Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is RYAN GILLIS! Ryan is a storyboard artist, director, and animator who also worked on Pickle and Peanut, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, and is the creator of StuGo!

In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to RYAN about DEVELOPING STUGO, PITCHING PROCESS, FEELING SAFE TO SAY YOUR WORST IDEA, and so much more.

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0:00 INTRO INSPIRATION

2:07 DEVELOPING STUGO

6:53 OVERALL (NOT THE PANTS) DEAL

9:06 PALM ROT SHORT

16:16 INSPIRATIONS FOR STUGO (RIP Manolo)

18:26 WRITING TIP

27:03 THAT STUGO STYLE

37:16 INTENTIONAL SANDBOX

41:58 PITCHING PROCESS/A TREAT FOR THE SLIDE/NUMBER FREAKS

48:22 FEELING SAFE TO SAY YOUR WORST IDEA/PICKLE AND PEANUT

1:00:03 STORY MATH

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is the duo behind TITANIUM DAYDREAM, Ben Crouse and Jacob Sluka! Ben was a staff writer on StuGo and storyboard artist on Pickle and Peanut. Jacob is a background painter and story artist, and is the animator for Titanium Daydream. Titanium Daydream is a supernatural, low-poly mystery centered around Benjamin Jacobs, who is called back to his home town in Iowa by an unknown force.

In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to BEN and JACOB about HORSES, EVERY 3D ASSET IS MADE FROM SCRATCH, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EASTER EGGS, and so much more.

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0:00 Horse Talk

5:30 Starting Titanium Daydream

6:50 Making 3D assets from scratch

12:58 Time Between ideation and first episode

14:15 Episode Premises

17:57 What explorer would you compare yourself to?

19:07 Origins of “Benjamin Jacobs” + Easter Eggs

24:28 Anytime I can avoid storyboarding is a win

26:00 A window into their past!

34:57 Casting Voice Actors

44:29 Baywatch Nights

46:26 Shipping 

52:37 Don’t be afraid to be Cheesy

1:00:52 Twenty-five minutes of silent drawing

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is TALYA PERPER! Talya is a storyboard artist and director who worked on Teen Titans Go! and Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs! as well as the writer for the Steven Universe comics "Crystal Clean," "Ultimate Dough-Down," and "Anti-Gravity".

In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to TALYA about HER MENTORSHIP CLASSES, STARTING ON PICKLE AND PEANUT, A TYPICAL TITANS EPISODE, and so much more.

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0:00 Intro

15:51 First job

30:00 Questions

41:23 TITANS

1:06:58 Outro

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is MATT & MEGS! Matt + Megs are Matt Yang and Megs McShane. They both work in animation and created Matt + Megs as an opportunity to collaborate and express themselves creatively through animated loops, shorts, and comics.

In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to MATT and MEG about THE FIRST THING THEY DID TOGETHER, HOW THEIR TASTES BALANCE EACH OTHER, PLANNING, ADJUSTING TO ASPECT RATIOS, and so much more.

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0:00 Intro

1:29 Creating the channel

31:54 Planning

1:08:44 Questions

1:23:34 Outro

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is David C. Smith! David is a director, storyboard artist, and woodworker who has worked on Primos, Mulligan, Hotel Transylvania 4, and Angry Birds 2.

In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to DAVID about INTERNING at CARTOON NETWORK, FINDING A HOBBY, THREE Es OF DIRECTING, and so much more.

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0:00 Intro

4:01 Interning and pitching

12:40 First job

17:33 Woodworking

27:19 Specialization vs variety

38:46 Hate on shows

45:54 The three E’s of Directing

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guests are LEE THOMSON AND SOMMER MONTENEGRO from SHORT SHORT FEST! Short Short Fest is a touring animation festival and community event organized by the Barnhouse Collective. Upcoming dates: AUGUST 2nd in Pennsylvania and AUGUST 9th in Michigan!

In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to LEE and SOMMER about CREATING THE FEST, ANTHROCON, CURATING SUBMISSIONS, and so much more.

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0:00 Intro

0:45 Starting Short Short Fest

32:22 Conventions

49:50 Questions

1:16:37 Creative block

1:18:39 Outro

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is MORGAN NOLL! Morgan is a background painter and prop designer on Angry Birds: Mystery Island, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Digman!, and Tales of the TMNT.

In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to MORGAN about LEARNING TO DRAW AT 23, CLASSIC LITERATURE, HOW LONG IT TOOK TO GET INTO ANIMATION, and so much more.

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0:00 Intro

1:50 Where did you start off?/Switching Majors

8:49 Covid :( and learning to draw at 23

14:01 Some Classic literature talk

18:23 Journey into animation

32:35 Questions

1:17:42 Creative block

1:22:23 Outro

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is MIRANDA HARMON! Miranda is a comic artist, background designer, painter, and storyboard artist whose work can be seen on Tuca and Bertie, Among Us, and the Fungies. She also illustrated the Mayor Good Boy books!

In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to MIRANDA about HER ENTRYWAY INTO COMICS, BEING A CARTOON NETWORK STORYBOARD TRAINEE, DRAGONBALL Z, and so much more.

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0:00 Intro

11:11 Working alone or with others

42:30 Boards vs backgrounds

43:03 Questions

1:20:09 Creative block

1:25:07 Outro

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is BREE PAULSEN! Bree is a writer, illustrator, and comic artist who can be seen in her graphic novels Garlic & the Vampire, Garlic and the Witch, and recently released the Firelight Apprentice! She is currently working on a young adult adaptation of Dracula from the perspective of Mina Harker.

In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to BREE about CREATING THE PITCH FOR GARLIC, THE AGONY OF REVIEWS, THE CLASHING OF HER TWO AESTHETICS, so much more.

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0:00 Intro

17:36 Reviews

26:30 Getting representation

34:57 Ideas and OCs

56:18 Publicist

1:10:45 Creative block

1:15:32 Outro

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is PAUL SCARLATA! Paul was a storyboard artist, writer, and director whose work can be seen on Big Mouth and the new show Mating Season. On the side, he's been creating an animated horror film, the Van Helsing Society.

In this episode, VEE talks to PAUL about HIS JOURNEY TO BECOME A DIRECTOR, SWEAT EQUITY, BEHIND THE SCENES OF CREATING VAN HELSING SOCIETY, so much more.

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1:40 Starting as a revisionist on Regular Show

9:12 Journey to Becoming a director

13:06 Pitching Original Ideas

23:53 Sweat Equity

35:26 Creating Van Helsing Society

40:58 two takeaways from making this project

42:14 Making a Feature Over Series

46:39 Goals For Kickstarter

1:00:17 Inspirations for Van Helsing Society

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