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RubberOnion Animation Podcast

315 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings

This show is about everything animation: weekly news stories, reviews, interviews with professionals and indie creators, etc. We also have fan-art contests, play trivia, do character skits and a ton of other community interaction... because entertainment! I'm Stephen Brooks and I run Rubber Onion, a boutique studio that creates hand-drawn animation, and am the author of 'Tradigital Animate CC: 12 Principles of Animation in Adobe Animate.' My best friend and fellow animator, Rob Yulfo, joins me for this weekly podcast. Imagine going out for drinks with a group of animators after work and merge that with a variety show which has some educational segments... that's the RubberOnion Animation Podcast. Enjoy and say Hi!

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Episodes

296 Wile E Coyote Ugly

March 13, 2024 11:00 - 2 hours - 104 MB

The big story this episode is obviously Coyote vs Acme but rather than just talk about how much of a bummer this all is we try to wrap our heads around the why of it all. We also start a new segment called "A.I. Watch" which I'm sure will be a regular thing as we check in on what's going on with all that. There's also a bunch of what we're calling "body sounds"... it's painfully make sense. Enjoy! Timestamps: 4:33 ........... How You Doin 10:21 .......... Animation News of the Week... ...

295 10 Year Anniversary

February 07, 2024 11:00 - 2 hours - 119 MB

Had a great time celebrating and chatting about the last 10 years of us doing this little ol' podcast on a live show with Patrons in chat... sampling many bourbons and rye in our collection. The actual anniversary is Oct 19th and we did in fact record on this day! I put timestamps down for this one since it's a three-hour show to make it easier to move about the episode but if you want the true experience just listen to it straight through and listen to Rob and my speech get slower and slu...

294 Morning Zoom

January 10, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MB

Second day in a row of new podcast episode! We talk about the overlooked beginning of VFX Unions, Vivienne Medrano's Amazon Prime debut with "Hazbin Hotel," and of course the upcoming Procreate Dreams. #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere Patreon iTunes

293 Tiny Mermaid

January 09, 2024 22:24 - 1 hour - 53.9 MB

Tiny Toons Looniversity and The Little Mermaid 2023. We didn't like either one of them. But it's a fun listen anyway! #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere Patreon iTunes

292 TMNT Mutant Mayhem Review

August 09, 2023 12:22 - 1 hour - 49.5 MB

The time has come. We review a new TMNT movie! This is a clean review with spoilers saved for the end of the show. Obviously we talk about the story, style, acting and animation... but we also address the comparisons to Spider-Verse and more importantly what this all means for the future of animation as we see it today. Enjoy! #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere Patreon iTunes

291 Summer Ketchup

July 19, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MB

There is so much going on in the industry right now that we couldn't just stick to one topic because everything is pretty tangled up. So while we do bring up things like the AI open credits of Secret Invasion, the movie Nimona, the series reboot/new season of Clone High, Mushka and I'm Hip animated shorts from Disney vets, and other stories... we also thread it with discussions on the current strike (recorded before SAG-AFTRA made theirs official), state of streaming and jobs, what is happen...

290 Across the Spider-Verse Review

June 22, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 76.6 MB

This is a perfectly PG review with no spoilers that aren't in trailers. We mostly talk about story competence and satisfaction and of course the style and animation. Enjoy! (and then go see it for yourself if you haven't already!) #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere Patreon iTunes

289 A.I.n't I a Stinker

April 28, 2023 13:59 - 2 hours - 92.8 MB

  Alternate title of this episode is "A.I... or won't I?" Coudn't decide. This was obviously recorded a few months ago and many things have happened since then but the conversation still remains. There's a lot of threats out there constantly to not just our career but many careers, and the current one centers around deep/machine learning tech known as A.I.    We have as open a conversation as we can about it but are simpathetic to whomever is directly affected. It's important that we su...

288 Career Road Block

December 29, 2022 17:15 - 1 hour - 52.7 MB

The topic for this episode came from a Facebook post I made asking for topics:  Could you talk about doubts in this career path, I've had a bit of a career related dilemma because I thought I'd hit some really good milestones recently... and I've only recently found out about rigging and the fact that it's a whole new skill set required for industry. Also I've been using Animate for years rather than Toonboom. These two revelations have really disheartened me from this career path, and I...

