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Lauren Carr

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Lauren Carr Assistant Professor 3D Animation Montclair State University.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Telemarketing for chiropractors “More Balls Than Most” (juggling company) Splatter painting gift boxes.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Spirit, Chubb Chubbs, XMen 2, Chicken Little, Bolt, Ice Age, 4 Rio.

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I grew up in New City, NY and studied graphic design at Buffalo State. After graduating college, I started working for a website firm in Buffalo doing HTML programming and website design. Website development software had not yet been created and the ability to Continue reading

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Jobs: Animator at Sony PlayStation-San Diego

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Sony logoSony currently has two highly anticipated PS4 titles we will need Animation support for. If hired you will be responsible for either Stylized animation over the top of motion capture, facial performances, and some hand-key work OR for Motion capture animation going toward realism with facial performances.

Please email April Wise with your resume/reel if you are interested in learning more @ april_wise@playstation.sony.com

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Stephanie Olesh

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Stephanie Olesh and I am currently a freelance visual development artist.

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Nothing too crazy. I’ve been a cashier and a shelf stocker, and I can operate a copy machine. One summer I had a job reading submissions for children’s books at a major publishing house. Another time my job was to keep arcade machines filled with prize tickets.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I’m really proud for having worked on numerous projects at Gas Powered Games. Working there as a concept and UI artist was really the best postgraduate education I could have asked for. I loved working as part of that team, and I think we made some really unique work.

 

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I’m from Omaha, Nebraska. Although Continue reading

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A conversation with Dan Povenmire and Swampy Marsh

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150609_CBOX_DanSwampyOffice.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlargeSlate has a great interview up with both Dan and Swampy and if you loved the series like I do, you’ll enjoy this article.

As the final episode of Disney’s Phineas and Ferb airs this weekend I am proud to have been a small part of it and none of it would have been possible without Dan Povenmire and Swampy Marsh who were actually great bosses and did a fantastic job of bring the ‘funny’ out of everyone as we wrote and boarded the shows. I only worked on 7 of the episodes and did some revisions for the Phineas and Ferb Movie (which is how I got to be on the series full time) but everyone still let me feel like a part of the team which was a great feeling considering everyone else had two seasons under their belt. It also points to why it was so successful, because Dan and Swampy really were open to any sort of joke and they say as much in this interview.

 

From the site:

Povenmire: The reason we wanted to do several stories at once is Rocky & Bullwinkle, because that was what we grew up with. But they did it as an anthology, where they’d check in on one story and come back. The formula really came from Snuffleupagus onSesame Street, and how Big Bird had this big, furry, mastodon-type character that only he would see, and then he would, like, go to try to find other people to get them to bring them back and show them the Snuffleupagus, and then the Snuffleupagus would always …

You can read the entire article here.

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The Simpsons opening in pixel art!

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Genius! One of my first professional jobs was animating pixels for a company called Sierra Online working on old school Point and Click games such as Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest and King’s Quest as well as Keeping up with Jones and it was very hard to do so I take my hats off to these fellas!

Also check out Pat and Ivan as they talk a bit about the ‘making of’ the video’ below.