Watchcat Birthday!

This Watchcat Wednesday lands on Gregory J. Bradley's Birthday, Co-Creator of Watchcat!

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Last weekend was the 10th annual CTNX Animation Expo and even though we didn't have a table this year, we handed out lots of Watchcat post cards in hopes of gaining more viewers.

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On this Watchcat Wednesday you can hear some interesting stories  from the "3 Tooners", aka Tony 
Benedict, Jerry Eisenberg and Willie Ito. Three of the last remaining Animation artists from Hanna Barbera era.

Each one has his own story to tell and they have all have remained friends after all these years. 

Listen to the Ambassador Goodtime Ear Tango Radio hour to hear some great stories about working at Disney, Master Animator Iwao Takamoto, an Errand boy who became a famous actor, Drawing with both hands at the same time and many more...

Part 1 of the show will play from Tuesday, Nov 13th until Monday, Nov 19th. Part 2 begins on Tuesday, Nov 20th until Monday, Nov 26th. Tune in at 4pm or 10pm to WU Radio.

Its CTNX's 10th anniversary and you can visit it this weekend starting on Friday, Nov 15th! Here's how to attend.


And sadly, we say goodbye to Stan Lee who passed away at 95 on Monday.

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The "Ambassador Goodtime EarTango Radio hour" plays music and interviews based on a theme. New shows can be heard every Tuesday night and repeated every night at 10pm pdt thru WU Radio. All interviews will be posted to the new Animateducated YouTube channel for all to hear at a later date. Subscribe now and listen!

This week's interview is about David Dodd Hand, who was Walt Disney's right hand man. He later created his own animation studio in England and here's one about a cat.

There's a new YouTube channel Animateducated features an interview with Mindy Johnson about her new book, Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation.

Also listen to Animator and Producer, Jane Baer tell how she first got into Disney and started working on Sleeping Beauty.

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Watchcat at CTNX 2017

This year's CTN animation expo began with cool and sunny weather as I stopped by a table where I met a storyboard artist from Israel. During our conversation, another storyboard artist from Oregon approached the table. I said, "Wow, you are both storyboard people!" introducing them to each other. 

As things turned out, the person from Oregon followed the Israel artist's work and now, they were meeting for the first time in person. And that's what I love about the CTN animation expo, it really brings artists from all over the world together for one weekend.

So many people from the animation community attend this expo every November. And this year, we introduced our Watchcat postcards onto as many people we could meet. We also were looking for other animation artists to help us on future episodes.

Saturday was very crowded inside the massive white tent as people entered, some carrying their portfolios, others carrying their kids and some even had both. While there, I met 3 guys in a row, one was a animation teacher in Denmark, another guy from Scotland and the third was from Costa Rica. 

We walked around handing out postcards to people and

talking to artists about their work. Moments before calling it quits on Sunday, we decided to visit ToonBoom's booth

to find out more about the new version of Harmony. We ended up meeting someone who could direct us to a few studios that are looking for content, content like Watchcat. Cross your fingers for us.

In the meantime, work has begun on the next Watchcat Holiday episode. Storyboards are being revised and will be posted next Watchcat Wednesday.

Have a good and Happy Thanksgiving!

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