{"id":6827,"date":"2020-09-03T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:12:13","slug":"ashleynichols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/ashleynichols\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI&#8217;ve Built an Empire off My Own Suffering!\u201d An Interview With Ashley Nichols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ashley Nichols doesn\u2019t seem to know how she got here.<\/p>\nHer early life certainly didn\u2019t prepare her for popularity. Growing up with adoptive parents in the suburbs of San Jose, she was the lone nerd at a Catholic school she couldn\u2019t have been less suited for, forging her own path in life when she taught herself animation as a preteen with a pirated copy of Flash.\n\nShe started her illustration career drawing furry and fan art as a teen, as many artists did but won\u2019t admit, and was active mostly in the\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">My Little Pony<\/span>\u00a0fandom into her early twenties. But after getting widespread attention with a couple of spot-on <em>Steven Universe<\/em> fan animations, she submitted her demo reel to a promising indie project called\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hazbin Hotel<\/span>, and was brought on early as lead clean-up artist\u2014the animator who supervises the final lineart pass and coloring.\n\n<iframe title=\"HAZBIN HOTEL (PILOT)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zlmswo0S0e0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">For the one guy who stumbled across this article by accident.<\/span><\/p>\nThe show\u2019s early teasers were more popular than anyone anticipated, so she started livestreaming her animation process, inviting the cast and crew on to talk about their lives, do improv, and with the voice actors, take requests to read lines as their characters. Her channel rocketed to popularity over the course of 2019, leading to an even more successful third career as a YouTuber. Ever since then, she\u2019s lived in constant bafflement over how many people watch and donate.\n\nAfter a stint in Seattle, she\u2019s now back in California with her partner, voice actor Michael Kovach, who plays Hazbin\u2019s raunchy fan favorite Angel Dust. Once clean-up on the show wrapped, the couple continued streaming with The HuniCast, a live free-form podcast that continues the format of the animation streams. ...Named for her avatar, HuniBun, seen in the header.\n\nWriting this, it strikes me just how hard it is to explain <em>HuniCast<\/em> to an outsider. Rambling, messy, and full of in-jokes, it\u2019s one of those things where you really just \u201chave to be there.\u201d But it\u2019s crack to a specific segment of young animation fans. It\u2019s gained a massive cult following, is consistently watched by tens of thousands of people, and even animatics of the show\u2019s highlights\u2014a rite of passage for aspiring animators in the fandom\u2014amass millions of views.\n\nNot to mention it\u2019s spawned one of the best running gags in Youtube history.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Note: Originally, a video that no longer exists was embedded in this blog post here.<\/span><\/p>\nThese days, after working on the Dreamworks animated series\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Too Loud\u00a0<\/span>for a season, she\u2019s leading cleanup for an animated adaptation of the phenomenal webcomic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lackadaisycats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lackadaisy<\/span><\/a>, as well as her own pilot,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heckpuppo?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hell Puppy<\/span><\/a>.\n\nBut throughout all this, her life has been in a constant state of upheaval, losing one parent before working on Hazbin and another during, breaking off an engagement shortly before meeting Kovach, and dealing with depressive episodes. And most recently, on the day I was supposed to schedule the interview, she was forced to evacuate when one of NorCal\u2019s perennial wildfires raged through her neighborhood.\n\nFor 48 hours, she live-tweeted from a hotel as it seemed almost inevitable she\u2019d lose her house. However, the fire somehow burned around it, and she\u2019s back. \u201cEverything smells like bbq tho,\u201d she tweeted.\n\nI finally talked to her via Discord about just how she pulls it all off. It went off the rails as soon as it started\u2014which, as we joked after it ended, is perfectly in keeping with\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">HuniCast\u00a0<\/span>tradition.\n\n<em>Note: the below interview has been edited for length and clarity.<\/em>\n\n<hr \/>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">First off, thanks for being so patient: It\u2019s been like nine months since we first talked about doing this interview. But it seems like nothing\u2019s going according to schedule in 2020, and I guess there\u2019s no one better to talk about that than you.<\/span>\n\nOh, tell me about it. Every time it feels like we\u2019re about to settle in and things are about to be normal, some new crazy thing happens.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I was surprised to find out you\u2019re in Northern California, though. I saw a HuniCast clip recently where\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HRxyclCUWTM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">you were talking about living near Disneyland<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">?