Animation at SDCC, New TMNT Cartoon from Jhonen Vasquez, Fan-O-Rama, and...
SEGMENT SHOW! This week we talk all sorts of news from last weekend’s SDCC and beyond Preorder my book coming out in 2016: Please Rate & Review us on iTunes And you can now listen to us out on...
View ArticleRubberOnion Interviews Robert Valley: “Pear Cider & Cigarettes” Indie...
INTERVIEW! This week we talk with illustrator and animator Robert Valley who just released an amazing Indie Animated Film “Pear Cider and Cigarettes” on Vimeo. We discussed the Kickstarter back in...
View Article#RubberOnionBattle Talk July 2016 – RubberOnion Animation Podcast #146
This week we we have another full BATTLE TALK episode based on July’s #RubberOnionBattle! Don’t forget to vote for your favorite and submit your cartoon for August’s Battle (topic is “Exciting...
View ArticleAnimators Uncredited on “Sausage Party,” ARC Productions bought by Jam...
SEGMENT EPISODE! We have two interviews, a discussion about the uncredited animator pushback on “Sausage Party” and one epic story. Enjoy this show, you won’t be forgetting it anytime soon… I know I...
View ArticleLAIKA Animation, Direction, and its CEO Travis Knight, The Tick on Amazon...
SEGMENT EPISODE! In this week’s unedited episode we talk about what LAIKA means for animation, Adam West, Burt Ward, and Julie Newman (sp?! I know it’s Newmar, it’ll make sense in the show) coming...
View ArticleThe Red Turtle trailer, Nerdland gets a distributor, and Pixar has a new...
SEGMENT EPISODE! We’re back to normal (well as ‘normal’ as we get) on this episode of the podcast where we talk about “The Red Turtle” trailer, Nerdland getting picked up for distribution, and...
View ArticleDreamWorks’ BOSS BABY trailer, When to Not Take a Job for Moral Reasons, and...
SEGMENT EPISODE! The “Boss Baby” teaser trailer dropped this week and we talk about that which is immediately followed by a question about whether or not to take a freelance job if it conflicts with...
View ArticleMovie Review of “TMNT: Out of the Shadows” (2016) from the RubberOnion...
MOVIE REVIEW! Back in 2014 we did a full review and side-by-side comparison of TMNT (2014) with TMNT (1990)… now we’re taking on the modern sequel “TMNT: Out of the Shadows” (2016). We discuss the...
View ArticleBrexit on Animation Production and Paul “Otaking” Johnson interview –...
SEGMENT SHOW! This week the world was talking about the “Brexit,” so we talk with Steve Henderson of Skwigly about what possible impact it could have on animation production. We have a creator...
View ArticleInterview with Joel Furtado about what happened to the X-Men Danger Room...
INTERVIEW! This week we talk with animator Joel Furtado who most recently created the “X-Men: Danger Room Protocols” animated series which was unceremoniously pulled from YouTube, Vimeo and other...
View ArticleInterview with Tomm Moore, Oscar nominated director of animated films “Secret...
We got to talk to 2-time Oscar nominated director Tomm Moore of Cartoon Saloon about comics, superpowers, animation, tattoos and producing Indie Animated Films! This show has a couple of my favorite...
View ArticleFree Animation Software OpenToonz, LEGO Batman trailer, and Netflix Voltron –...
SEGMENT EPISODE! There’s so much to talk about this week: OpenToonz was finally released, Adam Phillips returns to Brackenwood with “Last of the Dashkin 2,” we have a Creator Spotlight on Alex Dudley...
View ArticleOil Painted animated film “Loving Vincent,” new Final Fantasy movie, and Andy...
SEGMENT EPISODE! Busy + tired = Stephen is grumpy. But you listeners saved me by providing all the stories and topics you wanted covered and we ran through them all (saving some for later episodes as...
View ArticleThe BFG, a Speedy Gonzales movie, and talking #RubberOnionBattle March 2016 –...
SEGMENT EPISODE! This week we get to talk about the BFG, Roald Dahl’s dirty mind, and a possible new Speedy Gonzales movie! But we really have fun going through all of YOUR awesome animation...
View ArticleBenedict Cumberbatch to voice The Grinch, Blue Sky settles in wage-fixing...
SEGMENT EPISODE! Benedict Cumberbatch will tap into his inner Boris Karloff to voice 2017’s animated Grinch film, Blue Sky is the first to settle in the huge animation studio wage-fixing lawsuit, and...
View ArticleInterview with Adam Phillips: Brackenwood, Disney, working-from-home, and...
Adam Phillips (@chluaid) talked with us all about creating his amazing Brackenwood series, working at Disney, Bob’s Burgers and switching from Flash to Toon Boom and his book! He opened up about some...
View ArticleLive-Action VS Animation and what is Performance Capture, a discussion...
HOT-COCOA SHOW! While Jon Favreau’s “The Jungle Book” is wowing audiences it’s also kicked up a conversation about the role of Motion Capture in movies and if it should be considered Live-Action or...
View ArticleComcast buys Dreamworks Animation for $3.8bil, Eric Goldberg’s couch gag, and...
SEGMENT EPISODE! This week we also have a ‘special’ feature being that this episode is mostly UNEDITED; I mean I put in music and stuff but awkward pauses?… totally intact. We talk about studios...
View ArticleDreamworks’ TROLLS and VOLTRON clips, “Son of Zorn” hybrid TV-show, and...
SEGMENT EPISODE! We got clips, we got news stories, we got skits, we got jokes… plenty to enjoy! There’s a new clip for Dreamworks’ TROLL movie – does it hold up? How about the full trailer for...
View ArticleNintendo movies, TMNT 2 (2016) final trailer talk, Warcraft Mo-Cap method,...
SEGMENT EPISODE! Nintendo announced that they’re finally getting into the film-making business, the animators on the “Warcraft” movie were told not to change anything about the mo-cap performance, and...
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