Episode 387 - Bob Bacon - CEO and Co-founder, Virtue Animation

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As an executive at Disney in the 90s, Bob Bacon witnessed the rise of CG, supporting the production of increasingly big-budget blockbusters, including</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beauty and the Beast</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mulan</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, and</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Lilo and Stitch</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. He then joined Elton John for</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gnomeo and Juliet</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and moved to Paramount for</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, Bob is Head of Studio at Virtue Animation, a Web3-based company inspired by his time working for the late Kobe Bryant. Bob details how the traditional animation studio system works, how fragile it can be, and how he’s continually innovated new workflows that can deliver both creativity and cashflows. He finishes with insight into how NFTs and crypto are revolutionizing and democratizing the entertainment industry.</span></p>