Rubberonion Animation Podcast

SEGMENT EPISODE! Benedict Cumberbatch will tap into his inner Boris Karloff to voice 2017's animated Grinch film, Blue Sky is the first to settle in the huge animation studio wage-fixing lawsuit, and the Astro Boy Reboot gets a poster... we also talk about Tax Day and the new TMNT movie trailer. You also get a preview of next week's episode (our interview with Adam Phillips), there's an audience question AND 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: (4:54) "How You Doin" (5:00) Talking about Tax Day (8:14) "TMNT: Out of the Shadows" trailer (21:15) Animation News of the Week... (22:03) ‘Astro Boy Reboot’ TV Series Debuts New Poster (31:29) Benedict Cumberbatch to voice the Grinch in 2017 Animated Film (39:37) Blue Sky settles in wage-fixing suit (50:53) Audience Question: "How many jobs do you do a year? How much time do you 'budget' in, to wor

SEGMENT EPISODE! This week we get to talk about the BFG, Roald Dahl's dirty mind, and a possible new Speedy Gonzales movie! But we really have fun going through all of YOUR awesome animation submissions to March's #RubberOnionBattle and talking about them! 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: (3:35) "How You Doin" (12:10) Animation News of the Week... (12:48) THE BFG trailer (22:57) SPEEDY GONZALES movie in the works (35:37) Battle Talk: March's #RubberOnionBattle (1:06:10) Rapid Fire!!!!!!!!   Media Referenced During this Episode: March 2016's #RubberOnionBattle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGUnt123Z10 I refer to this picture on this week's episode of the #RubberOnionPodcast... remember it. Story to be told... pic.twitter.com/n0CIKF6buK — Stephen Brooks (@rubberonion) April 12, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxdB8E26-lw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld9GaDKAxhg&feature=youtu.

SEGMENT EPISODE! Busy + tired = Stephen is grumpy. But you listeners saved me by providing all the stories and topics you wanted covered and we ran through them all (saving some for later episodes as well because they were just so good)! It's a brisk 1hr episode this time so enjoy! 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: (6:05) "How You Doin?" (6:28) Rob's continuing "Foot Surgery Saga" (12:21) The fix to Stephen's OpenToonz crash issue (16:25) Barefoot Bandits + Cypress Hill (17:55) TMNT Crossover episode "Trans-dimensional Turtles" talkback (16:45) Trailer Talk (21:59) Animation News of the Week... (22:38) Scooby Doo Collab Jam (26:40) Andy Kennedy's "Slow Wave" (29:21) "Nerdland" redband trailer (38:45) "Loving Vincent" new trailer (42:16) "Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV" feature film trailer (46:52) More "Finding Dory" character designs released (47:58) Rapid Fire!!!!!!!!! (57:48) February's

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 126 "Voltron-and-on" Check out Alex Dudley's Patreon Page and YouTube Channel   (Follow @RubberOnion)

SEGMENT EPISODE! There's so much to talk about this week: OpenToonz was finally released, Adam Phillips returns to Brackenwood with "Last of the Dashkin 2," we have a Creator Spotlight on Alex Dudley of DToons and we get a cartoon character to give us a shoutout! The news stories this week was mostly trailers so we get to talk about the weird world of Voltron and LEGO saving Batman. Enjoy the show! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes  And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps: (7:03) "How You Doin?" (16:45) Trailer Talk (17:33) 

We got to talk to 2-time Oscar nominated director Tomm Moore of Cartoon Saloon about comics, animation, tattoos and producing Indie Animated Films! This show has a couple of my favorite stories (Miyazaki smoke-break, TMNT desks, and The Living Shadows) and was all around just a blast of a time recording the show. There's a lot to learn about the mentality and approach needed to get into the Indie animated filmmaking game and he gives some fun behind-the-scenes tidbits along the way. Also, remember all those questions you posted on my facebook page?... yea he answers every single one of them! Don't forget to check out the topics & timestamps below. Thanks for listening/supporting and enjoy the show! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes Be sure to check out Tomm Moore & Cartoon Saloon around the internet: Tomm's Twitter Tomm's Tumblr Cartoon Saloon Twitter Cartoon Saloon Website    And you can now check us out on SoundCloud! You can even listen via YouTube... so many options!   Topics & Timestamps

SEGMENT EPISODE! This week we talk about the tough distribution situation that "The Little Prince" is in, the upcoming Ghostbusters animated film, and the TMNT crossover episode with its 80s counterparts. There's an audience question, a preview of next weeks interview with Tomm Moore, talking about all the #RubberOnionBattle videos from February and Rapid Fire! This was a really fun episode to put together and I think you're going to love it. I'm already part way done with the editing of the episode next week and you are going to love that interview, trust me! Preorder my book coming out in July 2016: "Tradigital Flash: 12 Principles of Animation in Adobe Flash" Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!   Topics & Timestamps: (5:25) "How You Doin" (10:50) Animation News of the Week... (11:10) Paramount drops US distribution of THE LITTLE PRINCE (19:08) GHOSTBUSTERS cartoon reboot gets 'Clash of Clans' commercial director (25:32) 

