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Steve Umbleby is a long-time friend of mine and a frequent collaborator. In pursuit of his dream of working as an animation storyboard artist, he moved to Los Angeles and got a job in the industry three weeks later.

Steve shares his story and we reflect on the history of our friendship.
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Steve Galgas is a long-time friend who, like me, is interested in almost everything.  He is a great concept artist and illustrator.  His currently-on-hiatus webcomic “Mr. Grant” is gorgeous.

He has worked for Pixar, Liquid! and now he works for a great young social games company known as Playfish.

Steve and I discuss his career (including some of the goings-on behind the scenes at Pixar), sustainability in web content like webcomics and animated webseries and we engage in some fresh discussion the relationship between traditional hand-drawn and CG animation.
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