ZH8: Naomi Wiener - Artist, Illustrator, Stop Motion Fabricator ZEIT HEIST

Naomi Wiener is a Portland-based artist, illustrator and professional fabricator who has built models, set pieces and characters on stop motion animation projects for Adult Swim (The Shivering Truth), Laika Studios and Netflix, including Guillermo Del Toro's Oscar-winning Pinocchio (2022).




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See more of her portfolio at https://www.naomiwiener.com/




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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro titles & how we met

0:45 Drawing origins & being inspired by cartoons

2:06 Influences: King of the Hill, Studio Ghibli

6:10 Getting into Model Making & Sculpture

7:35 Interest in Stopmotion Animation

10:50 From Creative Passion to Career

12:58 Art School for Animation

17:09 Resurgence of Stop Motion

23:27 Loving Cinema & Influential Films

26:35 Comedic timing & animating at school

28:47 Screenwriting & Story

30:06 Getting hired for an Adult Swim project

34:56 Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio

39:49 Sculpting from Sketch references and Storyboards

43:45 Laika’s filmmaking process

46:31 What do you hope to work on in the future?

48:50 Naomi’s 2D work, Illustrations & Paintings

52:24 What Directors would you love to work with?

55:50 Materials used for stop motion puppets & working with scale


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