VALENCIA SPATES | CREATIVE BLOCK
Welcome to Creative Block!
In this episode, we're chatting with Valencia Spates. Valencia is a storyboard artist and revisionist who has worked on shows like Inside Job, TrollsTopia, and the upcoming Tiny Toons Looniversity.
Along the way, we chat about breaking into the industry, the importance of a support network, staying motivated and more!
While we talk, we doodle on a Google jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on Twitter. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!
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Editing by Clemence Briat ► / clem_n_m
Produced by Malik Gayle ► / malikgayle
Theme song by Louie Zong ► / everydaylouie
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TIMESTAMPS!
0:00 Intro
3:09 James Baxter
10:46 Breaking into the industry
23:24 Staying motivated
36:53 Getting to Warner Brothers
48:02 Support network
50:17 Being a revisionist
59:51 Expectations vs reality in studios
1:03:09 Navigating different jobs
1:13:26 Parents, childhood, learning to draw
1:18:32 Inspiration for animation
1:24:11 Reading manga and comics
1:35:24 Creative Block
1:46:12 Outro