The 42nd seal of the Roboplastic Apocalypse is smooshed like a cartoon baby unicorn under the foot of a 2,000 foot tall iron golem in part two of my interview with American storyboard artist Wendell Washer! Yes it's more dungeoney and/or dragonny than an enchanted amusement park ride to 1985 as Mr. Washer takes us on a whirlwind tour of his career in the animation industry from the early 70s to the late 80s. What's the difference between a storyboard artist and a storyboard director? Is it possible to draw too good for Filmation? What's the right way to say Toei anyways? Find out all that and more in this PIE ON THE FLOOR FUNNY episode of the podcastalypse!
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Cartoons mentioned in this episode:
| Hoppity Goes to Town | Beauty and the Bogbeast |
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SHOW NOTES OF THE PODCASTALYPSE
- The unique job title of storyboard director (and why everybody had it)
- Finding gold in a gremlin tree plus good tips on forgetting where it was.
- Filmation keeping everything in house
- Spock looked so different without his ears!
- The seasonal work of saturday morning cartoons
- Being an animation fan going to film festivals
- Joining ASIFA Hollywood
- June Foray's part in founding ASIFA Hollywood and the Annie Awards
- How multiple storyboard artists worked on a series
- Staying on model at Filmation
- Why Amby Paliwoda got a scene in Peter Pan rejected
- The very first Fat Albert special
- Don Bluth freelancing layout on Fat Albert
- Glen Keane's troubles with horses
- Difficulties initially getting hired at Disney
- Disney's traditional family (and employee) values
- Jack Ozark's legendary quickness
- How to say Toei
- The logistics of working on joint US/Japanese production cartoons like Dungeons and Dragons and Transformers
- Storyboarding the iron golem scene in the Dungeons & Dragons' episode Beauty and the Bogbeast
- The reasons storyboards were done in the US on joint cartoons
- Jack Kirby meets his future son at the Cortez hotel during San Diego Comic Con
- A gift from Osamu Tezuka
- The Astro Boy Ultra DVD box sets at RightStuff.com
- Fred Ladd's gigantoric birthday present this year
- A career according to IMDB
- Getting hired by Don Christensen as a layout artist on Filmation's Fat Albert
- Working at Hanna-Barbera in the early 80s
- Who's WendAll Washer?
- It's a new job, true believers!
- The problem with gang credits
- Standards and Practices and Yogi Bear pie fights
- John Kricfalusi essentially getting Beany & Cecil cancelled on principal
- Goofing on standards & practices
- The Marvel Productions' Van Nuys warehouse fire
- Voice acting on Ralph Bakshi's Mighty Mouse The New Adventures
- Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge Comics influencing George Lucas' work in Indiana Jones
- Duck Tales Robot Robbers
- Other great board artists like Thom Enriquez and Bob Kline
- Making connections in the animation industry
- WendellWasher.com
- Upcoming projects and ideas
- Oh how hellacious these show notes will be
- Storyboards section at WendellWasher.com including boards from an episode of G.I. Joe, Transformers and the Duck Tales episode Scrooge's Last Adventure
- Beauty and the Bogbeast at Branded in the 80s
- Glen Keane leaving Disney
- AWO's interview with Noboru Ishiguro, recently deceased director of Macross and Space Battleship Yamato
- Don't rocket punch your friends!
2 comments:
S.L.K.M:
This is my absolute favorite of all your podcasts so far! Mr. Washer has a tremendous amount to say and absolutely no desire to refrain from saying it. I like that! You need to find some sort of excuse to get him back on the show, I don't care how threadbare the excuse is. Discover some underappreciated episode of something or other, ask him how his webcomic is doing, something or anything.
Well done, Macrocranios! :D
Cordially yours,
Autobus Prime
Yes he was a ton of fun and I felt like I won the podcast interview lottery being able to have him on my show. It's my hope that some podcasters out there who know more about animation than I do will give him a proper interview. He really deserves to be on a show with articulate, cartoon savvy hosts that can expand upon what all he's done in his career. I'm just a big fan of a lot of the cartoons he did and was just excited to be talking to the guy. Imagine what some interviewer who knew what they were doing could get out of him! In the meantime I am very grateful that people of his caliber agree to do interviews with me.
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