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The iFanboy.com Comic Book Podcast is a weekly talk show all about the best new current comic book releases. Lifelong friends, Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan talk about what they loved and (sometimes) hated in the current weekly books, from publishers like Marvel, DC, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, BOOM! Studios, IDW, Aftershock, Valiant, and more. The aim is to have a fun time, some laughs, but to also really understand what makes comic books work and what doesn’t, and trying to under ...
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Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is NICK CROSS! Nick is a cartoonist, art director, and background artist whose work can be seen on Over the Garden Wall, Uncle Grandpa, and The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie!
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to NICK about LEARNING TO ANIMATE, WORKING IN THE CARTOON NETWORK SHORTS PROGRAM, ART DIRECTING ON OVER THE GARDEN WALL, and so much more!
While we talk, we doodle on a MAGMA, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, NEWGROUNDS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!
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Editing by Clemence Briat ► https://twitter.com/clem_n_m
Produced by Marco Beltran ► https://twitter.com/orcsocks
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1:00 Deeping toe in background design
6:07 Hiring/
8:22 Learning to Animate
12:40 “You can’t afford to be precious”
16:03 Entering work into festivals
20:55 “Animation Process is like building a ship in a bottle”
26:46 Jumping Mediums and Making a comic
33:44 Over the Garden Wall
37:35 Shorts Program
59:59 “The Wire for kids”
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