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


• Sun Creature Studio


• Skjaldborn Studios


• Tales of Alethrion on Youtube


• ChaO


• Dragon Striker


• Hoj


• 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 Animation MA


• The Animator's Favorites


• 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.