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Stefano Marrone

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What is your name and your current occupation?
I’m Stefano Marrone, freelance visual developer, animator and motion graphic artist. Currently I am heading to London, after working in Italy and Canada for a while.

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I’ve been an event photographer in clubs for 2 years in Milan, while studying for my Bachelor of Arts. Three to four times a week I used to start shooting picture of happy drunk people around 1am and keep going for another three hours. It was kind of fun, I met a lot of interesting, weird people, but the day after at university I always looked like a zombie.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
My last short Flash film, “The Collector”, was a lot of fun during the design stage and I am really happy about how it looks. I love how the idea for the film itself developed from a quick sketch until I found the right design to be animated in Flash. I am also happy to have worked on a short film for amazing director Roy Hayter, “Alice in Wastland – The Flowers”, I was the director and designer for the opening titles sequence. The two people on my little crew where amazing professionals, a pleasure to work with them.

 

How did you become interested in animation?
I’ve been interested in storytelling since I was 7 or 8, I guess. The mechanics of how a story works, and what are the tools to tell it, had been always more fascinating to me that Continue reading

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Pierre De Celles

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Pierre De Celles, I am (Senior) Animation Director, illustrator, designer and traditional artist. Co founder of Crashdownstudio.com

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
When I was young I was scrapping safety tape from giant windows (Ogilvy store), washing the windows clean, and then put new tape over the windows. (I was coughing for a month doing that.) Worked in a pie factory, had to mix the Jam, Brown Sugar, etc. with a special essence, a really sticky experience it was. Then got promoted to put pies in boxes, and run down to the end of the rolling carpet to catch the sealed boxes and put them in a box but I broke too many pies and got fired.
Maybe,it needed two people for that job ?!!

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I loved everything I worked on,did not matter if it was a commercial for a cheese product,it was always a new challenge whatever the project was…I do love Feature Films a bit more then TV series, a series is like being involved with a bunch of featurette Films. Doing the Simpsons is much easier then doing a tv show like Spiral Zone, but it is hard work never the less.
Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I am from Montreal, Canada. I just wanted to draw and one day I saw a job ad in the newspaper, brought my drawing samples and Continue reading

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Einav Deri

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Einav Deri. I work as a Character Designer and Artist at Flaregames and KeenFlare.

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation? 
Before breaking into animation and video games I’ve worked in the food, clothing, sales, customer service and computer industries. Out of all I’d say customer service was the craziest, talking on the phonefrom 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM everyday for almost 2 years was really crazy, I’ve learned a lot though. =)

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of? 
I recently finished working on 3 different major commercials and animated shorts at Snowball | VFX Studios. I designed all the characters and some of the props in the commercials. Seeing my characters come to life, fully animated with all the textures and lighting was really awesome. I’ve had the opportunity to work as an artist on the animated TV-series ‘The Adventures of Vipo the Flying Dog’. I’ve also just finished working on a huge IPad/IPhone game at Flaregames and Keen Games, here in Germany. The game called ‘Royal Revolt’, I designed some of the characters in the game so it was really an honor.

How did you become interested in animation?
I remember that day clearly, I was 5 years old, I watched Disney’s Snow White, after the movie ended there was Continue reading

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Rachel Mouawad

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Rachel Mouawad, and i am currently an animator at Caustik studios in Beirut, Lebanon.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
The only jobs i’ve had are in the animation industry, so i don’t really have any crazier job experiences yet!!

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I have worked on many inspiring projects that i’m very proud to have been a part of, but my favorite so far would have to be my final film InsideOut. This was done during my year at Vancouver Film School in the Classical Animation program where I was introduced to many great artists and teachers which made the project so much more interesting to me. Working with such a great group of talent is truly a life changing experience, to say the least.

 

How did you become interested in animation?
My interest in animation started at a very young age watching cartoons such as Warner Bros, Hanna-barbera, and of course the Disney classics. It grew stronger when i started to discover how these cartoons were actually made. I found myself compelled and Continue reading

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Lincoln Adams

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Freelance Story Artist and Visiting Professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I’ve never had any really crazy jobs because they’ve all been centered around art in one way or another. But I’ve had art jobs that seemed crazy because I was desperate and needed to feed my family. Spending hours on end doing photo retouch for a down and out wedding photographer only to barely make minimum wage comes to mind…

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Every show I get to work on is one I take pride in being part of. Getting paid to draw pictures and tell stories all day while taking care of my family is a privilege and a blessing! But one of the projects that I feel was the most rewarding wasn’t a client job. It was helping to create a multi-media limited animation for my church a few years ago—A stage size picture book where scrims doubled as snow covered rolling hills and movie screens that had the animatic projected onto them. The story process was much like the Pixar process. We had nothing more than a premise that we formed through improv until it rapidly congealed into a script. And when we coupled that with an original score and live music in between each Act it became a very powerful message. We came together as a group with such wide ranging abilities and developed a meaningful original story that spoke to over 5000 people in one weekend. I was very fortunate to be used by God and to blend so quickly with a handful of creatives in such a short time. Humbling, to be honest…

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I’m from the Northeast Ohio area and I spent the first 12 years of my career working as a freelance illustrator for magazines and because that market was so Continue reading

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Rick Hill

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What is your name and your current occupation?
 My name is Rick Hill and I’m a freelance Art Director / Character Designer in the Atlanta area.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Well I’ve spent the last 15 years working as an Art Director in the advertising industry. But before that I was a fabric cutter at a warehouse, an assembly line order picker at another warehouse and a pizza maker at Pizza Hut. That’s just a few. ha!

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
 When I worked at Mullen (ad shop in Boston) I worked on the launch of Gametap.com with Turner. I got the chance to pitch and sell an original cartoon called Lame Games. It was an online video game cartoon series. I designed the cast of characters that ranged from 8bit to 128 bit. That was my first real taste of working on character design. Which is strange if you work in advertising. A good strange if you ask me. Another fun project was working on Baskin Robbins Ice Cream. It was another situation where my writer and I pitched character driven work and it sold. We worked with the talent folks at Nathan Love in NYC on the 3D characters and the animation.

 

How did you become interested in animation?
 I’ve been interested in animation my whole life. I can’t believe Continue reading