EPISODE 155: CHASE CONLEY

Creative Block

Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is CHASE CONLEY! Chase is director, storyboard artist, writer, and character designer. He is currently a director on X-men '97. Previous work includes: director on Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeast, 2D Advertisement designer on Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and storyboards artist on Sonic 2!

Along the way, VEE and SEAN chat with CHASE about DEVIANTART COMMENT MAKING HIM RETHINK HIS STYLE, GETTING HIS START IN BLACK DYNAMITE, NOT TRYING TO BE CAPTAIN SAVE A SHOW, and so much more!

While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!

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Editing by Clemence Briat ► https://twitter.com/clem_n_m

Produced by Marco Beltran ► https://twitter.com/orcsocks

Reels/Shorts by Ebuka.PNG ► https://www.instagram.com/ebuka_0foma

Theme song by Louie Zong ► https://twitter.com/everydaylouie

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0:00 Intro

00:50 Entry point to industry

12:24 Switching projects

45:30 Personal projects

1:15:23 Assistant directors

1:22:46 Kipo

1:25:52 Cool hero/villains

1:27:48 Fundamentals to art style

1:34:22 Creative hobbies and creative block