Kathryn Taccone
Co-founder at Open Pixel Studios
Appears in 62 Episodes
054 - SLAE - Lindsay Knowler at Eat Your Peas
Welcome to another SLAE episode. These episodes were recorded at The Salt Lake Animation Expo in March of 2024. We interviewed Expo Speakers and others who were involv...
053 - Jennie & Kaci at Mothers of Mograph
In this episode, we're joined by Kaci Smith and Jennie Davis, co-founders of the Mothers of Mograph community, to discuss the unique challenges and triumphs of balanci...
052 - POVs - The Rules for Collaboration
In this episode of Behind the Pixel, Will and Kathryn dive into a thought-provoking discussion inspired by a well-composed anonymous post on LinkedIn. The episode cent...
051 - SLAE - Julian Curi at Righteous Robot
Welcome to another SLAE episode. These episodes were recorded at The Salt Lake Animation Expo in March of 2024. We interviewed Expo Speakers and others who were involv...
050 - BYB - Using Templates in Your Work
Will and Kathryn are back to celebrate their milestone 50th episode by diving into the topic of using templates in animation. They discuss the pros and cons of templat...
049 - SLAE - Matt Schultz at Mass FX Media
Welcome to another SLAE episode. These episodes were recorded at The Salt Lake Animation Expo in March of 2024. We interviewed Expo Speakers and others who were involv...
Bonus - Updates May 2024
Kathryn and Will give some updates as to what they've been up to and also answer a Pod Question from a special guest.
048 - SLAE - Mike Morris at BlueOwl
Welcome to another SLAE episode. These episodes were recorded at The Salt Lake Animation Expo in March of 2024. We interviewed Expo Speakers and others who were involv...
047 - SLAE - Chaz Walgamott at Digital Gravy
Welcome to the SLAE episodes. These are podcasts we recorded at The Salt Lake Animation Expo in March of 2024. We interviewed Expo Speakers and others who were involve...
046 - Mark Cernosia - Prøfanity Creative - Creative Communities
Kathryn and Will sit with Mark Cernosia founder of Prøfanity Creative to have a no bullsh*t discussion on client-side communication, project budgets, what issues freel...
045 - Amy Scott at Wild Apple - Websites, Design and Motion
Open Pixel gets creative with Amy Scott, the founder of Wild Apple Design Group to discuss the relationship between websites and design. What motion can do to help cre...
044 - Rachel Murray at Inclusion Geeks (formally She+ Geeks Out) - DEI
Kathryn and Will chat with former client Rachel Murray, the Co-CEO at She+ Geeks Out, to talk to us about how they utilize the medium of animation in different ways wi...
Bonus - Updates March 2024
Quick updates from Will and Kathryn in Salt Lake City. They talk a little about what's to come and apologize for not having done enough. More episodes to drop soon.
043 - BYB - Generative A.I. in Creative Sales
Will and Kathryn discuss using Gen AI in creative sales pitching, how it can hurt your production and what questions to ask of us, (creative partners, artists, freelan...
042 - POVs - Pitching For Free
Will and Kathryn discuss the act of pitching for free, through a petition, which they've signed. They talk about what creative pitching is and describe the different w...
041 - Jeremy Brown at CU Denver - What is VFX?
Join us for a insightful conversation with Jeremy Brown, the Senior Instructor and Director of the Digital Animation Program at the University of Colorado Denver, as w...
040 - Bonus - Will and Kathryn at CU Denver
Will and Kathryn spend some time with the seniors from the College of Arts and Media at CU Denver. They chat about what it was like to land their first jobs and give t...
039 - Hack - What are Video Production Source Files
Source Files. What the heck are they and why do they hold all of the superpowers? Will and Kathryn discuss problems surrounding source files of original artwork, why f...
038 - POVs - Financial Transparency
The Open Pixel Team is back with a new episode focused on financial transparency. They hit on multiple facets of finance, be it your personal year-end financial posts,...
037 - POVs - Contractor Expectations
Will and Kathryn welcome the new year with a slightly new format. Opinions on LinkedIn fly in all sorts of directions. Instead of hate commenting on someone's post, we...
036 - End of the Year Wrap
As the year and the season come to a close, Will and Kathryn say goodbye, for now, but not before revisiting some of their favorite advice and insights from this year'...
035 - Panel - How to Give Better Feedback on Sound
Will and Kathryn sit down with our very first panel of experts to talk about all things sound! We’re joined by Stephen Frost, Creative Director and founder at Stereo C...
034 - Production - Sound - What To Listen For
Will and Kathryn review the main sound stages: voiceover, music, and sound effects. They’ll walk through how each of those stages works, how to give better feedback du...
033 - Hack - Running Better Production Meetings
Do you attend a lot of meetings? We don't. Kathryn explains how we run our meetings, keep them short, and keep productions moving in this new hack! Also stick around t...
032 - Hack - Ways To Avoid Too Many Cooks
Will and Kathryn describe four great ways to avoid too many cooks in the creative kitchen, a very common problem among marketing teams working with creative agencies.I...
Bonus - Apology Updates
What are we up to? Where have you been in the last two weeks? Will and Kathryn hint at what's been up, what they're doing, and why you haven't heard from them. Also, W...
031 - 1-on-1 - Joel Pilger at RevThink
The team welcomes Joel Pilger from RevThink to chat about running a creative business, unpacking the roles of the people who make the work happen, and giving advice on...
030 - 1-on-1 - Janice and Anne at The Inform Group
The team chats with Janice (Miller) Greenberg and Anne (Reichert) Guthrie of The Inform Group to break down how they go about creating concise language for very techni...
029 - Hack - How To Post-Mortem
In this hack episode, Will and Kathryn go scriptless, and walk through the post-mortem process to give a few tips on how Open Pixel runs through Post-Mortems on differ...
Bonus - What is Camp MoGraph?
Where did we go!? You may have noticed we haven't been around, and that's because we were on vacation in Colorado for two weeks and attending our first-ever Camp Mogra...