<\/span>\n\nI try to keep exactly where I am vague, because there\u2019ve been a few instances of people figuring out where I live and trying to come visit.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">That\u2019s kind of horrifying.<\/span>\n\nMichael\u2019s gone out to the movies before, and people have recognized the theater he\u2019s in [from social media] and found him at the movie theater. It\u2019s just like,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Oh my God<\/span>!<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0[Laughs]<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I guess that leads into the topic of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hazbin\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fandom and just how overwhelming the size of it must be now.<\/span>\n\nOh, it\u2019s huge to say the least! I love this fandom: they\u2019re wildly supportive and so, so cool. But there are so many fans now! When I first started working on the project, I\u2019d like, mention\u00a0Hazbin\u00a0or wear shirts of the characters and nobody would know what it was\u2014now, if I wear a shirt, it\u2019s guaranteed somebody will be like, \u201cOh,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hazbin Hotel<\/span>! I love that!\u201d\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How did you handle becoming a cult figure, yourself, in less than a year?<\/span>\n\nIt\u2019s still not real to me. I was just doing art livestreams like you see every other artist do, and I brought in my friend-at-the-time Michael, who happened to voice on the project, and we would just talk and goof around while I was drawing. Then it started drawing more and more people in, so I started bringing on more friends, then I\u2019d reach out to more people in the industry to talk about their experiences, but most of what we do is joke around and have fun.\n\nAnd it just\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">took off.\u00a0<\/span>I don\u2019t understand how art livestreams turned into this crazy podcast that\u2014 My last one had twenty-one thousand live viewers. That\u2019s not a real number to me!\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]<\/span>\n\n<iframe title=\"\u3010Hunicast Animatic\u3011~ Sport Commentaries (by Edward Bosco and Michael Kovach)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jpJLHdjrl2U?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ashley, Micheal (cat), fellow voice actor Ed Bosco (basketball), and <\/span><em>Hazbin\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">creator Vivziepop (possum) in one of the early streams.\u00a0 Both animatics in this article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCv0_tCkAEZpDu69T6ZYgXPw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psycho Patate<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Had there been any plans to start some kind of side project with Viv or the voice actors though, or was it purely spontaneous?<\/span>\n\nI\u2019ve never had any grandiose plans for anything that I do. I just think to myself, \u201cWhat would I enjoy doing? What would be fun? What would bring people the most joy? Oh, I\u2019ll bring on this one person that everybody\u2019s really interested in that I kinda know.\u201d\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Is that your general philosophy when it comes to making art and career choices?<\/span>\n\nYeah! What I\u2019ve found is that if I\u2019m doing something that I find interesting and fun, other people will gravitate to that as well. I get a lot of people asking me, \u201cHow do you find success? How do you build an audience?\u201d and I\u2019m like, \u201cThe first step is to not think about it that way. Just think about it in terms of, \u2018What would I enjoy doing?\u2019\u201d Because chances are what brings you joy brings other people joy too.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">On the other hand, though: Listening to you talk about your job during interviews, I was impressed by how endurant you were of the parts of art you don\u2019t like. You say you don\u2019t enjoy cleanup, but you still have to do it for over eighty hours a week sometimes.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]<\/span>\u00a0Yeah, my main line of work is cleanup, and on my podcast, one of the main bits is people tormenting me with horrible jokes, trying to make me lose my mind, and I\u2019m like\u2026 \u201cThis is it. This is my empire. I\u2019ve built an empire off my own suffering, both in my work and my podcast!\u201d\n\n\u2018Cause yeah, I hate doing cleanup animation, but I also love it in a weird way? It\u2019s so tedious, but it\u2019s the kind of tedium that I enjoy. The part I love is being able to observe, study, and understand the animation work of others. That has helped improve my own animations tenfold.\n\nCleanup, for those who might not know, is taking rough sketch animation to lineart and color. So you have to sit there for twenty minutes to an hour per frame, looking at every detail of it, studying it, then you also have to look at the whole animation and understand what makes that piece of animation work and what you need to try to preserve in clean-up.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How does working that slowly and deliberately affect you in a field like animation where speed is the name of the game?<\/span>\n\nHonestly, I\u2019m not sure. I can be fast when I need to be. Like, I have taken a minute of animation from storyboards to cleaned within 24 hours, which was absolutely insane.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Yeah, that\u2019s unheard of.