G33K Out: Alisa Stern of ‘Doctor Puppet’
Episode 46: Alisa Stern of ‘Doctor Puppet’
Sorry for the radio silence on the podcast. I’ve been going through some stuff that I go into a bit more in the audio, but the important part is that I’m back — albeit back to a monthly schedule.
Back in February, I attended my second Gallifrey One convention here in Los Angeles. While there, I managed to snag 30 minutes of time with animator and artist Alisa Stern, the woman behind the YouTube web series Doctor Puppet. We talk about what got her into animation, why she chose to do a Doctor Who-based series, and what’s next on her plate now that she’s decided to wrap it all up.
Head’s up that I interviewed her in the lobby early Sunday morning, so the background noise is a bit crowded — and it only gets worse as the interview progresses.
Basic Show Notes:
- Running time is 34 minutes, 40 seconds.
- The interview was recorded on February 17, 2019. This was my first time editing in Hindenburg, rather than Adobe Audition. It was … challenging, to say the least, but I think I got the hang of it.
- General notes about the discussion / further reading:
- I covered Alisa’s panel at the 2018 Gallifrey One as part of episode 30.
- You can find Doctor Puppet on YouTube, Tumblr (yes, she’s still on Tumblr), and Twitter.
- She mentioned possibly doing an Indiegogo for her next project. She did end up doing one, which is now closed. In full disclosure, I donated $50 to this project.
- She mentions Nightmare Before Christmas and Shaun the Sheep as influences, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (set to release on Netflix in 2021).
- She mentions that Peter Capaldi has won an Oscar for directing. Here’s an article in Den of Geek about it.
- You can also get the Doctor Puppet soundtrack, composed by Scott Ampleford, over on his BandCamp account. (I own a copy of this, and you hear the beginning tune when I introduce the topic.)
- The mid-show plug is from Brian J. Smith from Sense8: I interviewed him in episode 33, when I covered the red carpet of the final episode.
- In this episode, “Angie Geeks Out” about Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
- Theme music is “Schoolyard Haze”, by Jari Pitkanen, available via the Free Music Archive.
- This podcast is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike License.
- Interested in hearing other episodes of G33K Out or learning where all you can hear the podcast? Check out the main G33K Out with Angie Fiedler Sutton page.
And now, it’s time to geek out.