Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is JEFF LIU! Jeff worked as a writer, director, storyboard, and story supervisor on the shows Steven Universe, OK K.O., Craig of the Creek, and Adventure Time: Distant Lands.

Along the way, we chat about DEALING WITH REJECTION, GETTING ON TO STEVEN UNIVERSE, HIS MUSIC (jeff plays on banjo and guitar for a bit too), and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!

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Editing by Clemence Briat ► https://twitter.com/clem_n_m
Produced by Marco Beltran ► https://twitter.com/orcsocks
Theme song by Louie Zong ► https://twitter.com/everydaylouie

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0:00 Intro
2:41 Deciding on animation
6:00 Newgrounds
9:24 College
24:24 Getting on Steven Universe
35:52 Working on anime
50:44 Ok KO
53:58 Pitiching
1:01:33 Development milestones
1:11:27 Supervising director
1:16:16 Keeping storyboard artists in line
1:18:06 American vs Japanese animated shows
1:21:35 Creating your own show
1:28:43 Music
1:38:13 Songmaking
1:41:20 Younger self advice
1:45:57 Outro

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