<\/span>\n\nThat was a situation where the stars kept aligning to screw me over until it was the very last second and I had to get\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">everything\u00a0<\/span>done. I did it, and it was good, but it wasn\u2019t the best it could\u2019ve been. But generally I do tend to take things slow because I am very nitpicky and I want things to be perfect, and that is also not great.<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0[Laughs]<\/span>\n\nAs an artist, you need to find a middle ground where you get it done well but you also aren\u2019t spending more time on it than it\u2019s worth for you. That latter bit is something that I\u2019m still working on.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">But cleanup is basically harnessing [obsession].<\/span>\n\nOh yeah.\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019m a little\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">too\u00a0<\/span>[obsessive], though. Like, on my current project, I\u2019ll have notes for the animation that comes in and the director will be like, \u201cNo, send it to me first, Ashley, you can\u2019t find every tiny mistake and ask for it to be fixed.\u201d And I\u2019m like, \u201cBut, but!...\u201d So that\u2019s something that I\u2019m having to learn right now.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Is that trait how you ended up as lead cleanup on\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Lackadaisy\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hazbin\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">in the first place, though?<\/span>\n\n[On\u00a0Hazbin], I can\u2019t remember, honestly. I was just cleanup for a little while, and a couple of us on the team had a discussion with Viv that we probably need people giving notes on cleanup other than her: I don\u2019t remember how many people were on the cleanup team, but it was a ridiculous amount, and it was just her giving notes to everyone. We were like, \u201cThis is insane; you need some help with this.\u201d So she picked me and three other people to be cleanup leads. And I guess she just picked whoever had the best cleanup, and I guess I was one of those four. ...Which is weird to think about, because even now, I still think I have a lot to learn. But it was a really cool experience!\n\nWith\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lackadaisy<\/span>, I came on just to do a couple shots of cleanup, and I fell into the position of lead by accident? I kept being like, \u201cI\u2019ll help with this!\u201d whenever anything with cleanup was going on, and eventually it was just like, \u201cAshley\u2019s the lead now!\u201d and I\u2019m like, \u201c...Uh, what happened?\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Do you often find yourself making your own jobs?<\/span>\n\nI try and help on a project in any way I can, generally, so that tends to have me fall into larger positions than I started with.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Anyway,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">HuniCast\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is stressful too. You\u2019ve said it knocks you out for a day after each stream.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]\u00a0<\/span>Yeah,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">HuniCast\u00a0<\/span>for the viewers is a one-to-two hour event; for me, it\u2019s a three-day event. The entire day before, I have so much anxiety I can\u2019t do anything other than think about that HuniCast. Then on the day of, the moment it\u2019s over I\u2019m so exhausted I just crash. And the day afterwards, I\u2019m still completely fried.\n\nFor the two people who might not know, I am a very anxious human being.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How did you build up the determination to do two things that painful for a living?<\/span>\n\nFor some people [it takes building up to], and for others, I think you\u2019re just born a masochist.\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]\u00a0<\/span>I think I\u2019m one of the latter. Anxiety aside, I enjoy these things a lot, I just have to spend a lot of my mental energy doing them.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Your openness with your anxiety is indicative of something I\u2019ve noticed from the rest of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hazbin\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">crew\u2014a willingness to talk about your problems, and the difficulties behind the scenes, that you don\u2019t often see.<\/span>\n\nI try to be open as much as I reasonably can, because being in the spotlight, if you\u2019re too open, people can use that against you. But I was raised being told that if you have any sort of mental illness, you should never share that, never tell anybody that, and I never agreed. I always thought, \u201cWell, if none of us talk about that, none of us will realize that we\u2019re not alone.\u201d\n\nSo I try to say, \u201cHey, I have anxiety but I still work on these projects and do this crazy podcast. Just because it\u2019s difficult doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s impossible.\u201d And I want other people to find that in themselves as well, so they can try and be more than the things that limit them.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">By the way, you\u2019re one of the few big-name internet artists I can think of who\u2019s just\u2026 openly a furry. Does that attract much negative attention?