Rubberonion Animation Podcast

Speed round! Pat and Stephen had to get to trivia night because who else's going to know what year Space Jam was released (ahem 1996)? We all watched the Simpsons/Family Guy crossover episode and have some words. Don Hertzfeldt's Simpsons couch gag made people confused and intrigued. Also, the CW cancelled its Saturday morning cartoon lineup, the last of its kind on network TV, and you might be surprised what we think about that. And finally, we have clips and trailers to talk about! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (12:38)   "Big Hero 6" trailer 2 (19:21)   Last Saturday Morning Cartoon lineup (on CW) gets cancelledE (34:21)   Death on The Simpsons (38:24)   Don Hertzfeldt's Simpsons couch gag (45:19)   'The Simpsons Guy' crossover episode (1:01:24)   'Asterix & Obelix' clip (1:04:17)   SUBMITTED QUESTION from Ronald Chaparro: "Which do you each prefer; a villain created specifically for a season or already known villain" Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Broo

Pat's back! Feels so good to have the gang together for this one because we've got some great stories suggested by YOU. "Popeye", "Where Are They Now" animated short, "Deadpool" greenlit, "Rick and Morty" co-creator Justin Roiland fighting the Union, The Hub dies, Stephen updated an animation from 2010, and we inspire people apparently... seriously. And we have another submitted question! You will enjoy this one. You will. I promise. Kinda. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (9:04)   "Popeye" test footage (18:38)   "Where Are They Now?" animated short (29:46)   "Deadpool" movie set for February 12, 2016 thanks to popularity of leaked pitch video (46:45)   Discovery & Hasbro ending partnership in The Hub, and renaming Discovery Family/a> (58:41)   "Rick and Morty" Co-Creator Justin Roiland fights the Union (1:09:42)   Stephen updated the Zombie Cagefighter video for smoother animation (1:19:29)   We apparently inspired the creation of an Arabic language podcast (1:26

With a slow news week, Rob and Stephen settle down and talk about something bugging Rob lately: "how to be an animator AND have a life." We talk about productivity methods, past experiences, full time VS freelance, and of course -- stories! And also... VIEWER QUESTIONS!! But we start it all off with a clip from earlier in the week when Rob called Stephen to practice his telephone script he had to read on behalf of the Brooklyn Bourough president. And you all know what happens when Rob tries to read aloud... under pressure. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Viewer Questions: (1:32:45)   J.K. Riki - "What would you be if not an animator?" (1:37:39)   Chris McEwan - "Process- We've seen how Stephen prepares for an animation, from initial ideas through to storyboarding, preparing sound effects and music. How does Rob prepare his work? He comes across as very laid back and I've heard it said on previous episodes how quickly he makes his stuff. Does he just jump right in and wing it?" (1

While Pat's off being all married and stuff, Rob and I talk about Signe Baumane's "Rocks in My Pockets," Bento Box keeping jobs in the US, and the "Hullabaloo" IndieGoGo campaign and why 2D ISN'T DEAD YOU GUYS jeez! I can't WAIT for the comments on THIS episode CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (17:05)   Rob and Stephen watched Signe Baumane's 'Rocks in My Pockets' (43:46)   'The Legend of Korra' greenlit for Book 4 (49:21)   Bento Box Recognized for Helping Keep Animation Jobs in U.S. (58:02)   First Image From The ‘Simpsons’/’Futurama’ Crossover (1:05:41)   Angry Birds Transformers retro trailer (1:11:19)   Guillermo del Toro announces 'Scare Me' competition (1:25:24)   Disney Veterans Gather to Save 2D Animation from Extinction with ‘Hullabaloo’ IndieGoGo campaign Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat Ryan (@TheBadPatRyan)And please Rate/Review us on iTunes & Rate/Review on Stitcher while you're at it (=

Is "Hello Kitty" a cat or isn't she?! Is "Bojack Horseman" any good? Is Marvel actually making a "Guardians of the Galaxy" animated series? She is, it is, and they aren't. There, now you don't need to listen to the episode. But if you didn't you'd miss our soothing voices and witty quips! Rob has some major technical issues and it made for an Intro that made me laugh so hard while I was cutting it together I had to take a break to wipe the tears from my eyes. How's THAT for raising your expectations too high?! Also, do YOU know why we named this episode "Purse on Vacation?" I'll give you a hint: say it fast. I'll give you another hint: Rob can't pronounce words. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (9:47)   Marvel isn't planning on making a 'Guardians of the Galaxy' animated series afterall (17:09)   Netflix Renews Will Arnett's 'BoJack Horseman' (38:47)   Merchandising/marketing for 'Book of Life' puts themed dresses in Hot Topic (46:05)   Hello Kitty is(n't) a cat (52:2

