EPISODE 124: BILL MOTZ AND BOB ROTH

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guests are BILL MOTZ AND BOB ROTH! Bill and Bob are the creators of The Ghost and Molly McGee! They’ve both worked as writers, producers, story editors for many animated shows like Kim Possible, Xiaolin Showdown, and Darkwing Duck.

Along the way, we chat about GETTING THEIR START AT DISNEY TVA, PITCHING TO STUDIOS, WRITING TIPS, and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!

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WATCH THE GHOST AND MOLLY MCGEE!

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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

1:14 Realising writing for animation

5:55 Creative partners

9:00 Spec scripts

26:26 Writing TV vs feature

31:36 Agents

34:28 Pre animation jobs

40:41 The right time

58:14 Started pitching

1:10:56 The most fun in showr unning

1:25:30 Butting heads

1:31:04 Recommendation on writing stories

1:41:13 Writing optimistic characters

1:48:09 What not to do when writing animation