Straight Ahead Animation Podcast
By Ray Mendoza Landa & Yuki Okamura-Wong
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Episodes: 121
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On the Straight Ahead Animation Podcast we interview and spotlight rising Black, Indigenous, and People of Color voices that are breaking into the Animation Industry. We want our guest to share their early experiences working at their first industry job and their transition from being a student to an industry professional. We want to spotlight these rising BIPOC voices because these are the voices that will shape the future of the Animation Industry.
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121 Straight Ahead SEASON 4 KICKOFF! WE ARE STILL ALIVE!!
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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120 Geek Girl Conline: My First Steps in the Animation Industry
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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119 Straight Ahead w/ Kelly Lynne D'Angelo: Native Voice and Lens in Entertainment
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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118 Straight Ahead w/ Nicolette Ray: Have a Conversation About Mental Health
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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117 Straight Ahead w/ Joey Clift: Pitching and Selling a Show
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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116 Straight Ahead w/ Ashley Chung: Thrown Into Kombat!
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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115 Straight Ahead w/ Steve Sandoval: From Working in Construction to Environment Design
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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114 Straight Ahead w/ Sofia Canales: The Journey into Animation is a Zig Zag
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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113 Straight Ahead w/ Angela M. Sánchez: Now you see it...
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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112 Straight Ahead w/ Jose Hernandez: Drawing with Intent, Inclusion, and Confidence
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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111 Straight Ahead w/ Kayse Villalba: Enjoy Yourself
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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110 Straight Ahead w/ Yanna Casey: Exploring and Expressing Gender
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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109 Straight Ahead w/ Cynthia Furey: Extra! Extra! Food Journalist becomes writer on Tiny Chef!
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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108 Straight Ahead w/ Rise Up Animation: From X-Games to X-Sheets
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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107 Straight Ahead w/ Black Card Members: YOU are the protagonist!
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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106 Straight Ahead w/ Asian Queens in Animation: A World of Connection
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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105 Straight Ahead w/ Story For All: Free 1:1 mentorships for BIPOC artists
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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104 Straight Ahead w/ Diverse Toons: Jade Seaberry, Woman of Action!
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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103 Straight Ahead w/ Joel Zamudio: Release Your Ego
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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102 Straight Ahead w/ Zharia B Rahn: Big Giant Sheet
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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101 Straight Ahead w/ Isabella Martinez Luna: Loving the Technical Side of 3D
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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100 Straight Ahead 100th Episode Celebration!
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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99 Straight Ahead w/ Ashley Tahilan: Championing jokes through Standards & Practices (SNP)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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98 Straight Ahead w/ Sean Yeung: In the Big Leagues
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May 23, 2023 |
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97 Straight Ahead w/ Devin Yang: From Corporate to Concept Artist
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May 16, 2023 |
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96 Straight Ahead w/ Thy Võ: Tutorial>Complete... Career>Start!
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May 09, 2023 |
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95 Straight Ahead w/ Yusra Shahid: A Heritage in Storytelling, and a Heart Full of Wonder
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May 02, 2023 |
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94 Straight Ahead w/ Elliot Salgado: Discovering the World of Animatic Editing
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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93 Straight Ahead w/ Amie Sanchez: Hit the Ground Running
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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92 Straight Ahead w/ Michelle Lam: Step by Step
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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91 Straight Ahead w/ Najja Porter: Falling Apples
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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90 Straight Ahead w/ Eddie Clark: All You Need is One Good Shot
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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89 Straight Ahead w/ Harron Atkins: From the Street to the Creek!
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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88 Straight Ahead w/ Corinth Boone: Learning the Industry Standard
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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87 Straight Ahead w/ Jaylen Tate-Lucas: Suit-up, Robin!
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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86 Straight Ahead Season 3 Kickoff!!!
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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85 Straight Ahead w/ Da-Hee Im: Choosing The Game Industry Over Feature Animation
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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84 Straight Ahead w/ Ren Bernal: Starting Over With A Fresh Start
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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83 Straight Ahead w/ Nessa Tweneboah: Put fan art in your portfolio!
