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Greg Araya

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What is your name and your current occupation?

My name is Greg Araya, I am currently a story artist for Cartoon Network’s “MAD” at Warner Bros. Animation.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Right out of college, I worked for a while at a scenic painting studio in Chicago. The owner low-balled all the bids and would send a crew of underpaid twenty somethings with a van full of paint to do the jobs. We had no supervision. We did some truly awful work. Also, I crashed the van.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Aside from the aforementioned disaster? I’ll always regard Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends as a special show. It was a great crew. So many talented people. We had a lot of fun. And I’m proud of the fact that it was one of the few shows made entirely at the Burbank studio from start to finish. The studio or the union never really touted that, but I think it makes a difference.

How did you become interested in animation?

I was one of those kids that was always drawing or trying to make my own toys, attempting impossibly ambitious projects like wanting to build a robot or a hovercraft. Making movies was one of those projects that was somewhat attainable, since my dad had Continue reading

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Richard Pursel

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My Stimpy’s First Fart (Son of Stimpy) premise A sculpture of Stimpy John asked me to sculpt for Vanessa Coffee to get her to like us. The Spumco crew was laid off before I finished it, so I kept it. 

What is your name and your current occupation?
Richard Pursel and I am a writer for animation primarily. I’m currently writing a feature script for a 3-D animated project in addition to developing and writing a pilot and bible for an unrelated 3-D animated series. I’m also finishing up two live-action scripts, one a feature and the other an hour-long TV pilot; both with a cartoon sensibility.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I had to deal with many strong personalities as a production assistant for music videos. Hunting down items Prince demanded be in his trailer, such as “rain scented” candles, ain’t easy! I worked as a staff supervisor at a school for multi-handicapped blind adults—that experience sure keeps me humble. I even farmed the Sodom Plain in Israel for six months when I was 21.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
My first writing credits are on “The Ren & Stimpy Show,” so of course I’m proud of that. “Powdered Toast Man” was the first story of mine that aired, though “Visit to Anthony” was the first one I wrote. I still send out my Emmy nominated premise “Son of Stimpy” as a writing sample. “Cow and Chicken” and “I Am Weasel” came next and creator David Feiss animated the title sequence for “I Am Weasel” based on my song and board. Writing and story editing “Tom and Jerry Tales” was incredible, returning to basics with those iconic, pantomime, cartoon stars. The “SpongeBob SquarePants” crew is a well-oiled machine and four seasons working with them was awesome.

How did you become interested in animation?
The first nightmare I can remember was being a cartoon pig chased by Continue reading

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Jun Falkenstein

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Jun Falkenstein.  Sometimes animation director and writer, othertimes animation storyboard artist.
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I really haven’t had any crazier jobs than animation!  I pretty much jumped right from school into a job at Warner Brothers.   Although one summer I did teach art to kids.  Not very crazy.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Rather say some of my favorite people that I am proud to have worked with (too many to list).  Animation projects can be great or terrible, but all of the ones created in large studio settings are not usually very personal, as there are a lot of people having their say with the project.  And when they aren’t personal works of art, pride becomes a two-edged feeling…you are proud that the thing was completed, but always thinking of how it could have been better had you gotten to do it differently.  So by this criteria, probably I’m proudest of my short film Kyle + Rosemary, done with Frederator and Nickelodeon, because it was the closest to a pure vision than any big budget feature I was ever a part of.
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Sandra Ní Chonaola

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Sandra Ní Chonaola and I am an Animation Supervisor at JAM Media in Dublin, Ireland.

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Hummm… I don’t know if I’ve had any ‘crazy’, jobs, but I did start out studying Fitness Instruction only to go onto a career in accounting to finally find my way back on track with animation.

 

What are some of your favourite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
The current one, ‘Tilly and Friends’. Its not only mind-blowing to work with such talented, enthusiastic seasoned animation directors every day, but to get to work on such unique project is truly inspiring. Based on a series of books by author Polly Dunbar, the show is heavily traditional, though it is drawn digitally. We aim to honour the books as much as possible, when a shot is approved in animation it put through After Effects and given a paper texture and a boiling line, that allows it to look just like the books. Its so beautiful, I love it! It’s a pleasure to look at eight or more hours a dayJ

 

How did you become interested in animation?
I have been a huge fan of Warner Bros for as long as I could remember. The likes of Daffy Duck giving out about his lines etc… persuaded me that these characters where alive… so the concept of becoming an animator happened fairly late for me. I was probably about nine years old, when I got Continue reading

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Jennifer Fabos Patton

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What is your name and your current occupation?
 Jennifer Fabos Patton owner and Founder of Gallery Girls and Art Model
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
 I owned a Magic Shop and was part of a magic troupe and did the Magician assistant too.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
 Wow. There were so many. I have been modeling for more then 20 years. I was one of the main models for the development during Warner Brother’s Quest for Camelot and Iron Giant. Everyone notices I look a lot like the Little Mermaid, especially the nose. I did a lot of modeling for Disney during that movie. I have worked for a lot of comic book artists as well as a lot of the animation studios.

How did you become interested in animation?
 They pulled me in. During the second animation boom in the 90’s, the studios started Continue reading

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David Fain

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What is your name and your current occupation? David Fain, I’m currently work for Hasbro Studios as an animatic editor on “Transformers Prime”. I also do freelance stop-motion, Flash animation, and writing and directing for animation when the opportunity arises.   What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation? After high school I worked a couple of summers in a fish packing plant in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Also worked the counter in a bowling alley in Rhode Island after undergraduate school. That sucked big time. http://www.animationinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/FainShowreel_1109small.mov What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of? My hands down favorite was “Action League Now!” which was a segment of the old Nickelodeon anthology series “Kablam!”. I started as a stop-motion animator on the series and eventually got to write some episodes and direct the final 13. I also was a staff writer on “SpongeBob” way back in the day before it was very well known. I created a couple of original web shorts while at Warner Bros. Online divison called “Slim Chance: Intergalactic Zoologist”. Working on “G.I. Joe Renegades” and “Transformers Prime” has been a ball because they are my first action/adventure shows and let me reference my love of live action continuity cutting a bit more than comedies.   How did you become interested in animation? Like most baby boomers, I grew up watching a lot of TV. In the New England region there was a woman named Yvonne Andersen who ran an animation workshop where she helped kids make animated films. Sometimes Continue reading