In Episode 10 of Breaking Walls, we sit down with Portland, Oregon-based stop-motion animator Javan Ivey for a conversation about how to find and sustain a eureka breakthrough.

In 2007 Javan invented a form of stop-motion animation he called The Strata-stencil Method in My Paper Mind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOoB_jDKIqw). We talk about what it was like to invent something and how we can make sure we don't negatively judge future accomplishments against past ones.

Highlights

• Why Javan gravitated towards stop-motion animation

• How Javan arrived at his breakthrough in 2007

• Where the Strata-stencil method of stop-motion animation takes its inspiration from

• What it's like to know you're in the middle of a eureka breakthrough

• How we can keep moving forward after the completion of a eureka project

• How we can ensure that we don’t end up drinking gin at 8AM like Ernest Hemingway

Javan's links:

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/javanivey

Twitter: https://twitter.com/javanivey

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2545186/