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Heath Kenny

Animation Industry Podcast

The Nick Dorra Show

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This episode features animator, writer, producer, development executive and currently the Chief Content Officer at Ottawa-based Mercury Filmworks, Heath Kenny. His current role at Mercury sees him managing the development team and heads up their content strategy, but in the past he’s worked on projects like Robot Boy, the Gorillaz music videos, and Noddy Toyland Detective. In our chat he’s going to share his journey from New Zealand to Canada as well as exactly how to make the leap from maker to manager.You’ll also learn:*3 helpful questions you can ask yourself if you feel stuck in your career*What Heath did to get into the industry at a time when there wasn’t much of an industry*How Heath evaluates pivotal decisions to choose the best path career-wise~[Sponsored Message]~This episode is sponsored by Cloud Stop Motion who've created possibly the easiest way to start animating from your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop in seconds. Simply go to www.cloudstopmotion.com and click "start animating". Their software works in any modern browser and your files are instantly saved to the cloud. The best part is that they are completely free to use up to 500mb of storage, which is actually quite a lot. They're especially useful if you're teaching a class since you can create an organization account which comes with 2GB of free storage as standard, and allows the creation of unlimited student groups and profiles, all of whose projects and work you can view for yourself from your admin account. ​Go to www.cloudstopmotion.com to see how easy it is to get started now.~Check out Heath's plastic cup hotel animation: https://youtu.be/ZaV0rWxnPtQ

This episode features animator, writer, producer, development executive and currently the Chief Content Officer at Ottawa-based Mercury Filmworks, Heath Kenny. His current role at Mercury sees him managing the development team and heads up their content strategy, but in the past he’s worked on projects like Robot Boy, the Gorillaz music videos, and Noddy Toyland Detective. In our chat he’s going to share his journey from New Zealand to Canada as well as exactly how to make the leap from maker to manager. You’ll also learn: *3 helpful questions you can ask yourself if you feel stuck in your career *What Heath did to get into the industry at a time when there wasn’t much of an industry *How Heath evaluates pivotal decisions to choose the best path career-wise ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by Cloud Stop Motion who've created possibly the easiest way to start animating from your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop in seconds. Simply go to <a href="http://www.cloudstopmotion.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.cloudstopmotion.com</a> and click "start animating". Their software works in any modern browser and your files are instantly saved to the cloud. The best part is that they are completely free to use up to 500mb of storage, which is actually quite a lot. They're especially useful if you're teaching a class since you can create an organization account which comes with 2GB of free storage as standard, and allows the creation of unlimited student groups and profiles, all of whose projects and work you can view for yourself from your admin account. ​ Go to <a href="http://www.cloudstopmotion.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.cloudstopmotion.com</a> to see how easy it is to get started now. ~ Check out Heath's plastic cup hotel animation: <a href="https://youtu.be/ZaV0rWxnPtQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ZaV0rWxnPtQ</a>

Episode 154: Mercury Filmworks Chief Content Officer Heath Kenny & How To Leap From Maker To Manager

Starting from the ground up and with more than 20 years of experience in the animation biz, Heath is a creative executive with an extensive knowledge of animation production and the dark arts of developing a project from mind vomit into your next potential hit. After escaping the island of New Zealand, and a brief but industrious stop in the UK (he served as Animation Director on the Gorillaz music video "Dirty Harry," for example), Heath jumped ship to the land of stinky cheese and stripy tops, a.k.a. France. He took on the role of Co-Director for the second season of Cartoon Network's Robotboy. After spending eight years in France, Heath was promoted to VP of Creative Development at Gaumont Animation. In this role he drew on all his industry experience to provide a never-ending supply of creative solutions to even the stickiest of co-production needs. In this role he provided a link between France and the rest of the world with clients like DreamWorks, Disney, France Television, Tf1, RAI and Teletoon Canada and Netflix. After making the decision to go it alone as the founder of You and Eye Creative in 2017, Heath has set out to create a safe place to be creative and a creative place to do business.  Now as Chief Content Officer for Canada’s Mercury Filmworks he continues to prove that a French Kiwi is indeed a very rare bird.    This episode is kindly sponsored by CelAction, developers of CelAction2D, the 2D animation software used on some of the most successful series in the world, like Peppa Pig, Bluey and Mr. Bean.

Starting from the ground up and with more than 20 years of experience in the animation biz, Heath is a creative executive with an extensive knowledge of animation production and the dark arts of developing a project from mind vomit into your next potential hit. After escaping the island of New Zealand, and a brief but industrious stop in the UK (he served as Animation Director on the Gorillaz music video "Dirty Harry," for example), Heath jumped ship to the land of stinky cheese and stripy tops, a.k.a. France. He took on the role of Co-Director for the second season of Cartoon Network's Robotboy. After spending eight years in France, Heath was promoted to VP of Creative Development at Gaumont Animation. In this role he drew on all his industry experience to provide a never-ending supply of creative solutions to even the stickiest of co-production needs. In this role he provided a link between France and the rest of the world with clients like DreamWorks, Disney, France Television, Tf1, RAI and Teletoon Canada and Netflix. After making the decision to go it alone as the founder of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8U5ZCCaVv15oqgnagKMluw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">You and Eye Creative</a> in 2017, Heath has set out to create a safe place to be creative and a creative place to do business.  Now as Chief Content Officer for Canada’s <a href="https://mercuryfilmworks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mercury Filmworks</a> he continues to prove that a French Kiwi is indeed a very rare bird.  This episode is kindly sponsored by <a href="http://www.celaction.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CelAction</a>, developers of CelAction2D, the 2D animation software used on some of the most successful series in the world, like Peppa Pig, Bluey and Mr. Bean.