Featured Friday Archives

Featured Friday: Ryan Brothers

Posted by Mark-Ryan Magallanez on Friday, November 12th, 2021 in Featured Friday, Crew, Backgrounds

● Q: When did you first realize that you wanted to work in animation? ○ Funny story, I actually was aiming for the video game industry with my art however, animation was also a goal of mine if that didn’t work out. It just turned out...

Featured Friday: John Vavir

Posted by Mark-Ryan Magallanez on Friday, November 5th, 2021 in Featured Friday, Animation, Crew

● Q: When did you first realize that you wanted to work in animation? ○ When one of the teachers at the daycare I attended told me the cartoons I was watching were hand drawn by people and not filmed by actual ninja turtles; my life was changed f...

Featured Friday: Cindy Crowell

Posted by Mark-Ryan Magallanez on Friday, October 29th, 2021 in Featured Friday, Crew, Character Design

● Q: When did you first realize that you wanted to work in animation? ○ I was raised on Disney and Looney Tunes reruns in the 70s, and I was the kid who always got in trouble for drawing flipbooks in the margins of my textbooks. I didn’t...

Featured Friday: Sarah Anderson

Posted by Mark-Ryan Magallanez on Friday, October 22nd, 2021 in Featured Friday, Storyboard, Animation, Crew

● Q: When did you first realize that you wanted to work in animation? ○ I always had a love for animated shows and movies growing up, but I wouldn’t necessarily say I knew I wanted to work in animation until much later in life. All I knew is th...

Featured Friday: Ashley Lange

Posted by Mark-Ryan Magallanez on Friday, October 15th, 2021 in Featured Friday, Animation, Crew, Backgrounds

● Q: When did you first realize that you wanted to work in animation? ○ When I was very young and immature, I remember going on trips with my family and being utterly bored by beautiful mountain vistas, the masterworks of art geniuses in m...

Featured Friday: Cullen Cole

Posted by Mark-Ryan Magallanez on Friday, October 1st, 2021 in Backgrounds, Crew, Featured Friday

● Q: When did you first realize that you wanted to work in animation? ○ I was in middle school when I realized that’s what I wanted to do. I didn’t specifically know that I would be doing background design but ever since a young age I ...

Featured Friday: Deanna Trudeau

Posted by Mark-Ryan Magallanez on Friday, September 24th, 2021 in Featured Friday, Animation, Crew

● Q: When did you first realize that you wanted to work in animation? ○ I’ve loved drawing and storytelling since I was very young, and I’ve always been inspired by animated movies, especially 2D Disney movies. I really took animation ...

Featured Friday: Taylor Harton

Posted by Mark-Ryan Magallanez on Friday, September 17th, 2021 in Featured Friday, Animation, Crew, Administration

● Q: When did you first realize that you wanted to work in animation? ○ I had always loved animated movies and shows growing up but never thought about having a career in animation. It wasn’t until high school, after my friend got me to ...

Featured Friday: Nick Graves

Posted by Mark-Ryan Magallanez on Friday, September 10th, 2021 in Post-Production, Featured Friday, Animation, Crew, compositing

● Q: When did you first realize that you wanted to work in animation? ○ I was big into drawing from an early age, and I got into acting as well, but it took more of a backseat to art. I took an early interest in Flash animation because of ...

Featured Friday: Mark Adams

Posted by Mark-Ryan Magallanez on Friday, September 3rd, 2021 in Animation, Crew, 3D, Backgrounds, Props, Featured Friday

● Q: When did you first realize that you wanted to work in animation? ○ Never occured to me that I could if I’m being honest haha. The fact that my 3D career led me to working at one of my fave animation studios still sort of flabber...