Episode 154: Mercury Filmworks Chief Content Officer Heath Kenny & How To Leap From Maker To Manager

Animation Industry Podcast

This episode features animator, writer, producer, development executive and currently the Chief Content Officer at Ottawa-based Mercury Filmworks, Heath Kenny. His current role at Mercury sees him managing the development team and heads up their content strategy, but in the past he’s worked on projects like Robot Boy, the Gorillaz music videos, and Noddy Toyland Detective. In our chat he’s going to share his journey from New Zealand to Canada as well as exactly how to make the leap from maker to manager. You’ll also learn: *3 helpful questions you can ask yourself if you feel stuck in your career *What Heath did to get into the industry at a time when there wasn’t much of an industry *How Heath evaluates pivotal decisions to choose the best path career-wise ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by Cloud Stop Motion who've created possibly the easiest way to start animating from your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop in seconds. Simply go to www.cloudstopmotion.com and click "start animating". Their software works in any modern browser and your files are instantly saved to the cloud. The best part is that they are completely free to use up to 500mb of storage, which is actually quite a lot. They're especially useful if you're teaching a class since you can create an organization account which comes with 2GB of free storage as standard, and allows the creation of unlimited student groups and profiles, all of whose projects and work you can view for yourself from your admin account. ​ Go to www.cloudstopmotion.com to see how easy it is to get started now. ~ Check out Heath's plastic cup hotel animation: https://youtu.be/ZaV0rWxnPtQ