This episode of the Animation Industry Podcast features Jonni Phillips, an independent filmmaker, animator, and cartoonist. She shares the nitty-gritty details of how she creates her absurdly wonderful, and absolutely unique mixed-media animation style. You will also learn: *What CalArts’ Experimental Animation Program is like *How she developed Rachel and Her Grandfather Control the Island with Frederator Studios *How she made Wasteland and The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by Bloop Animation, which is an animation learning platform packed with premium online video courses for aspiring animation filmmakers. They have courses for all major animation programs like Maya, Animate CC, Toon Boom, Blender, TVPaint, and many others, as well as some non-software courses like a storyboarding course, Animation foundations course, and even one about making graphic novels, which covers absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish. The courses are all in video-form, so there’s no deadlines or application process, you simply pick a course and start learning in seconds. They even offer a free ebook titled “Making an animated short”, which covers their entire process, step-by-step, of how they made one of their films, from coming up with the idea, to storyboarding, animation and all the way to exporting the film. You can get that book for free at www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry. You can check out their complete course library at www.bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: www.bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about Jonni Phillips: Jonni Phillips is an independent filmmaker, animator, and cartoonist. She is known for her original pilot with Frederator studios called Rachel and Her Grandfather Control the Island, as well as her feature length anthology series Wasteland, which includes such film pieces as The Earth is Flat, Goodbye Forever Party, and The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia. Jonni is a graduate of the CalArts Experimental Animation Program. Jonni’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonniphillips Jonni’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonniphillips/ Jonni’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/justkiddenanim8ion Jonni’s Website: https://www.jonniphillips.com/ Rachel and Her Grandfather Control the Island Pilot: https://youtu.be/hFufqL0yKbM

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