David Hubert and Cameron Fielding both come from the Feature animation side as well as the Game animation side, and in this interview they share their experience with creature animation on production such as The Croods, Madagascar 3, How to train Your Dragon and Turok.

Cameron Fielding blog | David Hubert website | Cedric Séaut site | Pixel Challenge | Soul Collector

Bill Tessier has been teaching at iAnimate.net since we opened our doors and is an accomplished animator. He's worked on such VFX movies as 'Matrix Revolutions' and 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'; and during his time at Dreamworks, Bill worked on "Flushed Away", "Bee Movie", "Monsters vs. Aliens", "How To Train Your Dragon", "Kung-Fu Panda 2", and the up coming Turbo. He's currently work on Reel FX's new feature 'Free Birds'. Check out our interview with him.

Bill's reel

In our 13th podcast episode, we get iAnimate's very own Head of Character animation, Jason Ryan as a guest, as well as long time animator and instructor Mike Walling. Both of these gentlemen are seasoned in animation as well as teaching. We get to talk about working with James Baxter, Chris Sanders, and their experience on DreamWorks recently released animated film Croods! Get ready for a an enteraining, and wealth of animation knowledge in this podcast interview.

Interviewees' resources: Jason's tutorial site | Mike's tutorials

In our 12 podcast we chat with seasoned animator and iAnimate feature instructor, Jason Anastas. Having worked for both Walt Disney Animation Studios & DreamWorks Animation SKG, on such films as "Bolt", "Tangled", "Kung Fu Panda 2", "Puss And Boots", "Rise Of The Guardians", "The Croods" and "Peabody And Sherman" this makes for a great podcast.

Jason Anastas' Reel

In our 11th podcast, we get some time to chat with Michael Jungbluth who is a Senior Animator at ZeniMax Online Studios and also heading up the first ever Animation Bootcamp at GDC! Listen to his thoughts on animation, the gaming industry, and GDC. Click on the thumbnails below to see some pics of Ric's trip and interviews with some of the studio game producers mentioned in the podcast intro.

www.reanimators.net | Blur Studios' Elder Scroll Online trailer | CGD 2013 Animation Bootcamp

In our 10th podcast we speak with Assassin's Creed 3 Animation director, Jonathan Cooper. Jonathan talks about the ins and outs of animation as it pertains to today's gaming industry and his roll in this triple A title.

Jonathan's blog | Assassin’s Creed III game trailer | CGD 2013 Animation Bootcamp | iAnimate newsletter sign-up

In our 9th podcast, and second for 2013, we steal some time from Studio Technique's founder and artistic director Samantha Youssef. Samantha has worked as a character animator for Walt Disney Animation, and has a rich background in the arts and traditional animation, which make for a great conversation about how those can play a major roll in CG today.

Studio Technique site | related video: Paperman and the Future of 2D Animation

In this first podcast for 2013 we get to talk with, not one, but two character animators from DreamWorks; Ben Willis and Jacob Gardner. These guys share their growing pains of animation, their work on the Jack team for Rise of the Guardians, how they seek to grow as artist, and a lot more.

Ben's site| Jacob's site

Mentioned in the podcast: Speaking of Animation | robot unicorn mockumentary | Ben Rush's CTN 2012 Lucy trailer

In this last podcast for 2012, we speak with DreamWorks Sr. Animator Tal Shwarzman. We talk about his work on Rise of the Guardians, Kung Fu Panda, his view on the state of the industry, and a lot more.

Mentioned in the podcast: Animation Addicts | Samantha Youssef

We speak with industry vet. and Animation Director, Darryl Purdy, about his experience and thoughts about animation and his work in video games. He's worked for such studios as Bungie, Lucas Arts, and most recently Ubisoft in Montreal on the game Far Cry.

Mentioned in the podcast: Stray short film | Bringing Games to Life on-line event

In this, our fifth podcast, we speak with iAnimate alumni Darrell Vasquez, and working professional Jeff Williams. Both guest work currently at Insomniac Games, and give this fun interview a different perspective from some of the past guest, since both have or are also students at iAnimate.net. Join us in this informative & entertaining podcast.

Jeff's reel | Darrell's reel

Interview with Richard Lico mentioned in the show HERE.

Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assult trailer | Fuse trailer.

In this our forth podcast, we catch up with DreamWorks animator and iAnimate instructor, Alexis Wanneroy to discuss his recent work on Rise of the Guardians. Alexis was a Character Lead animator on the Toothfairy character.

We wanted to slightly change gears here for this podcast and was able to do so with some time with our new WS1 rigging instructor Jonah Austin. Jonah discuss rigging from a unique perspective due to the fact that he is also an animator. Joined in the interview is one of our Feature Animation instructors and manager of our Games division, David Hubert.

Later in the show, we talk about our recent experience at CTN, our Dec. 8th live event, and some of our upcoming podcasts. View the rest of the article (i.e. 'Continue Reading') to see some CTN pics. Our Rigging workshop page.

Here in our second podcast we interview one of our instructor and Walt Disney Animation Studios Supervising Animator, Doug Bennett. This is right on the heels of 'Wreck-it Ralph' (great movie, go check it out!). We had a great time in the interview and hope you do to as you listen. Big thanks to Doug for taking the time with us. This interview was done by myself (Larry Vasquez) and Ric Arroyo.

In an effort to keep the communication coming, we've decided to invade the air waves! We are going to start doing this thing called...wait, let me find the terminology..."podcasts". Every heard of it? :)

There are some great animation podcasts out there already, but with all that's going here at iAnimate and the amount of talent we have available (instructors, students, and co-workers), we figured who wouldn't like to hear more. This one is more or less a short introduction and what we'll be doing. Please leave feedback as to some questions you'd like to ask our guest we'll be interviewing in our next podcast (you have to listen to find out who).

The characters/rigs mentioned in the podcast (from left to right) are Legion, Brick, and Billy.

Legion's turntable | Brick's turntable | Billy's turntable