This episode features the talented producer Kat Alioshin, who’s career has focused on bringing stop motion projects to life. She’s worked on Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Monkey Bone to name a few. In this chat Kat shares her career journey, as well as the number one way she’s made connections pay off over the years. You’ll also learn: *The surprising differences between producing Commercial, TV, and Feature film projects *The reason she focuses on bringing stop motion projects to life *A behind-the-scenes look at her upcoming independent feature film, The Inventor ~[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 Kat: Kat Alioshin is a producer who’s helped bring many stop motion projects to life including, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, Bump in the Night, and Monkey Bone. Kat got her start back in the 80s handing out flyers to the infamous Spike and Mike Animation Festival shows. Currently she is producing an independent feature film titled, The Inventor, and running the We Know Jack Show podcast. *The Inventor Film Site: https://www.theinventorfilm.com/ *The Inventor Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/77077682/the-inventor *Animation Outlaws: https://www.animationoutlaws.com/ *We Know Jack Show Podcast: https://www.weknowjackshow.com/

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