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Temple Mathews

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Temple Mathews, owner of Temple Mathews Prods. Inc. Currently a screenwriter and author.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Roofer, clerk, shoe salesman, film producer.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I wrote “RETURN TO NEVERLAND” an animated feature for Disney that did over 100 million worldwide. Also “THE LITTLE MERMAID II”.  My YA trilogy, “THE NEW KID,” “THE RISING,” and “THE SWORD OF ARMAGEDDON” was published by Benbella Books and continues to sell.

How did you become interested in animation?
A friend called me up and said hey would you like to write for this show, and I did, and Continue reading

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David Russell

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What is your name and your current occupation?
David Russell, and I’m a concept and storyboard artist/writer working primarily in feature films. My literary moniker is David Bryan Russell.

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Painting portraits of Hell’s Angels bikers would qualify as my craziest gig.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Special productions to date would include Return of the Jedi, The Color Purple, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Batman, Terminator 2; Judgement Day, Tombstone, Moulin Rouge, Master and Commander, The Chronicles of Narnia; The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,/Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Red Tails, and Paradise Lost.

 

How did you become interested in animation?
I’m a great fan of the early Disney animated features. I jumped at the chance to work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, particularly since Continue reading

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Tyler West

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Creative Director | CEO West Studio
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Before I went to college I worked in the photo lab at Costco. It is strange now to think about the fact that everyone was getting their film developed and waiting hours or days to see their pictures. It wasn’t that long ago, but now everyone has digital cameras and pictures are rarely ever printed.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Working with Director Sam Fell for a project that is still unannounced was a great experience. Sam was a pleasure to work with and I learned a great deal from the collaboration. Sharing ideas with creative people is the best part of my job and more often than not, those end up being the coolest projects.

 

How did you become interested in animation?
I have been interested in animation since I was a kid. I grew up with the classic Disney films from the 90s like Beauty and the Beast and Lion King. As I got older I 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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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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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