Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is STEPHEN NEARY! Stephen is the creator and executive producer of The Fungies! He was a Supervising Producer on Clarence. Feature story artist on Ice Age 3 and a bunch of Blue Sky movies. For the past year, he has been boarding on features in production and development for Annapurna Pictures, Netflix, Illumination, and Sony. He is currently teaching at CalArts!

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with STEPHEN about WORKING ON PITCHES ON THE TRAIN, BALANCING WORK AND PERSONAL PROJECTS, SHOW INTROS, 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
Reels/Shorts by Ebuka.PNG ► https://www.instagram.com/ebuka_0foma
Theme song by Louie Zong ► https://twitter.com/everydaylouie

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0:00 Intro
15:46 Pitching
31:36 Reconciling with art
44:59 Process of creating
51:52 Advice about perfection
58:12 Advice to young artists
1:06:23 Confidence
1:09:08 Industry advice
1:10:19 Wonderpets
1:17:52 Creative block

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