Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is SHANE DERING! Shane is a director, animator, illustrator, and programmer whose work can be seen on Ambient Swim, Scavenger's Reign, Trip Tank, and Love, Death & Robots.

In this episode, VEE and GUEST HOST IAN talk to SHANE about AMBIENT SWIM, BEING SELF TAUGHT , GETTING GROUNDED FOR ANIMATION, and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a MAGMA, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, NEWGROUNDS, 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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1:50 AMBIENT SWIM creation and production

9:35 Who creates the music?

12:26 Attending East Tennessee State

16:09 being self taught

24:51 Finding time for personal projects

28:09 Landing first gig, Trip Tank

43:35 Listener Questions