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Which of Our Courses Is Right for You?

As our courses library continues to expand I’ve been getting a lot of emails from people asking me which course they should get, based on their own needs. In this post I’ll address some common situations and try to answer …

I Can’t Believe They Made Me Do Algebra

Warning! Rant ahead. When I look back at my days in high-school, I can’t not feel like I was cheated. Can someone tell me why, on earth, did I spend so many years trying to master Algebra? I wasn’t gently introduced …

Animator’s Block

Writers get a bad rap for being the only creative professionals to have their own unique illness. I’m referring to the “writer’s block”. Let me clarify something real quick: There’s no such thing as writer’s block. Writing is just like any other art …

Recovering from a Hack

Last week we have recovered from a website hack that lasted for 6 days. Before I get into the details I want to make it clear – the hack is completely gone and the website is perfectly ok. Our platform …

You Are Not Your Work

People, artists especially, associate themselves with their creation. It’s very common to feel that if people don’t like their work, it means they are bad artists, or even bad human beings. That is a very unhealthy way of approaching your work, …

The Worst Thing About Being a Freelancer

Life as a freelancer (of any kind) can be tough. It’s based around the idea of waiting for someone to choose you. Pick you. Almost all artists experience that reality. Think of actors. Their whole world is based around waiting for …

Best Animation Film Festivals for Submitting Your Animated Short Film

After finishing our third animated short film Tasteful, we knew we wanted to go all in on festival submission. I’ve had some experience with free or cheap festivals when I submitted Lift Up in 2014, but with Tasteful I wanted …

Making an Animated Short Film – The Making of Tasteful

I’ve recently released my 3rd animated short film Tasteful, and I decided to take some time to write about all the steps behind making the film, from start to finish, explaining them as simply as I can, so that even …

Big Surprise…

Next week we are releasing a brand new course I’ve been working on in secret for quite a while, and today I wanted to tell you all about it. There are also 2 cool surprises. Keep reading. I’ve been making behind …