Nice Shorts – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Today we have more with Lindsay Berkebile!!!! Lindsay is an LA and Portland based Stop-Motion Animator and Director working in tv, ads, and films. You may have seen some of her amazing work in Wendell & Wild, I’m a Virgo, Robot Chicken, Crossing Swords, or many other super awesome projects. Today we talk to Lindsay about how she created an incredible stop-motion vomiting mandible bumper for Adult Swim!

Visit the links below to watch her finished Maya and the Three and Centaurworld animations!

• Skin of my Teeth Adult Swim bumper

• Instagram: @10secondday
• TikTok: @10secondday
• twitter/x: @10secondday
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3126621/
• Vimeo: lindsayfatal

• Sam Shumway: @yungshum
• Jake Hauswirth: @beercanfan
• Aarica North: @urrcanarf
• James Morr: @tinyangrydog.animation
• Doug Cummings: @3doug
• Open the Portal: @opentheportal

• https://fuyang.wixsite.com/fuyang/about
• https://www.instagram.com/cuckoostuff/ @cuckoostuff

• https://johnnyrk.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/johnnyrk/ @johnnyrk

Today we have Lindsay Berkebile!!!! Lindsay is an LA and Portland based Stop-Motion Animator and Director working in tv, ads, and films. You may have seen some of her amazing work in Wendell & Wild, I’m a Virgo, Robot Chicken, Crossing Swords, or many other super awesome projects. Today we talk to Lindsay about the cutout animations she did with Netflix for Maya and the Three and Centaurworld as she walks us through how she and her team brought those into existence using a down shooter multi plane and binders filled with paper cutouts for amazing replacement animation shots

Visit the links below to watch her finished Maya and the Three and Centaurworld animations!

• Maya and the Three full animation
• Centaurworld full animation

• Instagram
• TikTok
• twitter/x
• IMDb

• Sam Shumway: @yungshum
• Jake Hauswirth: @beercanfan
• Aarica North): @urrcanarf
• James Morr: @tinyangrydog.animation
• Doug Cummings: @3doug

• https://fuyang.wixsite.com/fuyang/about
• https://www.instagram.com/cuckoostuff/ @cuckoostuff

• https://johnnyrk.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/johnnyrk/ @johnnyrk

Casey Follen is an LA-based creative producer and founder of Catalyst Castle Studios, her freelance practice. Casey also manages stop motion and mixed-media productions for many other studios. In addition she teaches at the College for Creative Studies as well as LCAD. On top of all that she is even a co-founder of Animation Wild Card!

In part 1 we’ll learn about how she made Stuck at home with Neville… and how making that during the pandemic led to starting Animation Wild Card with her friends! Which also led to making the Hello Stop Mo podcast So come along and meet Casey!

• Stuck at Home With Neville
• Animation Wild Card
• Hello Stop Mo! Podcast

• Instagram
• TicTok
• LinkedIn
• Website

• Stuck at Home With Neville — Music Attribution — Hyperfun by Kevin MacLeod

• Threadwood
• Apartment D
• Inspire Art
• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
• School of Motion
• Storyboard Pro
• Blue Yeti Mic
• Sunstorm with Alicia Garza & Ai-jen Poo

• https://fuyang.wixsite.com/fuyang/about
• Instagram

• https://johnnyrk.com/
• Instagram

Join us as Jack walks us through the making of his animated short, Shi-Fu! Sharing tons of behind the scenes content from boards to animatics to 3D models to a finished product!

• Shi-Fu

• Instagram
• Portfolio

• 王文星 Wenhsing Wang

• https://fuyang.wixsite.com/fuyang/about
• https://www.instagram.com/cuckoostuff/

• https://johnnyrk.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/johnnyrk/

(This is a video-heavy episode so please find it on YouTube to get the most out of it!)

Find out why they only have to write one resume for the both of them, how LARPing is good for acting in animation, how they went from building worlds in long word docs to refined packets, the importance of representation, Stephanie’s color ideas, Eddie’s thoughts on obtaining joy from completing ideas rather than how many likes they get after, reworking content to fit the target audience, dealing with burn-out, getting their college to let them do a thesis film when that wasn’t part of the curriculum, their pitching process, and watch as they realize in real time how much work they’ve actually created. So come listen to Stephanie and Eddie compliment and complement each other!

