Book: And please Rate/Review us on iTunes  Subscribe on SoundCloud  ... and Rate/Review us on Stitcher while you're at it! (=

This week we have a completely unplanned, loose chat about anything that came up during the time. We talked about Gamera's "fart flying," we invent a theme park around Forest Gump, and talk about what Pokemon, Go means for the future success of other augmented reality games... and invent some of our own! Preorder my book coming out in 2016: Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!   Topics & Timestamps: (0:00) Who knows...   Media Referenced During this Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j51XdsXGjFQ    Check out more of your hosts: Stephen Brooks Rob Yulfo   Preorder Stephen's Animation Tutorial Book: And please Rate/Review us on iTunes  Subscribe on SoundCloud  ... and Rate/Review us on Stitcher while you're at it! (=

INTERVIEW! This week we talk with animator Joel Furtado who most recently created the "X-Men: Danger Room Protocols" animated series which was unceremoniously pulled from YouTube, Vimeo and other destinations due to Marvel copyright claims. We discussed that situation back in episode 109 and now we get to discuss it all with the man himself. He was very open about it and it led into very interesting discussion about fanart vs parody (which we touched on before), the technical aspects of creating CGI Pixel Animation, working in the video game industry and the state of western Canadian animation work. Be sure to check out Joel Furtado around the internet: Twitter Instagram Preorder my book coming out in 2016   Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!    Topics & Timestamps: (3:08) Talking "X-Men: Age of Apocalypse" (8:12) Joel's background (9:52) "X-Men: Danger Room Protocols" situation recap (14:11) The problematic "Star Trek: Axanar" comparison (22:42) Ani

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 139 "Brexit Through the Gift Shop" Follow Paul “Otaking” Johnson on Twitter and Youtube   (Follow @RubberOnion)

SEGMENT SHOW! This week the world was talking about the "Brexit," so we talk with Steve Henderson of Skwigly about what possible impact it could have on animation production. We have a creator spotlight interview with Paul "Otaking" Johnson who did that excellent TIE Fighter fanimation. There's an audience question which might have spawned a brand new segment and of course Rapid Fire! Preorder my book coming out in 2016 Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps: (5:10) How You Doin'? (9:05) Next week's episode is... (11:15) Creator Spotlight: Paul "Otaking" Johnson (1:00:32) Conversation with Steve Henderson of Skwigly: "What impact might the Brexit have on animation production?" (1:34:36) Audience Question: "What tricks could you give a newbie who's in the market looking for purchasing or subscribing to a animation software?" ~Ronald Chaparro (1:42:17) Rapid Fire!!!!!!   Media Referenced During this Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watc

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 138 "Onion Knuckles" Read the full Top 5: Animated Music Videos blog post!!   (Follow @RubberOnion)

SEGMENT EPISODE! This is an all media week: trailers, clips, music videos... and we talk all about them! We finally get to see the first trailer for Disney's MOANA and the last trailer and clip for FINDING DORY and its Animated Short PIPER. But we also saw three trailers for films that kind of snuck up on us. But that's not all, TOP 5 is back and this time we're listing off our favorite animated music videos! Preorder my book coming out in 2016 Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Topics & Timestamps: (3:58) "How You Doin" (4:15) It's National Onion Ring Day! (8:37) Stephen & Rob read Facebook comments: "Trump Tools" (17:22) Trailer Talk... (18:28) MOANA (2016) first Trailer (26:34) Red Shoes & the 7 Dwarfs (2017) Teaser Trailer (36:56) STORKS (2016) Trailer #2 (46:38) SING (2016) Trailer #2 (56:00) FINDING DORY (2016) Trailer #2 (1:03:58) Animated clip from PIPER, the animated short playing before FINDING DORY (1:10:50) Top 5: Animated

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 137 "Two Cheeseburgers and a Slice of Cake" Support Cinzia Angelini’s “Mila” IndieGoGo Campaign Follow @MilaFilm on Twitter Visit the MilaFilm.com website   (Follow @RubberOnion)

SEGMENT SHOW! This week we talk with Indie Filmmaker Cinzia Angelini about her film "Mila," we get a question about our animation influences, and talk all about your awesome submissions to May's #RubberOnionBattle! Support Cinzia Angelini's "Mila" IndieGoGo Campaign Follow @MilaFilm on Twitter Visit the MilaFilm.com website Preorder my book coming out in July 2016 Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!    Topics & Timestamps: (4:06) How You Doin'? (6:00) Suit/Banana/Roach (6:00) Rob's Birthday (16:24) Battle Talk: May 2016 (18:31) Creator Spotlight: Cinzia Angelini (23:53) Rapid Fire!!!!!!!   Media Referenced During this Episode: https://youtu.be/WWOQGpIQ8JY https://youtu.be/LAT9Q88x28w       Check out more of your hosts: Stephen Brooks Rob Yulfo   Preorder Stephen's Animation Tutorial Book: And please Rate/Review us on iTunes  Subscribe on SoundCloud  ... and Rate/Review us on Stitcher while you're at it! (=

MOVIE REVIEW! Back in 2014 we did a full review and side-by-side comparison of TMNT (2014) with TMNT (1990)... now we're taking on the modern sequel "TMNT: Out of the Shadows" (2016). We discuss the sequel in the original TMNT trilogy, "Secret of the Ooze" and compare it with this modern sequel. Does it hold up? What does Stephen think about how the Turtles were treated? What happened to April O'Neil? Did Bebop & Rocksteady fit the tone? Was Krang really necessary? Listen to find out what we think! Preorder my book coming out in July 2016 Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Topics & Timestamps: (4:06) Reminiscing about Secret of the Ooze (16:24) Why "spoilers" don't matter for this movie at all (18:31) Recap of complaints from TMNT 2014 (23:53) Starting our review of TMNT2 2016 with... April O'Neil & the "human" problem (32:33) The Opening Sequence: "rooftop tag" (40:45) Character Introduction Rate (41:21) Shredder & Karai are completely

