An interview with Artist and Star Trek fan Amanda Wong. Amanda was also a background artist in Star Trek Lower Decks.
Topics
- How does someone become an Artist
- Market Research Analyst to Artist
- The Pixar movie Turning Red
- Managing the Mom relationship
- How it all works…
- It’s a team effort, go team!
- There is no set
- Space restaurant
- Carmen Sandiego & My Little Pony
- Perspective, color, and light
- Amanda’s confession about being a background artist
- Old school vs modern techniques
- Fan art gets clout online
- Career options for background animators
- First Trek recollections
- Sibling Star Trek fans
- In defense of Rascals…
- Dropping out during Enterprise
- Gaps in the Trek viewing
- Amanda weighs in on “Lens Flare” in 2009
- When you know people who worked on the show, it changes what you think…
- 3D and 2D animation
- Watching your own work
- Convention experiences
- Starting collecting
- Moopsy distribution
- TOS uniforms
- Curating the Trek experience for the husband
- Background animators work contract to contract
- Should you confess to being a fan?
- John suggests a reaction show for Amanda
- Nog had family expectations and so did Amanda
- Competency Porn
- Reading the book as a tween
- Tiger Moms
- Honorary Star Trek title awarded: Official Artist in Residence at Deep Space 9
Episodes Discussed
- The Host TNG S4E23
- The Inner Light TNG S5E25
- It’s Only a Paper Moon DS9 S7E10
- Imzadi (Novel)
- Hear All, Trust Nothing LWD S03E6
- Dark Page TNG S7E07
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Acknowledgements
- Some portions of the Kobayashi Maru lightning round questions in this episode were written by listener Adam Saunders. If you’d like to submit questions for possible inclusion on the show, you can send me a message via Twitter or email me. I give some suggestions on good questions here.
- Custom Moopsy in Amanda’s photo by Emcee Frodis
- Background photo by Alexis Mette on Unsplash