Eddie Betancourt

• Website: https://eddiedraws.com/
• edderzz on Instagram
• EdderzzLive on Twitter

Stephanie Rattanachane

• Website: https://www.stephsdrawings.com/
• srattanachane on Instagram
• srattanachane on Twitter

Fu Yang

• https://fuyang.wixsite.com/fuyang/about
• https://www.instagram.com/cuckoostuff/

Johnny Knittle

• https://johnnyrk.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/johnnyrk/

Join us as Bailey and Natalie talk about rigs, project management, what working at a studio during their co-op taught them between their 3rd and 4th years as animation students, their experiences at Sheridan College, and then more about rigs… because they are obsessed with rigs… we mean it… obsessed! But in a good way!

• 0:00:00 - Intro
• 0:01:03 - Greeting
• 0:03:12 - Sheridan College 3rd Year Animation Group Project: Schedule
• 0:07:13 - Sheridan College 3rd Year Animation Group Project: Role and Teamwork
• 0:18:00 - Sheridan College 3rd Year Animation Group Project: 2D Rigging
• 0:22:52 - Sheridan College 3rd Year Animation Group Project: Style Guide
• 0:25:43 - Sneak Peek Thesis Shorts: Character & Rigging
• 0:27:39 - Finding Johnny: the composer behind Till Death Brings Us Together
• 0:35:17 - Finding Johnny: Leica & Temp Music
• 0:44:43 - Finding Johnny: The Queen’s Cartoonists
• 0:48:37 - Summer Internship
• 0:58:42 - Summer Internship: Rig for Lineless Animation
• 1:01:57 - #sheridansucks: A Movement for Making Better Animation Working Environment
• 1:27:00 - Leadership in Group Project
• 1:42:41 - Answer Question From Previous Guest, Mee
• 1:43:26 - Answer Question From Previous Guest: Sneak Peek Bailey’s Thesis Concept
• 1:50:07 - Answer Question From Previous Guest: Sneak Peek Natalie’s Thesis Concept
• 1:58:42 - Bailey & Natalie’s Question For The Next Guest
• 1:59:26 - Where to find Bailey & Natalie
• 2:01:41 - Let’s Have Some Puns

• Till Death Brings Us Together | Short Film
• Till Death Brings Us Together | Score
• Hiccup - a short film

• Bailey McLeod
• Natalie Choi

• Phantomation Studio
• Inaya Sher
• Anna Harestad
• The Queen’s Cartoonists
• Jeff Astolfo
• Brass Bitches Brass Quartet
• Smiley Guy Studios
• United Productions of America (UPA)
• Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950)
• Rooty Toot Toot (1951)
• Rube Goldberg
• Eyvind Earle
• Megan Nicole Dong
• Centaurworld
• New Looney Tunes
• Toon Boom Harmony
• University of Toronto Mississauga
• Cal State Fullerton
• Discord
• ReelCrafter
• CueDB
• Breath of the Wild
• Star Trek

Meet Mee! Mee talks about drawing inspiration from daily life such as her buff dog. She discusses applying to LCAD, being rejected, then flying from Iowa to California to find out why. An experience that pushed her to improve her drawing skills, skills that helped her overcome social anxiety and even allowed her to start using public transportation. Hear about her perfect timing of attending LCAD the one semester they had a stop motion professor from Open the Portal, then turned that opportunity into an internship at Open the Portal. She even learned to animate for her thesis while actually working on her thesis. So come meet Mee and find out why if you’re her roommate you will end up working for her somehow. Spoiler alert: Mee loves killing her puppets but it’s still adorable.

