Episode 49: Ross Plaskow

Animalators

Ross Plaskow, is a freelance animator and creator of Meat Mysteries. Having worked with the likes of Google, Target, Disney XD, Hulu, and Facebook, he told us a little bit more about his university beginnings, falling into freelance and the London animation scene.

Links:

Website - www.rossplaskow.com

Twitter - www.twitter.com/rossplaskow

Instagram - /www.instagram.com/rossplaskow/

Meat Mysteries - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC0O6WtmY8A

Animade - https://animade.tv/

Greg Gunn - https://www.ggunn.com/

Art&Graft - https://artandgraft.com/

Moth - https://www.moth.studio/

Claudio Salas - http://www.claudiosalas.com/

Pencil Bandit - https://pencilbandit.com/

Ransomniac - https://twitter.com/RansomniacToons?lang=en

Bouncy Smash - http://bouncysmash.com/

Notes:

-Meat Mysteries

-After Effects

-Passion projects while freelancing

-Architecture school

-Changing course

-2D

-Looking for work out of school

-Learning how to animate 3D characters

-Studying in Denmark

-Freelance from a tweet

-Greg Gunn

-Freelance Anxiety

-Freelancing in London

-Moth Animation Studio

-Art&Graft

-Forming professional relationships

-The London animation scene

-Twitter

-Illustrator

-Claudio Salas

-Advice for new freelancers

-Working out the type of work that you want to do

-Animade

-Lessons learned

-Interacting with people face to face

-Working out of studios

-Burnout

-Two freelance jobs at the same time

-Dedication to a job

-Character animation

-Tweening

-Background artists for Meat Mysteries

-Meat Mysteries release

-Pros and Cons of being the creator of Meat Mysteries

-Dream Client: Moth

-Favorite Animated Film: Akira

-Favorite Animated Series: Rick and Morty

-What do the people you love think you do for a living?: Draw cartoons in newspapers.

-Animalator: Shark Man