IPF-142, Megan Ferguson, Director

Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it!

Hosted by Cassie Soliday

 

Today’s guest is director, Megan Ferguson!

By this time, who hasn’t seen Hilda on Netflix? If you have, you’ve seen Megan’s work! She’s also worked on Wander Over Yonder, Star vs the Forces of Evil, Stella and Sam, and Jimmy Two Shoes and all produced at Mercury Filmworks in Ontario, Canada. Out of college, she worked as an animator, she now supervises other animators as she’s climbed the ranks to directing. Today she shares how she believes we have to be actors and filmmakers- not just animators, how you don’t have to be passionate because stubbornness is just as useful a driver, and how fear plays a role in our learning experience that can stay with us our entire career.

 

Find Megan online:

​​https://megan-ferguson.com/

 

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This podcast is produced in partnership with Women in Animation
womeninanimation.org

"Today, women hold only 20% of the creative roles in animation. WIA wants to make it 50/50 by 2025!"

Please also check out other great organizations promoting diversity in the industry: Black n’ Animated, Rise Up Animation, LatinX in Animation, Asian Queens in Animation, Asians in Animation, and Diverse Toons.

 

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