The Emmys happened! They're a thing! We talk about the winners and our love for "Bob's Burgers" as well as the Every Simpsons Ever marathon happening on FXX (whatever THAT channel is...). The great Lord/Sir/Mr. Amazing Richard Attenborough passed away and we honor him, but then he honors us right back by giving us maybe the greatest transition we've ever done (divined through Pat, who's back this episode)! And don't say we never did anything for you, because we read another email exchange between a major company asking for free work and an artist who just won't take it anymore (emphasis mine)! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (04:25)   FXX's Every Simpsons Ever marathon (15:28)   The Primetime Emmys (26:43)   Feminism In A Run-Down Taffy Factory: The Women Of 'Bob's Burgers' (40:36)   RIP Lord Richard Attenborough (46:24)   Pixar's 'The Good Dinosaur' is being entirely reworked (1:08:43)   Designer Dan Cassaro responds to Showtime 'competition' and takes the internet

Rob and Stephen saw the new "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (2014) film... and have some words. We break it down and compare it in depth with other iterations of the franchise such as the 1990 movie, the 1987 cartoon series, 2003 cartoon series, and the original and new IDW comic book! Also, in true RubberOnion fashion... we do our own rendition of a beloved song. Listen for it! So what did you think of the movie and our review? CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (24:23)   We compare the intro's of this 2014 movie and the original 1990 one (36:09)   Splinter learns Ninjutsu from... WHERE?! (44:14)   New and abandoned origins of this Shredder (54:41)   Animation of the Turtles (1:04:01)   Rob's "favorite" scene, and what's with April's new role? (1:14:20)   BREAKDOWN of the 1990 movie (1:33:41)   Stephen responds to "it's for kids, it's supposed to be stupid" comments (1:36:13)   Great TMNT properties out right now that you can enjoy! (2:03:00)   Let's compare: "Shell Sho

Robin Williams, long-time friend to and lover of animation and a comedic and dramatic role model for many left us this week. We talk about what impact his life and career had on us and the field of animation as a whole. Other stories we cover in this episode are a survey which shows that YouTube stars are more popular than mainstream celebs among US teens, Golden Globes changing the animation rules, and what's going on with the Legend of Korra. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (11:10)   RIP Robin Williams (36:10)   YouTube Stars More Popular Than Mainstream Celebs Among U.S. Teens (56:06)   Ghibli Update: Miyazaki’s Potential New Project (1:00:58)   Golden Globes Change Animation and Foreign-Language Rules (1:16:39)   ‘Turtles’ and ‘Guardians’ duke it out for top spot (1:26:16)   Final episodes of Legend of Korra book 3 to be web only Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat Ryan (@TheBadPatRyan)And please Rate/Review us on iT

This week we talk about the new Spongebob Squarepants movie, Studio Ghibli might be closing, and Ross "rubberNinja" O'Donovan breaks down why YouTube's algorithm is hurting Indie Animators. Oh also, guess what? We made it to 40 episodes! Not a traditional milestone but who cares... we haven't completely fallen on our faces yet and that's something. Thanks for listening and discussing the episodes and all the stuff we say -- means a lot to us, or something. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (20:21)   Andrew Kaiko blew up the internet with his excellent animation work on the Nostalgia Critic's Pinky & the Brain short (32:53)   Animation Paper Kickstarter prooves ineffective (42:51)   Spongebob Squarepants movie trailer (57:58)   Marvel announces 'Guardians of the Galaxy' animated show (1::09:56)   7 Minutes of Star Wars Rebels is released (1:21:30)   RubberNinja explains why YouTube's algorithm is hurting indie animation (1:37:17)   Studio Ghibli is closing... mmmayb

