Flipped Podcast #11: Aidan Hickey

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. Enjoy! Subscribe here in iTunes Download episode (right/ctrl click)  Facebook page  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 https://www.greenacres.ie 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. We hope you enjoy the podcast - let us know what you think at flippedpodcast(at)gmail.com or contact us on our facebook page Flipped was produced by Aidan McAteer & Megan McMahon, edited by Aidan McAteer and Megan McMahon and featured music from www.royaltyfreemusiclibrary.com www.flippedpodcast.com