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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82 Straight Ahead w/ Cesilia Gutierrez: From Nursing Student to Professional Artist
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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81 Straight Ahead w/ The Awesombrosos : One Soul Divided Between Two Bodies
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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80 Straight Ahead w/ Daniela Rodriguez de la Peña: Learning the Ropes and Sailing the Seas!
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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79 Straight Ahead w/ Juan Montoya: Working Straight Out of Colombia!
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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78 Straight Ahead w/ Angélica Agélviz: Be the Batman of your own story!
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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77 Straight Ahead w/ Ruby Wang: visual development for VR, AR, XR, MR... all the R's!
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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76 Straight Ahead w/ Karissa Valencia: Go, go, Spirit Rangers!
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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75 Straight Ahead w/ Servan Castillo: Animation to Storyboard, Making the Shift
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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74 Straight Ahead w/ Grace Han: VFX rigging
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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73 Straight Ahead w/ Jalysa Leva: Prioritizing your People
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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72 Straight Ahead w/ Jennifer Zavala Perez: Leading with Respect
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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71 Straight Ahead w/ Michael Rodriguez: Bringing In Your Personal Story
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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70 Straight Ahead w/ Kimmie King: Playing Off the Cards You're Dealt
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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69 Straight Ahead w/ Shannon Parayil: Unlimited Growth
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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68 Straight Ahead w/ FIAPF and WIA: Stories x Women
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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67 Straight Ahead w/ Aishwarya Chandramohan: From Comics to Characters, a Chaotic Path to Story
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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66 Straight Ahead w/ Ferrari Duanghathai Sotthisaowaphak & Tanta Vorawatanakul: Lifting Each Other Up
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May 31, 2022 |
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65 Straight Ahead w/ Curie Lu: You Don't Always Need a Degree
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May 24, 2022 |
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64 Straight Ahead w/ Jeremy Vicentina: A Sure Bet
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May 17, 2022 |
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63 Straight Ahead w/ Joon Chung: Write What You Know
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May 12, 2022 |
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62 Straight Ahead w/ Animasians: The First of Many Years to Come
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May 03, 2022 |
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61 Straight Ahead w/ Ulises Alvarado Llamas: Health first, portfolio second
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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60 Straight Ahead w/ Aerik Bertulfo: The first rule of Kaiju fight-club...
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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59 Straight Ahead w/ Kayleen Acosta Rodriguez: Shedding Light on the Beauty in Animation
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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58 Straight Ahead w/ Zilai Feng: Finding Home in a Far Away Land
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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57 Straight Ahead w/ Shakira Pressley: The Original Sparkle Cadet
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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56 Straight Ahead w/ Roxy Simons: Puppets can't "smile fondly"
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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55 Straight Ahead w/ Marisa Torres: 2D Paint in a 3D World
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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SPECIAL STRAIGHT AHEAD 50TH EPISODE CELEBRATION!
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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54 Straight Ahead w/ Dashawn Mahone: A Valorous Tale
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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53 Straight Ahead w/ Angela Entzminger: 15 Year Journey To Overnight Success
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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52 Straight Ahead w/ Aaron Cobb: Evolve Your Style by Going With the Flow
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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51 Straight Ahead w/ BNA: Strength in Visibility, Building a Community for Black Artists
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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49 Straight Ahead w/ Yuki Okamura-Wong: Transitioning From A Blob To A Fully Realized Human Being
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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48 Straight Ahead w/ Ray Mendoza Landa: Scholar to Story Artist, Playing to your Strengths before Mileage
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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47 Straight Ahead w/ Steph Rizo: Taking a Leap of Faith into Storyboarding
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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46 Straight Ahead w/ Daniela Dwek: Character Technical Director Model/Rigger at Pixar
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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45 Straight Ahead w/ Derrick Malik Johnson: Loyalty, Respect, These Hands
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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44 Straight Ahead w/ Rae Huang: From Animation to Storyboards
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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43 Straight Ahead w/ Samia Khalaf: Directing a short film in VR
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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42 Straight Ahead w/ Andrew Arcilla: Geeking out about community, musicals in space, and Legos
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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41 Straight Ahead w/ Grey Chen: Recovering from Burnout