287 Budget Man and Intern Boy

November 21, 2022 15:03 - 1 hour - 70.3 MB

An episode recorded in early August and released in late November? You betcha! We have a classic variety episode with Trailer Talk and Animation News AND Rapid Fire, the theme really seems to be... "it's all bad." Enjoy! Timestamps: 5:45 ------  How You Doin? 19:57 ----- TRAILER TALK 20:45 "Pantheon" 34:00 "Slippin Jimmy" 47:40 "Little Demon" 43:28 ----- ANIMATION NEWS 58:08 "Marvel VFX Artists' Issues" 1:12:30 "Popeye Animatic Leak: 1:25:23 "Mike Moon Leaves Netflix" ...

286 Michelle Michelle

September 01, 2022 12:17 - 1 hour - 67.4 MB

Two movies that could not be more different than one another, but somehow we found a way to thread them together. We talk about animation styles, tone, production, marketing, narrative, and a whole bunch of other things in the process of our discussion (featured image courtesy of Rob this week). Timestamps: 4:08 ------  Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 43:28 ----- Mad God #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere Patreon iTunes

285 Unctuous Beast

August 03, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 75.3 MB

Nothing like recording at 8am to get the ideas flowing! Enjoy this perfectly coherent variety show. I took much too long to make the featured image this week fit a theme that I'm sure nobody will get at all but it made me smile Timestamps: 3:05 ------ How You Doin' 22:45 ----- MOVIE REVIEW: "Sea Beast" 43:11 ----  ANIMATION NEWS... 43:58 ----  Nintendo buys Dynamo Pictures  54:04 ----  Netflix acquires Animal Logic  1:07:29 --  SDCC Marvel Animation Panel  1:25:20 --  Powerpuff Gir...

284 Beavis and Butthead Retrospective

July 27, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB

In this special Retrospective episode we talk about the original Beavis & Butt-Head shorts, the 90s series, that era of MTV animation, the movie "... Do America", the 2011 reboot, and of course the brand new Paramount+ movie "... Do the Universe!" Music and short clips have always been a part of the Beavis & Butt-head so I put a little extra time zhuzhing this one up... and a very special shoutout to Jayden Libran for providing the amazing Beavis & Butthead impressions! #RubberOnionPodcas...

283 Henny Honey

July 20, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB

We usually like to do these Trailer Talk episodes on a Live-Stream but we're not setup for that yet so enjoy this very visual episode of this audio show (links below)! Timestamps: 4:30 ------ How You Doin' 8:23 ------ ...Las Vegas 21:50 ----  Trailer Talk 23:38 ----  Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank  37:22 ----  Primal season 2  1:05:03 --  Rise of the TMNT: The Movie  1:26:17 --  RAPID FIRE!!!!!!  #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere Patreon iTunes

282 Bob's Burgers Movie Review

July 13, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MB

We're on a roll! A deliciously egg-washed, sesame sprinkled, enriched dough roll! Here's our review of "The Bob's Burgers Movie." We talk the usual: plot, animation, performances, treasonous acts of sedition, bad impressions, budgets... you know... the yoozh #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere Patreon iTunes

281 Pinnochi Oh No

July 06, 2022 14:18 - 2 hours - 110 MB

Clocking in at 2hrs and 40min here is our next episode which, yes, was recorded on June 2nd and since then Seth Green bought his NFT back and the Rescue Rangers movie is just a figment in people's imaginations but it's a good show if I do say so myself! It's the first episode we've done since the start of the pandemic in person! We'd like to know if YOU can tell the difference and also very interested in what your feelings are on getting this as one episode vs being split up into two. Ti...

280 Netflix and Kill

May 20, 2022 21:04 - 2 hours - 88.3 MB

BRAND BRAND NEW EPISODE! We asked on Facebook what stories you wanted us to talk about on our return and there were some really great ones to choose from but there was one from Martin Bell that stood out to us: "What's going on with Netflix animation?" There's something about this topic that we keep coming back to but with the recent exiting of Phil Rynda and the layoffs which followed (we refer to this article from The Wrap quite a bit) it's back in the discussions. There's a very real s...

279 Reboot Onion

May 20, 2022 20:59 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

BRAND NEW EPISODE! With the "Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers" (2022) movie releasing today on Disney+ here is Rob and I talking about the very first trailer that came out. I know, I know... not exactly fresh, but knowing what we know now about what the next trailer brought and the impending movie review we're going to do it all works out. These first episodes back to the routine were really hard to get out the door for a lot of reasons that we'll share on Patreon but there's still one more ep...

