Designing the Avatarverse: Ba Sing Se and Beyond with Special Guests!
Avatar: Braving the Elements
Nickelodeon
4.8 • 2.6K 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!
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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 in the |
| 0:35.8 | Philippines and couldn't be here for this episode, but I know he's going to be so excited to listen to it. We have a very special treat for |
| 0:42.8 | everyone today because we have an old favorite and two brand new guests to Braving the Elements |
| 0:48.4 | who are longtime members of the Avatar family with these two new guests. I've got to say, we have definitely |
| 0:55.0 | dropped their names in the past. We've talked about their roles a little bit. We've shouted |
| 0:58.3 | them out in past episodes. So having them here to talk with is kind of a long time coming. And |
| 1:04.1 | it's especially cool because, of course, we've talked about the incredible artwork that we all |
| 1:08.4 | love in the show. And we've touched on that aspect |
| 1:10.9 | with folks like Mike and Brian, who, by the way, spoiler alert is back with us today and |
| 1:14.9 | directors like John Carlo and Ethan. But here we really get to celebrate two fantastic artists |
| 1:21.1 | who did so much to make the show look as amazing as it does. Angela Songmuller was a character |
| 1:26.8 | designer for all the seasons of |
| 1:28.7 | Avatar for Cora in seasons two through four is currently an art director for visual development |
| 1:33.7 | at Disney television animation and Elsa Gada Garza is currently a storyboard artist and director |
| 1:39.2 | in the animation industry as well. In Avatar, we already know that she rose to supervising background |
| 1:45.4 | designer during Book 2. We recently brought that up as a reason to celebrate when Book 2 came around. |
| 1:51.5 | We learned that in the fantastic art book. Again, if you have that art book, you have seen these |
| 1:57.5 | two names so many times. You have seen these names almost as many times as you've |
| 2:01.7 | 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 Kenetzko. Hello, everyone. Hi, Janet. Good to see you guys. Hi, Janet. Hello, |
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