Welcome to Creative Block! This week’s guest is NICK CROSS! Nick is a cartoonist, art director, and background artist whose work can be seen on Over the Garden Wall, Uncle Grandpa, and The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie!
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to NICK about LEARNING TO ANIMATE, WORKING IN THE CARTOON NETWORK SHORTS PROGRAM, ART DIRECTING ON OVER THE GARDEN WALL, and so much more!
While we talk, we doodle on a MAGMA, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, NEWGROUNDS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!
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1:00 Deeping toe in background design
6:07 Hiring/
8:22 Learning to Animate
12:40 “You can’t afford to be precious”
16:03 Entering work into festivals
20:55 “Animation Process is like building a ship in a bottle”
26:46 Jumping Mediums and Making a comic
33:44 Over the Garden Wall
37:35 Shorts Program
59:59 “The Wire for kids”
Genuinely hilarious when art teaches specifically do not teach how to get jobs because, it will interfere with the jobs they are getting.
It’s inspirational to know that there’s great value in just starting and slowly building up your skills, and not be focused on perfectionism, because you’re not going to be able to make exactly what’s in your head right away. It takes a lot of skill to even start getting close to that point, you have to fail a hundred times before you can succeed.
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