278 He-Men

May 20, 2022 20:53 - 1 hour - 75.7 MB

Here's ep 2 of our 4 ep drop today continuing with this episode from earlier this year published to Patreon (Originally uploaded Feb 19, 2022). We were releasing episodes there exclusively for the last year while dealing with some very busy times which now have cleared up and we can re-enter the fray! We actually recorded this "Masters of the Universe: Revelation" review episode back in Aug 2021 and then more work/life stuff happened to decide to take a break until 2022. We'll talk all abou...

277 Soul and the Last Dragon

May 20, 2022 19:54 - 2 hours - 92.5 MB

Here's the start of our 4 ep drop today starting with this episode from last year published to Patreon (Originally uploaded Aug 21, 2021). We were releasing episodes there exclusively for the last year while dealing with some very busy times which now have cleared up and we can re-enter the fray!  This episode we reviewed two movies now on Disney+ for anyone to watch, SOUL and RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON! Enjoy! Timestamps: 16:07 SOUL 1:04:52 RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON   #RubberOnionPodc...

276 Peeps Show

April 30, 2021 18:13 - 1 hour - 73.7 MB

Return of the Variety Show! We talk the new Space Jam and Luca trailers, Thundercats and Peeps are getting movies, and RAPID FIRE Timestamps: 5:20 How You Doin? 15:08 TRAILER TALK 15:57 Space Jam: A New Legacy 40:05 Luca 47:34 ANIMATION NEWS OF THE WEEK 48:32 Thundercats 1:11:09 Peeps 1:32:26 RAPID FIRE #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

275 Freaky Friday

April 21, 2021 20:23 - 1 hour - 78.2 MB

In this episode, Stephen and Rob switch places. Both doing long time freelance and office work and now thrown into an opposite world... what did they learn?! Discussions abound! #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

274 Jasmine Katatikarn Interview

March 09, 2021 22:30 - 1 hour - 43.8 MB

One of the founders of the Academy of Animated Art, co-author of Lighting for Animation, and CG Lighter for Blue Sky Studios, Jasmine Katatikarn, joined us to talk about the industry, online learning, industry lessons learned and starts the episode off with a message about the recent closing of Blue Sky. #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

273 Undone Review

October 12, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MB

Undone is the new rotoscoped* show on Amazon dealing with time travel, mental illness, both, and of course relationships personal and family - because what narrative isn't, really. Stephen watched the whole season, Rob watched about half. *(it's a broad term, but we talk a lot about the style) #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

272 Back It Up

September 16, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 68.9 MB

It's an HBO Max kind of show where we talk through all of (kinda) season 1 of Genndy Tartakovsky's "Primal" and J.G. Quintel's "Close Enough." How engaging is a 30 min series without any dialog? How about a 15 min one with a lot? Will Rob ever get to eat his lunch? Timestamps: 24:45 Primal Season 1 Review 57:30 - 1:05:30 *SPOILERS for PRIMAL ep 5 1:10:00 Close Enough thoughts ep 1 & 2 #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

271 Spike Decker and Kat Alioshin Interview

September 10, 2020 12:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MB

We sat down separately together to talk about the new doc "Animation Outlaws" directed by Kat Alioshin about the duo known as Spike & Mike and the festivals they ran. Check it out streaming now on Amazon! #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

270 LaCroix Boy

July 31, 2020 18:44 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

Last episode we talked about new animated shows, this week we talk about new animation opportunities! And with all that positivity, I get mildly annoyed at the Emmy selection this year and Rob sees it as an opportunity to make me explain why Rick and Morty doesn't thrill me... again. And it works every time. #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

269 Marcy Darcy

July 25, 2020 16:08 - 2 hours - 89.6 MB

There are so many new animated series that have been in production or just got greenlit in this time of covid quarantine, animation is proving itself once again as one of the more creatively and financially stable mediums to get behind. #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

268 It's Not About You

July 09, 2020 17:24 - 1 hour - 64.3 MB

It's been exactly 2 months since the last episode and a lot has been going on, we catch up and address the absence. #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

267 The Willoughbys Review

May 09, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 51.8 MB

The Willoughbys on Netflix interested us by the trailer. We watched the movie. #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

266 Depressingly Popular

April 08, 2020 14:41 - 1 hour - 82 MB

This was from our Live-Streamed TRAILER TALK where we discussed the trailers for Solar Opposites, Connected, The Willoughbys, and JJ Villard's Fairy Tales. Not all positive. #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