<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Bursts out laughing]\u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s so strange! Whenever people ask me \u201cAre you a furry?\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201c...I guess?\u00a0 Sure?\u201d But if you put me into a situation where I\u2019m around other furries or at a furry convention, I don\u2019t fit in\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">at all.\u00a0<\/span>Furry culture is completely alien to me, and I still have yet to figure out why that is.\n\nI definitely am one, you can\u2019t deny it! I love anthropomorphic animals, I represent myself as\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[audibly trying not to curse]\u00a0<\/span>a garsh darn rabbit, for pete\u2019s sake, but I just don\u2019t\u2026 feel like one?\u00a0 And I guess since I don\u2019t present in such a furry way, I\u2019ve actually caught a break. Furries are infamous for being bullied and being the butt of the internet\u2019s jokes, but honestly, nobody seems to care.\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]\u00a0<\/span>For some reason, it just seems like I have some kind of\u2026 magical shield of protection from internet trolls when it comes to that stuff.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Let\u2019s talk about your personal project,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Hell Puppy.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0At first I thought it was a Hazbin spinoff, but is it related to a cancelled webcomic project called\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Help, My Dog\u2019s a Demon?<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]\u00a0<\/span>Yes! Oh my gosh, I don\u2019t know how you found that, but it is! I\u2019ve had these characters since I was like twelve years old.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A lot like Hazbin.<\/span>\n\nYeah, like Viv with Hazbin! I\u2019ve held onto them for a long time. I have a lot of characters that I\u2019ve made and forgotten about, but for some reason these characters have stuck with me, so I needed to do something with them.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How long is it going to be?<\/span>\n\nRight now we\u2019re figuring out our first short, which will probably be two minutes at most. This is the first fully-animated project that I\u2019m doing as a producer and director, so I have a lot of things to learn and figure out: The pipeline, how best to manage a team, and all that. So I wanted to make it as short and concise as possible just to be a proof of concept.\n\nBut I\u2019m hoping it will [eventually] be a longer series. Like, maybe twenty episodes? That is the dream, that is the goal, I\u2019m just taking it one step at a time.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6859\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/EGOi1-7VUAEIMhQ.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"600\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/EGOi1-7VUAEIMhQ.jpeg 711w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/EGOi1-7VUAEIMhQ-220x300.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/EGOi1-7VUAEIMhQ-480x654.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeckPuppo\/status\/1180966584350724096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>From Twitter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<hr \/>\n\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Intermission<\/h2>\nI didn\u2019t bring this up in the interview because it\u2019s all been covered in other places, but Ashley draws with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wacom-21-Inch-Interactive-Display-Software\/dp\/B000P32M3U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wacom Cintiq 21<\/a>, with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wacom.com\/en-us\/products\/pen-displays\/wacom-cintiq-pro-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cintiq 16<\/a>\u00a0as a backup\u2014one of the few possessions she took with her on evacuating, as she informed me in our initial message exchange.\n\nShe animates with Toon Boom, and illustrates with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clipstudio.net\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clip Studio Paint<\/a>, which she described on a recent HuniCast as superior to Photoshop for artists in every way. For a plug, Wacom Tablets come with three free months of CSP. Just sayin\u2019.\n\n<hr \/>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\nI wanted to move on to your influences. So, I spent a long time digging to find what you\u2019ve cited as your influences, then right afterwards, you went on [the podcast]\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Who\u2019s on Next\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and just listed them all. But I guess I can still ask what they mean to you.<\/span>\n\n<iframe title=\"Who&#039;s On Next? - @AshleyNicholsArt\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fLR79gWFfMQ?start=1205&feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>CW: All of the adult language.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Let\u2019s start with\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">My Little Pony\u00a0<\/span>was what set me up for\u2026 I guess I could say success on the internet. I learned a lot from that fandom: How to market yourself, how to set up merch stores, how to deal with going to conventions\u2014so I was a lot better equipped for success later on.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">And I can still see the influence of it in your art style too.