Episode 45: Animator Erik Goulet And How He Founded The First Stop Motion Film Festival In The World

This episode of the Animation Industry Podcast features Stop Motion Animator and Professor, Erik Goulet who shares how he founded the first stop motion film festival in the world. You’ll also learn: *What will make your stop motion film stand out (Erik has seen hundreds!) *A brief overview of what’s been fueling the stop motion industry these last few decades *Erik’s 3-phase master plan to build up the stop motion industry in Montreal ~[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 www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry. You can check out their complete course library at www.bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: www.bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about Erik Goulet: Erik Goulet has been active in the film industry since 1990. Since then he’s worked for several Montreal production companies before joining Softimage as a 3D product specialist from 1998 to 2008. He currently teaches stop motion animation at Concordia University, the same university from which he also graduated himself, in animation. His passion for stop motion techniques pushed him to create the world's first stop motion film festival in 2009; the Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival (now known as Festival Stop Motion Montreal). Erik has also been constructing armatures since 1988 and his diverse expertise, ranging from armature construction to animation, has made him a stop motion staple in Montreal. Get in touch with Erik by visiting http://www.stopmotionmontreal.com/ Learn more about this podcast at: https://terryibele.com/animation-industry-podcast/