Beautiful Design with Elsa Garagarza, Bryan Konietzko, & Angela Song Mueller

Avatar: Braving the Elements

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4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Celebrate the gorgeous design of Ba Sing Se and more with three key artists of the Avatarverse! This week Janet and Dante welcome the brilliantly talented Elsa Garagarza, Angela Song Mueller, and podcast regular and “dad,” Bryan Konietzko! Find out incredible behind-the-scenes details as Elsa (Supervising Background Designer) and Angela (Character Designer) talk about their artistic development and roles in the Avatarverse. Learn about the inspirations behind many of the gorgeous scenic and character designs of Book Two and beyond, and hear all three delve into the creative process of making an episode begin to come to life! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, benders and non-benders alike. Welcome to Braving the Elements Nickelodeon's
0:24.4	podcast about all things Avatarverse. I'm Janet Barney and I'm Dante Bosco. No, you've heard my
0:31.4	impression of Dante before. You definitely know that's me and not Dante. He's on assignment
0:35.4	in the Philippines and couldn't be here for this episode, but I know he's going to be so excited
0:39.4	to listen to it. We have a very special treat for everyone today because we have an old favorite
0:45.3	and two brand new guests to Braving the Elements who are longtime members of the Avatar family
0:52.2	with these two new guests. I gotta say we have definitely dropped their names in the past. We've
0:56.4	talked about their roles a little bit. We've shouted them out in past episodes. So having them here
1:01.4	to talk with is kind of a long time coming and it's especially cool because of course we've talked
1:06.6	about the incredible artwork that we all love in the show and we've touched on that aspect with
1:11.0	folks like Mike and Brian who by the way spoiler alert is back with us today and directors like
1:15.5	John Carlo and Ethan. But here we really get to celebrate two fantastic artists who did so much
1:22.4	to make the show look as amazing as it does. Angela Songmueller was a character designer for all
1:28.0	the seasons of Avatar for Kora and seasons 2 through 4 is currently in our director for visual
1:33.3	development at Disney television animation and Elsa Gada Gasa is currently a storyboard artist and
1:38.9	director in the animation industry as well. In Avatar we already know that she rose to supervising
1:45.1	background designer during book two. We recently brought that up as a reason to celebrate when
1:50.3	book two came around. We learned that in the fantastic art book. Again if you have that art book
1:56.6	you have seen these two names so many times you've seen these names almost as many times as you've
2:01.6	seen Mike and Brian's names. So very very excited to have you on. Please welcome with me Elsa Angela
2:08.3	and our dad Brian can let's go. Hello everyone. Hi Janet. Good to see you guys. Hi Janet.
2:15.0	Hello everybody. Hello. Oh it's very satisfying. Okay I've made no secret about the fact that of all
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