Creative Block

Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is WOLLY MIGHT! Wolly is an indie creator, animator, and lead compositor at Meatcanyon. Check out Wolly's shorts “DEEPSTATES” and “Cucumber & Mr. Hatts” on their youtube channel!

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with Wolly about WORKING WITH MEATCANYON, BEING A WITCH, ADVICE FOR LEARNING COMPOSITING, and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!

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0:00 Intro

25:01 First gig

44:49 Working with Meat Canyon

1:03:40 Youtube indie animation

1:18:49 Personal projects

1:39:28 Being a witch

1:51:22 Advice for learning compositing

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guests is... the Creative Block team! We're celebrating our 150th episode of the podcast and we just wanted to take an episode to commemorate that in podcast form! Joining us this episode are VEE, SEAN, EDITOR CLEM, PRODUCER MARCO, and our newest member, EDITOR EBUKA!

Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is INBAL BREDA! Inbal is an animator, storyboard artist, cat enthusiast. They've worked on Amphibia, The Owl House, and Hailey's On it! Also check out some of the animation Inbal has done on their own project, Super Space sisters.

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with INBAL about WORKING ON AMPHIBIA, ANIMATING HER OCS, VIDEO GAMES, and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!

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Produced by Marco Beltran ► https://twitter.com/orcsocks

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Theme song by Louie Zong ► https://twitter.com/everydaylouie

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0:00 Intro

1:22 Jobs before LA

8:01 College

14:09 Working in LA

18:41 Drawing OC

25:35 Softwares

30:44 Writing process

50:33 Relaxing

52:09 Amphibia

1:01:42 Tips for animation

1:09:41 Recommendations

Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is REBECCA KIRBY AKA REWEKI! Rebecca is an illustrator and cartoonist. They've worked as a revisionist on Adventure Time Distant Lands, done freelance illustrations for Vice, Fantagraphics NOW, and BOOM Studios. You can check some of her illustrations and shirt designs in her shop!

Along the way, VEE and KATIE chat with REBECCA about BEING SELF-EMPLOYED, PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS, COMING IT UP WITH BEEF, and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!

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Editing by Clemence Briat ► https://twitter.com/clem_n_m

Produced by Marco Beltran ► https://twitter.com/orcsocks

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Theme song by Louie Zong ► https://twitter.com/everydaylouie

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0:00 Intro

1:00 College and majors

15:45 Jump from side gig to self employed

37:42 Finding an accountant

1:02:05 Adventure Time

1:10:05 Social Media

1:25:27 Parasocial relationships

1:36:39 Learning anatomy

1:42:244 Materials

1:46:09 Inspiration

1:55:48 Writing and sleep

1:59:07 Motivation for comics

2:05:21 Outro

Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is MICHAEL GROVER AKA GROVERTOONS! Michael is the creator of GROVERTOONS, and the webcomics Deeply Dave (soon to be a graphic novel) and Hamburglar Goes to Hell.

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with MICHAEL about NOT USING SOCIAL MEDIA, BEING A MISSIONARY IN THAILAND, WORKING FREELANCE, and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!

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0:00 Intro

0:38 Social media

26:58 Missionary

1:00:26 Time Management

1:27:25 Hardest part of making comics

1:32:47 Inspirations

1:36:28 Advice for comic artists

1:41:56 Website

1:45:42 Income

2:01:07 Creative block

Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is STEPHEN NEARY! Stephen is the creator and executive producer of The Fungies! He was a Supervising Producer on Clarence. Feature story artist on Ice Age 3 and a bunch of Blue Sky movies. For the past year, he has been boarding on features in production and development for Annapurna Pictures, Netflix, Illumination, and Sony. He is currently teaching at CalArts!

Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is Nick Edwards! Nick worked as director and story board artist on The Fungies, Summer Camp Island, Apple and Onion, Clarence, and Uncle Grandpa. He created two shorts for Cartoon Network, "Beetle and Bean" and "Allnimal." You can check out some of his current work in his comic Kingly, which he updates regularly on instagram!

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with NICK about BEING THE INVASIVE SPECIES, HIS LOVE OF INEPT CHARACTERS, SHOW PITCH VS SHORT PITCH, and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!

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0:00 Intro

3:27 Studying art

11:18 Improvising

1:09:35 Kingly

1:18:53 Format

1:27:20 Process

1:35:46 Inspiration

1:50:43 Creative block

Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is LIZA SINGER! Liza was a feature story artist on the Avatar: the Last Airbender movie and a director at Titmouse and Marvel/Disney. They are currently writing and illustrating the graphic novel Wayward: Fractured Shadows, which is set to release in 2025/2026 through MacMillan.

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with LIZA about GROWING WITH YOUR OCS, DEVELOPING YOUR RANGE, ADVERTISING BOARDS VS TV BOARDS, and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!

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0:00 Intro

2:27 Comic

19:46 Pitching

26:39 Range

30:12 Motivation & energy

37:21 University

46:03 Rought Draft

54:05 Adult show restrictions

1:00:23 Mediums

1:08:42 Directing and creating

1:23:19 S&P

1:28:45 v Difficulties of story artists

1:38:51 Advice to board artists

1:43:54 Advice to comic artists

1:50:20 Creative block

Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is MOSS LAWTON! Moss is a director on Monster High. They storyboarded on the Invader ZIM movie, the Pokemon shorts "Bidoof's Big Stand/Path to the Peak," and Monsters at Work. Their comic Hellaween is available now!

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with MOSS about FINDING WORK, COMING UP WITH HELLAWEEN, THEIR LOVE OF FILES AND PROGRAMS, and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!

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0:00 Intro

1:30 Balancing work

18:31 First gig

32:56 Directing

1:00:08 Motivation

1:04:50 Scary media for children

1:12:14 Elevator pitch

1:14:29 Scripting

1:17:47 Art world

1:33:28 Publishing

1:35:24 Creative block

Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is JESSICA BORUTSKI! JESSICA worked as creative producer on Bunnicula, did storyboards on the Snoopy Show, directed on Thundercats Roar, and worked as character designer and director on the New Looney Tunes Show!

Along the way, VEE and KARL chat with Jessica about GETTING HER START IN ANIMATION, UNCONVENTIONAL EXPERIENCE ON BUNNICULA, NAVIGATING "HARD SHOWS", and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!

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0:00 Intro

0:55 Start in animation

17:34 Opportunity

32:56 Hard shows

1:03:03 New takes on legacy characters

1:06:05 Resumes/portfolio

1:14:12 Influences

1:16:26 Style

1:18:12 Original art

1:28:20 Time and energy

1:30:40 Creative block