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They Wanted Me to Buy bloop.com for a Quarter Million Dollars

This is why domain or brand names don’t really matter. If you ever started a new business/company, or thought about doing so, you probably spent a good amount of time coming up with the “perfect” name. Naming your brand is hard. …

5 Reasons You Should Learn Animation with Online Courses

Online courses have become insanely popular in recent years, and they keep getting better and better. We’ve come a long way since the days of random YouTube tutorials. Online video courses are now highly-produced, and a very effective alternative to …

Spiderman into the Spider-Verse: 2D or 3D?

Every once in while an animated movie comes out that is impossible to ignore. Spiderman Into the Spider-Verse is one of those movies. It is without a doubt one of the best animated films I’ve ever seen. Apparently I’m not …

Why I Don’t Do Client Work

I worked for different productions studios (animation, VFX, film etc…), and noticed a few things about their business model. It’s mostly based on having minimal staff, getting clients, then hiring as many freelancers as possible to deliver the work to …

My Process for Choosing My Next Project

There are 2 major creative tragedies: Starting a project, and not finishing it. Doing something well that shouldn’t have been done at all. This is why, for me, choosing an idea to pursue is a BIG DEAL. It should be …

Goals vs. Milestones

There’s a lot of talk about setting goals. I’ve heard people define a yearly plan for their business with certain goals such as “reaching 5000 email subscribers before the end of the year” or “10% increase of traffic every month”, …

2018: A Year in Review

Another year has passed, and along comes another yearly review. These start coming faster and faster, don’t they? Might just be me… So how was 2018? In a word: Quiet. You might not have noticed it, because I try to …

2 Things to Remember When Starting a New Project

I had lunch with a friend recently who told me he had a great idea for a small business. This friend has been stuck in a 9-5 job for a few years now and has been playing with the idea of starting a …

Character Animator Animation Course coming November 23

Exciting news! This upcoming Friday (AKA Black Friday) we’re launching a brand new course: Character Animator Animation Adobe’s Character Animator is a new player in the animation game, but it’s already made waves in the industry. It lets you record …