<\/span>\n\nOh yeah. [<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sighs]\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019ll never get rid of my cutesy pony and <em>Danny Phantom<\/em> influences.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">That brings us to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Danny Phantom.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">You talked about the influence of Butch Hartman\u2019s art style, but what was it about the show itself that spoke to you?<\/span>\n\nI honestly don\u2019t know. Does something ever just captivate you and you can\u2019t really put into words why? I think part of it was that I discovered it when I was in elementary school. I was an outcast. I was a nobody. I didn\u2019t make many friends at all until I was like\u2026 Out of college. I\u2019ve always been somebody that doesn\u2019t easily make friends and isn\u2019t easily liked. Growing up, I was the only person I knew who would draw, who was into cartoons and anime and animation. I went to the snobbiest school you could imagine; all of the kids there were nothing like me.\n\nSo I saw this show about this kid who is completely different from everybody else. He does have his friends, but he\u2019s still basically a social outcast. Being really young, it was nice to see somebody that I could relate to, but was also so cool and got to do all these amazing things and had all these powers. And I\u2019ve also always been into ghosts and the paranormal. So, I guess\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Danny Phantom\u00a0<\/span>hit all of those notes for me. And going back now, the show is so witty, and fun, and unapologetically itself.\n\n<iframe title=\"So This is Basically Danny Phantom\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yO95ZRrMSxw?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">And how about Disney? Everyone in animation\u2019s inspired by Disney movies, but you\u2019ve specifically shouted out\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glen_Keane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Glen Keane<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">.<\/span>\n\nI\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">adore\u00a0<\/span>Glen Keane\u2019s work. I don\u2019t think it was a conscious attraction, but I think I picked up on it subconsciously through the years. I loved his work on\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Little Mermaid\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Beauty and the Beast,\u00a0<\/span>but it was weird: I was always drawn to the shots he worked on specifically, but up until a couple years ago, I had no idea who he was or that those were his works. Until finally I was like, \u201cOh, this is all this one dude! No wonder I\u2019ve been so obsessed with all these different pieces of the puzzle!\u201d\n\nThere\u2019s this incredible amount of life and emotion that he puts into his work, and that\u2019s something that I can only strive for. It\u2019s phenomenal, and I could study it for hours.\n\n<iframe title=\"Glen Keane Animation\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2jRkx2PNVr8?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A compilation of scenes he\u2019s animated over the years. (Just watch it on mute.)<\/span><\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">And you\u2019re planning on getting a tattoo of one of his works?<\/span>\n\nAbsolutely. One of my goals is to get a bunch of tattoos on my drawing arm of artwork by various artists or from various things that have inspired me. Right now it\u2019s just a Totoro, but I want to get one of\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Danny Phantom<\/span>, one by Lauren Faust, one by Glen Keane\u2026\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Totoro is a good lead-in to the next one: Studio Ghibli.<\/span>\n\nI think every artist has taken some form of inspiration from Ghibli. It\u2019s one of the greats next to Disney in terms of raw beauty and incredible visuals and storytelling. I remember discovering Ghibli movies in seventh or eighth grade and it was like nothing I\u2019d seen before. It felt a little bit like the anime that I\u2019d grown up with,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pok\u00e9mon\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sailor Moon,\u00a0<\/span>but it wasn\u2019t quite that and it wasn\u2019t Disney either. It was completely unique.\n\nAnd a lot of the subject matter that Ghibli movies tackle is related to nature, and I\u2019ve always been a huge lover of animals and nature. I grew up watching Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel all day, and I was always playing outside. Those movies just capture the feeling of being a little kid, playing in the outdoors, believing anything in the world is possible and there\u2019s magic imbued in everything around you.\n\nI can only dream of being able to do the same someday. I want to work on films and projects that capture that same kind of lingering beauty.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">And for a movie that has a similar feel to it, but in a different way:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Summer Wars<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">?<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6864\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/image-asset-1024x627.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"429\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/image-asset-1024x627.