Animation For Adults: The AFA Podcast

Welcome back to another edition of The AFA Podcast's Interview series. This time we were lucky enough to chat with Pat Irwin. Pat is a musician and composer whose animated credits include the soundtracks to Rocko's Modern Life, Pepper Ann and Spongebob Square Pants. The soundtrack to Rocko's Modern Life has just been released on Nickelodeon Records.

We talked about Pat's career, his memories of working on Rocko, his love of cartoons and more!

SHOW NOTES

Pat Irwin Website

Suss

IMDB

Rocko's Modern Life Soundtrack

Welcome back to The AFA Podcast. We're here with another special interview episode. This time Chris spoke with Sam Lanier, the director of two of the shorts in another batch of Adult Swim Smalls shorts coming to Adults Swim's YouTube Channel this April. Sam is a Brooklyn-based animator and comedian, part of the comedy group Simple Town, as well as co-host of the podcast Raisin Man Arena.  He speaks about learning to animate in lockdown, how he writes the short, his love for British comedy and more.

Show Notes

https://youtu.be/Oq51CMzn3sI

Adult Swim Smalls

Sam Lanier

Simple Town

Smiling Friends 

Chris Morris

Stewart Lee

Yvonne Grzenkowicz interviews director Svilen Dimitrov and producer Mila Voinikova of the film “REW DAY” (produced by Miramar Film) featured in Program 76 of our In Competition Films for Season 8 of Animation Nights New York.

Yvonne Grzenkowicz and Kelly Barahona sit down to chat about the FIAF: Animation First Festival 2023.

Full show notes at https://www.animationforadults.com/search/label/Podcast?&max-results=10

Welcome back to The AFA Podcast with our first episode of 2023. And for our first show of the new year Chris and Dan talk everything awards season. They take a detailed look at the nominees for this year's Annie Awards as well as the animation categories at The Oscars and The BAFTAs. Then it's time for a look further ahead as they take a look at what exciting animated films are going to be released over the next year.

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Annie Awards Nominees

Oscars

BAFTAs

2023: The Year Ahead In Animated Film

Well, hello there! Can you believe The AFA Podcast is five years old this summer? We decided we needed to do something pretty special to mark this occasion. And what better way than by talking about one of our favourite films released in this podcast's lifetime (but somehow didn't managed to do a full episode on yet)? We were able to get the full original crew (as heard on the first episode) for the first time in a while- Rachael, Chris, Dan and Yvonne are all here! The film in question is none other than the Oscar-winning, game-changing dimension-hopping, web-swinging Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. 

We decided to do it as a commentary episode, so to get the most out of it feel free to watch along with us! After a short introduction, the discussion starts (and you can start the movie) after the countdown. Obviously, this episode is rather spoiler heavy, and contains some NSFW language. Here's to the next five years!

Evan Vernon interviews Jinkyu Jeon, directors of The House of Loss, featured in Program 72 of our In Competition Films for Season 7 of Animation Nights New York.

THE HOUSE OF LOSS

The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from one instance, he finds himself looking closely at their faces.

Jinkyu Jeon

Jinkyu Jeon was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1987. In 2008-2015 he studied animation at the “Korea National University of Arts”. In 2015-2017, he worked as a 2D animator at "Studio Shelter" and in  2019, he worked as a 2D animator at "Workroom Yaha". In 2018-2022, he studied animation at the “Tokyo National University of Arts”.

SHOW NOTES

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Animation Nights New York presented the 2022 ANNY Cannes Short Film Corner Collection (Program #72 | Season 7 | In Competition Films)

Program 72

https://www.animationnights.com/screening72/

Social Media Links

https://www.instagram.com/jjk_jeon/?hl=en (Instagram)

https://www.jkjeon.com/ (Professional Website)

Interview by Evan Vernon

Theme music by Joe Lazenby

Excuse the delay but The AFA Podcast is finally back! In this watercooler focussed episode Rachael and Dan catch up and discuss Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Turning Red, Spy X Family and more.