RubberOnion Animation Podcast

Happy New Year!! We asked you to pick out your favorite moments from The Rubber Onion animation podcast in the entire calendar year of 2014... and we picked our as well... and this is what came out! Enjoy the countdown and a great start to another full year of animated craziness in 2015

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Annotations to come later... when I'm settled into the new year. Yay vacation!

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Merry Christmas Eve! This week we're visited by 3 ghosts that ask us what our favorite past, present, and possible future animated Christmas movies, specials, and episodes are! AND... you can check out the specials mentioned in the episode embedded below! Merry Christmas all!

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The Pixar INSIDE OUT trailer dropped, Smaug was on The Colbert Report, and Spider-Man's future is in question. Also, Birdbox Studios made the Christmas card to end all cards! As you finish up work this week for the holiday break next week, enjoy our soothing voices... and singing. There was a little problem with Pat's audio somehow making him absent for about 20 minutes in the middle of the episode -- listen for that foghorn! OK, enjoy the episode. Go listen now. NOW

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Annotations: (05:34) Pixar's INSIDE OUT trailer (14:36) SUBMARINE SANDWICH, new short by PES (19:54) Sony Hacks reveal a possible Spider-Man animated film produced by Lord & Miller (26:37) Sony tried to recruit Lord & Miller to head their animation devision (34:17) Smaug on The Colbert Report (42:58) Birdbox Studios' amazing Christmas card (50:37) RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!!!

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This weeks should just be called RAPID FIRE week because half of the show is devoted to questions and topics you listeners asked us on my Facebook page... they're all awesoRARAPID FIRRRREEEeeee! A new character gets introduced whose only interested in one thing, French animation astounds us, and we talk about a documentary on Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki that Rob and I saw.

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Annotations: (08:24) Stephen and Rob saw the Documentary on Ghibli THE KINGDOM OF DREAMS AND MADNESS (28:22) The Yule Log 2.0 is back! (37:09) THE LITTLE PRINCE trailer (French) (49:28) List of Animated Features coming out in 2015 (1:02:44) RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!!

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STAR WARS! TOY STORY! MEL BROOKS! FROZEN! NEW YOUTUBE SERIES FROM PAT! NEW ANIMATION FROM ROB! RAPID FIRE!!!!!!! Seriously, we have a lot of amazing topics to talk about this week. There's not any more introduction needed. Enjoy the episode!

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Annotations: (12:34) STAR WARS VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS teaser trailer (23:55) TOY STORY: THAT TIME FORGOT premieres Tues, Dec 2nd @ 8pm on ABC (29:15) Pat's new LET'S PLAY series! (39:47) Rob's new short DA SHIMPSOONS! (48:27) Mel Brooks to play Dracula's father in HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 (56:05) The REBOOT reboot has a full title... (59:47) Idina Menzel says FROZEN sequel is 'in the works' (1:04:13) RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!

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We have so many trailers to talk about this week! CINDERELLA, PEANUTS, and LucasFilm's STRANGE MAGIC which was dropped on our unsuspecting laps. The question is... does it hurt or feel just right? Speaking of feeling just right, we interview the last of the three winners of our #RubberOnionFanArt competition, Ronald Chaparro. And I bring back the Rapid Fire segment so we can adjust the stories you listeners submitted that we didn't have enough time/thought to address as a full story segment. Also, Stephen went to the CTN ANimation Expo 2014 and talks about that experience. Enjoy!

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Annotations: (05:10) Stephen went to CTNx2014 (14:21) "Cinderella" trailer (25:40) "Peanuts" trailer (35:54) "Strange Magic" trailer (44:10) Conversation with one of our Oct #RubberOnionFanArt competition winners, Ronald Chaparro (1:04:06) RAPID FIRE!!!

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I like to call these episodes "classic." We've got news from the animation world and an interview with one of our #RubberOnionFanArt competition winners (Andrew Kaiko)! Lucasfilm surprised us with a new movie coming out in 2 months, new point-and-click game by The Neverhood creators is coming soon, and we talk a whole bunch about the PEANUTS hi-res images (this was one-day before the trailer leak!)... and we have a new segment: RAPID FIRE! Here we take the stories that you suggested which we didn't have too much to say about and we blast through them with out little derisive or supportive comments.

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Annotations: (12:19) Lucasfilm's surprise film STRANGE MAGIC to be released January 23rd, 2015 (23:47) Ian McKellen, Danny DeVito, and Sylvester Stallone sign on to voice ANIMAL CRACKERS (30:38) Conversation with one of our Oct #RubberOnionFanArt competition winners, Andrew Kaiko (51:22) DreamWorks Animation and Hasbro End Merger Talks (57:37) Armikrog trailer (1:14:49) Peanuts Movie Gets 5 New HD Photos (1:31:25) New segment: RAPID FIRE!!

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This week, Stephen & Rob saw BIG HERO 6 and give their review on it as well as Disney's new animated short FEAST. We also talk to one of the three #RubberOnionFanArt October competition winners, Chris McEwan! But also... Stephen's computer decided to test his patience during the podcast recording by crashing multiple times -- which makes more work for him (me) but a more entertaining episode for you!

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Annotations: (04:28) REVIEW: Stephen & Rob saw 'Big Hero 6' (28:05) REVIEW: ... and the animated short, 'Feast' (35:21) Simpsons/Futurama crossover episode "Simpsorama" (42:01) John Lasseter to Direct ‘Toy Story 4,’ Out in 2017 (53:08) Conversation with one of our Oct #RubberOnionFanArt competition winners, Chris McEwan (1:11:40) "Minions" trailer

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We have a lot of great stories this week about new animation based on existing properties like the "Dredd" fanimation, a stop-mo "Elf" holiday special & Todd McFarlane making a new "Spawn" animated series... and new stuff like the "Over the Garden Wall" miniseries! We LOVED doing the special episodes but it's great to talk about animation news stories again and we want to know what YOU think about them too! Leave a comment below and share your thoughts on what we talked about

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Annotations: (08:35) Andrew Kaiko's fan art submission (10:50) Chris McEwan's fan art submission (14:44) Ronald Chaparro's fan art submission (21:45) Stephen saw "The Tale of The Princess Kaguya" (30:51) Ren & Stimpy, Hey Arnold, Invader Zim, and more classic Nicktoons are coming to Hulu (39:34) Judge Dredd: Superfiend "fanimation" miniseries (49:10) Todd McFarlane Teases New SPAWN Animated Project With Concept Art (57:24) Jim Parsons To Star in NBC’s ‘Elf’ Animated Holiday Special (1:06:56) ‘Over the Garden Wall,’ a New Cartoon Network Mini Series

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! This week we reached out to other animators and creatives to give us their worst experiences in freelance that they could share with us like ghost stories around a campfire. Spooooooky! The idea is that if you're thinking of getting into freelance or can relate to some of these stories, they can serve as a heads-up on what you might encounter and/or how to prevent them. See? It's fun AND educational. I'm very proud of this episode so I hope you enjoy it and get lots of great information out of it!

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Annotations: (08:44) Tristian Goik (25:55) ROB YULFO (38:46) Nathan Viney (57:45) STEPHEN BROOKS (1:10:38) Mat Elfring (1:34:22) Martin Bell (1:50:24) PAT RYAN (1:56:23) Andrew Kaiko

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