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/image-asset-300x184.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/image-asset-768x470.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/image-asset-1080x661.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/image-asset-1280x784.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/image-asset-980x600.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/image-asset-480x294.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/image-asset.jpeg 1470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/characterdesignreferences.com\/art-of-animation-2\/summer-wars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Character Design References<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nOh, I adore <em>Summer Wars<\/em>! It is\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">such\u00a0<\/span>a good movie. I\u2019m forgetting the director\u2019s name\u2014\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mamoru Hosoda.<\/span>\n\nYes! All of his projects have a very similar vibe. They\u2019re a lot funnier in a lot of ways\u2014more cheeky and more lively, but his work also very much captures that nostalgia.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Yeah, he also did\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">The Girl who Leapt Through Time\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">The Boy and the Beast...<\/span>\n\nAnd\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wolf Children.<\/span>\u00a0That\u2019s one of my favorites.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Finishing up the influence list:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Steven Universe.<\/span>\n\nOh yeah!\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]\u00a0<\/span>I. Sobbed. When\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Steven Universe\u00a0<\/span>was over. I sobbed when the main series was over, and I sobbed at the movie, and I sobbed at the end of\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Steven Universe Future.\u00a0<\/span>That series is so much fun, and so cute and sweet and full of heart.\n\nYou can tell when a creator loves the project that they\u2019re working on. You can tell when they pour all of themselves into what they do, and that\u2019s one of the things that I respect so much about Rebecca Sugar. She poured her absolute\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">heart<\/span>\u00a0into it, and it shows. Everyone who worked on that show obviously loved it to bits, and it radiates through in every drawing, in every background, every song, every aspect of it.\n\nI made a lot of\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Steven Universe\u00a0<\/span>fan animations, I tried my best to capture the art style of the show because I loved the way it looked, and I still look back to it and try to learn as much as I can. [It\u2019s] one of my biggest inspirations for\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hell Puppy.\u00a0<\/span>When we were figuring out how to handle certain aspects of it, it\u2019ll be like, \u201cWell, how did they do this in\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Steven Universe<\/span>?\u201d\n\n<iframe title=\"[SUMV] \u2728GRRRLS\u2728Pearl Animation\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRm99yfFwPU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">One of said fan animations.<\/span><\/p>\nI have the art book for the show, and I took a bunch of sticky notes, a highlighter, and a pen, and just took\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">a million\u00a0<\/span>notes on things that I could learn and pick up on. It\u2019s been one of my biggest inspirations in my own productions.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Speaking of your formative years, though,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hazbin\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">may have been your first industry job, but I was surprised to find out you went to art school.<\/span>\n\nYeah, I went to the Art Institute of... Silicon Valley, I think they called it?\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sunnyvale?<\/span>\n\nThat\u2019s the one! You know more about me than I do!<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0[Laughs]\u00a0<\/span>It is shut down now, because I think they got charged with defrauding the government for student loans or something like that? Something absolutely crazy.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Yeah, it was this huge deal with all the Art Institutes.<\/span>\n\nAnd hearing that alone, you can understand why I left.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I have friends that went to Art Institutes and\u2026 definitely had things to say about them. What was your experience?<\/span>\n\nThere were a lot of talented people there, but what it felt like is, they would just take absolutely anyone no matter how much they cared about art or not. So there were a few people who genuinely cared, and then a whole bunch of people who didn\u2019t care\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">at all.<\/span>\n\nAnd the teachers didn\u2019t seem to care either. I think my classes were like, four hours long because we were on the quarter system\u2014maybe I\u2019m remembering wrong since I try to forget that place. But we would be in class for maybe an hour, then the teacher would be like, \u201cAlright, I\u2019m done, everybody go home.\u201d We\u2019d rarely have a full class.