In this episode Naseer Pasha, a Toronto-based 2D Animator shares what he did to break into 2D animation. You’ll also learn: *What it was like working on Netflix’s Castlevania *How to understand your dollar-value as an animator (when taking on a new role or freelance) *A model for making the best choice when faced with tough decisions ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by Bloop Animation, which is an animation learning platform packed with premium online video courses for aspiring animation filmmakers. They have courses for all major animation programs like Maya, Animate CC, Toon Boom, Blender, TVPaint, and many others, as well as some non-software courses like a storyboarding course, Animation foundations course, and even one about making graphic novels, which covers absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish. The courses are all in video-form, so there’s no deadlines or application process, you simply pick a course and start learning in seconds. They even offer a free ebook titled “Making an animated short”, which covers their entire process, step-by-step, of how they made one of their films, from coming up with the idea, to storyboarding, animation and all the way to exporting the film. You can get that book for free at www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry. You can check out their complete course library at bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about Naseer Pasha: Naseer Pasha is a Toronto-based 2D animator who is also the author of a graphic novel called, Two Mistakes 2 Many, and he’s working on an independent short film called Legend: A Dragonball Tail. He’s also worked on Netflix’s Castlevania, and was the animation lead on Battle Born and Extinction of the PS4 and the PC. Between all this, he takes on an awful lot of freelance. Follow Nas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reMENgeance Learn more about this podcast at https://terryibele.com/animation-industry-podcast/

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