End Credits - The Behind the Scenes in Entertainment Podcast

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This week it's a big conversation with the voice of Porky Pig and a slew of other characters...Bob Bergen!

This is the Q & A portion of our LIVE event with Disney Animators and Directors The Bancroft Brothers also known for The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast.

This week is the audio from our YouTube  LIVESTREAM with David M. Breaux Jr. Davis has worked on several VFX and animation projects and had just wrapped up Season 2 of #TheFlash when we chatted with him. Find the video from our livestreams here: http://youtube.com/creditspodcast Past livestream guests include: David M. Breaux Jr (Thor, The Flash, Arrow), Tom Bancroft (Disney), Aaron Ginsburg (The 100) and more...

This is the audio from another LIVESTREAM we did on YouTube. Keith Grachow returns to chat about his books, his career and the latest Kickstarter project that he is involved with. Subscribe to our YouTube page: http://youtube.com/creditspodcast Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/creditspodcast

This week we bring you the audio from our second LIVE STREAM on our YouTube channel  http://youtube.com/creditspodcast  Please go subscribe! We chatted LIVE with Producer / Writer / Director Aaron Ginsburg about his breaking into writing through reality TV, his failed pilot for Doctor Lawyer Cop, joining The Thrilling Adventure Hour as Director and of course we answer a ton of fan questions about his work on The 100.

Here it is at long last! This is the audio from our May 2nd LIVE STREAM on our YouTube channel. We talked to Tom about breaking into the industry and working at Disney, his connection to the band No Doubt, The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast, his current kickstarter for his Art of Tom Bancroft book and we took questions in our chat room. Please SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel to keep up to date with our upcoming live streams and past videos from our live events. http://youtube.com/creditspodcast

Tonight Monday May 2nd at 6pm PT / 9pm ET we will be chatting with Tom Bancroft LIVE on our YouTube channel! Go to http://YouTube.com/creditspodcast SUBSCRIBE

This week Cory and Myles are chatting with Dark Wing Duck creator Tad Stones about his work and career.  The inception of Dark Wing Duck, Rescue Rangers, Tale Spin and all things Disney in the 90's.  We also talk about his work on the Aladdin films and his upcoming project with Netflix.

This week we have the honour of chatting with Goofy himself! We are talking to Bill Farmer who has voiced Goofy and Pluto for the last 29 years! Farmer's very first voice over audition was for Goofy. When he auditioned for the voice, he studied the way the original actor Pinto Colvig performed as Goofy in the 1930s and 1940s cartoons. He studied the hilarious laugh and the distinctive "gawrsh". He inherited the voice of Goofy (as well as Pluto), around the same time Tony Anselmo inherited Donald Duck, and Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor did likewise for Mickey and Minnie Mouse, respectively. Farmer also played Goofy in A Goofy Movie (1995), its sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000), the Kingdom Hearts series of video games, Goof Troop (1992), which centered around the character and his son, Mickey Mouse Works (1999), House of Mouse (2001), Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006). He originated the voice of Horace Horsecollar in Disney's version of The Prince and the Pauper and has played him ever since.[4][5] Farmer also performed additional voices on The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse (1987), and Astro Boy (2004). Other significant characters he has played include Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, and Foghorn Leghorn in the movie Space Jam (1996). He has also done several guest voices, both on TV, including The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and in video games, including the Destroy All Humans! series, Namco's Tales of Symphonia, where he voiced Governor-General Dorr, in Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts series reprising the role of Goofy, Detective Date in the SEGA game Yakuza, Captain Wedgewood and Frill Lizard in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, many voices on EverQuest II, Cletus Samson, Floyd Sanders, Jeff Meyers and Ryan LaRosa in the video game Dead Rising[6] and Sam and others in the cult classic adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road. Farmer has also played Secret Squirrel on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Stinkie in Casper: A Spirited Beginning and Casper Meets Wendy, Willie Bear in Horton Hears a Who! and Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in Robot Chicken in both the animated series and its spin-off video game. He also voiced Gaston in one part of Beauty and the Beast, when Gaston eats eggs. As of 2014, he plays Doc, the leader of the title characters in Disney's animated television series The 7D.[5]

This week we chat with Writer Justine Gillmer about the differences between writing for TV in Australia and the US, writing on The 100, adjusting to being part of a writers room etc...

