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Podcasting Work
Recalled to Adventure S2E2
"John Rust / Islands of Adventure Soundtrack Producer"
May 2024
In 2023 after leaving Skylanders: Portal Casters, I quickly found myself missing a creative outlet and wanted to do something akin to the 10th anniversary Skylanders series. I reached out to my friend, Maya Lord, who worked for Universal, to see if she would be interested in co-producing a podcast to celebrate the park's 25 year anniversary fast approaching just 11 months later.
Together, the two of us began reaching out to Universal Creative and former engineers, designers, and show producers to see if they would be willing to talk with us about their time working on Islands of Adventure. By the end of the project, Maya and I gathered 8 interviews, with at least one interview from each themed area of the park, including John Rust, who worked on all of the park's iconic music, and who also voiced the Cat in the Hat. Other interviews included Lisa Girolami, who worked on Seuss Landing (as well as Pandora: The World of Avatar at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
We also included an episode discussing our fondest memories with the park, as well as the memories of other theme park vloggers. Overall, 10 episodes were produced and streamed on Spotify, making national headlines in theme park magazines.
Skylanders: Portal Casters 10th Anniversary Celebration Part 2
"Paul Reiche"
October 2020 - Present
Skylanders: Portal Casters began as a fan passion project podcast where I acted as a co-host alongside another Skylanders content creator on Twitch. We wanted to create something for Skylanders fans, despite Activision putting the franchise on hiatus. Eventually, we became partnered with Spotify and have had numerous guests that also create content based around Skylanders on the show.
In this episode, the original creator of Skylanders, Paul Reiche, who was also the creator of Star Control and an original designer on Dungeons & Dragons, joins us for the 10th Anniversary of the franchise to discuss how the franchise was conceived and some of his favorite moments and memories while working on the games.
Paul Reiche was one of many developers on the franchise who joined us for the show. Alex Ness, who voices the character Chill Bill and acted as narrative lead on the series was a frequent guest. Robert Leyland, designer of the Portal of Power, and graphic designers I-Wei Huang and Jeff Murchie also joined for episodes of the show.
During my tenure with the podcast, not only did I act as co-host, but I also was the social media manager for the podcast on YouTube and Twitter and created the podcast logo and the album cover itself, including remaking the element symbols from scratch using Illustrator, and in the case of the character artwork, Photoshop, in order to arrange them to work for our album cover. The show has continued without me in 2022 with a new host taking my place.
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