HOT-COCOA SHOW! Now that we're in our third month of the #RubberOnionBattle (check out January & February's compilation video in the links) I thought that a discussion about improving the speed and efficiency of your animation was appropriate. I get this question a lot and you can check out my detailed list on the companion blog post by clicking here! Preorder my book coming out in July 2016: "Tradigital Flash: 12 Principles of Animation in Adobe Flash" Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps: (9:52) What animating "faster" means (16:05) Planning and talking about process (36:03) Working with character rigs and staying organized (48:19) The importance of Hotkeys (51:56) Using program Extensions (58:44) Smears & other tips (1:06:09) Reusing Keys from previous work (1:12:17) Refining your character designs   Media Referenced During this Episode: #RubberOnionBattle Feb 2016 Check out more of your hosts: Stephen Brooks Rob Yulfo And pl

This segment premiered in #RubberOnionPodcast 122 "What's the Deal? Doh!" Check out Ross Bollinger's website for his animated "Pencilmation" web-serieshttp://www.Pencilmation.com   (Follow @RubberOnion)

SEGMENT EPISODE! Since the Oscars were last weekend we talked about Animation & the Oscars throughout history, we get an audience question about the 2D vs 3D "rivalry" and apparently Homer Simpson will be LIVE for the first time in an episode in May. This week is a fun combination of a segment episode and a hot cocoa show actually due to the return of a neglected segment... "slow burn!" Enjoy this fun episode and one that has one of my favorite titles ever (you'll find out why when you listen). Preorder my book coming out in July 2016: "Tradigital Flash: 12 Principles of Animation in Adobe Flash" Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Topics & Timestamps: (5:11) "How You Doin" (8:05) New Zealand Dildo Attack (12:18) Animation News of the Week... (12:56) Homer Simpson to be LIVE in an episode in May (23:45) Slow Burn: Animation and the Oscars (46:02) Creator Spotlight: Ross Bollinger (and his Pencilmation series) (1:14:50) Talking February's #RubberOnion

This week we have a very special interview with animator Harry Partridge (see below for a small selection of his works). We talk about YouTube comments, using Flash and ToonBoom, how following his own path helped him find success, money and "batboobs." We had so much fun recording this episode and I think there's a lot here for new and experienced Indie animators to learn from... so enjoy the show! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes Be sure to check out Harry's YouTube Channel and follow him on Twitter! And you can now check us out on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps: (3:50) Flash & ToonBoom (7:30) Where you learned animation (13:48) With Animation You Can (16:36) Go Animate (19:15) YouTube & Twitter comments (24:38) Social Issues & the changing landscape (26:52) Rifftrax (32:32) YouTube copyright and recent changes (35:30) Talking Money and that CartoonBrew post (42:20) Audience Questions... (42:38) Lamont Wayne: "YouTube's changes in their policies and compensation and how that's affected

I just got to see Anomalisa. I phrase it that way because it does feel a little bit like I have been given some sort of exclusive golden ticket, and not just because the film has a limited theater run at the moment - it was special. This segment was used in episode #120 of the RubberOnion Animation Podcast (click to listen to the entire episode) HOW IT STARTED Anomalisa started as a live-performance "sound play"; like a radio play but on stage. The actors read their lines in real time, a foley artist created sound fx in real time, all while the musician (Carter Burwell) played in real time. It wasn't intended to be recorded or preserved film. As writer/director Charlie Kaufman put it "we performed it twice in 2005... and then it was over... I liked that it was ephemeral." It was Dino Stamatopoulos, a friend of Kaufman's, who saw the play being performed at UCLA and asked if he could make it into a movie. You'll know Dino as the founder of Animation Studio Starburns Industries (Rick & Morty, and many mor

SEGMENT EPISODE! After such a long break from these you get 2 in a row, how about that! The theme this week is the broad range of animation and that means quality, quantity, and future projections! We talk about some animation news, answer an Audience Question, of course hit up some Rapid Fire segments, and I (Stephen) review Anomalisa on this episode while the written version and the segment by itself will be up tomorrow! We also have a talkback moment about Deadpool since I saw it last week and I make Rob jealous with my gloating. Finally, I want to give a shoutout to Mukpuddy who saw their new series "Barefoot Bandits" premiere this week, so congrats on that! Click the link on their name to check out the interview we did with them. Preorder my book coming out in July 2016: "Tradigital Flash: 12 Principles of Animation in Adobe Flash" Please Rate & Review us on iTunes   And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps: (3:05) "How You Doin" (6:05) Deadpool Talkback (13:39) Mukpu

SEGMENT EPISODE! It has been 2 full months since our last one of these so if you don't remember, these are explicit episodes... thar be swears! And there's kind of a lot to swear about. The Fine Brothers really pissed off the internet last week when they tried to trademark "React" for title use, and Marvel yanked fanimation series "X-Men: Danger Room Protocols." On the fun side, Robert Valley finished animation on his animated short film "Pear Cider and Cigarettes" and is using Kickstarted to finish post-production, but what we've seen so far looks awesome. We talk about all the trailers we missed in our time away from animation news discussion, our first animation battle has concluded and was awesome, and we return for RAPID FIRE! Enjoy the show   Preorder my book coming out in July 2016: "Tradigital Flash: 12 Principles of Animation in Adobe Flash" Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps: (13:45) Trailer Talk... (14:03) PeeWee on Netflix

