This episode features animator and studio co-founder Liam Gilbey who shares what it took to create a studio with his classmates right out of school. You’ll also learn: *How the studio got their first client (and continues to do so) *How operations and finances are run *How animation students can start their own successful studio out of school too ~[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 www.bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: www.bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about Liam Gilbey: Liam Gilbey is a graduate of Norwich University of the Arts where he studied animation. Currently he is an animator, motion designer and studio co-founder of Cut the Mustard. *Follow Liam’s studio, Cut the Mustard on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cutthemustard_animation/ *Check out Cut the Mustard’s website: https://www.cutthemustardanimation.com/our-work *Companies House where all UK businesses have addresses registered: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house

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