Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is KRISTEN GISH! Kristen is a storyboard artist and writer for shows like Ducktales, Great North, and Tuca and Bertie. She also wrote and directed her own animated pilot, Kelly and the Kung Fu Gators!

Along the way, we chat about the WORKING AT SHADOW MACHINE, CHOOSING TO CREATE AN ORIGINAL SHORT, FINDING COLLABORATORS, 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
1:09 Starting animation
19:12 Moving from job to job
27:18 Pitching
33:54 Personal projects
38:01 Collaborators
51:56 Production time
1:03:37 Different mediums
1:18:36 Working on personal projects
1:21:30 Easiest vs hardest shows to storyboard
1:25:13 Managing eccentric characters
1:27:01 Voice acting
1:52:39 Outro

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