RubberOnion Animation Podcast

Stephen Brooks

This show is about everything animation: weekly news stories, reviews, interviews with professionals and indie creators, etc. We also have fan-art contests, play trivia, do character skits and a ton of other community interaction... because entertainment! I'm Stephen Brooks and I run Rubber Onion, a boutique studio that creates hand-drawn animation, and am the author of 'Tradigital Animate CC: 12 Principles of Animation in Adobe Animate.' My best friend and fellow animator, Rob Yulfo, joins me for this weekly podcast. Imagine going out for drinks with a group of animators after work and merge that with a variety show which has some educational segments... that's the RubberOnion Animation Podcast. Enjoy and say Hi!

  • 2 hours 24 minutes
    297 Harold and Kumar Go to Purple Castle

    Another month, another episode! Earthquakes! Technical problems! Things on fire! Train horns! Puppy sounds! All the things that make a great show. And this episode's banner comes courtesy of Rob this time... really had his work cut out for him.

    Timestamps:

    • 5:15 HOW YOU DOIN'

    • 11:54 X-Men '97

    • 41:33 A Spider Within

    • 1:02:05 TRAILER TALK

      • 1:02:35 Harold and the Purple Crayon

      • 1:22:52 Garfield

    • 1:29:14 A.I. WATCH

      • 1:29:31 Qianqui Shisong, Chinese Show Made with A.I.

      • 1:53:59 Late Night with the Devil A.I. images

    • 2:20:58 OUTRO

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    24 April 2024, 4:41 pm
  • 2 hours 31 minutes
    296 Wile E Coyote Ugly

    The big story this episode is obviously Coyote vs Acme but rather than just talk about how much of a bummer this all is we try to wrap our heads around the why of it all. We also start a new segment called "A.I. Watch" which I'm sure will be a regular thing as we check in on what's going on with all that. There's also a bunch of what we're calling "body sounds"... it's painfully make sense. Enjoy!

    Timestamps:
    • 4:33 ........... How You Doin
    • 10:21 .......... Animation News of the Week...
    • 11:08 .......... Annies
    • 23:53 ......... Coyote vs Acme
    • 1:35:33 ....... A.I. Watch
    • 2:12:34 ....... RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • 2:28:20 ...... Recommended Reading

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    13 March 2024, 11:00 am
  • 2 hours 52 minutes
    295 10 Year Anniversary
    Had a great time celebrating and chatting about the last 10 years of us doing this little ol' podcast on a live show with Patrons in chat... sampling many bourbons and rye in our collection. The actual anniversary is Oct 19th and we did in fact record on this day! I put timestamps down for this one since it's a three-hour show to make it easier to move about the episode but if you want the true experience just listen to it straight through and listen to Rob and my speech get slower and slurrier as the episode goes on, it's a delight. Cheers to 10 years!   Timestamps:
    • 9:14.......... How did this all start
    • 22:28....... Our favorite episode titles
    • 41:23........ The first year of the podcast
    • 57:53....... "The Hundreds"
    • 1:05:21...... Our favorite segments
    • 1:15:33...... Failed and dropped bits
    • 1:40:58..... 2017
    • 2:03:30..... Episode count by year
    • 2:05:29..... Wishlist and future plans
    • 2:11:44....... Hot cocoa shows
    • 2:28:10...... Production of the show
    • 2:43:51...... Chat
    • 2:51:15....... Outro

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    7 February 2024, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    294 Morning Zoom
    Second day in a row of new podcast episode! We talk about the overlooked beginning of VFX Unions, Vivienne Medrano's Amazon Prime debut with "Hazbin Hotel," and of course the upcoming Procreate Dreams.

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    10 January 2024, 3:00 pm
  • 1 hour 18 minutes
    293 Tiny Mermaid

    Tiny Toons Looniversity and The Little Mermaid 2023. We didn't like either one of them. But it's a fun listen anyway!

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    9 January 2024, 10:24 pm
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    292 TMNT Mutant Mayhem Review
    The time has come. We review a new TMNT movie! This is a clean review with spoilers saved for the end of the show. Obviously we talk about the story, style, acting and animation... but we also address the comparisons to Spider-Verse and more importantly what this all means for the future of animation as we see it today. Enjoy!

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    9 August 2023, 12:22 pm
  • 1 hour 54 minutes
    291 Summer Ketchup

    There is so much going on in the industry right now that we couldn't just stick to one topic because everything is pretty tangled up. So while we do bring up things like the AI open credits of Secret Invasion, the movie Nimona, the series reboot/new season of Clone High, Mushka and I'm Hip animated shorts from Disney vets, and other stories... we also thread it with discussions on the current strike (recorded before SAG-AFTRA made theirs official), state of streaming and jobs, what is happening to theater attendance, and also a bunch of other things.

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    19 July 2023, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 51 minutes
    290 Across the Spider-Verse Review
    This is a perfectly PG review with no spoilers that aren't in trailers. We mostly talk about story competence and satisfaction and of course the style and animation. Enjoy! (and then go see it for yourself if you haven't already!)

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    22 June 2023, 9:00 pm
  • 2 hours 14 minutes
    289 A.I.n't I a Stinker
      Alternate title of this episode is "A.I... or won't I?" Coudn't decide. This was obviously recorded a few months ago and many things have happened since then but the conversation still remains. There's a lot of threats out there constantly to not just our career but many careers, and the current one centers around deep/machine learning tech known as A.I.    We have as open a conversation as we can about it but are simpathetic to whomever is directly affected. It's important that we support each other in this industry while staying realistic about what's coming. There's a path here that might not resolve itself until later but that's one of the things we try to think about. Hope you enjoy this conversation we have about it as we do it in our own often silly way, but would love to hear what you have to think about it as well in the comments. See you there! 

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    28 April 2023, 1:59 pm
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    288 Career Road Block
    The topic for this episode came from a Facebook post I made asking for topics:  Could you talk about doubts in this career path, I've had a bit of a career related dilemma because I thought I'd hit some really good milestones recently... and I've only recently found out about rigging and the fact that it's a whole new skill set required for industry. Also I've been using Animate for years rather than Toonboom. These two revelations have really disheartened me from this career path, and I was wondering if you guys had any advice? Do you have any tips about what would make the mountainous stuff we need to learn as animators a little less overwhelming? We have plenty of thoughts! Figure this was a good episode to close out the year on.   Are there any topics you would like use to cover on the shows in 2023?

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    29 December 2022, 5:15 pm
  • 1 hour 42 minutes
    287 Budget Man and Intern Boy

    An episode recorded in early August and released in late November? You betcha! We have a classic variety episode with Trailer Talk and Animation News AND Rapid Fire, the theme really seems to be... "it's all bad." Enjoy!

    Timestamps:
    • 5:45 ------  How You Doin?
    • 19:57 ----- TRAILER TALK
      • 20:45 "Pantheon"
      • 34:00 "Slippin Jimmy"
      • 47:40 "Little Demon"
    • 43:28 ----- ANIMATION NEWS
      • 58:08 "Marvel VFX Artists' Issues"
      • 1:12:30 "Popeye Animatic Leak:
      • 1:25:23 "Mike Moon Leaves Netflix"
    • 1:33:13 --- RAPID FIRE!!!!

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    21 November 2022, 3:03 pm
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