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Yewon Park

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Yewon Park and I am currently working at Blizzard as a visual development artist.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
When I was in South Korea, I did work at coffee shop for a while. I had to memorize all the recipe of how to make different kinds of coffee and breads.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Most projects I have worked on are very proud! I was very proud of working on Fall because I was the only one who was working as a concept art at that time. Therefore, it was allowed me to do a lot of different things such as Continue reading

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Sam Rusztyn

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Sam Rusztyn, and I’m currently working as a background painter on the children’s television show Arthur.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I haven’t really had many crazy jobs before animation. I used to do data entry for a dental transition company and I also used to help out with children’s craft sessions at a local art gallery. Working with kids, painting and creating was very inspiring!

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Aside from working on my student film, one of my favourite projects was working on The Adventures of Chuck and Friends. It was my first job as a matte painter which is why it is special to me. I learned a ton working on that show, and I was given the freedom to experiment with colour and lighting and I really loved that aspect of my job!

How did you become interested in animation?
Since I was little, I drew and painted constantly, watched a lot of Disney movies. I think I was 11 when I realized that working in animation could be a job. When I was 15 I was able to Continue reading

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Vadim Kapridov

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Vadim Kapridov, currently a director of animated TV series for preschoolers.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I worked once as a builder of ice town.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Web – Progress from Above, TV – Futz!, Peep and the Big Wide World, and the incredibly challenging show I’m directing now – Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.
How did you become interested in animation?
I always loved animation and wanted to be an animator even as a kid. I used my school textbooks as Continue reading

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Frank Forte

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What is your name and your current occupation?
I’m a storyboard artist at Bento Box on Bob’s Burgers.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Ha! I was a Tatto Artist, A line cook at a number of restaurants, and I got paid to watch movie screenings.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
It was really fun to work on Despicable Me 2 doing storyboards. I really got to flex my creativity and have fun. the director let me add gags and take the action in crazy directions just to see what I would come up with. LEGO:Star Wars The Empire Strikes Out (at Threshold Animation) was really great because I got to finally work on a Star wars project AND we got to make fun of it.

How did you become interested in animation?
I grew up on classic Warner Brothers and Tex Avery shorts. They used to show those on TV. Then in college I would Continue reading

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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