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  • Welcome to the final episode of Creative Block! After 5 years of running the podcast, the crew has decided to say goodbye to the podcast the only way they know how: making a podcast episode about it. Join the creative block team, VEE, SEAN, EBUKA, MARCO, AND CLEM, as they say their goodbyes to the show.

    In this final episode, we talk about why we’re ending the pod, if it’s Lordspew or lord’s pew, Perks of the POD, 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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    0:00 Slowly ripping the bandaid

    4:39 Our Mission Continues

    5:58 Clem’s plans

    10:12 Ebuka’s plans

    11:32 Marco’s Plans

    17:10 Clem’s Piercing Story

    10:14 Lord’s Pew

    24:16 Finding Clippable Moments

    29:10 Perks of the Pod

    34:12 Vee’s Student Film

    37:04 Winding Down the Episode

    50:32 Thanking our Listeners!

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is JESSE MOYNIHAN. Jesse is an cartoonist, animator, story artist, and art director, whose work can be seen on Adventure Time, Midnight Gospel, and is the creator of the shorts Manly, Forming, Jesus 2, and Hungy Ghost.

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to JESSE about PITCHING JESUS 2, Finding money for projects, balancing the beauty of projects, 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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    1:14 Turing an old Pitch into JESUS 2

    12:43 Rich people doing weird blood stuff

    17:29 Negging during a pitch

    22:10 Approach to creating Jesus 2

    35:22 Money talk (financing and fundraising projects)

    51:03 “People are going to watch it on their phone anyway”

    1:00:37 Thinking about a demographic

    1:02:00 Listener Questions

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  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is NICK CROSS! Nick is a cartoonist, art director, and background artist whose work can be seen on Over the Garden Wall, Uncle Grandpa, and The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie!

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to NICK about LEARNING TO ANIMATE, WORKING IN THE CARTOON NETWORK SHORTS PROGRAM, ART DIRECTING ON OVER THE GARDEN WALL, 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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    1:00 Deeping toe in background design

    6:07 Hiring/

    8:22 Learning to Animate

    12:40 “You can’t afford to be precious”

    16:03 Entering work into festivals

    20:55 “Animation Process is like building a ship in a bottle”

    26:46 Jumping Mediums and Making a comic

    33:44 Over the Garden Wall

    37:35 Shorts Program

    59:59 “The Wire for kids”

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is HEATHER MAHLER! Heather is an illustrator, character designer, and comic artist whose work can be seen in the table-top RPG Drunkards, Druggies, & Delinquents, Nickelodeon intergalactic short the Other Side, and Titmouse's upcoming show DRAW YOUR WEAPON!

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to HEATHER about ART SCHOOL, 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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    1:12 STUDYING FINE ARTS

    7:02 ANIME INTERVENTION

    11:31 “Your Insides come Outside”

    14:49 Odd Jobs + “Don’t lick Jesus”

    17:29 Selling at Comic Conventions

    20:18 Designing on The Other Side

    24:22 Uphill Battle with Comics

    28:16 Prep for Working in Animation

    33:05 Drawing fast or drawing SLOW

    35:04 Witchin’ Art

    41:09 Anxiety and Regret

    43:13 PIERCING ADVICE

  • 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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    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

  • Welcome to Creative Block! Vee and Sean invite you to sit at the Creative Cafe table with them as they catch up with each other and chat about all things going on in and around animation.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! ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Thank you to our Patreon Blockheads for supporting the show!Want to become a Patron? ► https://www.patreon.com/crtvblockHit subscribe and follow our socials for updates! ►https://bsky.app/profile/crtvblock.bsky.social ►https://twitter.com/crtvblock ► https://www.instagram.com/crtv.block/ ► https://www.threads.net/@crtv.block ► https://creativeblockpod.newgrounds.com/■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Follow the hosts!VEE! ► https://x.com/violainebriat ► https://www.instagram.com/violainebriat ► https://www.threads.net/@violainebriat ► https://www.violainebriat.com/SEAN! ► https://linktr.ee/lordspew ► https://x.com/lordspew ► https://www.instagram.com/lordspew/ ► https://www.threads.net/@lordspew■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Editing by Clemence Briat ► https://twitter.com/clem_n_mProduced by Marco Beltran ► https://twitter.com/orcsocksReels/Shorts by Ebuka.PNG ► https://www.instagram.com/ebuka_0fomaTheme song by Louie Zong ► https://twitter.com/everydaylouie■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is HUNTER SPARAGNA! Hunter is a 3D character artist, concept artist, and toy designer whose work can be seen in games Spirit of the North 2 and Dreamscape VR, as well as various action figures for McFarlane Toys.