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 135 "Virtual Reality and Emerging Technologies" (*Recorded in 2011) Check out Dave Johnson's Twitter Page and Website   (Follow @RubberOnion)

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 135 "Virtual Reality and Emerging Technologies" Check out Peter "Pikapetey" Casey's Patreon Page and YouTube Channel   (Follow @RubberOnion)  

SPECIAL TOPIC SHOW! This is our longest episode yet featuring 2 interviews ("Pikapetey" and Dave Johnson), a movie review of "The Jungle Book" (2016), discussion about Virtual Reality and other emerging technologies, and listener submitted feedback on those topics! It's a jam packed episode and over the next few days you'll see the movie review and both creator spotlight interviews be posted on their own as well. So much content, I'm going to stop typing so you can get to listening... enjoy! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Topics & Timestamps: (5:00) Creator Spotlight: Peter J Casey "Pikapetey" (44:36) Discussion about Virtual Reality (1:08:09) Creator Spotlight (vault): Dave Johnson (1:37:37) Movie Review: "The Jungle Book" (2016) (2:07:15) Slow Burn: "New and Emerging Technology and how animators approach them" (2:28:49) Audience Thoughts!   Media Referenced During this Episode: https://youtu.be/DkLJEA5Sl0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWVeuV

SEGMENT EPISODE! Nintendo announced that they're finally getting into the film-making business, the animators on the "Warcraft" movie were told not to change anything about the mo-cap performance, and Paul Johnson (otaking) is back with another awesome fanimation! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Topics & Timestamps: (7:19) "How You Doin" (8:59) Shoutout to Greg Pugh for making a book promo GIF (below) for Stephen (11:19) Shoutout to Exit 73 Studios for Boltron Ultimate (12:30) RIP Darwyn Cooke (13:50) RIP Alan Young (15:49) Trailer Talk... (15:49) "TMNT: Out of the Shadows" final trailer (comparison with the first) (28:46) Animation News of the Week... (29:54) Paul 'Otaking Johnson fanimation for R-Type (39:31) Nintendo officially moving into the movie making business (56:43) Animators were instructed to not change a bit of the performance capture footage in WARCRAFT (1:16:26) Rapid Fire!!!!   Media Referenced During this Episode: Thanks t

SEGMENT EPISODE! We got clips, we got news stories, we got skits, we got jokes... plenty to enjoy! There's a new clip for Dreamworks' TROLL movie - does it hold up? How about the full trailer for VOLTRON - is it what we wanted? There's a new TV-series from Lord & Miller called "Son of Zorn," Amazon gets into the user streamed video with Amazon Video Direct, and Disney will lay off up to 300 employees when they close down Disney Infinity production. There were more stories and trailers and we address those in the listener submitted Rapid Fire segment! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Topics & Timestamps: (7:10) "How You Doin" (7:10) Stephen saw "Captain America: Civil War" (21:34) Trailer Talk... (22:42) Clip from DreamWorks' TROLLS movie (37:15) Official Trailer | DREAMWORKS VOLTRON LEGENDARY DEFENDER (48:38) Animation News of the Week... (49:17) First look at Jason Sudeikis' live-action/animated comedy SON OF ZORN (1:00:38) Amazon Offers An

SEGMENT EPISODE! This week we also have a 'special' feature being that this episode is mostly UNEDITED; I mean I put in music and stuff but awkward pauses?... totally intact. We talk about studios skipping Comic-Con, Eric Goldberg's awesome couch gag for "The Simpsons" and of course the fact that Comcast just bought Dreamworks Animation for $3.8bil! Taylor Armstrong, festival manager for Animation Block Party in Brooklyn, comes on to remind you all to submit your films to their awesome event, we talk about ALL your #RubberOnionBattle submissions for April and cap it all off with your favorite segment... Rapid Fire! Enjoy the show! Preorder my book coming out in July 2016 Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps: (5:11) "How You Doin" (8:48) Rob's Mothers Day short (13:46) 'Game of Thrones' first fart joke (19:04) Animation News of the Week... (20:00) Marvel, Sony and Paramount All Skipping Comic-Con (27:07) The Simpsons Couch Gag By

HOT-COCOA SHOW! While Jon Favreau's "The Jungle Book" is wowing audiences it's also kicked up a conversation about the role of Motion Capture in movies and if it should be considered Live-Action or Animation. We've talked about mo-cap on the podcast but this time I decided to do my research on the path that the technology has taken over the years and how it relates to the distinction in what the final product is called and broke it all down the way only we do on the RubberOnion Animation Podcast! I'd love to hear your thoughts (preferably after you listen to the show haha) in the comments section below. Enjoy the show! Preorder my book coming out in July 2016 Please Rate & Review us on iTunes   And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Topics & Timestamps: (12:20) The "Avatar" Problem (32:57) Motion Capture vs Rotoscope (58:03) Possible Step 1: "Does the audience know it's animation?" (1:07:10) Possible Step 2: "Is it filmed in camera?" (1:10:25) Possible Step 3: "Is it replication or refin