Adam Plouff is a freelance motion designer and animator based in Atlanta, Georgia. During our conversation, we discuss the beginnings of Rubberhose, how to start coding for animation, and his most recent project: “Why Pay?”.

Links:

Why Pay: https://vimeo.com/145548262

Rubberhose: http://www.battleaxe.co/

Highlights:

- Photoshop T-Shirt Designer

- Lead singer of a hardcore metal band

- Learned Final Cut 6 & After Effects

- Animators Kit

- Writing expressions

- “Try to push yourself forward with every project.”

- How to make lines, curves and invert values and volumes

- Rubberhose beginnings

- ”Coding can be taunting: someone described it as staring into the void”

- ”I wrangle data with code. If you can think of it in those terms: it’s just a different way of managing data.”

- Dream client: Myself.

- Favorite Animated Film: Iron Giant , Rejected by Don Hertzfeldt

- What your kids think you do: I make robots

- Animalator: A sloth because they are adorable, and they know how to chill and I don’t.