Animation Career Community
The Animation Career Community Podcast where we answer your questions on how to grow, maintain and transform your animation career at every stage.
Episodes
11 episodes
ACC Podcast - Surviving Stop Motion - Eileen Kohlhepp & Sarah de Gaudemar
In this episode of the ACC we’re talking with two very special guests, Eileen Kohlepp and Sarah De Gaudemar, both are experts in the specialized world of Stop Motion Animation. Eileen is a producer and animator, who’s worked on projects ...
ACC Podcast - S001 - E010 - Jeff Dickson
In our latest episode “Opportunity Knocks”, Katherine MacDonald and John Lei speak with retired veteran Jeff Dickson. From a start on the floor at the stock exchange, to cinematic craft at Disney on films like “Beauty and the Beast”, “The Lion ...
ACC - Podcast - S001 - E009 - Navigating Layoffs with J&K
In this episode of the Animation Career Community Podcast, John and Kathy discuss how they have navigated the many type of layoffs that artist can encounter in their careers. They discuss the lows and surprisingly some of the highs of wor...
ACC Podcast - S001E008 - Alicia Eisen
In this episode of the Animation Career Community podcast we chat with professional Animator and Creator Alicia Eisen. With years of experience working the stop motion space both as an artist and studio owner. Alicia shares what her caree...
ACC Podcast - S001E007 - Perry Shulak
In this Episode we chat with Perry Shulak, who operates his studio, Critical Fusion, out of Edmonton, Canada. We talk about what the community is like in less talked about regions of the country and how diversifying his productions has he...
ACC Podcast S001E006 - Festival Talk
On this episode John and Kathy chat all things Festivals. We discuss what it's like to be someone selling a project, navigating industry events to the creative side of showing films and making new connections.
ACC Podcast -S001E005 - Jason Thompson
In this episode we chat with the incredible Jason Thompson. From his start in the business world, his pivot to animation and now his own strategic storytelling company helping people of all professions tell their stories. Pivoting c...
ACC Podcast - S001E004 - Kathy & John
In this episode John Lei and Kathy MacDonald, the ACC hosts, discuss their own careers working in animation and why they started the Animation Career Community. We cover how we got into the industry, what it's like working in it now, Cana...
ACC Podcast - S001E003 - Lance LeFort
In this Episode we chat with Lance LeFort who is the founder of LeFort Talent Group, Lance consults internationally across creative and emerging tech industries. We chat about his beginnings as a creative, where he see’s things in the industry ...
ACC Podcast - S001E002 - Tarun Padmakumar
In this episode of the Animation Career Podcast we chat with Filmmaker and Animator Tarun Padmakumar. We talk about how he moved from an artist working in the studio system, making his own creative projects to now producing his own conten...