Creative Block

Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is SHANE CURRY! Shane is a songwriter, animator, timing supervisor, and animation timer for shows like She-Ra and American Dad, and at at time of the record was in the middle of kickstarting his own musical animated series: Chew Gum!

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is KRISTEN GISH! Kristen is a storyboard artist and writer for shows like Ducktales, Great North, and Tuca and Bertie. She also wrote and directed her own animated pilot, Kelly and the Kung Fu Gators!

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is JEFF LIU! Jeff worked as a writer, director, storyboard, and story supervisor on the shows Steven Universe, OK K.O., Craig of the Creek, and Adventure Time: Distant Lands.

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is HOWIE PERRY! Howie worked as supervising director on Middlemost Post, as storyboard supervisor on Kamp Koral, and director on Rocky and Bullwinkle!

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guests are BILL MOTZ AND BOB ROTH! Bill and Bob are the creators of The Ghost and Molly McGee! They’ve both worked as writers, producers, story editors for many animated shows like Kim Possible, Xiaolin Showdown, and Darkwing Duck.

Along the way, we chat about GETTING THEIR START AT DISNEY TVA, PITCHING TO STUDIOS, WRITING TIPS, and so much more!

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

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WATCH THE GHOST AND MOLLY MCGEE!

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

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

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

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0:00 Intro

1:14 Realising writing for animation

5:55 Creative partners

9:00 Spec scripts

26:26 Writing TV vs feature

31:36 Agents

34:28 Pre animation jobs

40:41 The right time

58:14 Started pitching

1:10:56 The most fun in showr unning

1:25:30 Butting heads

1:31:04 Recommendation on writing stories

1:41:13 Writing optimistic characters

1:48:09 What not to do when writing animation

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is Sapphire Sandalo! Sapphire is an animator, podcaster, and recurring Paranormal Expert on the Trvl Channel. She worked on animated show Mr. Pickles, created Something Scary and School Spirit on Snarled, and is the creator/host of the podcast Stories with Sapphire!

Along the way, we chat about VISION BOARDS, SAPPHIRE REIGNITING HER PASSION FOR PARANOMAL/SUPERNATURAL STUFF, SHARE SOME SPOOKY EXPERIENCES, and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, 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 Malik Gayle ► https://twitter.com/MalikGayle

and Marco Beltran ► https://twitter.com/orcsocks

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

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0:00 Intro

3:03 Going into the first job

16:54 Acting and voiceover

18:52 The life of an animator and production coordinator

25:18 Interest in the supernatural/horror

29:46 Podcast

35:34 Making money from indie

40:55 Studying the occult

47:43 Making content

1:02:47 Creative block

1:08:16 Sean's scary dreams and occult philosophy

1:27:59 Spookiest thing experienced

1:40:32 Thoughts on Hollywood mediums

1:49:12 Who you wanna call

1:55:26 Inspiration for supernatural stories

1:57:23 Outro

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest are DEVIN BUNJE and NICK STANTON! Nick and Devin are the creators of Haley's On It! This is their first foray into show running an animated series, having previously done live-action shows like Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything, Prince of Peoria, and Zeke and Luther. They've also written for Phineas and Ferb, Emperors New School, and Brandy And Mr. Whiskers.