Welcome to the start of our new animation podcast! We’re kicking things off with an interview with Toniko Pantoja! Animator and storyboard artist at studios like Netflix and Dreamworks. We talk about his beginning in web animation, his time at Netflix + Dreamworks, state of indie animation, and a whole lot more! Hope you all […]
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Join us as we interview Will Feng! An animation producer affiliated with Studio Trigger; he produced their video game openings (Shantae, Indivisible, Omega Strikers) along with scouting out overseas artists James Gilleard and Jasmin Lai for BNA. Get to know his early animation experiences working at Titmouse, what motivated him to work in anime in […]
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It’s impossible to talk about Shaft these days without bringing up the mass exodus of talent and the reshuffling of roles to compensate– as we covered in lengthy detail here. I mentioned Ryo Shimura being one of the more exciting names for me back when he was just an inbetweener. The imperfect ambition of Nue […]
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As a preface: this is by no means a rebuttal against the “Shaft is Dead” rhetoric getting thrown around recently. Is it lacking in nuance and not entirely accurate? Sure, but when one of their most important directors is making jokes like “how has this company not gone under yet,” it’d be crazy to spend […]
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