• Ruff and Buff Trailer https://vimeo.com/559559214
• Ruff and Buff Behind the Scenes https://vimeo.com/557926351
• Logo Animation for Open The Portal https://www.instagram.com/p/CKC0OFxDLMx/ 

Follow Mee 

• Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mearrrrt/
• Portfolio https://www.meenimation.com
• Twitter https://twitter.com/mearrrrt

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Fu Yang

• website
• instagram

Johnny Knittle

• website
• instagram

Join us as Zaldy talks about his passion for tinkering. He takes us through his journey from computer science major to stop motion animator— including surviving the Dot Com boom working in online advertising. He shares how he sees music and rhythm in all of his animations and their movements. We explore his fascination with dance and dramatic movements while he shows how he does rough mockup using 3d rigs in Maya to help him plan. Zaldy discusses temporarily moving to Burbank while animating at Stoopid Buddy and where not to stay, plus how he dealt with 24 Lego characters on screen at once using Dragonframe markers. We get a glimpse of how he lives vicariously through his puppets, having them do all the dance moves and perform the basketball ankle-breaking fun he can’t do himself. He displays the magnetic personalities of his puppets from Streetball, a short stop-motion animation he is currently working on. Zaldy generously shares his armature, 3D printing, and sculpting techniques, including things he learned along the way, and much more.

• 0:00:00 - Intro
• 0:01:13 - Greeting
• 0:01:48 - Backstory: Accidentally Falling Into Stop Motion
• 0:05:02 - Animate the Yahoo! Logo
• 0:07:52 - What would this movement “sound” like?
• 0:11:38 - Hybrid Approach to Stop Motion
• 0:13:02 - Animating at Stoopid Buddy
• 0:33:43 - Streetball: Inspiration & Concept
• 0:44:01 - Research and Experiment
• 0:50:03 - Production Breakdown
• 1:14:39 - Garage Workshop
• 1:26:30 - Love for Fabrication
• 1:31:31 - Shout Out to Morezmore Studio
• 1:35:48 - Answer Question From Previous Guest, Nia
• 1:37:29 - Zaldy’s Question For The Next Guest
• 1:38:19 - Zaldy’s Preview of the Next Episode

• Charlie’s Dance - Breakdown Process
• Merlin Jones - Wizard In Training
• The Cookie Cutter
• The Cookie Cutter - Bathtub Prop
• The Cookie Cutter - Treadmill Prop
• Yahoo! Animated Logos 2006
• Yahoo! Animated Logos 2009
• Yahoo! Animated Logos 2008 pt. 2

• Instagram
• Portfolio
• Vimeo

• Morezmore Studio
• Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
• Robot Chicken
• Lego Masters

Join us as Nia talks about giving birth to a kidney stone, embracing creative momentum when it happens, growing up in Jakarta with her brother and making their own entertainment, fabricating to keep her hands busy, using set design and objects to tell stories, being a part of a government-funded crafting community, being inspired by murder documentaries and fashionable grandmas, planning set design around what can fit in an uber, and dealing with work visas for stop motion animation.

• 0:00:00 - Intro
• 0:01:05 - Greeting
• 0:02:44 - Kidney Stone (?!)
• 0:05:34 - Motivation and Urge of Creating Pebbles
• 0:07:03 - Record Life Experience
• 0:09:58 - 4 Minutes Short Made in 2 Weeks
• 0:14:55 - Creative Process
• 0:18:46 - Collaborative Writing
• 0:20:19 - Credit Everyone!
• 0:22:01 - Reach Out to the Community
• 0:26:07 - Johnny's Two Cents about Start Over
• 0:28:36 - Backstory
• 0:31:55 - Objects Are History
• 0:33:24 - Easter Eggs in Goodnight, Mr. Sandman
• 0:39:48 - POPIN Craft in Singapore
• 0:45:47 - Out for a Walk (Experience about anti-Asian Hate Crimes)
• 0:53:52 - Name the Puppets
• 0:56:23 - Working Visa
• 0:59:37 - US Artist Visa Requirements
• 1:06:04 - Nia the jack of all trades!
• 1:08:00 - Answer Question From Previous Guest, Yu Yu
• 1:10:38 - Nia's Question For The Next Guest 
• 1:11:52 - Vanishing Ending

Links:

• Pebbles (Animated Short) - Thank You to Nurses https://youtu.be/YafQDI89dSY
• Making-of Pebbles https://youtu.be/xnllMS9IgTY
• Out for a Walk
• https://youtu.be/mDAN9AmoyCY
• Goodnight, Mr. Sandman
• https://vimeo.com/333031290
• Introversy Logo Intro
• https://youtu.be/dPubbiMUv3c

Follow Nia

• Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nathania_z/
• Portfolio https://www.nathaniazaini.com/
• Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCviV...

