Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is the duo behind TITANIUM DAYDREAM, Ben Crouse and Jacob Sluka! Ben was a staff writer on StuGo and storyboard artist on Pickle and Peanut. Jacob is a background painter and story artist, and is the animator for Titanium Daydream. Titanium Daydream is a supernatural, low-poly mystery centered around Benjamin Jacobs, who is called back to his home town in Iowa by an unknown force.
In this episode, VEE and SEAN talk to BEN and JACOB about HORSES, EVERY 3D ASSET IS MADE FROM SCRATCH, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EASTER EGGS, and so much more.
While we talk, we doodle on a MAGMA, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, NEWGROUNDS, 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
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0:00 Horse Talk
5:30 Starting Titanium Daydream
6:50 Making 3D assets from scratch
12:58 Time Between ideation and first episode
14:15 Episode Premises
17:57 What explorer would you compare yourself to?
19:07 Origins of “Benjamin Jacobs” + Easter Eggs
24:28 Anytime I can avoid storyboarding is a win
26:00 A window into their past!
34:57 Casting Voice Actors
44:29 Baywatch Nights
46:26 Shipping
52:37 Don’t be afraid to be Cheesy
1:00:52 Twenty-five minutes of silent drawing