We're back! Last week's podcast was an awesome (if I do say so myself) old-timey radio show style episode... but this week we're back on animation stories from the week. We saw 5 minutes of the Simpsons/Family Guy crossover, the Mike Tyson Mysteries trailer, the Smiley face is getting its own show, and LAIKA's CEO wants to make hand-drawn animated films. Also, what happens when a huge Kickstart campaign (*cough* Yogscast *cough*) fails. Enjoy! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (10:35)   5 minutes of Simpsons/Family Guy crossover released (18:35)   The Smiley Face is getting an animated show (25:45)   Yogscast Kickstarter failure is a painful reminder of the risks of crowdfunding (37:15)   'Mike Tyson Mysteries' trailer (51:39)   LAIKA’s CEO Travis Knight hopes to make a hand-drawn animated film at some point (1:02:42)   One FX Shot In ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Took 1030 Iterations Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat

This week we shake things up by recording one of Pat's stories as an adventure radio show! It was enormous fun to do and we hope you get as much joy as we did from it... and it's under 20 minutes! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Buy "Pat Ryan as Pat Ryan in: Pat Ryan and the City of Monsters" for only $1 on Amazon!! Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat Ryan (@TheBadPatRyan)And please Rate/Review us on iTunes & Rate/Review on Stitcher while you're at it (=

CONSPIRACY! CONTROVERSY! A wage-fixing cartel was exposed in Silicon Valley with top animation studios at the center, so we discuss it... as best we can. Or as best as Stephen can explain it to Rob and Pat. We also talk Emmy noms, a new animation program, Andrew Kaiko's new fanimation using Toon Boom Animate, and Pat created a character! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (14:33)   Simpsons denied Emmy nom for first time (technically) (29:31)   Silicon Valley wage fixing scandal implicates many major animation studios (47:40)   Sony Animation announces new Stop-Mo/Live-Action hybrid movie 'Superbago' (1:02:39)   Live-Action 'Dumbo' in the works (1:13:11)   Makers of PAP start IndieGoGo campaign to create animation software 'Animation Paper' (1:20:30)   Andrew Kaiko's fan animated short 'Canned Vegetable Factory' (1:29:51)   Pat's 'Robot Standing Upright Comedian' Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat Ryan (@TheBadPatRyan)And

We have a monster of an episode this week! Two weeks of stories jam packed into one awesome episode with the entire crew: Stephen, Rob, & Pat. We talk about an email exchange between a writer and a producer, Glen Keane's new animated short "Duet," and some kid made a Kickstarter campaign to make potato salad and for some reason has earned $70,000+ (as of this post). Oh also, Rob met Shaggy and made a new animated short (not related)! Enjoy this delicious 2 hour episode... we hope it's as fun to listen to as it was to record! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (24:54)   Batmetal music video (30:00)   Rob's new short 'Wait for it' (36:19)   Why producers WILL NOT READ YOUR SCRIPT (53:20)   Craigslist ad example to avoid (1:06:14)   Andy Serkis backpedals on roll of animators in mocap (1:14:26)   Guillermo del Toro's Special Message about Pacific Rim (1:23:41)   Kid makes Kickstarter campaign to fund making a potato salad (1:33:05)   Glen Keane's new animated short 'Du

Pat couldn't join in this week, so Stephen and Rob decided to discuss their own experiences in building an animation brand (indie and freelance) on the internet, and what trials, tribulations, and learning experiences they had to go through to get where they are now. Just like episode 25, we hope you enjoy this departure from the normal "stories of the week" format and encourage you to join the conversation in the comments section below! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! No annotations this week... just a freeform discussion. Go to the blog post (link above) to see shared media we talk about in the episode. Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat Ryan (@TheBadPatRyan)And please Rate/Review us on iTunes & Rate/Review on Stitcher while you're at it (=

This week saw the release of a new TMNT (2014) trailer... so we talk about that. But in other less upsetting news, Genndy Tartakovsky's "Popeye" (2016) CGI film has a new image associated with it and it looks great! Finally, we talk about Colin Firth dropping out as the voice of Paddington... and coin #Firf in the process. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (12:54)   New features on Adobe Flash CC 2014 (23:52)   First Image Of Genndy Tartakovsky’s CG Popeye (42:54)   TMNT trailer 2 (58:27)   RedLetterMedia shows 'Transformers' formula with special video (1:09:08)   Nick Greenlights Fourth ‘Ninja Turtles’ Season (1:17:38)   Colin Firth Drops Out as Voice of 'Paddington' Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat Ryan (@TheBadPatRyan)And please Rate/Review us on iTunes & Rate/Review on Stitcher while you're at it (=

