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Whitney Grace interviews traditional 2D animator Tina Nawrocki. They discuss video games, 2D animation, 2D animation in video games ,mermaids, and Tina's short film, Syrenka: The Legend of the Warsaw Mermaid.

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Join Whitney Grace in this blast down memory lane with an old episode from her now defunct first podcast.  In this episode, Whitney interviews renowned animation historian Jerry Beck.  They delve into Beck's career and animation history.,

Whitney Grace interviews fellow pop culture enthusiast and writer Mathew Klickstein about his new book Spring Confidential about the animated sitcom The Simpsons .  Klickstein wrote Springfield Confidential with former Simpsons head writer Mike Reiss.

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In the thirtieth episode of Toon-In Talk, Whitney Grace has always wanted to interview the very private voice acting hero, Frank Welker. So what do you do when you can’t get the reclusive actor to chat with you? Create your own dream interview of course. This is an exercise in creativity and how one would hope the interview with your hero would go. This was constructed with much love and respect for Mr. Welker’s talents. [NOTE: If you don't realize it, let me put it bluntly: this is a joke interview and made for laughs, giggles, snorts, chuckles, and guffaws, etc., etc.]

Hello and welcome to twenty-ninth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Concluding Whitney’s longer than expected series the Ladies of Animation is an interview with Academy Award winner director Brenda Chapman. Brenda is best recognized for her work as the writer and director of Pixar‘s Brave and the director of DreamWorks’s The Prince of Egypt. She also had an extraordinary career at Disney working on Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and The Lion King. Brenda Chapman has since embarked on an independent creative career with her husband, director Kevin Lima. Show Notes Brenda Chapman is the director of Brave and Prince of Egypt. She has worked in the animation industry since the early days of the Disney Renaissance and first worked on The Little Mermaid. As many an animator, Brenda grew up watching Looney Toons and through close, personal connections contacted Disney Feature Animation, who sent her a brochure about CalArts. The main influence on Brenda’s work was her mother. Brenda had the privilege to know legendary animator Joe Ranft and he encouraged her to concentrate more on storytelling. Brenda has experience storytelling for the screen and page. The biggest difference for her is that regular prose writing demands more detail that is usually visually communicated. When Brenda was applying for jobs after CalArts, she put together a portfolio consisting of her clean-up work and tossed in a storyboard in the back. Disney loved her storyboard over her clean-up animation. She shared that the only reason why Disney hired her was due to her gender, but once she was in the department Brenda never felt any discrimination. Whitney is curious about the chaotic neutral will o’wisps in Brave and Brenda clears up her confusion. Brenda shares the lowdown on George Lucas’s Strange Magic that delivered an odd story. In short, there wasn’t much of a story to begin with. Brenda shared that getting a greenlight and keeping her job on an animated film are some of the biggest challenges she faced. Brenda is keeping busy with many writing projects and is starting a company with her husband. Brenda’s husband, Kevin Lima, isn’t a stranger to animation. He directed Disney’s Tarzan, Enchanted, and A Goofy Movie. Brenda declares that girls need to get out there and animate.

Home Podcasts Toon-In-Talk Toon-In Talk Episode 28: Interview with DragonCon’s Dan Carroll Toon-In Talk Episode 28: Interview with DragonCon’s Dan Carroll Podcasts Toon-In-Talk August 24, 2016 Whitney Grace Save VANAPHASE™ the Vanadium powerhouse! Hello and welcome to twenty-eighth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Every year Whitney heads to Atlanta, GA to mingle with other geeks and practice her puppetry skills at DragonCon. DragonCon is the biggest fan run convention in the United States and in 2016 there will be over 75000 attendees and over 3500 hours of programming. Even though he is working 24/7 until the convention ends, Dan Carroll, DragonCon’s head honcho, had an hour to chat with Whitney about the new happenings for 2016, including animation and puppetry guests.

Hello and welcome to twenty-seventh episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Continuing with her fabulous Ladies of Animation series, Whitney interviews the one and only Vicky Jenson. Vicky is one of the top animation directors, in Whitney’s opinion, in Hollywood and she also lends her talents to television animation as well. She is respected as the director of DreamWorks’s Shrek and Shark Tale. Vicky’s resume includes the shows Smurfs, He-Man, JEM, She-Ra and the films The Road to El-Dorado, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, and FernGully. She discusses her past successes with Whitney and also hints at some exciting projects yet to come. Show Notes Vicky Jenson is an animation director who worked on many feature films and cartoons. Whitney’s favorite work of Vicky’s is Shrek. Vicky never did any of the animation on the projects she worked on, but she has dabbled in different parts of the process, including storyboarding. Remember that Old Navy advertising campaign a few years ago with the talking mannequins? That was Vicky Jenson’s work! She became interested in directing when she worked in storyboarding, because she decided the camera angles, action, and loved the interaction with the story. Whitney and Vicky discuss the benefits of drawing in a digital environment vs. the traditional pencil in hand model. Vicky Jenson describes working in animation during the Saturday morning boom in the 1980s. She joined DreamWorks and began work on The Road to El Dorado. Jeffrey Katzenberg noticed Vicky Jenson’s talent for story and encouraged her to be storyboarding and directing. Vicky later worked on Shrek and through her persistance and talent became one of the directors. Vicky and Whitney talk about how storyboarding ins integral to the story process. She left her position at DreamWorks animation in 2015 after being at the studio from the beginning. When DreamWorks restructured in January 2015, the studio decided to end production on several animated film projects, including the one Vicky Jenson was on. It’s disappointing that some of these features will never be seen, especially since many of them were 70% animated. Vicky Jenson is writing and illustrating her own graphic novel, much to Whitney’s excitement. She is also working on a stage musical and is adapting a work. Vicky describes it as something between Cirque du Soiliel and Broadway. Her advice to women interested in pursuing an animation career: get your stuff together and do it. Also seek out opportunities and pursue them when they appear. Vicky shares that she learned the most when she was on the job. She has nothing to declare!