Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is SAGE COTUGNO! Sage is a writer, story board artist, and director for shows like The Owl House, Star Vs., and Gravity Falls Their new graphic novel, The Glass Scientist, is available now for pre-order!

Along the way, Vee and Sean chat with SAGE about INTERNING AT PIXAR, MOURING DEAD PITCHES, EXHAUSTED WORKER CHIC, 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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0:00 Intro
1:05 Supervising director
24:11 Decision making
36:37 The Glass Scientist
1:03:46 Working few late nights
1:26:34 Development
1:48:23 Doing things differently
2:03:53 Haters
2:06:38 Shows
2:10:45 Fav storyboard
2:13:13 Fav part of writing Glass Scientist
2:14:49 Process of writing a character
2:16:44 Creative block

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