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
• 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.