Episode 173: Brent Forrest On How He Created Samurai Frog Golf With Marza Animation

This chat features Brent Forrest who has worked as a special effects animator, storyboard artist, director, and is currently a Technical Director at Marza Animation Planet Inc. in Japan. Forrest shares how he created the concept for his short film Samurai Frog Golf, pitched it to Marza, and then worked with them to get funding and produce the full short. Samurai Frog Golf will premiere at SIGGRAPH on August 8th in Vancouver and at The Virtual Electronic Theater (For those who can't be there in person) on August 9th. The public release will be September 15th launching simultaneously on CgBros, CgMeetup and the Marza Youtube Channel. Please note: Marza doesn’t take unsolicited pitches Tune in to Ibele and Brent to hear: *The marketing plan Marza is executing to sell Samurai Frog Golf into a series *Forrest’s move from Canada to Japan and what it’s like working for a major studio there *The unique way Marza and Forrest received funding for Samurai Frog Golf Social Links: *Learn more about Samurai Frog Golf: https://marza.com/SFG *Send your questions to SFG [@] marza.com *Get tickets for the Virtual Electronic Theater! : https://register.rcsreg.com/r2/sigg2022/ga/top.html *Check out David Bull and the Mokuhankan print shop https://mokuhankan.com/ Check out SGF’s composer, David Arcus: https://davidarcus.com