{"id":37143,"date":"2019-10-30T11:27:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?p=37143"},"modified":"2019-10-30T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:27:26","slug":"podcast-alex-dowding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/podcast-alex-dowding\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast interview with Alex Dowding of Submarine (&#8216;Undone&#8217;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sc-type-small\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/705244978-skwigly-skwigly-podcast-94.mp3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37137 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ep94-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/podcasts\/skwigly-animation-podcast-94\/\">episode 94<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/podcast_type\/skwigly-podcast\/\">Skwigly Animation Podcast<\/a> we meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3125329\/\">Alex Dowding<\/a>, producer at Amsterdam-based production company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.submarine.nl\/\">Submarine<\/a> whose projects include the recent Amazon Prime original series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/video\/detail\/B07SRCT152\"><em>Undone<\/em><\/a>, an international co-production with <a href=\"http:\/\/tornante.com\/\">The Tornante Company<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/minnowmountain.com\/\">Minnow Mountain<\/a> created by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/raphaelbw\">Raphael Bob-Waksberg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katypurdy\">Kate Purdy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Undone - Official Trailer | Prime Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6uWCNHQgfnc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_2328040840989525364Default\">A genre-bending (and mind-bending) eight-part half-hour animation series, <em>Undone<\/em> premiered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/undone-debut\/\">last month<\/a> to critical acclaim, described as &#8220;a heartbreakingly gorgeous look at mental illness&#8221; by Decider and considered &#8220;a wake-up call for the tv industry&#8221; by Cartoon Brew as well as &#8220;indescribably great television&#8221; by Forbes Magazine. The show &#8220;explores the elastic nature of reality through its central character, Alma (Rose Salazar), a 28-year-old living in San Antonio, Texas&#8221;. When Alma survives a near-fatal road collision she finds herself visited by her deceased father Jacob (Bob Odenkirk) who helps her cultivate a natural gift for bending time, space and reality while appealing to her to discover the truth about his presumed-accidental death. Throughout the series her ensuing emotional and investigative journey is equally interpretable as either a sophisticated depiction of schizophrenic delusion or as a metaphysical sci-fi odyssey. Also starring Angelique Cabral, Constance Marie, Siddarth Dhananjay and Daveed Diggs, <em><span class=\"il\">Undone<\/span><\/em>\u00a0was produced with a contribution from the Netherlands Film Production Incentive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Live Action Animation | Undone | Prime Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YYGpWQ5iPMU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Prior to working at Submarine, Alex&#8217;s work in animation has spanned a range of production management and supervisor roles across such projects as <em>Despicable Me<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/despicable-me-2-review\/\"><em>Despicable Me 2<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/lightbox-minions\/\"><em>Minions<\/em><\/a>, <em>The Tale of Despereux<\/em> and <em>The Lorax<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Also discussed in this episode: The strong critical response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/tag\/shaun-the-sheep\/\"><em>Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon<\/em><\/a>, the lukewarm critical response to <em>The Addams Family<\/em> remake, the growing fondness for Laika&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/tag\/missing-link\/\"><em>Missing Link<\/em><\/a>, the fight for the <em>South Park<\/em> streaming rights, upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk\/\">Manchester Animation Festival<\/a> highlights, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk\/\">British Animation Awards<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.autourdeminuit.com\/\">Autour de Minuit<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/adm-rosto-campaign\/\">Rosto graphic novel campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Direct download this episode <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/705244978-skwigly-skwigly-podcast-94.mp3\">here<\/a> or stream below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/705244978&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nPresented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson<br \/>\nInterview conducted by Ben Mitchell<br \/>\nEdited, produced and music by Ben Mitchell<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>See more of the work of Submarine at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.submarine.nl\/\">submarine.nl<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In episode 94 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast we meet Alex Dowding, producer at Amsterdam-based production company Submarine whose projects include the recent Amazon Prime original series Undone, an international co-production with The Tornante Company and Minnow Mountain created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy. A genre-bending (and mind-bending) eight-part half-hour animation series, Undone premiered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":37146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[247,755],"tags":[3301,6129,3246,355,5764,564,2962,4016,6128,5654,4010,602,2785,6020,5634,6127,4015,5891],"class_list":["post-37143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interviews","tag-aardman","tag-amazon-prime","tag-autour-de-minuit","tag-british-animation-awards","tag-farmageddon","tag-laika","tag-manchester-animation-festival","tag-mind-my-gap","tag-minnow-mountain","tag-missing-link","tag-rosto","tag-shaun-the-sheep","tag-south-park","tag-submarine","tag-the-addams-family","tag-the-tornante-company","tag-thee-wreckers","tag-undone"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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As a freelancer he has produced work for WildBrain, CBeebies, Channel 4, Shy Guys, Plymptoons, Animortal, Wonky Films, A Productions, Slurpy Studios and Rumpus to name a few. As an independent director he has produced six multi-award-winning short animated films that have been showcased at over 200 international film and animation festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, BFI London Film Festival, ITFS Stuttgart, Encounters, London International Animation Festival, Pictoplasma, London Short Film Festival and Anima Mundi. Alongside his work in animation production he is an active writer and researcher on the industry through such avenues as the leading UK animation resource Skwigly, for which he is Editor in Chief, and his books 'Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films' (2016, second edition published April 2023) and 'Intimate Animation' (2025, co-written with Dr. Laura-Beth Cowley). As an educator he has lectured and tutored at AUB Bournemouth, University of the West of England, University of Gloucestershire and UAL Central Saint Martins. 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