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This one has a bit of a slow start (some heavy editing helped quite a bit) but it has a big finish: How I avoid burnout. I explore every possible creative block that I can think of and provide some practical advice for how to stay focused and fruitful during creative droughts.

Also: I talk about the NEW ChrisOatley.com which will be launching very soon and I make an apology for an insensitive comment I made in Episode #47.

PLUS: A new song from Storybook Steve.
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As you might guess, I find myself giving portfolio and career advice to animation industry hopefuls all the time.

There’s always a list of questions about the objective aspects of the portfolio like page count, layout, type of book, captions and the location of a homemade mediocre logo but none of that really matters… …not if the art is good enough to get the artist hired.
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I did the title card painting for a new Disney Fairies short called No Croakin’ Around.

We were attempting to blend the classic art deco look of the title cards for many classic cartoons (Disney, WB, UPA, MGM etc…) with our Fairies style and I am very pleased with the result.

You can watch the short here.

Line Art by Ritsuko Notani. Art Direction by Fred Warter. Directed by Arturo Hernandez.

Disney has released three exciting Fairies-related videos as a promotion for our upcoming release: Tinker Bell and The Great Fairy Rescue (available on DVD and BluRay September 21st).

You can now watch 8 minutes of the film, a new trailer (newer than the one that was released on the Alice In Wonderland DVD/ BluRay).

In the 8 minute segment, you can see a few of the props and pieces of the set that I worked on. I worked on all of the porcelain fairy figurines in the scene but the one featured in the painting above is my favorite.

I will go into more detail about my contributions to The Great Fairy Rescue when I record my audio commentary as an episode of my podcast sometime in September.