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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 Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 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 production coordinator, storyboard artist, and host of the Creating in Color podcast , Kaybe Wood!
Well, she does quite a bit more than that, too. She’s also an illustrator - with an etsy shop called Star Rain Studio a streamer - catch her on Twitch as MaybeItsKaybe - and a podcaster - the host of the Creating in Color podcast where she interviews creative BIPoC professionals to inspire and give guidance to students, kids, and people looking for a career shift.
She believes that animation is a powerful storytelling medium and that it’s never too late to do what you’re passionate about. Since breaking into the industry, she’s worked in productions at Dreamworks TV and Netflix Animation. While she’s a coordinator at the moment, she’s working hard on her portfolio and skills to make the transition to storyboarding. Hear all about it and how she hopes to make her dreams a reality!
Find Kaybe everywhere online:
https://linktr.ee/MaybeitsKaybe
Listen to her podcast:
https://creatingincolor.buzzsprout.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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 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 Kira Rodrigues and Cassie Soliday
Today’s guest is animator and production coordinator, María Azellea!
María Azellea at a young age realized there was a need to help diverse, new, and outdated companies who strived to be part of the social media shift in the new multimedia marketing world. From that need she established Menacing Marketing in 2013 with the focus of empowering the voices of these businesses.
Her belief in empowering the Next Generation brought her to work with several Non Profits & Organizations. Together they build great platforms, media content and strong membership participation.
In addition to her volunteer positions María created and is the owner of Hustle - N - Heart, a non profit virtual landing page that is a way to bring resources & information to aspiring professionals so they can have their own starting line as they begin their professional journeys.
As an animator her philosophy is “To create new, innovative, and diverse media that empowers the next generation of creatives to tell their own stories.”.
This passion and drive led to her short film ” La Concha Mágica” to debut at San Diego Comic Con Children’s Film Festival. Which is a step in her continued journey to learn, discover, and create new stories everyday as an Animator while also working in Production.
Find María online:
www.azellea.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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 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 Kira Rodrigues and Cassie Soliday
Today’s guest is comic/story artist and full-time lecturer, Deda Daniels!
Deda grew up in Italy, studied in San Francisco, worked in Los Angeles, and now teaches in Singapore. While Deda is a retired storyboard and visual development artist, she is still deep in creative work with her comics and teaching young minds. She feels empowered to choose what she works on now- inspiration for us all! In today’s episode, she shares why there’s no such thing as art block, how she balances comics and teaching, how teaching inspires her to continue learning, how she used art to process grief, and more.
Find Deda 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 Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 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 animation director and illustrator, Fernanda Frick!
Fernanda is the creator of the short film, “Here’s the Plan”, the graphic novel, “Trazos”, with many more stories in development. In this episode, she shares with us how she finds motivation to push through big projects, how she learned how to write and develop a tv series with no prior knowledge of how to do it, why it’s good to have multiple ideas in our back pocket, and how every pitch is practice for the next.
Find Fernanda 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 Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 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 animation director and illustrator, Fernanda Frick!
Fernanda is the creator of the short film, “Here’s the Plan”, the graphic novel, “Trazos”, with many more stories in development. In this episode, she shares with us how she finds motivation to push through big projects, how she learned how to write and develop a tv series with no prior knowledge of how to do it, why it’s good to have multiple ideas in our back pocket, and how every pitch is practice for the next.
Find Fernanda 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 Mar 16, 2022
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Welcome to the Ink and Paint Folk podcast!
Hosted by Cassie Soliday
Today’s topic is #PayAnimationWriters and #NewDeal4Animation!
And today I’m joined by fellow writer, Chad Quandt to talk to you about #NewDeal4Animation and #PayAnimationWriters.
You may have seen these hashtags on social media where folks are sharing some harsh truths and inequalities about working in animation. And to be honest, it’s been really depressing to realize that some things that have been challenging for me or my colleagues have also been challenging to many! Cassie and Chad break down what writers want addressed at negotiations in this episode, but every animation craft has their own action items they're fighting for, too.
