{"id":11398,"date":"2018-04-29T20:51:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T00:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2018-04-29T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T01:00:26","slug":"episode-267-jj-sedelmaier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-267-jj-sedelmaier","title":{"rendered":"Episode 267 – JJ Sedelmaier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 267:
\nJJ Sedelmaier<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Parody is a wonderful realm to work in, because you get to do a technique but you get to use it as a device beyond what it was developed for. You can speak two languages at the same time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Director\/Producer JJ Sedelmaier<\/a> has been in and around animation for nearly 40 years. We sat down to talk about the false choice of art and commerce, how the advertising and animation businesses have changed over the years he’s been working in them, using animation for good instead of evil, how working in a Greek restaurant as a teen prepared him to run his own animation studio, the insane process of animating the first season of Beavis & Butthead<\/a>, the joy of working with his favorite artists and cartoonists, not worrying about his road-not-traveled, stepping away from SNL’s TV Funhouse<\/a> after 3 years (during which time he co-created Ace & Gary, the Ambiguously Gay Duo<\/a>), the time he met Steve Ditko, how Mark Newgarden & Paul Karasik have taught him to appreciate Nancy<\/em>, the trap of tapping into nostalgia (and the missed opportunity of that Geico ad with He-Man<\/a>), his responses to my totally unfair “X or Y” questions (incl. “Herriman or McCay?” and “Kurtzman or Eisner?”), and plenty more! Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“As much as I loved working on a scene when I was an animator, the flexibility to work on different things on different levels and timelines, and to pull it off, means more to me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n