Arafa Al-Mughairi: Animator, concept artist and production coordinator in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Hair Love - Oscar-Nominated Short Animated Film

Don't know if you saw the Oscar-nominated short animated film Hair Love, but it sure is a great film. Much kudos to Matt Cherry and team, and best wishes at the Big Show on Sunday night. It's also great that Hair Love has already helped open some new doors to Mr. Cherry. Here's a link to it in case...

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Bill Costantini

Karen E Ross: Sure....I'll do it now.

Stay safe, and best continued fortunes in your creative endeavors, Karen!

Karen "Kay" Ross

This post and this film make me so happy... Thanks again, Bill Costantini!

Christian Nommay

Fantastic!

Matt Ip Shaw
Animation Production

Hello Everybody!

I am creating a new animated series with a few friends of mine. I am quite new to producing Animation and I have somewhat of an idea of how to get things done up until Storyboarding and Key-framing our episodes. After that, I'm not sure of what steps to take. Do you contract independ...

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Matt Ip Shaw

Corey Idleburg I've never heard of artstation and Artella before. I'd love to talk more about these platforms and how we can collaborate.

Karen "Kay" Ross

Matt Ip Shaw Did you see that we're bringing in Frank Gladstone from ASIFA-Hollywood? You should ask him your questions! https://www.stage32.com/lounge/animation/Ask-a-45-year-veteran-of-the-An......

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Laurie Ashbourne

I worked with Frank for many years -- good friend and sweet man. Asifa is a must if you want to immerse yourself in the animation industry.

Ghassan Salti
Producer/Fixer living in Jordan

Hello people and nice to be connected with you all here. I received today a recommendation by Ms Karen E Ross (Community Manager at Stage32) asking me to introduce myself on this Lounge. Well, I am a TV Producer and Fixer based in Jordan. I have been doing producing/Fixing for over 18 years. Please...

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Arafa Al-Mughairi

Lovely to meet you! Jordan is a beautiful place, it seems to have a lot of cultural diversity as well as creative freedom that not many people know about. What kind of TV have you been "fixing"?

Ghassan Salti

Thank you Arafa for your comment and nice to meet you too. Well, I mainly work for US TV networks, such as History, Discovery, TLC, TBN, Travel Channel, Smithsonian, NGTV and other independents TV net...

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Edward Skirtich

Hi Karen- It's cool to be with you on Stage 32. Tomorrow I'll post a video of my self playing Howard Hughes. I like to practice my acting on Facebook and put things up there. It's fun. A great work in progress but it's fun. Sincerely- Ed Skirtich

Christopher Morrison
Looking for animation pilot scripts to read for research

Hey, r'body! New here, but an experienced and produced screenwriter. I'm finally getting around to an adult animation 1/2 hour comedy that won't leave me alone. BUT. I'm mostly a feature/VR writer with some TV... I worked on an animation pitch for the UAE back in the day (totally weird gig, got it i...

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Christopher Morrison

Thanks so much Candice! If you could drop it at: christophermorrison2@gmail.com that would be awesome.

Candice Delevante

Sure, I hope it's helpful. It's on the way. Stay safe!

Arafa Al-Mughairi

That's so interesting about the UAE - I'm currently working there. I'd love to hear about it, wondering if it was a cultural disconnect or a difference in industry standard or just another interesting story altogether!

Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Arafa. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.

This is a network for you, built by you. Like...

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Amanda Toney

Hello Arafa -

Welcome to the community! I'm Amanda Toney, the Managing Director at Stage 32. Since 2013 I've been proud to oversee Stage 32's Next Level Education, which provides you the most up-to-date tools necessary to become a better creative.

Over the years Stage 32 has worked with over 500 industry executives and professionals to teach online webinars, classes and intensive labs exclusively for you - our Stage 32 community. We bring you instructors who have worked directly on some of your favorite films, TV shows or theater productions to teach you in-the-trenches information that you wo...

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