EPISODE 138: SAGE COTUGNO

Creative Block

Welcome to CREATIVE BLOCK! This week's guest is SAGE COTUGNO! Sage is a writer, story board artist, and director for shows like The Owl House, Star Vs., and Gravity Falls Their new graphic novel, The Glass Scientist, is available now for pre-order! Along the way, Vee and Sean chat with SAGE about INTERNING AT PIXAR, MOURING DEAD PITCHES, EXHAUSTED WORKER CHIC, and so much more! While we talk, we doodle on a Google Jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE, THREADS, and PATREON. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals! ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Thank you to our Patreon Blockheads for supporting the show! Want to become a Patron? ► https://www.patreon.com/crtvblock Hit subscribe and follow our socials for updates! ► https://twitter.com/crtvblock ► https://www.instagram.com/crtv.block/ ► https://www.threads.net/@crtv.block ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Follow the hosts! VEE! ► https://twitter.com/violainebriat ► https://www.instagram.com/violainebriat ► https://www.threads.net/@violainebriat SEAN! ► https://twitter.com/lordspew ► https://www.instagram.com/lordspew/ ► https://www.threads.net/@lordspew Follow the guest! SAGE! ► https://linktr.ee/arythusa ► ORDER SAGE'S BOOK HERE: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/702473/the-glass-scientists-volume-one-by-s-h-cotugno/ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 0:00 Intro 1:05 Supervising director 24:11 Decision making 36:37 The Glass Scientist 1:03:46 Working few late nights 1:26:34 Development 1:48:23 Doing things differently 2:03:53 Haters 2:06:38 Shows 2:10:45 Fav storyboard 2:13:13 Fav part of writing Glass Scientist 2:14:49 Process of writing a character 2:16:44 Creative block