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Bacon Wrapped Avocado: Creativity UnWrapped

Bacon Wrapped Avocado: Creativity UnWrapped

Written by: Laurel Mojica
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Are you an artist in search of other artists who are working to make their passion their career? Are you interested in the work-life struggles of other creators? The gear, software, or workflows used to create animations in Unreal Engine? Real-world feedback on different marketing strategies and platforms?

In this podcast, Jose and Laurel Mojica, co-founders of the Bacon Wrapped Avocado VR animation studio, talk about their creative journey, the technology they’ve used and are still using, their efforts at marketing and audience-building, and trying to start up a business while raising three teenagers, connecting with their two grown children, their aging parents, their siblings, and maybe even a friend or two…oh, yeah, and a full-time day job..

Bacon Wrapped Avocado is a virtual reality animation studio creating content for the Meta Quest Headset and YouTube.

Jose and Laurel Mojica are working with their team, artist Meescha Dare and Unreal Engine developer Giovanni Minus, to launch an app for the Meta Quest headsets that features their family-friendly humor-horror characters.

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Episodes
  • Pregnancy (hypothetical!), pain avoidance, editing, releasing, and choosing what to work on next

    Pregnancy (hypothetical!), pain avoidance, editing, releasing, and choosing what to work on next
    Apr 20 2025

    Jose and Laurel consider the impact of 2-week-long pregnancies on birth rates as a metaphor for artists avoiding the pain of criticism or rejection. They also discuss which parts of the creative process they each find the most painful, the abundance (or scarcity) of new ideas, and the problem of choosing where to spend creative time and energy.
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    35 mins
  • Patience with Gear, Brainstorming Mindsets, and an Animation Update

    Patience with Gear, Brainstorming Mindsets, and an Animation Update
    Jan 22 2025

    In the first section, Jose and Laurel talk about how they use their new Fostex RM3-DT Active Rack-mount Monitor with Dante and their Triad-Orbit T3C Tripod. They also discuss the challenges of figuring out new gear.

    The second section (23:19) contains thoughts on brainstorming inspired by John Cleese's YouTube video on "Creativity in Management", focusing specifically on the mindset necessary for productive brainstorming (and also complaining a bit about those who are unhelpful in a brainstorming session).

    The third section (34:04) is an update on the studio's latest short (working title "Elle's First Day"), and their continuing challenges in working with motion capture (mocap) gear.

    RM3: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/RM3DT--fostex-rm3-dt-active-rack-mount-monitor-with-dante

    T3C: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/T3CMicStd--triad-orbit-triad-t3c-tall-tripod-stand-with-casters

    John Cleese: https://youtu.be/Pb5oIIPO62g?si=orkZ-JC-spber9tu

    BWA's webpage: https://baconwrappedavocado.com/
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    46 mins
  • Black Friday Sales and Writing Tools

    Black Friday Sales and Writing Tools
    Nov 30 2024

    Jose and Laurel talk about mics and preamps, Black Friday sales and the history of some audio clones. Then they take a deep dive into some of the pros and cons of writing software: Storyist, Scrivener, Word, and Pages. (Spoiler alert: They use all of them for different things!) They wrap up the episode with a discussion of the somewhat complicated process of writing and recording audio for VR video. Timing is key!
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    39 mins
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