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to HUNTER about A COYOTE ATTACK, LIVING OFF OF WILD BOAR, PROBLEM SOLVING IN 3D, 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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    1:38 where did you get started?

    4:03 Hunter Feeds a dog

    11:38 Weird Time in the Industry/Financial Advice

    19:15 Save money by eating wild boar!

    26:30 Moving to LA

    41:55 Personal Work outside of Work Work

    43:03 Spirit of the North 2

    54:01 Brute Forcing Assets

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is MACIEJ GLIWA! Maciej is a writer, director, storyboard artist, and animator whose work can be seen on the Clone Wars, The Bad Batch, and is also the developer and designer for Vision add-on for blender.

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to MACIEJ about REASON FOR DEVELOPING VISIONS, GOING FROM LAWYER TO CODER TO ANIMATOR, LEARNING BY DOING, 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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    0:58 Developing Visions

    7:48 Blender being Daunting

    10:21 How Visions Works

    15:30 Going to school for coding

    17:12 Why not law school?

    18:42 Why do you like blender?

    28:54 Best way to learn blender

    50:10 Learning by doing and problem solving

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is NICOLE GOUX! Nicole is an illustrator and cartoonist whose work can be seen in her comic Pet Peeves, Forest Hills Bootleg Society and Fuck Off Squad written Dave Baker, and in the recently published This Place Kills Me written by Mariko Tamaki.In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to NICOLE about SENDING OUT POSTCARDS FOR JOBS, COLLABORATING, SELECTING COLOR PALETTES FOR HER BOOKS, 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! ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Thank you to our Patreon Blockheads for supporting the show!Want to become a Patron? ► https://www.patreon.com/crtvblockHit subscribe and follow our socials for updates! ►https://bsky.app/profile/crtvblock.bsky.social ►https://x.com/crtvblock ► https://www.instagram.com/crtv.block/ ► https://www.threads.net/@crtv.block ► https://creativeblockpod.newgrounds.com/■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Follow the hosts!VEE! ► https://x.com/violainebriat ► https://www.instagram.com/violainebriat ► https://www.threads.net/@violainebriat ► https://www.violainebriat.com/SEAN! ► https://linktr.ee/lordspew ► https://x.com/lordspew ► https://www.instagram.com/lordspew/ ► https://www.threads.net/@lordspewFollow the guests!NICOLE! ► https://www.nicolegoux.com/► https://linktr.ee/nicolegoux ► https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/ngoux/ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Editing by Clemence Briat ► https://twitter.com/clem_n_mProduced by Marco Beltran ► https://twitter.com/orcsocksReels/Shorts by Ebuka.PNG ► https://www.instagram.com/ebuka_0fomaTheme song by Louie Zong ► https://twitter.com/everydaylouie■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■0:38 Sending out postcards for work ("I don't recommend this")5:48 Advice!8:50 DAVE BAKER AND PERKS OF COLLABORATING13:16 ADVICE FR GIVING NOTES TO OTHER CREATIVES15:23 FEELING ANXIOUS ABOUT LETTING SOMEONE ELSE DRAW HER IDEAS20:13 MAKING BIG CHANGES LATE IN THE GAME23:18 FIRST BOOKS AND SELF PUBLISHING 27:59 ADVICE FOR ILLUSTRATORS TRYING COMICS30:07 BALANCING ILLUSTRATIONS TO MAKE SOME STAND OUT37:07 BREAKDOWN OF BOOK AGE MARKETS 42:39 DREAM PROJECTS AND ADAPTATIONS46:02 PICKING COLOR PALETTES FOR BOOKS48:39 ADVICE FOR STARTING COMINGS

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is HARPER SIMS! Harper is a storyboard artist, illustrator, and background artist whose work can be seen on Tiny Toons Looniversity, Adventure Time: Side Quests, as well as her comic Little Myths!

