Welcome to Episode 11 of Flipped with Aidan Hickey - animator, writer, director, teacher and painter. Aidan began working in animation in the mid-seventies for RTE and his works forms the bedrock of the Irish animation industry.  He had made several award-winning short films, written and produced many hours of children's television and also written several feature length projects. Until recently served as Ireland's representative on the European animation body, Cartoon.Enjoy!Subscribe here in iTunes Download episode (right/ctrl click) Facebook page Podcast Contents00:00:00 - Intro00:00:47 - Podcast Starts00:02:00 - Transitioning from Painting to Film00:02:45 - Hornsey College of art in London00:05:00 - Meeting with Éamon de Buitléir00:06:30 - First Series for RTE00:08:39 - Writing and Story Development00:08:50 - Process for RTE00:10:20 - McSpuds,Bosco and Beyond!00:13:00 - Painting comes in handy when...00:17:08 - RTE process00:28:36 - Annecy00:29:00 - An Inside Job00:34:00 - CARTOON and Jimmy Murikami00:37:00 - Standardising00:39:00 - Seven Deadly Sins and overseas collaboration00:45:00 - the 90's00:47:00 - Writing00:53:00 -  Screen Training Ireland00:58:00 - Bob Godfrey and John Hallas01:00:00 - Brown Bag01:03:00 - The Boy Who Had No Story01:10:00 - Dermot and Gráinne feature treatment01:16:00 - Jimmy Murikami01:23:00 - End of Cartoon involvement01:25:00 - Painting and Green Acres Gallery ReferencesAnimation Art Showhttp://www.animationartshow.com/Green Acres Galleryhttps://www.greenacres.ieScreen Training Irelandhttps://www.screentrainingireland.ie/index.cfm?fuseaction=main"Däumelinchen" by Lotte Reiniger McSpuds Bosco animatedAn Inside Job, 1987The Boy Who Had No Story, 2003Really huge thanks to Aidan for taking the time to talk to us.We hope you enjoy the podcast - let us know what you think at flippedpodcast(at)gmail.com or contact us on our facebook pageFlipped was produced by Aidan McAteer & Megan McMahon, edited by Aidan McAteer and Megan McMahon and featured music from www.royaltyfreemusiclibrary.comwww.flippedpodcast.com