Befriending animators, 24 questions at a time. The Animator’s Friend is hosted by India Lombardi-Bello, an animation educator at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In this new series, India creates a platform where animators get to talk about themselves outside the context of their work. A questionnaire format, inspired by the 24 frames per second of animation, allows for lighthearted and unexpected conversation.
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Befriending animators, 24 questions at a time. The Animator’s Friend is hosted by India Lombardi-Bello, an animation educator at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In this new series, India creates a platform where animators get to talk about themselves outside the context of their work. A questionnaire format, inspired by the 24 frames per second of animation, allows for lighthearted and unexpected conversation.
TAF at the Annecy International Animation Festival 2025!
The Animator’s Friend
1 hour 5 minutes 22 seconds
5 months ago
TAF at the Annecy International Animation Festival 2025!
We are live-to-tape at the 2025 Annecy International Animation Festival! Take a pew with me and my friend Barnaby Catterall (who I met at Annecy 8 years ago!) as we chat with Animation Talent Picnic attendees about how well they tan, what animal would play them in a Better Man type biopic of their life, and what they have or have not yet seen at the festival this year.
Links to points of discussion:
Barnaby's website
Barnaby's Instagram
Annecy International Animation Festival
Arco
Layer Explorer podcast on Youtube
The Animator's Animations
Alberto Allegri Rodriguez's website
Alberto Allegri Rogdriguez's Instagram
Potlems on Short of the Week
Mikkel Mainz on Instagram
Skjaldborn Studios
Tales of Alethrion on Youtube
Dragon Striker
Kfir Ben-Dov's website
Lee-Yam Naaman's website
Lee-Yam Naaman's Instagram
Mononoke The Movie
The Animation Workshop
Pedro Martins Twitch
Hlin on Instagram
Melissa Raymond Lund's website
Royal College of Art
The Animator's Friend on Instagram
The Animator's Friend is hosted by India Lombardi-Bello, an animation educator at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In this new series, India creates a platform where animators get to talk about themselves outside the context of their work. A questionnaire format, inspired by the 24 frames per second of animation, allows for lighthearted and unexpected conversation.
Credits:
Recorded and edited by India Lombardi-Bello
Co-host Barnaby Catterall
Produced in part with facilities provided by SVA MFA Computer Arts
Travel support provided by Annecy International Animation Festival and SVA MFA Computer Arts
Music by Cloutmeyer
Design by Sawyer Rippon
Special thanks to Cynthia Chu; Brent Sievers; Ash Suh; Tracy Liu; my mom and dad Lisa Lombardi-Bello and Mick Bello; Barnaby's mom and dad; Darren Santa Maria.
The Animator’s Friend
Befriending animators, 24 questions at a time. The Animator’s Friend is hosted by India Lombardi-Bello, an animation educator at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In this new series, India creates a platform where animators get to talk about themselves outside the context of their work. A questionnaire format, inspired by the 24 frames per second of animation, allows for lighthearted and unexpected conversation.
