Episode 10 features a chat with people instrumental in getting ViV off the ground, discussing what progress has been made and what still needs to be done.

Panel:

• Bimpe Alliu – VFX Concept Artist
• Mohamed Orekan – Animator
• Paula Poveda-Urrutia – Line Producer
• Tanya J Scott – Art Director

Chair: Hodan Abdi

This panel was recorded in May 2021.

Illustration by Mohamed Orekan

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Join Steff Lee as she chairs an informative and enlightening discussion on what it is like to be a parent working in animation. The conversation includes a range of topics including how they coped as new parents, the balance between work and family life and how the industry responds to parenthood.
This panel is a diverse range of parents with children of varying ages.

Panelists:

• Emma Fernando – Series Producer at CN
• Jim le Fevre – Freelance director and educator
• Evgenia Golubeva and Myles McLeod – creators, writers and series directors.
• Robert Nelson – storyboard artist at Blue Zoo
• Marcia Rojas – 2D clean-up artist, animator and designer
• Rachel Thorn – 2D animator and animation designer

Chaired by Steff Lee
Illustration by Marcia Rojas

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Join the second Women’s panel with animation professionals with over 50 years of experience between them. They discuss their experiences with inclusion, struggles women face in the workplace, and ideal working environments.

Panelists:

• Rebecca Warner-Perry – Line Producer at Illuminated Films
• Lauren Orme – Animator/Creative Director Picl Animation/Festival director CAF
• Helen Piercy – Animation Lecturer NUA Animation & VFX
• Beth B Hughes – Animation Series Director
• Jane Davies – Director at Aardman Animations

Panel organised by Tanya J Scott and Hodan Abdi.
Chaired by Hodan Abdi
Illustration by Jane Davies

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How can we look after our own mental health while working in the industry and how seriously is the crisis being taken by studios? Our panelists discuss the realities of taking care of yourself while working in a competitive and often stressful industry, and how we can improve our understanding of mental health at work.

Panelists:

• Evgenia Golubeva – Director
• Steff Lee – Co-owner of Kino Bino Studio
• Sarah McCaffrey – Psychotherapist
• Ben Mitchell – Skwigly Magazine/independent Filmmaker
• Mohamed Orekan – Animator

Chaired by Tanya J Scott
Illustration by Evgenia Golubeva

Discussion points and suggested further reading/viewing/resources:

• Visible in Visuals: Mental Health in Animation – Support Document
• Mental Health Foundation
• The TV Mindset
• Solas Mind Resources List
• Life After Pi (Documentary)
• ScreenSkills – Mental Health Report
• Film + TV Charity – Mental Health Community
• Cartoon Brew – Toxic Labor Practices
• Variety – UK Film & TV Industry Faces Mental Health Crisis
• Skwigly – Review: Happy Happy Joy Joy

To get in touch with – or learn more about – Visible In Visuals you can follow them on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and email visibleinvisuals {at} gmail.com

Produced and edited by Tanya Scott and Ben Mitchell

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Skwigly are proud to present the sixth panel from Visible In Visuals, an organisation pushing to make the animation and VFX industries more diverse and inclusive through honest, open conversation.

Join a panel of female animation professionals based in the UK and Ireland as they discuss their experiences and thoughts on working in a creative industry as women in an industry which has been dominated by men for so long.

Panelists:

• Gaïa Lamiot – Director/Storyboarder
• Steff Lee – Creative Director of Kino Bino
• Christine Peters – Lead Animator
• Paula Poveda-Urrutia – Line Producer
• Narissa Schander – FX Supervisor

Panel organised by Hodan Abdi and co-chaired by Tanya J Scott

To get in touch with – or learn more about – Visible In Visuals you can follow them on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and email visibleinvisuals {at} gmail.com

Artwork by Gaïa Lamiot from the animated short Spikes (She Drew That/Strange Beast)

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Join a panel of LGBTQ+ Animation professionals as they discuss inclusion and diversity in animation from their perspective. Many LGBTQ+ and gender issues are misunderstood in the workplace, so how can we improve our creative spaces and make them safe and inviting to everyone?

This panel was recorded in October 2020

Panelists:
Ash Hawkins- 3D VFX Animator
Kat Seale – Character Animator
Hamish Steele – Showrunner and creator of Deadendia/Comic creator
Nathan Wilkes- Creative Brand Manager for Alphablocks and Numberblocks

Panel organised and chaired by: Ash J Wu

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How do you find a job in animation and VFX? Where do you find the resources or information you need? In this discussion that took place as part of last month’s Cardiff Animation Festival, a diverse panel of creatives working across different roles in animation discuss and answer questions focusing on routes into different careers in animation and advice for those looking to get into the industry.

Panel: Bimpe Alliu (VFX Concept Artist), Paula Poveda-Urrutia (Line Producer), Zoran Jankovic (Animation Director), Tanya J Scott (Art Director), Jamie Iles (Storyboard Artist) and Praveen Zacharias (Toon Boom Rigger).
Host/Moderator: Hodan Abdi

To get in touch with – or learn more about – Visible In Visuals you can follow them on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and email visibleinvisuals {at} gmail.com

Presented by Lauren Orme
Produced and edited by Ben Mitchell
Artwork by Becky Peel (courtesy of Cardiff Animation Festival)

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Join a panel of animation professionals from multiple disciplines as they discuss how Brexit will impact their funding, employment, and creative process. From the film exhibition perspective to life as a European freelance animator working in the UK, we cover a multitude of issues and hear their experiences and expectations for our new future outside of the EU.

Panel: Rita Sampaio, Tom Box, Steve Henderson, Joseph Wallace and Rebecca Warner-Perry.
Chair: Tanya Scott

Suggested further reading and resources

To get in touch with – or learn more about – Visible In Visuals you can follow them on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and email visibleinvisuals {at} gmail.com

Produced and edited by Tanya Scott and Ben Mitchell

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Following on from episode one – Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace: A People of Colour Perspective, the second Visible in Visuals panel poses the question “Why is fair and diverse representation within animation important and how can we improve it?”

In this panel, representation within animation content – and how these representations impact the audience watching it – is discussed from a POC perspective.

Panel: Esther Ajibade, Bimpe Alliu, Mel Garber, Mohamed Orekan, Rizwan Rafiq, Tanya J Scott, Ash Wu and Beverly Yeang
Chair: Hodan Abdi

To get in touch with – or learn more about – Visible In Visuals you can follow them on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and email visibleinvisuals {at} gmail.com

Produced and edited by Tanya Scott and Ben Mitchell

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Following on from animator Tanya Scott‘s Skwigly article Inclusion & Diversity in UK Animation Workforce: A Response and subsequent online discussions, the first Visible in Visuals panel focuses on workplace diversity and inclusion from the varying perspectives of panelists Bimpe Alliu, Mohamed Orekan, Rizwan Rafiq and Tanya Scott. Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace: A People of Colour Perspective is moderated by Hodan Abdi.

To get in touch with – or learn more about – Visible In Visuals you can follow them on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and email visibleinvisuals {at} gmail.com

Produced and edited by Tanya Scott and Ben Mitchell

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