Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is MIKE MANOR! Mike is an animator, creator, and pixel artist. He is the creator of the Adult Swim Small "Beantown".

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with MIKE about getting started with pixel art, sending art to musicians, inspiration for Beantown, and so much more!

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0:00 Intro

1:15:41 Questions

1:38:36 Creative block

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is RYAN D. ANDERSON! Ryan is an animator, visual artist, and comedian. He is the creator of the Adult Swim Small Gav the Alien and regularly releases blender animated videos on his instagram.

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is WILL CARSOLA! Will Will is the co-creator of Mr. Pickles and Momma Named Me Sheriff as well as the Creative Director at Liquid Death.

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is MILLIE HOLTON! Millie is a writer, comedian, and comic artist, releasing episodes of her webseries, Long Head, based on her webcomic, Long Head, on Tiktok.

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is STU LIVINGSTON! Stu is a director, storyboard artist, and comic artist whose work can be seen in Steven Universe, Owl House, and Bat-Family.

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with STU about HIS JOBS BEFORE ANIMATION, HIS FIRST JOB, DRAWING VS STORYBOARDING, about so much more!

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0:00 Intro

9:18 First gig

18:36 Storyboarding

25:45 Directing

48:14 Writing

54:54 Questions

1:41:59 Creative block

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is SEAN KEETON! Sean is an art director, muralist, and gallery artist. They are the art director for Skull Girls and currently have a solo show at the gallery Thinkspace.

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with Sean HOW THEY’RE ALL NAMED SEAN NOW, HOW SPILLING COFFEE ON A HARD DRIVE LED TO A JOB, PUNK ROCK HACKS, about so much more!

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0:00 Intro

6:39 College and pitching a short

16:01 Style and art direction

45:36 Questions

1:15:59 Being a punk

1:19:05 Creative block

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is MAX LOPEZ AND SEAN MALONY of APARTMENT D FILMS! Apartment D is an indie stop motion animation studio whose work can be seen in Monster High and the music video for Ninja Sex Party's "Thunder & Lightning." Their original show, Ruff Ruff Danger Dogs, is set for release on December 13th! You can watch the trailer on their Youtube!

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with APARTMENT D about CREATING THE STUDIO, WORKING AROUND EACH OTHER, WORKING WITH THE GAME GRUMPS, so much more!

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0:00 Intro

1:26 Creating Apartment D Films

26:03 Working with Youtubers and style

53:09 Kickstarter

1:10:45 Questions

1:52:23 Creative block

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is TY GOODWIN! Ty is a character designer, illustrator, and prop/effects designer. His design work can be seen on Craig of the Creek or in the anthology of comics and illustrations put out by the creative collective he manages, Good n Abel, called FETCH.

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with TY about BEING A CARICATURE ARTIST AT THE ZOO, STORYBOARDING FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS, GETTING INTO DRAWING COMICS, so much more!

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0:00 Intro

1:14 First job

41:39 Good n' Abel and Fetch

1:05:36 Questions

1:57:32 Creative block

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is BENJY BROOKE! Benjy was an animation director for Love Death & Robots, supervising director for Scavengers Reign and Common Side Effects, and is partner at Green Street Pictures.

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with BENJY about THEIR FIRST JOBS, FINDING REFERENCE POINTS FOR SCAVENGERS REIGN, STORY CHANGES, so much more!

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0:00 Intro

15:38 Projects

39:52 Studios

1:05:08 Supervising director

1:11:52 Questions

1:51:02 Creative block

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is STUDIO FLIMPO! Studio Flimpo is an indie 2D animation studio based out of NYC. Their work can be seen in The Everything is Okay Show short film. They recently completed crowdfunding an original animated pilot called Mandelbrot Hall.

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with MILO, REN, and REID, OF STUDIO FLIMPO about THE ORIGINS OF “FLIMPO,” DECIDING THEIR ROLES IN THE STUDIO, FLIMPO LOST MEDIA, so much more!

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0:00 Intro

9:44 Starting the studio

24:27 Social media algorithms and internet

38:24 Questions