🔴 Business of Motion Design: Advice for Freelancers, In-house designers
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- We're going to address issues pertaining to the motion design community specifically. Some guests will be participating in the live discusison. #Mograph #mographAMA
03:30 How do I get out of my soul sucking job doing corporate work and launch my career as a freelancer?
07:10 Is it more creative to work at a design studio vs. an ad agency? How do I acquire more skills with programs?
13:41 I'm scared to go freelance. What should I do?
15:55 How do you make the jump to freelance and leave job security behind? I'm scared.
22:40 How do you find balance between commercial (corporate) and artistic jobs?
25:50 How do I find my niche audience and get those types of clients?
30:21 How do you manage the feast or famine of freelance work?
34:04 How do I protect the trademark of my fictional business name?
37:26 How do you build an estimate for a project? Watch this:
• How to Start & Run a D...
48:50 If motion graphics is on the decline, how do I diversify to obtain work? Work opportunities.
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Thanks for the answers, lots of great applicable content in this stream!
WOW Cant wait for Andrew Kramer to be on the show :O He singlehandedly inspired me to start learning After Effects back in the day
Devision 05 for learning sequential design. That guy is amazballs.
Many golden nuggets on this episode. More Motion Design, please! Thanks for this.
Ah, great so glad this is up here. I missed the live stream. Thanks so much for all the info on this, as always it's greatly appreciated!
Really great advice, i'm not in motion design but found this applicable to any form of creative career. Nice to hear other people thinking the same thought as me!
Great stream as always guys! :) Really liked the discussion about smaller teams versus big agencies. I also think 'small business owner' designers will naturally get more and more popular, since other small businesses now recognize the need for online presence & brand identity, but can't afford a big agency budget.
I can very relate to these topics. I have worked for almost ten years as a flash animator/web designer which I does not really feel happy with. I did not enjoy the work. After a while I decided to do 3d and 3d animation. I had my 40 hour work week and put a lot of time in the evening learning all the basics and filling my portfolio on insta. I have started my own business now in 3d since 3 months. I have one client I am working with every week, I did 2 big animation projects and 1 to come and some small projects. So I highly recommend following your passion, wether it's 3d, motion, bakery or gardening. There is always a way, but it starts with you knowing what you like. Also, thanks Chris and Melinda for the process video's. A lot of great tips which came in handy during my process!!
Really great stuff. So handy to hear this as a student :)
Those dark tunes are awesome, great stream as always.
Great episode guys!
That Chris outburst intro was probably the best part! lol
thanks Nicole.
Thank you Chris ! You're doing a great job.
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I'm following you from France.
thank you! you think i'm too snappy?
you're just cute !! the colors go well togerther.
keep going, I'm learning a lot. Very valuable content.
Thank you Chris!
More motion graphic please!
share this video. we produce more of the content that people watch.
This is such an awesome and extremely informative feedback which is truly appreciated. I will be starting a digital media program w/ emphasis in Motion Graphics. I love color and visuals. What are hour thoughts in visuals which can be used for music festivals?
This was such a great stream.
thanks Logan!
you guys are awesome
Thank you.
Guys, have you tried to add some sound post-compression? I was trying to watch you in the office and needed to put my finger on the volume control all the time :)))
sorry. we have to nail our audio game. 2018 goals! we have all the gear too.
I feel like family jobs hold me back a lot, but on the flip side, they're very forgiving. As I say this I'm putting together a 200-300 page book for my grandpa with handmade maps (WHAT HAS GOT INTO ME?!) for pretty much nothing. Out of love I suppose. Anyway, thanks f or the great tips!
love the remix of the Futur theme song!
Adam is good.
Im a mechanical engineer with a day job shifting to motion design freelance. Do you guys think this is worth it? I really love learning motion design. Also thanks for this video! edit: also Im trying to learn 3d, 2d, is it a good idea to learn both simultaneously or focus on 1 first?
i dont know how you guys have time for making this video, and on what purpose. Everything seems so decent, thanks
thanks. we make time for what we think is important.
100% Chris :D :D
enjoyed the stream as always
cool outfit btw!
i came home late yesterday so i'm here to watch what I missed at the beginning of the video
thanks Heidi.
I used to run my own interactive design company. When my business partner decided to join another design firm, I closed the shop and decided to get more experience working with other companies. I joined all types of creative businesses, both large agencies, and small boutiques shops. I can safely say that working with an ad agency is much more beneficial and rewarding. Yes, you may work on one account the entire year, but it’s always something different and challenging, and you are usually moved to a different account the next year. Also, it’s the kind of big brand projects, whereas, with boutiques, they are specialty focused, and high pressured. In an ad agency, the people are the brightest in the business. They are stable and don’t have some weird competition thing going on as you get in boutique shops. In an ad agency, you’ll learn more about the business side of things. Smaller, boutique shops don’t share business relationships and activity, so you never get a chance to grow on that front.
When I decided to go freelance, I had no money, and hardly a stable machine to work on. What I did have was a good portfolio and a huge network of people I could contact and get jobs from. My advice is that when you finally decided to go on your own, make sure you’ve got that network. Nothing else will get you work more than that network of people that will help you get work. That’s the best thing about working for many corporate jobs; is that it’s so easy to generate a huge network of people who go on to work with different companies, and that network just keeps growing. I’ve been freelancing for 6 years, and never had to market myself or go outside of my network for a job. The work simply comes to me, and I’m very thankful for that. It comes down to this... go get the experience you need first. Learn. Gather the network and business relationships you need first. Do that and the work will come to you when you finally decided to go on your own.
show me your network and i'll tell you your net worth.
What is that song at intro?
Where’s the logo design episode gone? I wanted to rewatch it? 🤯
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Is it part of the Logo Design & Construction Course? I really liked how you went through the whole process on that video!
29:19 "I came from Corona" 😮😮😮
How about dressing up as Santa in one of your live stream? That would be so cool.
let's see what happens tomorrow. it's hot in that hat.
How do I know am good at mograph
It’s all about timing. Learn your motion curves.
corona in the houssssse lol
Why are there so many freelancers than in house designers? Is there a lack of demand for in house?
I just did a weird and goofy dance during the intro music. I want everyone to know that.
now, we all know.
what kind of music in the beginning?
it's our theme song composed by Adam Sanborne
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dude.. Chris was wey over excited... lol...
i am pumped up.