The Animation Guild Oral Histories
By Steven Hulett
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Podcast Description
We strive to interview a broad cross-section of people in the cartoon industry, folks working on the theatrical and/or television side who have made big contributions to the art form.
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ExplicitThe Mark Evanier Interview -- Part II | Although a writer by trade, Mr. Evanier has also been a longtime voice director on many of the animated shows that he has penned ... TAG Interview with Mark EvanierFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link He explained that the main work is | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Mark Evanier Interview -- Part I | Mark Evanier has been a comic book fan (and author), sitcom and variety show writer, and (for our purposes here), the creator of hundreds of t.v. animation scripts ... TAG Interview with Mark Evanier Find all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this lin | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Ron Clements Interview -- Part III | Ron C. describes Aladdin as one of the toughest pictures he ever worked on ... TAG Interview with Ron ClementsFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link The problem was, the Disney animation crew working on Beauty and the Beast was nearing t | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Ron Clements Interview -- Part II | When Ron Clements started his directorial career, he was filling a slot on The Great Mouse Detective that opened up when original director Burny Mattinson got promoted to producer ... TAG Interview with Ron Clements Find all TAG Interviews on the TAG web | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Ron Clements Interview -- Part I | Sioux City in Iowa would seem a less than ideal launching pad for a long and successful animation career, but Ron Clements made that starting point work for him ... TAG Interview with Ron ClementsFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link Wo | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Russ Edmonds Interview -- Part II | Mr. Edmonds' first assignment at the Mouse House was animating on Oliver and Dodger, the leads in Oliver & Co. Management was so pleased with the work that he found himself working on more four-legged characters ... TAG Interview with Russ EdmondsFind al | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Russ Edmonds Interview -- Part I | TAG Interview with Russ EdmondsFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link Russ Edmonds was working as an engineer at the Three-Mile Island nuclear plant when an urge to work at another job overcame him ... A self-taught artist, he wrote Disn | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe John Musker Interview -- Part I | John Musker, long-time director, producer and writer at the House of Mouse, grew up in Chicago Illinois and earned a Bachelor's Degree from Northwestern University ... TAG Interview with John MuskerFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe John Musker Interview -- Part II | When John Musker arrived at Disney in 1977, the old guard was departing. Milt Kahl had left the year before and Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston would retire the year after. But the new guard hadn't yet found its footing. ... TAG Interview with John Muske | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Bob Schaefer Interview -- Part I | There are a bajillion different goat paths into the scented uplands of the animation business, but veteran background artist Bob Schaefer's entryway was probably unique ... TAG Interview with Bob SchaeferFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Floyd Norman Interview - Part III | Full video interview below the fold. Mr. Norman returned to Diz Co. for the third time in the go-go nineties, when animation was in its "Second Golden Age." (That photo above? That's Floyd from an earlier Disney work period. Just so you know ...) TAG Int | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Carlos Saldanha Interview | TAG Interview with Carlos SaldanhaFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link Born and raised in Brazil, Carlos Saldanha has long been a pillar at Blue Sky Studios ... Mr. Saldanha came to New York a few decades ago to train at the School of | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Jennifer Yuh Nelson Interview -- Part I | Jennifer Yuh Nelson arrived at DreamWorks Animation after working in television for a half-dozen years as board artist, designer, and director. Her first boarding assignment at DWA was the hand-drawn feature Spirit. ... TAG Interview with Jennifer Yuh Ne | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Jennifer Yuh Nelson Interview -- Part II | Early sketch of the villain from "KFP2" Jennifer Yuh Nelson spent a long time working on the first Kung Fu Panda. She describes the first picture's development as the more difficult of the two KFP features because they were developing the characters from | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitAnimation and Motion Capture | Jason Reisig, Jeff Light and Nathan Loofbourrow. Do the two forms work in harmony together? Or are they at loggerheads now and forever? And is mocap really "Satan's rotoscope" by another name? ... On Tuesday night at the Animation Guild, TAG Vice-Preside | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Chris Miller Interview -- Part I | Before becoming the successful feature animation director he is today, Chris Miller spent four years at Cal Arts with the likes of Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, Mike Mitchell and other artists he found to be "really impressive and talented." ... TAG Inter | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Chris Miller Interview -- Part II | Chris Miller joined PDI/DreamWorks at the tail end of the 1990s, and has been with the company ever since ... TAG Interview with Chris MillerFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link Part of the original Shrek's story team, Mr. Miller moved | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Dave Brain Interview -- Part I | TAG Interview with Dave BrainFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link Dave Brain jumped into the animation business in the 1960s, when most of the enchilada was split between the animation department at Walt Disney Productions and Hanna-Ba | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Dave Brain Interview -- Part 2 | You have your choice of video of the whole interview above ... and the audio of the second half of the interview below. Enjoy. TAG Interview with Dave BrainFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link One of the memorable parts of Dave's caree | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Tony de Rosa Interview -- Part I | Tony de Rosa grew up in New Jersey, in the town of Cherry Hill. (Eric Goldberg also hails from C.H., which is kind of amazing. Two power animators from the same city.) Tony, like other animation professionals before him, liked to draw. (News flash!) ... | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Tony de Rosa Interview -- Part III | The turn of the present century brought challenges to Disney's hand-drawn animation staff. After work on Home on the Range, Tony departed the feature department to work on outside projects ... TAG Interview with Anthony de Rosa Find all TAG Interviews on | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Tony de Rosa Interview -- Part II | In the early nineties, Tony swung between supervising animator assignments at the House of Mouse and non-supervisory positions. TAG Interview with Anthony de RosaFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link He relates this was easy to do when | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe John Musker Interview -- Part III | TAG Interview with John MuskerFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link After Aladdin Clements and Musker pushed to make a science fiction version of Treasure Island, but Jeffrey Katzenberg was unenthusiastic. ... The studio wanted the pair | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTAG interview: Nancy Massie | Here’s a bit of Guild history: a half-hour excerpt of a June 1981 interview that animation historian Harvey Deneroff conducted with Nancy Massie: inker and color stylist, union activist, 1941 Disney strike veteran, and my mother. Interview with Nancy M | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Bob Schaefer Interview -- Part II | (c) The Walt Disney Co. TAG Interview with Bob SchaeferFind all TAG Interviews on the TAG website at this link Bob Schaefer began his career in backgrounds with work on "The Flintstones" in the 1960s. "Doing the insides of the caves was simple. A little | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 25 Episodes |
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