471 - Is A World Of Inspiration Waiting In The One Place You’re Not Looking? With Sanjay Patel

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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How do you create something both accessible and innovative? What do you draw inspiration from to make authentic and meaningful work? In this episode- animator, illustrator and author Sanjay Patel tells us about his life-changing journey back to his upbringing, we discuss his deep-dive into the well of inspiration he found and how it all came together into a playful preschool show. ------- SHOW NOTES: Writing / Host: Andy J. Pizza Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com Sanjay Patel https://www.gheehappy.com https://www.instagram.com/gheehappy/ https://www.youtube.com/@gheehappystudio SPONSORS: Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time a podcast by The Met - Each episode examines a material of art, like clay... stone... trash... and what they can reveal about history and humanity. You’ll get a sense of the meaningfulness of these materials, and see them in a whole new way. Check out Immaterial here: https://bio.to/ImmaterialPodcast!PScreativepeptalk Riverside - The easiest way for you and your team to record, edit and share professional grade Videos and Podcasts, from anywhere in the world. https://creators.riverside.fm/creativepeptalk

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0:00.0	On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift off.
0:10.9	Sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.
0:26.5	Hey, you're listening to Creative Pep Talk, a weekly podcast companion for your creative journey.
0:28.1	I'm your host, Andy Jay Pizza.
0:30.4	I'm a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator.
0:36.2	And this show is everything I'm learning about building and maintaining a thriving creative practice.
0:50.9	Today on the show, we have animator, illustrator, and author Sanjay Patel.
0:58.1	Many of you probably know him from his Oscar-nominated Pixar short Sanjay's Super Team,
1:02.3	which was the short before the movie The Good Dinosaur.
1:15.3	I remember watching this short in the movie theater and just being like, whoa, I have never seen a story quite like this that mixed kids' media and some religious myth in a way that was so open and creative and it felt risky and beautiful.
1:24.6	And I was just super taken aback by Sanjay's super team.
1:29.5	And when Sanjay then later became a vocal internet supporter of my project Invisible Things,
1:36.8	I was just like, oh my gosh, I do not feel worthy of this.
1:41.2	And we've kind of stayed in touch ever since.
1:44.6	Sanjay's latest project is an animated kids show called Geh Happy, G-H-E-E, which reimagines
1:53.6	Hindu deities as children who discover their divine powers through daily adventures
1:59.1	at Geh Happy Daycare Center.
2:01.8	It captures some of the same spirit that was infused in that Pixar short,
2:08.5	but it also has a little bit more of a preschool focus that is equal parts,
2:14.5	really, really creative as well as just super funny. Also, massive shout out to
2:20.4	Joey Chu, who worked on the show. And you can definitely see his brilliant style shining through
2:29.4	this project as well. And I know a lot of you will be fans of his work and get a kick out of that.
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