This episode features animator Christian Lie on how he found success on YouTube and decided to change the trajectory of his career towards animation. He also shares: *His personal study schedule as he learns the principles of animation *The formula he uses to get views on YouTube *How he got his start by sharing rock music history through video essays ~[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 Christian Lie: Christian Lie is an independent animator and character designer who got his start in 2013 by sharing rock music history video essays on YouTube. Since then, his channel has blown up to over 250,000 subscribers and hit nearly 20 million collective views this year. Recently, Lie began the Character Design podcast to learn as much as he can from other artists as changes the trajectory of his career towards animation. *Send Christian an email: chrishaug [ at ] artwork.com *Check out Christian’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgIlmfJhLLBwTYvL4r-2hhg *Christian on twitter: https://twitter.com/lielikesmusic?lang=en *Christian on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lielikesmusic/ *Christian’s Character Design Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/22CvfBPxXeME3RZLCSnffz

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