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to HARPER about DESIGN WORK IN CHICAGO, REVISIONS PIPELINE, HER COMIC LITTLE MYTHS and so much more.

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    1:08 MOVING TO LA

    2:41 LESSONS FROM EDITORIAL

    4:37 ANIMATING SANDWICHES

    7:30 CHICAGO PRINTERS GUILD

    15:10 HEAVY MANNERS

    16:54 SEAN’S WORKSHOP

    24:42 REVISIONS + LOONIVERSITY PIPELINE

    29:05 ADVENTURE TIME: SIDEQUEST TALK

    33:51 LANDSCAPING YOUTUBE CHANNELS

    39:37 GHOULS! OOOWEEE (SCARY SFX)

    42:02 SOCIAL MEDIA (SCARY SFX)

    46:25 LITTLE MYTHS

    49:49 ART MEDIUMS AND MARKER TALK

    55:36 HARD THINGS TO DRAW

    1:03:07 DEALING WITH CREATIVE BLOCK

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is BRANKO KJLAJIC! Branko is a storyboard artist and animator who worked on Teen Titans Go!, Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam, and Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans!

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to BRANKO about WORKING SMARTER IN FLASH, POOPIN’ OUT 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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    0:00 TIPS FOR WORKING SMARTER IN FLASH

    9:14 “POOPING OUT ANIMATION” TO LEARN

    13:07 HOW DO YOU FIND JOY DOING THIS WORK?

    18:56 PRE-SHOW HAIR CALLBACK!

    25:11 DEVELOPING HIS ART STYLE

    33:39 BRANKO AND SEAN WORKING TOGETHER

    44:23 COMMUNITY ENERGY OF TEEN TITANS GO!

    48:49 EQUIPMENT TALK

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is STEVE WOLFHARD! Steve is a storyboard artist, director, and writer who worked on Adventure Time, Fiona and Cake, StuGo, and is currently directing on Super Mutant Magic Academy.

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to STEVE about LIVING IN A FOREST, TURNING DOWN ADVENTURE TIME, STORYBOARD PRO, and so much more.

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    5:40 SAYING NO AND YES TO ADVENTURE TIME!

    15:10 ANIMATION IN CANADA VS LA

    17:55 MOVING COUNTRIES AND JOBS

    28:03 X, FORMERLY TWITTER

    32:38 WHY DID THEY BOARD ON PAPER?

    34:00 STORYBOARD PRO, A NECESSARY EVIL

    47:32 PITCHING FOR A BIG IP

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is KEITH PAKIZ! Keith is an animator, director, and storyboard artist who worked on Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Wylde Pak, and animated various A Studio Digital shorts.

    In this episode, SEAN talks to KEITH about MOON COUNTY, CREATING MUSIC FOR THEIR ANIMATED SHORTS, WRITING A SEGMENTED STORY, and so much more.

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    0:00 KEITH’S SHORTS

    4:02 LEARNING TO ANIMATE

    9:14 “I PRIDE THE TIME THAT IS MINE”

    11:48 Musical Sequences

    13:28 SOUND DESIGN IN THEIR SHORTS

    16:09 “Vee wanted me to ask you about SKA”

    21:02 A Studio digital/creating long form stories

    28:09 Strange Comments

    29:34 Listener Questions

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guests are VEE and SEAN? HUH? That’s right! Vee and Sean invite you to sit at the cafe table with them as they catch up with each other and chat about all things going on in and around animation.

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN ABOUT VEE’S CHILDHOOD AI FRIEND, SEAN’S “REGULAR GUY” TRAINING, “SEXUALLY CHARGED MOANING,” and so much more.

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  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is RYAN GILLIS! Ryan is a storyboard artist, director, and animator who also worked on Pickle and Peanut, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, and is the creator of StuGo!

