Episode 40: Sean Glaze On How Get Paid To Make Ridiculous, Adult-Themed Shorts From Your Living Room

This episode of the Animation Industry Podcast features Sean Glaze (otherwise known as Lord Spew on the internet). He shares how he lands gigs at Adult Swim, Cartuna, and more. You’ll also learn: *How he ended up storyboarding on Teen Titan Go! *The 3 career benefits of developing your own style in your spare time *5 ways to make your animations catch your audience off guard (in a good and bad way) ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by Bloop Animation, which is an animation learning platform packed with premium online video courses for aspiring animation filmmakers. They have courses for all major animation programs like Maya, Animate CC, Toon Boom, Blender, TVPaint, and many others, as well as some non-software courses like a storyboarding course, Animation foundations course, and even one about making graphic novels, which covers absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish. The courses are all in video-form, so there’s no deadlines or application process, you simply pick a course and start learning in seconds. They even offer a free ebook titled “Making an animated short”, which covers their entire process, step-by-step, of how they made one of their films, from coming up with the idea, to storyboarding, animation and all the way to exporting the film. You can get that book for free at https://www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry. You can check out their complete course library at https://www.bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: https://www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: https://www.bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about Sean Glaze: Sean Glaze (or Lord Spew on the internet) is a Los Angeles-based 2-D animation Generalist who makes his own unique brand of raunchy, hyper, ‘guilty pleasure" cartoons using his all-in-one production team skillset. He specializes in writing, directing, voice acting, storyboarding, designing, animating, composing, sound designing, and editing his own shorts, which are released across social media as well as television. Sean currently storyboards on "Teen Titans Go" and has worked on storyboarding, writing, and animating for networks like Warner Bros, Netflix, Disney XD, Amazon, FOX, Comedy Central, Viceland, Cartoon Network, and Adult Swim. Sean has also Art Directed/created the main style of an Adult Swim pilot called "Chuck Deuce" with Shadow Machine. He continues to develop and pitch shows and web content frequently. But the main thing that ties his body of work together is his desire to add humor to every step of the process. As he says, it can always get funnier! Sean’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/LordSpew Sean’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lordspew/ Sean’s website: https://lordspew.com/ Sean’s email: fistheadglaze[at]gmail.com