This week we are chatting with Joe LoDuca the Composer of Evil Dead I & II, Xena etc... and the new series Ash Vs The Evil Dead! Enjoy this episode as Joe and Myles get geeky on music, bands, the music scene in Detroit, San Francisco and more. And of course we geek out about The Evil Dead! Joseph LoDuca (born 1952) is an American television and film score composer best known for his work writing television scores for the series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Leverage, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Librarians TV series, American Gothic and Jack of All Trades. Originally an accomplished jazz guitarist in the Detroit (MI, USA) area, LoDuca frequently provides music for producer/director Sam Raimi, producer/director Dean Devlin and actor Bruce Campbell's films and series. Prior to his work on The Evil Dead, his first film, he released a jazz LP titled Glisten. LoDuca's credits include 2 Primetime Emmy Awards, 11 Primetime Emmy Nominations, and “Most Performed Underscore” recognitions from ASCAP for four consecutive years. He garnered a César Award nomination; Meilleure Musique Écrite Pour Un Film (Best Music) and a Saturn Award nomination [1] for the French international film Brotherhood of the Wolf, as well as being lauded as "Horror Film Composer of the Year" for his score to Army of Darkness. LoDuca was nominated for and won the Emmy Award in 2009 for Outstanding Music Composition For A Series for his music in Legend of the Seeker.[2] LoDuca played in a rock band in his teens, before studying literature and composition at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. He claimed to prefer composition, because it let him "run among the disciplines without getting caught".

The Truthful Phone is based by a Terry Jones (Monty Python) short story of the same name, supported in part by the Film Agency Wales with BAFTA nominated director Carl Rock. The Truthful Phone is a dark comedy about nasty pensioner Mae Morris; local busybody, pet kidnapper, husband killer. Who unwittingly unleashes a magical gypsy curse that exposes her secrets to the very townsfolk she lives to torment. With Puppets created by Andy Heath & Iestyn Evans who worked on Star Wars: The Force Awakens.Terry Jones said: “I’m delighted that The Truthful Phone is being given the opportunity to be made into a film short; director Carl Rock comes from the same part of Wales as I do. The Welsh landscape is a perfect setting for this tale, and I hope the Kickstarter campaign reaches its target so that a wider audience can enjoy this dark fantasy comedy”.Carl optioned this story three years ago. We have been granted the rights to make this film by Terry Jones himself.LINK TO KICKSTARTER

Ian Hultquist is a California-born, Chicago-raised composer and musician living in Los Angeles. His career began when he heard the first few notes of John Williams’ Jurassic Park score in 1993, and has continued on from that moment, with a few detours along the way. After high school, Hultquist studied film scoring at Berklee College of Music, where he married his love of electronic and rock music, with his love of film, and began to develop his unique composing style. He also met his wife and fellow composer, Sofia, and became one of the founding members of the band Passion Pit. From there, the band’s meteoric rise would take Hultquist to sold-out crowds around the world, and also give him the opportunity to hone his talent for digital and analog sound design (Hultquist acted as Musical Director of the band's live show for many years).  But it wasn’t until 2011, during the band’s first real break from touring in almost four years, that Hultquist was able to fully return to scoring for film.

This week is our conversation with Bill Kopp the creator of Eek The Cat, Mad Jack The Pirate, Tex Tin Star and one of the original animators for The Simpsons (pre-Simpsons TV series).Warning! *This episode contains explicit language*We talk to Bill about his career, winning two Academy Awards while in school, the origins of Eek, the amazing friends he has made, his thoughts on crafting the perfect cartoon gag and his upcoming crowd funding campaign to help create his new project Dumb Bunny and Jack Ass.

