Hi all! I have a new Youtube video available to watch - https://youtu.be/-GL2z6y5w1k
I've been pretty sporadic about uploading in the past, mostly because I find the process of recording and then editing videos very tedious. So I've decided to try out a new style of video where I just talk and try to minimise any areas that I might have to make cuts or edits. This means I can record and upload a video very quickly and I don't have to fight with Premiere Pro all the time.
Hopefully this will be the first of many! I have plenty of ideas planned.
In other news, since it has been a long while, I am now freelancing full-time, and am currently working for Gameloft and Dreamworks! I couldn't be more overjoyed to be working with such awesome studios. If you had told me this would be my life a year or so ago when I was just going part-time with my work at Rare, I would have laughed you out the room. I am still very much getting my head around freelance as a career, but it seems to be going ok and I have a lot more time for personal hobbies like horse riding and just generally getting out and about.
Due to the extra time I also get from freelancing, I also get time to do more personal work like this;
And finally, I am doing more mentoring in both 2D and 3D art. I currently have 3 long-term mentees (2 learning art fundamentals, 1 with a 3D project) and have a 10 seat group mentorship coming up in September (sold out, waitlist here), which feels awesome.
Overall it feels like my life is moving in the direction I want it to. I would love in the future to set aside 1 day a week for just mentoring, Twitch streaming, or Youtubing, and make more of a viable career from teaching online. So maybe I'll make that my next goal... and I need to make a new 3D environment soon, I'm getting rusty!
Anya :)