We have singing... we have stories... we have animation stories (this being an "animation podcast," it seemed appropriate)... what DON'T we have?! Listen as Stephen watches the World Cup and Rob & Pat try to keep him on topic. A lot of great tangents in this episode which are too numerous to put in the annotations so just... listen. And enjoy. Listen and enjoy! Also... SHAGGY WAS A THING CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (13:32)   Rob's new short "The FLOONSTOONS have a visiturr" (19:16)   "The Boxtrolls" final trailer (26:46)   Netflix is rebooting 'Magic Schoolbus' in CGI (34:13)   Sony has a CGI/Live-Action Sonic the Hedgehog movie in the works (49:48)   RIP Casey Kasem (1:01:13)   Lord & Miller (and Lawrence) still working at getting 'Clone High' a movie (01:07:46)   First Image from Disney's "Descendants" (01:14:02)   Powerpuff Girls' returning to TV in 2016 Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat Ryan (@TheBadPat

It's Rob's Birthday!! It was Pat's Birthday last week!! And I still make them talk to me about cartoons! This week, we actually start the discussion with the Angry Video Game Nerd movie, because as Indie creators ourselves we're happy when one of our own (same medium or not) breaks ground on a huge development like this. And you know what? It doesn't stop there, Signe Baumane is another Indie creator who is making her first feature length animated film, "Rocks in my Pockets" and it's got a trailer! Ari Folman is making a jump to a western screen wide release with his hybrid movie and it's got a trailer too... and "Bojack Horseman" is the first original adult animated programming on Netflix and it's got a trailer. Oh and Rocky & Bullwinkle disappoint us. But before all of that... we must sing to you one of the great 90s cartoon anthems. Behold. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (19:18)   James Rolfe to tour screenings of AVGN: The Movie starting July 21st (25:24)  

We kicked off June with another LIVE episode of the podcast! We talked about Reading Rainbow, gushed over Mukpuddy's work, loved the "Song of the Sea" trailer, and discussed Sony VFX house Imageworks leaving the US for greener tax credit pastures of the great north in Vancouver. But not before we could talk about Godzilla and Maleficent, however... two movies on opposite ends of the spectrum in numerous ways. Thanks to everyone who showed up for the live taping and joined us in the chat room... you're all awesome! This week's title comes courtesy of Andrew Kaiko in the chat, Pat Ryan simultaneously coming up with it in the podcast, and all off Rob's weird, periodic ramblings. Oh, and we finished with some limericks and Pat serenades us with an original song after the music at the end. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (20:04)   Reading Rainbow funded and then some!! (30:31)   Mukpuddy's "Dead End Job" (37:51)   Explanation behind Sonic's new design (42:03)   Autodesk's

This week we have listener submitted questions (!!) but not before talking about the "Big Hero 6" trailer, "Happy" the happy meal mascot, and a couple other stories. Also, what would The Rubber Onion podcast be without some weird tangents? Behold as we talk about music we don't like and discuss the merits of the Michael Bay opus, "Pain & Gain." And on a serious note, thanks to everyone who's been listening and supporting this podcast! You're awesome and really have made doing this fun and worthwhile week in and week out, through travel, tech issues, and diseases. We started with a little episode "zero," still going strong at 30 and don't intend on slowing down! We're here to stay! Insert Drake reference! CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (11:05)   "Happy" the happy meal mascot (19:12)   "Big Hero 6" teaser trailer (28:13)   tangent: talking "Pain & Gain" on Netflix (34:43)   Netflix Confirms Sony Animation Deal (45:30)   Pixar's "Inside Out" Plot Details   LIST

Stephen was traveling to and from the UK this week, and thus is sick and jet-lagged. We recorded this after midnight so Pat is attempting to be quiet. That leaves Rob to be the energetic & most eloquent of the three. So we talk about the Simpsons/Family Guy crossover, new "Big Hero 6" stills, and by popular demand we talk through the story behind the financial failure of "Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return." Enjoy our sleepy drunk, low, and sickly sensual voices speak to the tune of animation stories. CLICK HERE to go to the full blog post & leave a comment! Annotations: (26:23)   Star Wars Rebels' trailer (36:36)   'The Simpsons Guy' discussion (43:28)   The story behind 'Legends of Oz' failure (1:04:27)   'Cinderella (2015)' trailer is 1min of a glass slipper (1:10:41)   'Big Hero 6' first stills Check out more of your hosts:Stephen Brooks (@RubberOnion)Rob Yulfo (@RobYulfo)Pat Ryan (@TheBadPatRyan)And please Rate/Review us on iTunes & Rate/Review on Stitcher while you're at it (=