EPISODE 227: RYAN GILLIS

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is RYAN GILLIS! Ryan is a storyboard artist, director, and animator who also worked on Pickle and Peanut, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, and is the creator of StuGo!

In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to RYAN about DEVELOPING STUGO, PITCHING PROCESS, FEELING SAFE TO SAY YOUR WORST IDEA, and so much more.

While we talk, we doodle on a MAGMA, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, NEWGROUNDS, 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

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0:00 INTRO INSPIRATION

2:07 DEVELOPING STUGO

6:53 OVERALL (NOT THE PANTS) DEAL

9:06 PALM ROT SHORT

16:16 INSPIRATIONS FOR STUGO (RIP Manolo)

18:26 WRITING TIP

27:03 THAT STUGO STYLE

37:16 INTENTIONAL SANDBOX

41:58 PITCHING PROCESS/A TREAT FOR THE SLIDE/NUMBER FREAKS

48:22 FEELING SAFE TO SAY YOUR WORST IDEA/PICKLE AND PEANUT

1:00:03 STORY MATH