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Oct 2025
1h 12m

You've graduated... now what?

The Bancroft Brothers
About this episode
In this episode, Tony and Tom tap three recently graduated animation students to discuss what they are experiencing in the scary "real world" of animation!  We feature Riley Housden (Undrgraduate), Dakota Byard (Masters), and Jacob Birm (Masters) all of which attended the Lipscomb Animation program in Nashville.  Find out their thoughts and expectations in school and the reality they hit up against going into the industry and even how they feel AI will affect them now and in the future.  You gotta hear this one!  
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