This week we are celebrating the Holidays and Star Wars by chatting with the amazingly talented Nien Nunb...... Uh, Mike Quinn.....  Mike started performing at young age with a professional magic act at the age of 8 and a puppet show that ended in a pie fight at aged 9! After becoming fascinated by "The Muppet Show", he knew that was the future for puppetry. He first met Jim Henson and his puppeteers as a fan in 1977, later visiting the set of "The Muppet Show" bringing along home made Muppet style puppets on a regular basis and learning and receiving much encouragement.Upon leaving school he directly landed his first job as a Muppeteer in 1980 on The Great Muppet Caper filling in on crowd scenes and doubling up for main characters. This directly led to building Podlings and Slaves for The Dark Crystal and then actually performing the Slavemaster Skeksis for the film.This was a really fun chat about Mike's work both as a Muppet and as an animator at Pixar.

This week we have a very geeky chat with Composer Tree Adams. We not only talk music but comics, geekdom and tons of genre film and TV.You will recognize his work in shows like The 100, The Middle Man, Californication and movies like Super, Dawn of The Dead

This week we chat with Composer Edwin Wendler, but this chat goes in depth on the technical side of Composing more than any conversation that we've had. Ed talks to us about audio levels, not over powering the film and why it happens sometimes.

This week we chatted with Daniel James Lund. Dan is a Visual FX animator at Disney, he has worked on such films as The Lion King, Beauty and The Beast, Aladdin, Brother Bear and Frozen....there's a lot more...just look at his IMDB under Dan Lund.But Dan's true passion is film in general and we chat about that, Star Wars, Star Trek and of course about the recent animated short that he has directed entitled Aria for Cow.

This week we are chatting with Miniature creator / Photographer Matthew Albanese.Matthew Albanese’s fascination with film, special effects and movie magic—and the mechanics behind these illusions—began early.  Born in northern New Jersey in 1983, Albanese spent a peripatetic childhood moving between New Jersey and upstate New York. An only child, Albanese enjoyed imaginative, solitary play. He loved miniatures and created scenarios intricately set with household objects and his extensive collection of action figures. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography at the State University of New York, Purchase, Albanese worked as a fashion photographer, training his lens on bags, designer shoes and accessories—this small-object specialization is known in the retail trade as “table top photography.” Albanese’s creative eye soon turned to tabletop sets of a more wildly eclectic nature. In 2008, a spilled canister of paprika inspired him to create his first mini Mars landscape. More minute dioramas—made of spices, food and found objects—followed. In 2011, Albanese was invited to show at the Museum of Art and Design of New York. His work has also been exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Winkleman Gallery, and Muba, Tourcoing France. Matthew is represented  at Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York http://www.matthewalbanese.com/gallery

This week we chat with Composer Heather McIntosh about her life and career that lead her to composing for the feature film "Z" for Zachariah.Heather McIntosh recently moved to Los Angeles from Athens, Georgia. House cellist for the Elephant 6 Collective, she has played with of Montreal, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Music Tapes, Gerbils, Elf Power, Circulatory System, Apples in Stereo, Great Lakes, and The Ladybug Transistor.

The Minimalists, Catalyst, Asymmetrical, and SPYR have finished filming Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things, directed by Matt D’Avella.With several thousand hours of footage, Matt and Team are carefully weaving the hours into a beautiful 80-minute narrative featuring dozens of minimalists from all walks of life: minimalist families, travelers, city dwellers, suburbanites, country folk, artists, architects, men, women, people from everywhere on the socioeconomic ladder.

The Great Conjunction: The Legacy of The Dark Crystal investigates how one film released in 1982 inspired generations of filmmakers, artists, writersThis week we chat with the people who are trying to create a documentary focused on the classic film Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal.  The Doc is called The Great Conjunction.

This week we are chatting with Eric Koenig (The Simpsons, The Prince of Egypt, Eight Crazy Nights) about his amazing career as well as his time with Chuck Jones.Plus we geek out a ton about Star Wars,comics, problematic musical scores, The Spirit and more as we let our nerd flags fly.

