- Hi my name is Jordan Koch
and I'm a storyboard artist on The Loud House.
I've drawn since I was little
but it never occurred to me to stop.
As I got older, everything that I was doing
and everything that I was interested in
kind of built upon other things that I was interested in.
So I drew when I was younger and then I got involved
in high school in theater.
And then it started to occur to me
that drawing, film making, and acting in a performance
all combined together is really
the heart and soul of animation.
And when I was in the theater, I was asked
to do the posters for the shows that we were doing.
And then to come full circle,
when I started here on The Loud House,
as we started making the show they asked me
to do some concepts of posters for the series.
And one of those became the poster
that went up in Times Square.
To be able to contribute that same stuff
here at Nickelodeon is amazing.
I graduated college in May of 2012
and then I moved out to L.A.
I got a start up job at a studio making posters
for the projects that they had in development.
I was supposed to be there for two weeks
and that turned into eight months.
And I was doing more character design and storyboard art.
I was constantly posting my own stuff online,
on social media, and then the team
developing The Loud House saw my work
and they reached out to me, asked if I was interested
in joining the crew, and they brought me on
as the storyboard revisionist.
From there I went on to storyboarding on the show.
It's been great, especially to be here since the beginning
and see it from when nobody outside of the studio
knew what this was.
To go from just being drawings on our computer
and on the server here in the studio,
to pretty much getting its own legs and walking,
and becoming this thing around the world is amazing.
That's incredible.
Things that inspire me are comedy,
things that are entertaining, things that allow the audience
to interact with your work.
I'm also heavily inspired by toys.
I have an obsessive toy collection.
Anything that's tactile and something that is made,
inspires me, because you're making something
out of nothing.
Just a permanent marker.
I keep one in my pocket all the time
in the event that I get bored and would like to draw
on a napkin or place mat or something.
I mean it's permanent but it's such a solid black line
and with that you can do anything.
You can shade something in, you can draw something,
you can bring anything to life.
And a lot of times a lot of the stuff
that I post online will start as a drawing.
I will scan and then paint digitally.
And so I'll bring those two mediums together.
The thing that I love most about my job
and being here at Nickelodeon is that
we're all encouraged to be creative,
whether you're an artist or somebody else
who works at the studio.
I think a lot of what we do goes back to
us when we were kids, no matter what age you are.
You know everybody tunes in to the Macy's parade
at Thanksgiving to see the big balloons
of cartoon characters.
We all go back to that because there's something appealing
about these characters and about the legacy
that allowed these shows and stories have,
that you just can't escape.
And that's what's so fun about working here,
is that we're encouraged to be creative
and to be funny.
Make something; we live in a time right now
where you can post things daily on Instagram.
You can post something on YouTube.
You can make a short from the comforts of our home.
So the amount of excuses you have to not set out
to do what you want to do, are getting fewer every week.
Don't concern yourself with, you know,
is this ready yet, do I need more time?
The best way to challenge yourself
is to make something, get a reaction from people,
and then make something else.