Ross Plaskow, is a freelance animator and creator of Meat Mysteries. Having worked with the likes of Google, Target, Disney XD, Hulu, and Facebook, he told us a little bit more about his university beginnings, falling into freelance and the London animation scene.

Links:

Website - www.rossplaskow.com

Twitter - www.twitter.com/rossplaskow

Instagram - /www.instagram.com/rossplaskow/

Meat Mysteries - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC0O6WtmY8A

Animade - https://animade.tv/

Greg Gunn - https://www.ggunn.com/

Art&Graft - https://artandgraft.com/

Moth - https://www.moth.studio/

Claudio Salas - http://www.claudiosalas.com/

Pencil Bandit - https://pencilbandit.com/

Ransomniac - https://twitter.com/RansomniacToons?lang=en

Bouncy Smash - http://bouncysmash.com/

Notes:

-Meat Mysteries

-After Effects

-Passion projects while freelancing

-Architecture school

-Changing course

-2D

-Looking for work out of school

-Learning how to animate 3D characters

-Studying in Denmark

-Freelance from a tweet

-Greg Gunn

-Freelance Anxiety

-Freelancing in London

-Moth Animation Studio

-Art&Graft

-Forming professional relationships

-The London animation scene

-Twitter

-Illustrator

-Claudio Salas

-Advice for new freelancers

-Working out the type of work that you want to do

-Animade

-Lessons learned

-Interacting with people face to face

-Working out of studios

-Burnout

-Two freelance jobs at the same time

-Dedication to a job

-Character animation

-Tweening

-Background artists for Meat Mysteries

-Meat Mysteries release

-Pros and Cons of being the creator of Meat Mysteries

-Dream Client: Moth

-Favorite Animated Film: Akira

-Favorite Animated Series: Rick and Morty

-What do the people you love think you do for a living?: Draw cartoons in newspapers.

-Animalator: Shark Man

Daniela Negrín Ochoa and Iria López are the co-founders of Wednesday Studio based in London, UK. We talk about how they work together as a team, why they often exchange roles, and the importance of always having a personal project on hand.

Links:

Website - www.wearewednesday.com

Twitter - www.twitter.com/WeAreWednesday

Instagram - www.instagram.com/wednesday__studio/

Anchorpoint - www.anchorpointanimation.com/

Strange Beast - strangebeast.tv/

NFTS - nfts.co.uk/

Daniel Clarke - http://www.daniel-clarke.com/

The School of Life - https://vimeo.com/188632975

Motionographer article - http://motionographer.com/2017/09/06/better-together-wednesday-studio/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=motionographer&utm_content=Better%20together:%20Wednesday%20Studio

Notes:

• Wednesday Studio
• Fine Art beginnings
• Jumping off point vs. Starting from nothing
• Creating a brief for personal projects
• Music videos
• NFTS
• Collaboration in schooling and being prepared
• Getting people on board with a project
• Being hands on for a project vs. being an Animation Director
• Handing over the role of design
• Working with illustrator Daniel Clarke
• The School of Life
• Working with other designers and illustrators
• The beginning of Wednesday Studio
• Making the jump into freelance animation director at the same time
• Motionographer article
• Directing as a team
• Simultaneously developing a visual language
• Dividing work and coin flipping
• Growing as a studio and exchanging roles
• The future of Wednesday
• Fear
• Representation
• Direct to client or going through a studio
• Not so personal projects
• Paying yourself
• Next exciting steps
• Taking the studio to the next level
• Working with a remote team
• After Effects
• Hand drawn touches
• Incorporating 3D shapes
• Textures in photoshop
• The hunt for personal projects
• Dream Client: A charity, National Geographic
• Favorite Animated Film: Disney Classics like Dumbo and 101 Dalmations
• Animalator: Gorilla