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to RYAN about DEVELOPING STUGO, PITCHING PROCESS, FEELING SAFE TO SAY YOUR WORST IDEA, and so much more.

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    0:00 INTRO INSPIRATION

    2:07 DEVELOPING STUGO

    6:53 OVERALL (NOT THE PANTS) DEAL

    9:06 PALM ROT SHORT

    16:16 INSPIRATIONS FOR STUGO (RIP Manolo)

    18:26 WRITING TIP

    27:03 THAT STUGO STYLE

    37:16 INTENTIONAL SANDBOX

    41:58 PITCHING PROCESS/A TREAT FOR THE SLIDE/NUMBER FREAKS

    48:22 FEELING SAFE TO SAY YOUR WORST IDEA/PICKLE AND PEANUT

    1:00:03 STORY MATH

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is the duo behind TITANIUM DAYDREAM, Ben Crouse and Jacob Sluka! Ben was a staff writer on StuGo and storyboard artist on Pickle and Peanut. Jacob is a background painter and story artist, and is the animator for Titanium Daydream. Titanium Daydream is a supernatural, low-poly mystery centered around Benjamin Jacobs, who is called back to his home town in Iowa by an unknown force.

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to BEN and JACOB about HORSES, EVERY 3D ASSET IS MADE FROM SCRATCH, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EASTER EGGS, and so much more.

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    0:00 Horse Talk

    5:30 Starting Titanium Daydream

    6:50 Making 3D assets from scratch

    12:58 Time Between ideation and first episode

    14:15 Episode Premises

    17:57 What explorer would you compare yourself to?

    19:07 Origins of “Benjamin Jacobs” + Easter Eggs

    24:28 Anytime I can avoid storyboarding is a win

    26:00 A window into their past!

    34:57 Casting Voice Actors

    44:29 Baywatch Nights

    46:26 Shipping

    52:37 Don’t be afraid to be Cheesy

    1:00:52 Twenty-five minutes of silent drawing

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is TALYA PERPER! Talya is a storyboard artist and director who worked on Teen Titans Go! and Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs! as well as the writer for the Steven Universe comics "Crystal Clean," "Ultimate Dough-Down," and "Anti-Gravity".

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to TALYA about HER MENTORSHIP CLASSES, STARTING ON PICKLE AND PEANUT, A TYPICAL TITANS EPISODE, 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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    15:51 First job

    30:00 Questions

    41:23 TITANS

    1:06:58 Outro

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is MATT & MEGS! Matt + Megs are Matt Yang and Megs McShane. They both work in animation and created Matt + Megs as an opportunity to collaborate and express themselves creatively through animated loops, shorts, and comics.

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to MATT and MEG about THE FIRST THING THEY DID TOGETHER, HOW THEIR TASTES BALANCE EACH OTHER, PLANNING, ADJUSTING TO ASPECT RATIOS, and so much more.

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    0:00 Intro

    1:29 Creating the channel

    31:54 Planning

    1:08:44 Questions

    1:23:34 Outro

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is David C. Smith! David is a director, storyboard artist, and woodworker who has worked on Primos, Mulligan, Hotel Transylvania 4, and Angry Birds 2.

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to DAVID about INTERNING at CARTOON NETWORK, FINDING A HOBBY, THREE Es OF DIRECTING, and so much more.

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    0:00 Intro

    4:01 Interning and pitching

    12:40 First job

    17:33 Woodworking

    27:19 Specialization vs variety

    38:46 Hate on shows

    45:54 The three E’s of Directing

  • Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guests are LEE THOMSON AND SOMMER MONTENEGRO from SHORT SHORT FEST! Short Short Fest is a touring animation festival and community event organized by the Barnhouse Collective. Upcoming dates: AUGUST 2nd in Pennsylvania and AUGUST 9th in Michigan!

    In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to LEE and SOMMER about CREATING THE FEST, ANTHROCON, CURATING SUBMISSIONS, and so much more.

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    0:00 Intro

    0:45 Starting Short Short Fest

    32:22 Conventions

    49:50 Questions

    1:16:37 Creative block

    1:18:39 Outro