\n\nSo I just decided, \u201cYou know what? I\u2019m done with this. I\u2019m not learning anything that I couldn\u2019t on my own.\u201d So I kept going to the counselor\u2019s office like, \u201cI want to leave,\u201d but they would pull in the head of every single department to convince me and pressure me not to.\n\nSo eventually I just stopped showing up to class, ghosted all of their calls, didn\u2019t pay them, and they eventually dropped me.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">You\u2019ve said that one of the things you want to do more is give advice that you wish you had when you started your career. What is some of that?<\/span>\n\nSome of the best advice I have would be related to art school, and that is: You don\u2019t need to go if you can\u2019t afford it, [or if you can\u2019t go to a good one]. It wasn\u2019t necessary for me.\n\nBut there\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">is\u00a0<\/span>a lot to gain by going to art school, and that is the connections you make while you\u2019re there. So if you\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">can\u00a0<\/span>afford to go, I say go for it, because one of the best things you\u2019ll get out of it is meeting peers who are going to help you along the way.\n\nThe way to network in the industry isn\u2019t vertically, it is horizontally. Those are the people who are going to be growing with you and receiving similar opportunities. If you\u2019re friends with them, they will want to help you out, and you can help them out in return. So meet your classmates. Be friends with them.\n\nBut also, of course, connect with your teachers and any guests they might bring in. One of the most important things is just making an art family for yourself.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Let\u2019s finally get into\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">HuniCast.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">First off, is it basically just a Discord call\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/everything-you-need-to-start-streaming-your-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">broadcast through Streamlabs OBS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">?<\/span>\n\nYeah, basically! Recently I\u2019ve been having my guests record their audio if it isn\u2019t a live one so it can be edited a little bit, but usually it\u2019s just everybody on a Discord call, being streamed live on OBS. I don\u2019t know how we\u2019ve never had a horrible accident!\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]\u00a0<\/span>Like, some guest saying something awful, the internet cutting out, something like that.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">But all that stuff does happen. Regularly.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]\u00a0<\/span>Yeah, actually, you\u2019d think I would be used to it by now! But I\u2019m still just like, \u201cOh God, The audio cut out for point-five seconds of a two-hour production! Everyone\u2019s going to hate this podcast and think it\u2019s terrible!\u201d But then after the fact, I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, what does it matter?\u201d\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">In fact, part of the appeal of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">HuniCast\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">seems to be that you do everything you\u2019re not supposed to in an audio production\u2014peaking, sound quality issues, talking over each other...<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Cracks up] <\/span>Talking over each other, cutting out, internet going bad, people just randomly dropping; every single one is a mess. That\u2019s probably gonna be how they always are. I think part of the charm of my podcast would die the moment I figured out how to make audio not peak anymore.\n\n<iframe title=\"\u3010Hunicast Animatic\u3011~ Oh Ashley (by Richard Horvitz\/Moxxie)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8dWF7tE62E?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Fan animatic from a guest appearance by\u00a0<\/span>Invader Zim\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">and\u00a0<\/span>Helluva Boss\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">voice actor Richard Horvitz<\/span><\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">And what is\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">HuniCast\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">if not a constant stream of guests saying something awful?<\/span>\n\nYou\u2019re right! You\u2019re not wrong!<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0[Laughs]\u00a0<\/span>People ask me what HuniCast is about and I\u2019m like, \u201cI don\u2019t know... I\u2019ve never known...\u201d\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Writing the intro, I noted how hard it is to describe it to someone who\u2019s never heard it before.<\/span>\n\nIt\u2019s a bunch of industry goofballs coming together and talking about their experiences, and also just a bunch of random nonsense. I guess the draw of that is, there\u2019s this expectation that people in the industry\u2014these voice actors and artists that you look up to are\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">professionals:\u00a0<\/span>They have everything together and everything figured out, and they\u2019re very intimidating. So I like to bring people on and just be like, \u201cLet\u2019s talk about getting food poisoning for an hour!