This is from our LIVE event on October 1st 2015 at The Algonquin College Theater.Our guest was former Disney Animator Ron Husband...This episode does not include his hour and 45 min lecture, but does include our post lecture conversation and Q & A.

Rob Amenta is a Toronto based Artist/animator, mostly aself taught artist but did go to OCAD as well at the Toronto School of Art and Design.His main creative tool these days is 3D Studio Max (a 3d rendering program for those not familiar), Rob is currently trying to get his TV pilot entitled "The Nuklear Family" funded through Kickstarter. The Nuklear Family started as a 2D project (and we loved the style of that), but has since moved it into a CG style series.We chat with Rob about his series, the music behind it and how he plans to get his vision out to the world.

Timothy Wheeler is a Los Angeles based director, producer, and EMMY-nominated cinematographer. Timothy’s directorial feature documentary debut The Other Shore: The Diana Nyad Story had its world premiere at SXSW 2013, international premiere at Hot Docs, and was subsequently featured on Ellen, Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday, Good Morning America, and in The New Yorker. The Other Shore has been airing on heavy rotation for almost two years on SHOWTIME.Timothy received a primetime EMMY nomination for Outstanding Cinematography for his work on the Discovery series Whale Wars. Other credits include programming for PBS, AL Jazeera, The New York Times, and VICE. Wheeler’s visual artistry and storytelling career was first inspired by his contribution to various human rights organizations and nonprofits, including Human Rights Watch. Timothy is also an adjunct professor at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film, has a Master’s in Journalism from UC Berkeley, and has enjoyed travel and work in 60+ countries.Wheeler's latest feature documentary, POACHED, is a wildlife and nature story that delves into the psychology of the human obsession that threaten to destroy it. It premiered as SXSW 2015 and went on to win the International Wildlife Film Festival and is a nominee for the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. The film will release theatrically in the United States through the Ignite Channel on September 18, 2015 in Los Angeles before expanding to other cities.

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This week we speak with Allan Luebke about his passion project Glena, a documentary about a single Mom who is also an MMA fighter.  The story is touching and the film is masterful at crafting her story.We also talk in depth about the importance of having a screen writer when making a well crafted documentary.

Cory Tibbits and Myles Rourke

This week we chat with the voice of Drax, Grod, Robocop and Shockwave! We talk to David Sobolov about his amazing voice acting career and how he has used his deep deep voice to be a unique voice in the industry.

This week we chat with Actor, Writer, Director Asher Grodman about his short film The Train starring himself, Eli Wallach and DawnCantwell.The Train is a short film that tells the story of a Holocaust survivor whose life was spared because of a single moment in time and how his experience impacts a young man.We really enjoyed our conversation with Asher and speaking with him about his experience working with Eli Wallach who has since passed on.

This week we are chatting with Producer / Editor Jeff Consiglio about his latest work on the documentary TWINSTERS. We also talk about the benefits of learning to edit on non-linear editing systems, social media and his career highlights.Such a fun guest.

This week we are talking with Mark Hester about his amazing career as Assistant Director / Editor in the 70's with Disney to his current role as Editor at DreamWorks Feature Animation.  

This week we chat with Animatronics Supervisor at the Jim Henson Creature Workshop John Criswell.If you've watched the Creature Shop Challenge then you've seen him trying to teach the contestants how to make eyes work in his bad ass leather apron.  John had been with the Henson Company since the early 90's and I can guarantee that you have seen his work.

This week we are proud to be chatting it up with a Disney Legend trained by the 9 old men themselves.  We are getting to know the career of Ron Husband!Ron started at Disney in 1975 working on the original "The Rescuers", I hope you all enjoy this interview as much as we did! Don't forget to follow us on facebook! http://facebook.com/creditspodcast 

This week we chat it up with Canadian Voice Actor Brian Froud about his career, working in Canada, breaking in and aspiring to be better.

