Episode 77: How Ian Boone Got Two Internships At Laika & Worked On Tumble Leaf

This chat features stop motion animator Ian Boone, who shares the story of how he got an internship at Laika, twice, and then got to work on Amazon Prime’s Tumble Leaf. He also shares: *Tips to animate what a character is thinking *A simple switch in mindset that will improve your animation performance 10x *The simple trick that will get you animating twice as fast ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by Bloop Animation, which is an animation learning platform packed with premium online video courses for aspiring animation filmmakers. They have courses for all major animation programs like Maya, Animate CC, Toon Boom, Blender, TVPaint, and many others, as well as some non-software courses like a storyboarding course, Animation foundations course, and even one about making graphic novels, which covers absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish. The courses are all in video-form, so there’s no deadlines or application process, you simply pick a course and start learning in seconds. They even offer a free ebook titled “Making an animated short”, which covers their entire process, step-by-step, of how they made one of their films, from coming up with the idea, to storyboarding, animation and all the way to exporting the film. You can get that book for free at www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry. You can check out their complete course library at www.bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: www.bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about Ian: Ian is a stop motion animator from Louisville Kentucky. Ian was an animator on JibJab Bro’s Ask the Storybots, and Amazon Prime’s Tumbleleaf. Currently he is animating on Henry Selick’s Wendell and Wild. On top of this, he is very proud to have used his stop motion skills to further environmental advocacy through the Save the Dells Arizona and Raptors and the Solution projects. Besides stop motion, Ian loves to play the banjo. Watch Ian’s reel on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/325098136 Follow Ian on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ianbooneanimation/ Check out Ian’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr8xDo7TSmHDNR0hg_8nSrA