Here’s the link to a conversation I had in January of 2020 with Kory Martin Juul. Kory was on episode 42 of the podcast in the Novelty Generators days. He’s a unique individual because like myself, he has a background working in film post production primarily in the visual effects field. Which is actually not very creative and instead very technician and assembly line based. The extremely unusual thing about Kory is that he has been trying, for over 15+ years, TO MAKE A FULLY ANIMATED FEATURE FILM mostly by himself.
High end feature films take years to complete with hundreds if not thousands of creatives, artists, and technicians. Look at the end credits of any movie and know they are usually a massive team effort. Animated films are like that cubed. Because theoretically, one guy with a camera can go out and make stuff, one guy on a computer can do that as well, but everything “CG” generally takes significantly longer than anything live-action. I have spoken in the past as to how crazy it is to do any sort of animation or computer graphics independently, because it takes forever. So for Kory, making this choice in his life is something that I grasp the idea of wanting to do, being another former post production working technician myself, while also greatly respecting the value of him trying to forge his own way and make something on his own. As someone who also spent nearly four years making a feature documentary independently, I feel his pain and greatly identify with his struggle.
He threw an idea at me a couple years back of doing a documentary on this crazy world wind / Mount Everest climb which has been absorbing what is now coming up on two decades of his life but had no financial resources to put in anything toward actualizing a documentary about it. So I instead told him I would put in a couple days of writing into talking about it on a future essay. Which is long overdue and still in progress, but this interview was the first step. We already covered much of what he was trying to do with the film in his first podcast appearance, so this interview was always more intended to be writing research for the essay, rather than a second podcast on the same topic.
So expect a future essay regarding in due course while here’s the whole interview if you fancy a listen. Which will only be shared privately while the essay will be a public share down the line.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/5p1po6yr3oky1tp/NilesHeckman_KoryJuul_Chat_Jan2020.mp3