Recording of the Black Fawn DIstribution panel from Ottawa Comiccon 2015 featuring:  CF Benner, Gabriel Career and Christopher G. Giroux

This week we chat with Animation Director Ron Doucet about his career and the current controversy happening in Nova Scotia with the Film Tax credits and how that effects the entire animation industry in that province.  And it effects a lot of shows that you are probably watching now!

This week we give you a glimpse into our April 1st 2015 LIVE event at the Algonquin Commons Theater with our special guest Aaron Blaise!

This week we sit down to chat with Keith Grachow, one of our upcoming guests at Ottawa Comiccon May 8th - 10th 2015.Keith Grachow has been a graphic artist for the last 20 years and has worked for companies like Play Along Toys (a subsidiary of Jakks Pacific) on the Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon series; and for Disney Animation, as a digital ink and paint artist on the animated flicks Princess and the Frog and the reboot of Winnie the Pooh (2011).We talk with Keith about his time with Disney, changing careers, goals and the difficulties / rewards of being a freelance artist.Visit Keith's website here:http://kgrachow.com/blog/

This week we were honoured with a short conversation with Animator Bill Plympton.Bill has always been a unique talent, bringing a mature and complex animation style to all of his films.  In this era of CG films, his latest feature film entitled Cheatin' is a welcome breath of fresh air.  Cheatin' is a 2D animated film in Bill's unique illustrated style, the lack of dialogue is very suited to this artful masterpiece.Bill Plympton is not only known for his films but also for his collaborations with artists such as Weird Al and Kanye West. 

This week we chat with a true legend of the animation industry.  Floyd Norman has been in the animation industry for over 5 decades, his career at Disney began with Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone eventually leading him to the Story department for Disney's The Jungle Book.Floyd is one of the few people who had the honour of working along side Walt Disney himself and in this week's episode we dispel a few rumours about Walt as a man.Enjoy!

In honour of the late Leonard Nimoy's passing, we are releasing the Skype Q&A he did for Ottawa Comiccon 2014

Travis Hanson...(The illustrator NOT the underwear model) is at it again!  He is currently running a Kickstarter to help him publish Book 4 of "The Bean"This week we are chatting with Travis Hanson about his life this past year as he was abruptly thrown from "employed to self-employed" in an instant.  It's been a very interesting and very rewarding year for Travis.  He truly is an inspirational man and artist.

What does it take to run a Comiccon where everything runs smoothly, all attendees are happy and content....  Who know's?But this week's guest Cliff Caporale runs a pretty tight ship, He's the Programming Director for multiple Cons...Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City.  He's also responsible for allowing us to dig our nails in and become a staple of Ottawa Comiccon Ottawa Comiccon 2015 is May 8th, 9th and 10th....see you there!

This week we revisit Animator and the Creature Art Teacher himself....Aaron Blaise!When last we spoke with Aaron and partner Chuck Williams they were running their Kickstarter for their Feature film "Art Story"!  We wanted to catch up with Aaron to see where Art Story was at and also to finally get an interview that focused more on Aaron and his incredible career.....so we did just that.Find Aaron Blaise online here: Creature Art TeacherFacebookTwitter: @AaronBlaiseArt 

This week we have a crazy conversation with the Creators of Phineas and Ferb, Dan Povenmire & Jeff "Swampy" Marsh!  This conversation was just fun and you can see where the humour in the show that both kids and adults alike love watching comes from.

No interview this week but we have a fun Q & A Robert Englund did at 2014's Ottawa Comiccon! 

This week we chat with Creative Producer Jessica Borutski about her amazing career that started here in Ottawa Canada and how doing some concept drawings for an open call from WB led to her redesigning classic WB characters and her current position of Creative Producer on a brand new series.

This week we celebrate Xmas a little late with a conversation we recorded in Dec.It's a chat with Composer Russ Howard about his work on several films (including some holiday films)....but of major interest to us was his work on Hobo With A Shotgun as one of our very first interviews was with the Producer of that film Rob Cotterill.