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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40 Straight Ahead w/ Kristal Babich: Confidence in a Soft Spoken Voice
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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39 Straight Ahead w/ Christian Alvarez: Making the Pipeline Work for You
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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38 Straight Ahead w/ Janet Rodriguez: Translating Life Experience to Artistic Voice
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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37 Straight Ahead w/ Juan Luis Bravo: Transitioning from Live-Action to Storyboarding
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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36 Straight Ahead w/ LXiA: Empowering LatinX Voices
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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35 Straight Ahead w/ Kaila Knight Tryal: Creating Opportunities
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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34 Straight Ahead w/ Liz Luu: Building Databases, the Artist Hiring Tools of Today
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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33 Straight Ahead w/ Jeff Trammell: From Inner-City Detroit to Nickelodeon Writer's Room
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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32 Straight Ahead w/ Montse Hernandez: Being a Voice of Color in Animation
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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31 Straight Ahead w/ Crystal Cheng: Changing the Trajectory of your Career
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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30 Straight Ahead w/ Daniel Rodier: Working as a Music Composer
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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29 Straight Ahead w/ Kameelah (MeeMee) Costa: Cross-Country to Cartoon Network
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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28 Straight Ahead w/ Maneen Mehta: Pursing Animation instead of becoming a Doctor
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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27 Straight Ahead w/ Abelle Hayford: Freelance Illustrator, Character Designer, and Color Stylist
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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26 Straight Ahead w/ Marie Lum: From Storyboard Revisionist to Assistant Director at Disney TVA
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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25 Straight Ahead w/ Bryan Bae: Designing an Inclusive Future
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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24 Straight Ahead w/ Emily Rodriguez: Life of an Animator in Adult Animation
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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23 Straight Ahead w/ Revathi Kotni: Production Manager at Netflix Animation
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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22 Straight Ahead w/ Stella Longfish: Coloring Kid Cosmic, a Spectrum of Creativity
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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21 Straight Ahead w/ Li Cree: Morphinominal Story Artist!
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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19 Straight Ahead w/ Denise Chan: Retake Animator at Titmouse Inc.
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May 18, 2021 |
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18 Straight Ahead w/ Katherine Nguyen: From Production to Story
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May 11, 2021 |
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17 Straight Ahead w/ Grace Villaroman: 3D Character Animator at Sony Pictures Imageworks
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May 04, 2021 |
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16 Straight Ahead w/ Maaike Scherff: Character Designer by Day, Revisionist by Night
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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15 Straight Ahead w/ Kristine Lee: A Story Artist with an Electrical Engineering Degree
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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14 Straight Ahead w/ Brandon Jaisen Louie: 2D FX Animator
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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13 Straight Ahead w/ Giselle Grimaldo: From Live Action to Animation Production
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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12 Straight Ahead w/ Flora Rees-Arredondo: Junior Art Director at FS Studio
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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11 Straight Ahead w/ Maya Mendonça: Student Academy Award-winning Animation Director
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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10 Straight Ahead w/ Justin Bruce Lee: From Padawan to Jedi at Lucasfilm Animation
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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09 Straight Ahead w/ Maddie Julyk: Worker-Owner at Wild Blue Studios
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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08 Straight Ahead w/ Marvin Madrid: Living Fast and Furious as a Storyboard Revisionist at DreamWorks
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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07 Straight Ahead w/ Latonya White: 2D Artist at an indie game company
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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06 Straight Ahead w/ Gloria Carolina Felix Orozco: Life as a Freelance Illustrator and Visual Development Artist
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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05 Straight Ahead w/ Alex Pimwong: From Barista at the Luxo Cafe to Story Resident at Pixar
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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04 Straight Ahead w/ Sofia Guerra: 2D Animation is alive in Georgia
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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03 Straight Ahead w/ Rebecca Chan: From intern to full-time Visual Development Artist at Tonko House
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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02 Straight Ahead w/ Miguel Baltazar: Storyboard Revisionist at Netflix
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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01 Straight Ahead w/ Trilina Mai: Freelance 3D Animator and Director of Award Winning Short Film
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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00 Straight Ahead w/ Ray & Yuki: What is Straight Ahead?
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Jan 22, 2021 |