Flipped Podcast #13: Jason Ryan

Welcome to Episode 13 of Flipped with CG animation director, animator and teacher, Jason Ryan.

Jason is a multi-talented Irish animator whose career has spanned the last 20 years on such films as Fantasia 2000, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Kung Fu Panda 2, The Croods and most recently Big Hero Six (to name a few). 

Alongside to his film work Jason also teaches animation online through his own site and iAnimate which I can personally recommend as a great way to learn character animation and productive workflow through traditionally-based methods, mentor-supported training sessions and clearly explained online tutorials. If you would like to know more please check out the links below.

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Podcast Contents

00:00 - Intro

01:00 - Interview start - Brush with accountancy

03:30 - Starting out in Dagda

05:45 - Joe Grant memories

06:50 - CG Animation, love at first sight & video game animation

13:15 - Coming to America - Fantasia 2000

19:16 - Disney's Dinosaur

23:29 - 3D Theme Park animation - working with Eric Goldberg

30:38 - Chicken Little - animating acting

34:58 - Leaving Disney

38:50 - Pre-poduction animation

40:10 - Working at Dreamworks

45:21 - Feature pipeline - character teams v sequence teams

48:12 - Baseball trading animators

51:28 - The animation process and workflow

1:12:14 - Outro

References 

An interesting article about the video game Jason worked on can be found here 

The Steadfast Tin Soldier sequence from Fantasia 2000

Dinosaur

The Magic Lamp from Disney Seas Tokyo attraction

Chicken Little

Jason's Dreamworks Reel

Ianimate

iAnimate - Advanced Character Animation Training from iAnimate on Vimeo.

iAnimate - Advanced Character Animation Training from iAnimate on Vimeo.

For more information on iAnimate - visit ianimate.net

Really huge thanks to Jason for taking the time to talk to us and thanks to Gareth Lee at Animation Skillnet for helping facilitate the interview.

We hope you enjoy the podcast - let us know what you think at flippedpodcast(at)gmail.com or contact us on our facebook page

Flipped was produced by Aidan McAteer & Megan McMahon, edited by Aidan McAteer and Megan McMahon and featured music from www.royaltyfreemusiclibrary.com

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