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Where we celebrate women and non-binary folk working in animation, and explore representation behind the scenes and on the screen.
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Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
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 Writer and Production Coordinator, Alyssa Harden!
Alyssa is a production coordinator at DreamWorks and freelance animation writer. She’s worked at companies like Illumination, Laika, Grayscale, and more. In our chat, she talks how saturday morning cartoons helped shape her worldview and how she finds joy in doing that for today’s kids, what it took to relocate for work, east coast to west, LA to Oregon and back again, finding romance in the puppet department, being the only artist in a family of scientists, and more.
Find Alyssa online
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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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
Thursday Feb 16, 2023
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 background painter, Bonnie Branson!
Originally from Kentucky but raised in Connecticut, Bonnie now lives and work in the Los Angeles area painting backgrounds for animation. Currently, she’s a background painter on the sweet and adventurous Nick Jr show “Santiago of the Seas.” Her previous experience includes stage scenic painting, and doing early stage visual development for virtual reality, television, and animated features. Today, we chat about starting a new full-time animation job during the pandemic, how she pivoted from teaching art for middle school students into animation, the specifics about painting for a CG show that you may not have thought about before, and why it’s never too late to go after your dreams.
Find Bonnie online:
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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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
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 background painter, Bonnie Branson!
Originally from Kentucky but raised in Connecticut, Bonnie now lives and work in the Los Angeles area painting backgrounds for animation. Currently, she’s a background painter on the sweet and adventurous Nick Jr show “Santiago of the Seas.” Her previous experience includes stage scenic painting, and doing early stage visual development for virtual reality, television, and animated features. Today, we chat about starting a new full-time animation job during the pandemic, how she pivoted from teaching art for middle school students into animation, the specifics about painting for a CG show that you may not have thought about before, and why it’s never too late to go after your dreams.
Find Bonnie online:
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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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it!
Hosted by Kira Rodrigues
Today’s guest is background designer, Grace Wong!
Grace went to the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, taking a BFA in Concept Art at the beginning of her journey. She graduated and took up matte painting freelance before transitioning to becoming a fully-fledged background designer that she is today. Grace is also an amazing social media supervisor with Rise Up Animation and spearheads many of their projects that you see on the Twitter, Instagram, and even LinkedIn. In this episode, she will share her journey from how she transitioned from being a matte painter to a background designer, her self growth along the way, as well as tips and tricks if you want to pursue the route of a background designer in the animation industry.
Find Grace online:
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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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast- a look at animation through the women and non-binary folk who make it!
Hosted by Kira Rodrigues
Today’s guest is development assistant and founder of Asians in Animation, Lexie Chu!
Lexie started her journey by breaking in at Cartoon Network as a production intern working on The Powerpuff Girls (2016). In 2020, she moved to Netflix Animation as a production assistant in the film development sector where she assisted in a handful of movies as well as founded the Asian at Netflix Animation community. Now as a development assistant at Skydance Animation, she'll be sharing valuable tips that she wish she knew in school, as well as tips on what she looks for in potential candidates in the recruitment process. Lexie is also the proud founder and president of the organization, Asians in Animation, and she shares how she was inspired to start the organization, her growth, and the importance of sparking these conversations in the animation industry.
Find Lexie online:
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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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
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 writer and story editor, Taneka Stotts!
Taneka is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter who’s written for Steven Universe Future, Craig of the Creek, Young Justice, and is currently the Story Editor of Pinecone & Pony. Before animation, Taneka created platforms to showcase diverse and LGBTQ voices with no limitations to their imagination in comics. One of my personal favorites is Casual Hex and Deja Brew was hella good, too. Point is, Taneka’s an amazing storyteller and change maker and you should know who they are. In this episode, we discuss growing up with a medium that has now become their life, how the collaborative process can make your crew feel like a family, how to talk about what you’re doing when you can’t actually talk about it due to NDAs, and how to improve diversity inclusion initiatives to make real change that lasts more than a year.
Find Taneka online:
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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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
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 writer and story editor, Taneka Stotts!
Taneka is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter who’s written for Steven Universe Future, Craig of the Creek, Young Justice, and is currently the Story Editor of Pinecone & Pony. Before animation, Taneka created platforms to showcase diverse and LGBTQ voices with no limitations to their imagination in comics. One of my personal favorites is Casual Hex and Deja Brew was hella good, too. Point is, Taneka’s an amazing storyteller and change maker and you should know who they are. In this episode, we discuss growing up with a medium that has now become their life, how the collaborative process can make your crew feel like a family, how to talk about what you’re doing when you can’t actually talk about it due to NDAs, and how to improve diversity inclusion initiatives to make real change that lasts more than a year.
Find Taneka online:
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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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
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 development and story artist, Sharon Bridgeman!
Sharon was born in Ireland and worked as an animator, supervisor and character designer for studios in Dublin, London, and Berlin before making her way to California. She’s currently a story artist at a newer studio called Spire Animation, but her first job in animation was as an in-betweener on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Ireland and her titles only get more fun and impressive since! Having worked in feature and TV, you may recognize some titles: "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," "Boss Bay" , "Abominable", Kung Fu Panda:"Secrets of the Scroll", Kung Fu Panda 2", "Rise of the Guardians" and "Spirit." Today, Sharon will talk with us through her journey, share her secret to pitching and how it’s okay to not know everything, it’s okay to be soft spoken or not have big energy when pitching, and how no idea is stupid and every voice deserves to be heard.
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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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
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 stop motion animator and producer, Eileen Kohlhepp!
Eileen has been working since the 90s on cult classics like Daria, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, and the list continues to grow today. Animation is already a niche corner of the Entertainment industry, but Stop Motion is an even more tight knit community! Eileen shares what it’s been like to navigate such a specific industry over the years, gives us insight on how she pivots between animating and producing, and talks about how being an animator makes her a better producer.
Connect with Eileen:
https://www.instagram.com/EileenKohlhepp/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileen-kohlhepp-00732b6/details/experience/
Eileen recommends:
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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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
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 stop motion animator and producer, Eileen Kohlhepp!
Eileen has been working since the 90s on cult classics like Daria, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, and the list continues to grow today. Animation is already a niche corner of the Entertainment industry, but Stop Motion is an even more tight knit community! Eileen shares what it’s been like to navigate such a specific industry over the years, gives us insight on how she pivots between animating and producing, and talks about how being an animator makes her a better producer.
Connect with Eileen:
https://www.instagram.com/EileenKohlhepp/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileen-kohlhepp-00732b6/details/experience/
Eileen recommends:
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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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk