Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is Umaimah! Umaimah is a visual development artist, prop designer, color designer, and character designer for shows like the Proud Family: Louder and Prouder and Summer Camp Island!

Along the way, we chat about GOING TO SCAD, NAVIGATING POP CULTURE REFERENCES, SWITCHING YOUR BRAIN BETWEEN JOBS, 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
5:29 Starting comics and clogged sinks
20:50 Making a game and more Dave lore
39:00 A typical week
40:05 Creative block
46:02 Webtoons and where to post
57:27 Money from comics
1:04:56 Moving to LA
1:13:30 Non art activities
1:17:54 Best advice
1:20:14 Pitch a show
1:24:19 Best part of comics
1:33:52 Stay handsome
1:36:19 Outro

0:00 Intro
2:40 Pursuing animation
6:21 Studying art
14:05 Social media
22:58 Getting noticed
34:35 Color design
38:19 Learning on the job vs school
46:18 South Africa
59:00 Pitching a show
1:02:37 Hardest part of switching jobs
1:04:50 Favorite and least favorite character
1:12:13 Best drawing routine
1:14:29 Production tips
1:16:01 Favorite thing about the industry
1:19:22 Favorite characters part 2
1:21:30 Creative block

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