Episode 15: Rachel Yonda

Animalators

Rachel Yonda is the senior graphics producer for The Late Late Show with James Corden based in Los Angeles, California. During the conversation, we discussed her transition from television to freelance and back to television, how to escape creative dry spells and where to go for creative inspiration.

Links:

Website: rachelyonda.com

Twitter: twitter.com/rachelyonda

Highlights:

-Obsession with animated characters as a kid

-NYU

-First Internships

-Little Einsteins Rigs

-Transition into freelance

-TV motion design vs. studio work

-CTN Expo

-Transition back to TV

-Overlap from freelance career

-The Late Late Show with James Corden

-Senior Graphics Producer

-Day to day work - games, headlines, etc.

-Role changes every hour

-Collaboration within the workplace

-Being a lifelong learner

-Creative dry spells

-”You can’t animate life if you don’t live life.”

-Places for inspiration

-Dream client: Find illustrators and animators I admire and work with them

-Favorite animated film: The Big Snit

-What do the people you love think you do: actually doing the Late Late Show allowed for a lot of clarification.

-Animalator: caterpillar