April 17, 2013
I was a guest on the latest episode of The Big Pull Podcast. My good buddy Kurt Mattila (director of the ATLA documentary Avatar Spirits, among many other great things) invited me to join him last week, along with my other good buddies Angela Marie Volpe and Giancarlo Volpe (ATLA director and Green Lantern: The Animated Series show runner), to discuss our top three episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, among many other topics, like being a show runner, Korra, and stuff. Lots of stuff, and more run-on sentences like the previous one. In fact, so many run-ons that Kurt had to split it into two parts.  Here’s the link to the first half of our conversation. And here’s a piece of fanart I did of my favorite character, Data. I’ll let you know as soon as Kurt posts Part II. It was a lot of fun, I hope you enjoy! Oh, and Mike was a guest on some earlier episodes (#10 & 11), so be sure to check those out too. P.S. Oh, and I forgot to mention that we also talk about Tumblring.

I was a guest on the latest episode of The Big Pull Podcast. My good buddy Kurt Mattila (director of the ATLA documentary Avatar Spirits, among many other great things) invited me to join him last week, along with my other good buddies Angela Marie Volpe and Giancarlo Volpe (ATLA director and Green Lantern: The Animated Series show runner), to discuss our top three episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, among many other topics, like being a show runner, Korra, and stuff. Lots of stuff, and more run-on sentences like the previous one. In fact, so many run-ons that Kurt had to split it into two parts. 

Here’s the link to the first half of our conversation. And here’s a piece of fanart I did of my favorite character, Data. I’ll let you know as soon as Kurt posts Part II. It was a lot of fun, I hope you enjoy! Oh, and Mike was a guest on some earlier episodes (#10 & 11), so be sure to check those out too.


P.S. Oh, and I forgot to mention that we also talk about Tumblring.

8:30pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZMz7zvixGtmu
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Filed under: the big pull podcast star trek: the next generation ST:TNG Kurt Mattila Angela Marie Volpe Giancarlo Volpe Bryan Konietzko lok the legend of korra Data fanart 
January 21, 2013

jagiv:

makos-lightningrod:

After the finale premiere and series wrap-up

Joaquim Dos Santos(Director): My wife just kept squeezing my hand tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter and she looked over at me and said “This is the best thing you’ve been a part of” and I couldn’t agree more.

Giancarlo Volpe(Storyboard Artist): I felt for a moment there I got to just be purely a fan. THEY DID IT! Mike and Bryan did it! And I’ll start crying. I really thought they pulled it off.

Seung-Hyun Oh(Storyboard Director): We (storyboard artists) miss Avatar. We miss that time.

Michael Dante DiMartino: As a whole, I’m very proud of it. It is surreal to look back and be like, “Oh, that was 5 or 6 years of my life encapsulated in 22 minutes x 61 (episodes) or whatever that is!”

Bryan Konietzko: It’s satisfying. I look at it and there’s all these, “Awww, I wish we could have done that better”, “I wish that had turned out better” but I think it’s the cumulative effect of it. And the fans are really getting that sense of the world. That’s what’s important. Nickelodeon supported us and gave us so much freedom. We made the show we wanted to make. Mike and I just poured our hearts into it and luckily found all these amazing people who were willing to sacrifice as much as we were. I couldn’t be more proud of what we were able to accomplish.

:) And now Korra :D

Rest assured, I still have that shirt. Phew…

These are clips from the wonderful documentary about the making of Avatar: The Last Airbender called “Avatar Spirits,” directed by our good friend Kurt Mattila (who was roommates with Mike for about 10 years), and produced by Alex Dervin. We are very lucky to have such talented friends who were willing to squeeze in this project between big, fancy commercial jobs, to chronicle this very important chapter in our careers and lives and share it with the fans of the series. I believe the documentary is floating around online, and you can also find it as part of the ATLA Book 1 Collector’s Edition.

On the side, Kurt does a podcast called The Big Pull, about comics, movies, and TV. Giancarlo Volpe (looping in GIF form above, and on Tumblr here) is a frequent guest, Mike has been on there once or twice, and so has as our world famous internet comic sensation Liz Climo. Check it out!

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Filed under: avatar spirits making of documentary Kurt Mattila avatar: the last airbender atla joaquim dos santos Giancarlo Volpe oh seung hyun bryan konietzko The Big Pull 
April 17, 2012
THE LEGEND OF KORRA PREMIERE PARTY, APRIL 14th, 2012 Our good friend and Avatar director, Giancarlo Volpe (who is also on Tumblr), took a break from his amazing work as the show runner of Green Lantern: The Animated Series to come party with his old pals.

THE LEGEND OF KORRA PREMIERE PARTY, APRIL 14th, 2012

Our good friend and Avatar director, Giancarlo Volpe (who is also on Tumblr), took a break from his amazing work as the show runner of Green Lantern: The Animated Series to come party with his old pals.

12:39pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZMz7zvJpxerZ
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Filed under: The Legend of Korra Premiere Party Giancarlo Volpe 
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