265 WFH

April 01, 2020 10:00 - 2 hours - 116 MB

We had a live-streamed show (from our respective homes) to discuss working from home and everything that entails. Being a manager, being an animator, working on-site to working from home, freelancing and its benefits, how is and might in the future impact the industry. We also have a couple user videos, one animated, and a listener audio question as well as comments from chat. It was a fun time! #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

264 Realities of an Animation Career

March 25, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 79.7 MB

About a month ago a video was uploaded that made the rounds in the animation community of a young story artist who quit her job at Disney explaining the why of it all.  We'll we're older and have had completely different paths from her and ourselves and have some thoughts on it all. It's a Hot Cocoa Show!! #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

263 Sonic and Frozen 2 Reviews

March 18, 2020 11:00 - 59 minutes - 41.3 MB

Rob saw Sonic. Stephen saw Frozen 2. Both are spoiled heavily. #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

262 Shirt Skirt

March 11, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MB

We're back, babyyyyyy! Or are we? Yes. We are. #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

261 Lion King 2019 Review

December 24, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MB

Did "The Lion King" (2019) live up to the expectations promised by "The Jungle Book" (2016) and of course the original 1994 hand-drawn animated film? #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

260 PS4 Animation Theft

December 19, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 46.7 MB

What happens when a major animation spot is made up of rotoscoped professional and student films? #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

259 What We're Watching

December 05, 2019 11:00 - 55 minutes - 38.5 MB

We had so much time over the break to catch up on all our favorite animated shows that came back, new ones that we were excited to dig into, and old ones we never got around to. Here's what we're watching now! #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

258 Trailer Talk by the Letter S

November 22, 2019 13:47 - 1 hour - 75.4 MB

Today's episode brought to you by the letter S: Spongebob, Soul, Sonic, Scoob! #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

257 Klaus Review

November 15, 2019 04:49 - 1 hour - 57.3 MB

KLAUS the movie, from the animated pitch that excited an entire industry, was finally released on Netflix and I caught a special early screening of it. Here's the review! #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

256 The Horror Story

November 02, 2019 17:29 - 1 hour - 73.7 MB

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255 Sassy Goose

October 18, 2019 01:51 - 1 hour - 73.6 MB

The great return of the after dark episodes! In this one, we have a chat about dealing with motivational issues, your own roadblocks, and a whole bunch of mental gymnastics we do to sabotage ourselves #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

254 A Goo-Goo

October 09, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MB

Here's a nice relaxing "How You Doin" style episode for you all! We check in about Stephen and Rob's DuckAmuckJam participation, chat about the Netflix French horror series Marianne, and more! #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

253 Dark Crystal AoR Season 1 Review

September 25, 2019 13:00 - 2 hours - 82.6 MB

I watched the entire season 1 of "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" on Netflix over a weekend... Rob did not. In this episode, I try to convince him to watch it while reviewing everything in the series from the puppetry, how much cg is used, what you should know going into it if you're a fan of the movie, how dark it really gets, etc... enjoy! #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

252 People Cats

September 18, 2019 14:59 - 1 hour - 57.9 MB

It was a dark and stormy night we recorded this podcast. With thunder rumbling in the background we open this episode talking about the Kyoto Animation Studio attack. It's is a tough event to talk through, but we use the opportunity to share some of the great things that studio does for animators in Japan. After that it's on to the Tuca and Bertie cancellation and the Cats trailer (as well as a mini discussion about The Lion King 2019)  #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere     ...

251 Goofy Stomach Loving

July 15, 2019 19:27 - 2 hours - 97.5 MB

Check it out! It's another podcast! And this one is a whopping 2hrs and 20minutes long and we cover 5 stories... and all actually new this week stories!   #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

250 Jim Handsome

July 07, 2019 17:59 - 2 hours - 86.4 MB

This comes straight from our live episode where we talk about the trailers for Onward and the Dark Crystal Netflix Prequel Series. We also have an "Animation News" segment where we talk about the Bojack animators at Shadowmachine Unionizing and cover a whole bunch of stuff in the Rapid Fire!    #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

249 Adolby Si Si

June 22, 2019 23:35 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB

Adobe vs Dolby affects the end-user, "Sonic" is apparently still a problem only less so, and a new Photoshop plugin introduces a unique workflow   #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

248 The Addams King

May 29, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MB

Live "Trailer Talk" episode of the podcast where we talk about the new "The Lion King" and "Addams Family" trailers   #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

247 Alan Who

May 14, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.9 MB

Who wanted a new Aladdin film? Who wanted Batman vs TMNT? We have no answers but plenty of jokes   #RubberOnionPodcast @RubberOnion everywhere           

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