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Michael Jantze

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Michael Jantze, owner of Jantze Studios and professor at SCAD. Prior jobs include: Newspaper journalist. Syndicated cartoonist. Visual Effects Art Director at ILM.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Co-directed Joe Murray’s “Frog in a Suit” and directed the animation for a dream sequence in Lawrence Kasdan’s 2012 feature “Darling Companion”.

How did you become interested in animation?
I was born. I was interested in animation.

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
Born in New York, grew up in Illinois, I’ve been in California on and off since 1981 (film school at Cal State Northridge). I got out of college, applied to Disney the week “Black Cauldron” came out. So I went into documentary filmmaking the following week. That lead to art directing, that led to Continue reading

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Andrea Preda

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Andrea Preda, Director on Children´ animated series.

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I have never done any other job, just fell into this one by accident. I really was just searching for a job where I can draw, because I adored drawing. These days, as a director and producer, I very seldom draw anymore.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I worked mostly for the German Market, Captn¨t Blaubear (won a golden Bear award), and Dieter (the most extreme fun I had with, it was a story about a band called “Modern Talking”), are some features that I will always treasure.  At the studios in Hungary , I worked on “All dogs go to Heaven 2” and “The penguin and the pebble”. I was very much at the start of my career at the time in the early 90´s, and I had some incredible supervisors from Don Bluth. This was a really great foundation for me.

How did you become interested in animation?
Bambi . Took my breath away as a child, and ever since I saw it in the cinema at the age of five, I started Continue reading

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Henrique Jardim

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What is your name and your current occupation?
I am Henrique Jardim, currently a storyboard artist at Floyd County Productions on the upcoming animated series “Unsupervised” on FX. It’s a flash animated show made right here in the US of A.

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I suppose you could say that what I am now is my crazier job because it’s my first ever ACTUAL job that isn’t freelance. But the oddest gig I’ve had is when an online gambling company from Crete contacted me out of nowhere offering me a freelance storyboard gig. I named a price and they went for it without haggling… that to me was the craziest part. I am part of a new generation of graduates who were released into a disappointing (and scary) job market. Even before graduating, I applied to many franchises like Coldstone, Home Depot, Target, etc. with no luck. With the way things were going, I’m surprised I have a steady animation job currently.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I was an intern at Titmouse over in Hollywood and had a chance to animate on “China, IL” and on “Black Dynamite”. But if I am to be truthful, it means I have to be the self-centered jerk that I am. So my absolute favorite project so far was a short pilot I made produced by Nickelodeon. They were such great people to work with and I was able to create something that was very “me”. The greatest part was that I was in charge of my own art and whatever decision I made mattered.
How did you become interested in animation? 
I always wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but I was a lousy skater. Come one summer when I was in 9th grade when all my friends were traveling, I started messing with Macromedia Flash 5 (I bet kids these days have never heard of such a thing). I found myself animating for days straight. The more I did it, Continue reading

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Ernesto Paganoni

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What is your name and your current occupation? 
My name is Ernesto Paganoni and I am a freelance animator 2d-3d

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I pretended to study architecture.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I am very proud to be able to go to learn 3D in 1992, already 10 years of traditional animation on the shoulders
and I am proud also to have founded, again in 1992, the first Italian computer animation company called “Locomotion”.

How did you become interested in animation?
I have always drawn and after high school I discovered that it could even become a profession. Continue reading

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Steve “SKETCH” Vallino

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Steve “SKETCH” Vallino. Avid Editor
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Basic warehouse gigs, rental yards. Then got into ceramic painting for a bit.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
He-Man 2002 reboot and Strawberry Shortcake 2010 reboot.


How did you become interested in animation?
Always loved it as a kid and my ability to draw half way decent. What could be Continue reading

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Tyree Dillihay

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What is your name and current occupation?
My name is Tyree Dillihay and I’m an assistant director on season 2 of Bob’s Burgers. I have two series coming out that I worked on as a Director premiering on Fox and MTV the same week.  Good Vibes premieres on MTV, Thursday October 27th after the return of BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD and Allen Gregory, which was created by Jonah Hill premieres on FOX October 30th at 8:30.  I directed two episodes on each of these shows.
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Fortunately, I’ve only had 2 9-5s before getting into animation and they weren’t bad at all. My first one was doing customer service for a skin care company. My second job, which was my reason for leaving the skin care company, was helping my mother start and run what became our family business of setting up facilities that service developmentally disabled people.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
My favorites so far have been the projects where I was given creative autonomy. And ironically, those were not only fulfilling for me, but were huge successes for those that hired me. Projects like “Read A Book” and “Disrespectoids” were very fun projects to work on. “Disrespectoids” is probably my favorite because myself and a writer, Dan Clark, scripted out the cartoons the OLD way…VISUALLY. We literally sat in a room and had jam sessions with 10 characters to play with and just played “What if…?” for about 2 weeks on a dry erase board before animation started.
How did you become interested in animation?
Early in life I wanted to become an illustrator but I couldn’t afford to go to Art Center. Nor was I willing to incur that debt. And I didn’t feel you could Continue reading