ZH8: Naomi Wiener - Artist, Illustrator, Stop Motion Fabricator
ZEIT HEIST
English - April 03, 2023 20:16 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBSpirituality Religion & Spirituality Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Naomi Wiener is a Portland-based artist, illustrator and professional fabricator who has built models, set pieces and characters on stop motion animation projects for Adult Swim (The Shivering Truth), Laika Studios and Netflix, including Guillermo Del Toro's Oscar-winning Pinocchio (2022).
Follow Naomi at https://www.instagram.com/desert_pig/
See more of her portfolio at https://www.naomiwiener.com/
Follow Josh at https://www.instagram.com/thejoshgaines/
Join the Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/thejoshgaines
See more of his work at https://thejoshgaines.com/
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro titles & how we met
0:45 Drawing origins & being inspired by cartoons
2:06 Influences: King of the Hill, Studio Ghibli
6:10 Getting into Model Making & Sculpture
7:35 Interest in Stopmotion Animation
10:50 From Creative Passion to Career
12:58 Art School for Animation
17:09 Resurgence of Stop Motion
23:27 Loving Cinema & Influential Films
26:35 Comedic timing & animating at school
28:47 Screenwriting & Story
30:06 Getting hired for an Adult Swim project
34:56 Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
39:49 Sculpting from Sketch references and Storyboards
43:45 Laika’s filmmaking process
46:31 What do you hope to work on in the future?
48:50 Naomi’s 2D work, Illustrations & Paintings
52:24 What Directors would you love to work with?
55:50 Materials used for stop motion puppets & working with scale
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