Support us all by signing the #NewDeal4Animation petition: https://t.co/tLY2dNFubA
If you're local to Burbank, attend our rally on March 20th! More info here: https://twitter.com/TAGwriters/status/1502331283581460480
To hear stories direct from the folks who make animation, check these links out:
The Animation Guild (TAG): https://twitter.com/animationguild
TAG Writers: https://twitter.com/TAGwriters
TAG POC Writers Committee: https://twitter.com/TAG_POCWriters
TAG Color Designers: https://twitter.com/colordesign839
TAG Story Artists: https://twitter.com/TAGStoryGroup
TAG Queer Committee: https://twitter.com/QTag839
TAG Young Workers Committee: https://twitter.com/TAGYoungWorkers
*Also check out their "What's the Union Got To Do With Me?" comic: https://twitter.com/TAGYoungWorkers/status/907728106743488513
Len Uhley's thread about why animation writers are not part of Writer's Guild of America (WGA): https://twitter.com/LenUhley/status/1461523983761911815
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 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 Jasmine Katatikarn, Co-Founder of the Academy of Animated Art!
Jasmine has previously been a guest on the show and was excited to come back because a lot has happened! For 10 years, she was a Senior Lighting Technical Director at Blue Sky Studios. But now… Blue Sky is closed. What do you do? While it’s a chapter closed, Jasmine’s here to share how she stays optimistic and focuses instead on the exciting moves happening within the industry. Jasmine’s now a CG Lead at Framestore and she still loves helping new artists break into animation and VFX. In today’s episode, she’ll share some stories and valuable takeaways she’s learned through all this, discuss the state of the industry within the health crisis and WFH orders, and more.
Update* Jasmine has moved on from Framestore and is now the 3D Tech Artist Manager at Amazon!
Learn more about the Academy of Animated Art:
https://academyofanimatedart.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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 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 Kira Rodrigues
Today’s guest is Visual Development Artist, Nate Carvalho!
Nate’s career is just getting started in their home country of Brazil. They balance freelance work in viz dev and children’s book illustration, while still continuing their education as they’re eager to better their skills. They believe that animation is a tool that brings out magic and this keeps them moving forward. Nate chats keeping 9-5 hours as a freelance artist, how they keep focused while managing ADHD, and is ready to beg you to have hobbies alongside your work! Nate’s cheerful optimism is infectious and I’m so excited for you to meet them.
Find Nate online:
https://nathfuryc.artstation.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.
Ink and Paint Folk on Social Media:
Twitter: @InkandPaintFolk - Instagram: @inkandpaintfolk
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Wednesday Feb 09, 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 Kira Rodrigues and Cassie Soliday
Today’s guest is Veteran Creative Producer and CEO of Frogbot Films, Monica Lago-Kaytis!
She’s worked in the animation industry for over 25 years, 23 of them with the famed Walt Disney Feature Animation where she started as a production assistant on Pocahontas. Since then, she’s climbed the production ranks managing and producing some of your favorite Disney films such as Hercules, Wreck-It Ralph, and Zootopia… okay, so those are a few of my personal favorites! But she was never looking to break into animation, it was a pleasant surprise! Growing up with an artsy mother, Monica was used to managing and making space for artists. Today, she shares her personal experiences, struggles, and how she evolved to the person she is today and gathered the courage to break away from the biggest animation studio to start her own production company, Frogbot Films.
She’s also an active mentor volunteer and the president of the non-profit organization, Rise Up Animation, which we also chat about in the ep!
Check out Rise Up Animation, and be sure to learn more about Frogbot Films!
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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
Friday Jan 28, 2022
Friday Jan 28, 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 and guest host, Megan Ferguson
Today, we discuss the fear of BLACKLISTING.
Learn more about Megan:
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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