Here it is... the final part in the RubberOnion Freelance School and we're talking about the likely goal in your third year: growing your business. Everyone starts this journey for different reasons, but independence is usually high up on that list. So what happens when you get to that point that you've gotten into the freelance game, you've established your brand, you started making some more money, and now you're up against a production wall - you just don't have enough ours in the day to progress any farther by yourself... you grow your business! This episode covers when to hire-out, which types of jobs to hire for and how to adjust your quote price for a team, the option of connecting with other Freelancers, contracts and the benefits of a virtual studio. Become a Patron on my Patreon page to get the more detailed ebook in February on starting a freelance business. And don't forget to check out the companion blog post with this podcast to read a more structured write-up on what to expect in your third ye

This week for art 3 of the RubberOnion Freelance School we're talking about the likely goal in your third year: making more money. There are a lot of things that you can do to shake up the status quo and get some more green in the bank but the number one item is to charge more. That, however, is much harder to do than to say so let us break it all down for you and give you tips, stories, analogies and metaphors to help you set your monetary goals and meet them! Sign up for the newsletter or become a Patron on my Patreon page to get the more detailed ebook in February on starting a freelance business. And don't forget to check out the companion blog post with this podcast to read a more structured write-up on what to expect in your third year of being a Freelancer! Listen for clay head, "eben" flow, plateau-sneeze, live 'n let die, the painting elephant that will die now, and "grammar... it's hard." Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud! Topics & Timestamps:

After last week's surprise interview with Don Bluth, we're back with part 2 of the RubberOnion Freelance School and this time we're talking about what would be the goal in your second year: creating your brand. We talk about using your own personality and voice to shape the tone of your brand, how to market yourself, the importance and limitations of a niche market and a bunch more. Sign up for the newsletter or become a Patron on my Patreon page to get the more detailed ebook in February on starting a freelance business. And don't forget to check out the companion blog post with this podcast to read a more structured write-up on what to expect in your first year of being a Freelancer! Listen for floating and hammocks, Gary Oldman Craigslist, Rob's Baked Buttered Beans, and Rabbi Schwarzenegger Please Rate & Review us on iTunes  And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Topics & Timestamps: (7:52) Recap of the previous Freelance School (#1) (13:34) The word: Brand (19:11) Using a Niche Market

This week I bring you a very special interview with DON BLUTH (Dragon's Lair, Secret of NIMH, American Tale, Land Before Time). His Indie GoGo campaign to make a sizzle reel for a "Dragon's Lair" movie pitch closes this Friday, January 15, so if you want some of the perks like autographs, tutorials, animation cells, a masterclass, and more you should check out the page! We talk about his time at Disney and decision to leave, his thoughts on sequels, CGI, the current landscape of animation and the internet, the importance of not dumbing things down for kids, and a bunch more stuff. We also took some of your questions so thanks to those of you who submitted! Check out the Indie GoGo campaign by clicking the image below and enjoy the show! Listen for animatronics, dog sneeze, cgi and hormones, Gary's playboys, and death... this was a fun episode! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes Also be sure to check out Don's Website and definitely like him on facebook! And you can now check us out on SoundCloud! Topics

To kick-off the new year, I'm having a month long "Freelancing School" where each week you get a blog post and a podcast episode based on one of your first four years in building a freelance animation business. This week it's all about what to expect when you finally decide to make that jump. We talk about how to pitch for jobs and where to find them, whether or not to take low paying gigs, how to quote for animation and some of the big changes that happen (like taxes and insurance). If you've been thinking about making a go at being a freelancer, January's selection of shows and posts is a good place to start! Sign up for the newsletter or become a Patron on my Patreon page to get the more detailed ebook in February on starting a freelance business. And don't forget to check out the companion blog post with this podcast to read a more structured write-up on what to expect in your first year of being a Freelancer! Listen for Jessie Katzenflippenburgers, the captain's thermos bag, scatman, and the $1 one-hour

HAPPY NEW YEARS! Every year I count down the top 10 podcast moments but there were so many this year that I opted to let the download stats to the talking. So here are the top 10 most popular episodes of the RubberOnion Animation Podcast of 2015 and I pulled a clip out of each one... enjoy and see you next year! Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on SoundCloud!  Countdown & Timestamps: (3:06) #10 (4:37) #9 (6:37) #8 (10:04) #7 (12:23) #6 (14:48) #5 (17:42) #4 (19:55) #3 (21:40) #2 (23:06) #1 Check out more of your hosts: Stephen Brooks Rob Yulfo And please Rate/Review us on iTunes  Subscribe on SoundCloud  ... and Rate/Review us on Stitcher while you're at it! (=