\u201d\n\nWe also talk about cool behind-the-scenes stuff and give advice, but I try to be as unintimidating as possible and I think that carries through to my podcast. We\u2019re just a bunch of nerds who happened to fall into this position where people think we\u2019re a lot cooler than we are.\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]<\/span>\n\nTo bring it all back, if you\u2019re having fun, other people will enjoy that with you.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">So, a final question, just for fun: What happened to your giant inflatable Baymax?<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ha ha!\u00a0<\/span>Oh my God, you\u2019ve done your research! My ex-boyfriend stole it, is the short version. I lived with this boyfriend for a while, and when I decided that I was gonna leave, he just took all of my stuff and put it on the front porch like, \u201cHere!\u201d And I was like, \u201cCan I look everything over?\u201d And he was like, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t want to see you.\u201d\n\nAnd I was this shy, awkward young twentysomething, and I didn\u2019t check to see if Baymax was still there, and he wasn\u2019t!\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Laughs]\u00a0<\/span>And I\u2019m too awkward to ever be like, \u201cHey, give me Baymax back!\u201d So he just kept it! And I swear to God,<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0to this day\u00a0<\/span>I am still on the lookout for another life-size inflatable Baymax, because that is the coolest thing I\u2019ve ever owned in my entire life!\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">We definitely need to put out a call to find you another Baymax.<\/span>\n\nPlease, internet! Please help me! He was taken from me!\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">...OK, since that went so well, I think I can throw in just one more \u201cresearch flex\u201d question: Did you ever get the five dollars for your first commission?<\/span>\n\nOh my God! How many hours did you\u2014 No! I never got it. My first commission ever, I was never paid for.\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[Sighs dramatically]<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">But here you are now, so\u2014<\/span>\n\nLook, I may have a hundred-and-something thousand followers on Twitter, but I will never forget those five dollars I was cheated out of when I was sixteen!\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">And I think that\u2019s a good note to end on.<\/span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6851\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/Du9Fu76UcAAFZaS-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/Du9Fu76UcAAFZaS-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/Du9Fu76UcAAFZaS-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/Du9Fu76UcAAFZaS-480x640.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/09\/Du9Fu76UcAAFZaS.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ashley can be found on Twitter at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashnicholsart?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">@ashnicholsart<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">, on Instagram at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ashleynicholsart\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">@ashleynicholsart<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">, and on Youtube\u2014along with the HuniCast and all her animation projects\u2014at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCZqEZgmQjT-2qiLBU1BpiRQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ashley Nichols Art<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">. Please don\u2019t find her in real life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Feature Image: \"The Desperate Bun\" by C.S. Jones.\u200b<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<hr \/>\n\n<h3>About the Interviewer<\/h3>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1841 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/CS_Jones_avatar-150x150.png\" alt=\"CS Jones\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/CS_Jones_avatar-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/CS_Jones_avatar-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/CS_Jones_avatar-480x482.png 480w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/07\/CS_Jones_avatar.png 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n\nCS Jones has always described himself as a \u201cPhiladelphia-based freelance writer and illustrator,\u201d and will continue to do so even though he just moved to the suburbs. His work can be found at @thecsjones on <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/thecsjones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thecsjones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 ...Or thecsjones.com, although that one hasn't been updated in a year. He will soon, he promises. And yes, he also painted the header\u2014also with Clip Studio Paint on a Cintiq 16\u2014but the site cut most of it off, so <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thecsjones\/status\/1301737137876938752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here's the full thing<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2326,2318,2317],"tags":[54,152,834,835,836,837,838,586,839,270],"class_list":["post-6827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","category-creative-inspiration","category-digital-drawing-painting","tag-animation","tag-art","tag-ashley","tag-hazbin","tag-hazbin-hotel","tag-hunicast","tag-lackadaisy","tag-livestreaming","tag-nichols","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}