Pebbles Short Film Credits

• Pebbles Writer - Randolph Zaini http://www.introversy.com
• Pebbles Sound Designer - Taylor Westerfield
• Pebbles Composer - David Mulgado

Shout Outs 

• POPIN Craft https://www.facebook.com/POPINCraft
• Annie Atkins https://www.annieatkins.com/
• The Grand Budapest Hotel https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/
• Rise Up Animation https://www.riseupanimation.org/
• Work Visas in Animation https://youtu.be/Q6n2MKcPKDM
• Filmfreeway https://filmfreeway.com/festivals
• Coraline https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/
• Chinatown Pretty https://www.instagram.com/chinatownpretty/

Nice Shorts is...

Fu Yang

• https://fuyang.wixsite.com/fuyang/about
• https://www.instagram.com/cuckoostuff/

Johnny Knittle

• www.johnnyrk.com
• https://www.instagram.com/johnnyrk/

Yu Yu shows us Froggy (her puppet-eating puppet), tells us about the Taiwan stop motion community, her approach to directing other animators and how she treats her films as collaborative efforts, explains her fascination with horror and all things eerie, dives a little into stop motion in VR, and many other wonderful tidbits! Join us as we take a tour through the world of Yu Yu!

0:00:00 - Intro

0:01:25 - Greeting

0:01:52 - Inspiration & Concept

0:04:06 - Yu Yu's Background before Stop Motion Career

0:09:35 - Film Lighting

0:13:03 - Collaboration in Sound and Music

0:19:00 - Set & Character Design

0:22:52 - Meet The Puppet

0:26:09 - Needle Felting Technique

0:27:47 - Wire Armature Technique learned from Stoopid Buddy

0:29:51 - Film Promotion

0:34:05 - Taiwanese Culture

0:36:49 - Potential Project Yu Yu Wants To Work On

0:44:38 - Ghost Month In Taiwan

0:50:04 - Director Leadership

0:51:34 - Acting Tip For Animators

0:57:18 - Collaboration with Fabricators and Animators

0:59:37 - VR Short in Stop Motion

1:05:48 - Next Pitch

1:09:12 - Teach And Bring More Artists Into Stop Motion

1:11:33 - Generate Leads For Freelancing

1:16:34 - Client Horror Story

1:19:12 - Answer Question From Previous Guest, Dux

1:20:52 - Yu Yu's Question For The Next Guest

1:22:37 - Icelandic Folklore Ending

Shadow Steps Stop Motion Studio Show Reel: https://vimeo.com/638550369

Press about "Sick Rose" VR Short 

https://youtu.be/KCHAAo91nd4?t=13

https://youtu.be/u76gTNfEj_M?t=47

Follow Yu Yu

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yuyustopmo/

Contact: yuyustopmo@gmail.com

Credit

Animators

Yi- Chin https://www.instagram.com/petridish.s...

Pei-yu https://www.instagram.com/ooyuzz/

Composer

Mei Yi-Ting Chang https://meiytccomposer.mystrikingly.com/

Shout Out

Stoopid Buddy Stoodios https://www.leagueofbuddies.com/

Turn Rhino Original Design Studio https://www.facebook.com/turnrhino/

Justin Rasch https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcC0...

Lights Out https://youtu.be/FUQhNGEu2KA

* ADR https://www.masterclass.com/articles/...

* Extended Technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extende...

* Monstrum https://www.pbs.org/show/monstrum/

Fu Yang: 

https://fuyang.wixsite.com/fuyang/about

https://www.instagram.com/cuckoostuff/

Johnny Knittle: 

www.johnnyrk.com

https://www.instagram.com/johnnyrk/