Episode 30: Brikk

Animalators

Samuel Fast, Josef Andersson and Björn Johansson are the three founders of Brikk, an animation studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. During our conversation, we talked about how they navigate creative challenges, how they built their team and why it is important to stay curious.

Links:

Website- http://brikk.se/eng/

twitter- https://twitter.com/brikk_animation

Santapocalypse- http://brikk.se/eng/blog/yule-log-2016-santapocalypse/

Highlights:

-Trying to stay curious

-Don’t like to do the same thing twice

-We find people we like to work with

-Nice people culture

-How to push clients towards something outside of their expectations

-Treatment design

-Differing creative processes

-Meeting in art school

-How to play on being young = the competitive advantage

-Didn’t have much to lose when they started

-Starting to be able to say no to things

-Taking work that doesn’t make it to your portfolio

-Dividing work between all three creative directors

-How to get through creative challenges

-Trying to get better at planning

-Learning from mistakes

-Always growing as a team

-Learning how to keep things personal

-Why it can be helpful to learn less

-Getting better at organizing and managing team

-Santapocalypse

-Establishing processes

-Advice to young animators: Say yes to everything

-Dream Client: A client that trusts you

-Favorite Animated Movie:The Jungle Book

-What does your family think you do: Grandma once said: starving artists

-Animalator: the moose