Welcome to Episode 11 of Flipped with Aidan Hickey - animator, writer, director, teacher and painter.
Aidan began working in animation in the mid-seventies for RTE and his works forms the bedrock of the Irish animation industry. He had made several award-winning short films, written and produced many hours of children's television and also written several feature length projects. Until recently served as Ireland's representative on the European animation body, Cartoon.
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Podcast Contents
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:47 - Podcast Starts
00:02:00 - Transitioning from Painting to Film
00:02:45 - Hornsey College of art in London
00:05:00 - Meeting with Éamon de Buitléir
00:06:30 - First Series for RTE
00:08:39 - Writing and Story Development
00:08:50 - Process for RTE
00:10:20 - McSpuds,Bosco and Beyond!
00:13:00 - Painting comes in handy when...
00:17:08 - RTE process
00:28:36 - Annecy
00:29:00 - An Inside Job
00:34:00 - CARTOON and Jimmy Murikami
00:37:00 - Standardising
00:39:00 - Seven Deadly Sins and overseas collaboration
00:45:00 - the 90's
00:47:00 - Writing
00:53:00 - Screen Training Ireland
00:58:00 - Bob Godfrey and John Hallas
01:00:00 - Brown Bag
01:03:00 - The Boy Who Had No Story
01:10:00 - Dermot and Gráinne feature treatment
01:16:00 - Jimmy Murikami
01:23:00 - End of Cartoon involvement
01:25:00 - Painting and Green Acres Gallery
References
Animation Art Show
http://www.animationartshow.com/
Green Acres Gallery
Screen Training Ireland
https://www.screentrainingireland.ie/index.cfm?fuseaction=main
"Däumelinchen" by Lotte Reiniger
McSpuds
Bosco animated
An Inside Job, 1987
The Boy Who Had No Story, 2003
Really huge thanks to Aidan for taking the time to talk to us.
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Flipped was produced by Aidan McAteer & Megan McMahon, edited by Aidan McAteer and Megan McMahon and featured music from www.royaltyfreemusiclibrary.com
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