010: How You Think Of Your Freelance Business Matters w/ Chris Do

003: How To Travel The World As A Freelancer w/ Magoz: Have you ever dreamed of working on the road? Do think it is even possible to work as a motion designer or illustrator digital nomad? Our guest today is the perfect example not only that it’s possible but that it can positively influence your work as well by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

49 min listen

005: How To Balance Personal With Paid Work To Be The Best Designer Possible w/ Irene Feleo: When we first get started in the world of motion graphics, we often have dreams of working on endlessly fulfilling creative projects, always working in our preferred style. Needless to say, it doesn’t take most of us long to realize that this isn’t the wa by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

43 min listen

027: How to work from anywhere and follow your passions w/ Laura Peña: Making career decisions that are based on your heart and not your wallet is tough. It’s also important if you plan on having a fulfilling career. Don’t be scared, others have made the difficult transition and my guest today might just inspire you to follo by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

50 min listen

015: How To Protect Your Work As A Motion Designer w/ Silvia Baumgart: Have you ever felt freaked out and overwhelmed at the idea of creating a contract? If you already have standard terms and conditions, do you feel confident in them, or could they be tighter? Are you even aware of all the legal ramifications that can come by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

27 min listen

021: How to shape the life you want through your freelance business w/ Tom Davis: As a freelancer, it can be tricky finding the right balance between pleasing your clients and building the work-life balance that is best for you. Tom Davis joins us today to discuss how he has built a business that is fulfilling on both a personal and pr by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

44 min listen

008: The Most Important Freelance Lessons From 2017: Christmas Special w/ Austin Saylor: This week on Motion Hatch we’re getting festive and reflective with Austin Saylor, as we reflect on our top 3 lessons learned in 2017 and our top 3 things we want to achieve in our motion design careers in 2018. We also have a bit of fun with a motion des by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

49 min listen

000: Introducing Motion Hatch: Motion Hatch is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by veteran motion designer Hayley Akins, discussing the business side of animation and motion design that so many creatives struggle with. Offering quality practical advice and insight for freelance, full-time or by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

2 min listen

010: How You Think Of Your Freelance Business Matters w/ Chris Do: One of the things so many of us creatives struggle with is how to charge what we’re worth. Many of us are in the habit of thinking of ourselves as freelancers, but Chris Do joins us today to talk us through how to change our mindset to think of ourselves by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

73 min listen

001: Weathering The Ups & Downs of Life as a Freelancer w/ Lilian Darmono: As freelancers, we have to live with the fact that work often comes in waves. We might be really busy for stretches of the year, and then face a lean month or two. Learning to predict and work through these cycles is a big factor in creating a successful by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

32 min listen

002: What You Need To Be Asking Potential Clients Before Starting Work w/ Lilian Darmono: It’s no secret that when it comes to careers and business, the pay, opportunities, and accolades are not always distributed equally. It’s often easy to point to the corporate world as the prime example of this, and overlook that these same inequalities ar by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

45 min listen

013: How To Think About Sound Design & Music As An Animator w/ Wesley Slover: As designers, a lot of us love to think that we are in complete control over the outcome and success of our projects. But how many times have you been blown away after the sound designer worked their magic on it? As I share in the episode, I experience th by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

56 min listen

019: How to use your network to move your career forward w/ Caitlin Cadieux: How much networking do you do in the motion community? Have you ever done a speaking gig? Even though these might not be first things that come to mind when it comes to advancing your career, they’re the kinds of practices that can make a huge difference, by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

39 min listen

011: How To Transition From Freelancer To Studio Owner w/ TJ Kearney of Oddfellows & Instrument: We’ve all wanted something more from of our work at one time or another, but how many of us actually take it upon ourselves to create what we’re looking for? TJ Kearney did just that with the help of four friends when they founded Oddfellows and purposely by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

51 min listen

012: How To Make The Leap From Full Time To Freelance w/ Mitch Myers: Many of us struggle to make the transition and shift from agency or studio work to independent freelancer. In today’s conversation, we go in-depth on that first year of freelancing and all the mindset shifts that it requires. Mitch Myers is a freelance mo by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

46 min listen

009: What You Need To Know About Accounting As A Freelancer w/ Emily Coltman of FreeAgent: What's the one thing that many of us artists and creatives dread more than all else every year? That’s right, it’s tax time! As creatives we would rather put all our energy towards our work instead of stressing out about our accounting (or lack thereof). by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

35 min listen

006: How To Build A Motion Design Career That Works For You w/ Joey Korenman of School of Motion: Are you brand new and figuring out how to start your freelance career? Maybe you’re at the point where you’re trying to decide if you should attempt to scale your business to become a studio as opposed to an individual freelancer? Wherever you’re at, we c by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

82 min listen

017: What Is GDPR And Why Do You Need To Know About It? w/ Silvia Baumgart: Because so many of us work online and across borders, sometimes laws in one country might affect you whether or not you live there. A lot of people who do business or promotion internationally are panicking about the new GDPR law that’s coming into effect by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

50 min listen

018: When is the right time to make a career turn? w/ Michelle Higa Fox: Over the course of an entire career, spanning different jobs, companies and goals, a lot of people find that their priorities shift, and so do their personal definitions of success. Michelle Higa Fox joins us today to talk about how those concepts have sh by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

49 min listen

020: 6 tips to avoid burnout and achieve your goals: I don’t know about you, but it often feels to me like there’s a pressure in our industry to always be doing absolutely everything at once. Client work, personal projects, posting daily to Instagram, reaching out to potential clients, updating websites, an by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

15 min listen

022: Art school vs online courses: The pros & cons w/ Dorca Musseb & Ryan Summers: So you want to be a motion designer. To go to art school or not? There is a healthy debate over whether or not a formal education is worth your time and money. Especially now with the proliferation of online courses, many aspiring designers are wondering by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

68 min listen

004: Why Collaboration Is The Best Investment You Can Make w/ Andrew Embury: Any freelancer knows that the freelance life is filled with sacrifice, struggle, and risk, especially when we’re first trying to get established. Andrew Embury is no stranger to these challenges, and joins us on the podcast to give us some insight into hi by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

34 min listen

007: What You Need To Know Before Starting A Creative Partnership w/ Wednesday Studio: If you’ve ever thought about going into business with a friend or business partner, you’re probably aware that it’s not always as rosy as it might seem at first. Competing goals, styles and personalities can make it hard to go into business with even clos by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

34 min listen

028: How to make sure you're on the right track in your career w/ Joe Donaldson: Do you ever find yourself so busy with work for clients that you never create or do something just for your own enjoyment or personal fulfillment? It’s a tricky balance to have a career that pays the bills but that still leaves you time and energy to do w by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

55 min listen

016: How Niching Down Can Help You Get More Clients w/ Jess Peterson: As freelance designers, many of us remain generalists, afraid we’ll lose project opportunities and income if we specialize too much. Unfortunately, that also means we’re competing against the countless other general designers out there, not sure how to se by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

58 min listen

026: How to create habits that will help your career: Constructing good habits and sticking with them can be hard. With all the different parts of being a motion designer, let alone just being a functioning human, there’s so much to do all the time. Having good and productive habits is the key, and that’s wh by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

23 min listen

023: How to find & grow community as a freelancer w/ Jorge Canedo AKA Jr.canest: As freelancers, we often miss out on the team building and community that people in companies and studios have. There’s so much we can learn from each other, but miss out on because we are off on our own. I know this is something I’ve experienced. Today, by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

46 min listen

036: Making Money in Mograph Part 5 w/ Victoria Nece: In Part 5 of the mini-series, Making Money in Mograph, we’re looking at more of the non-conventional ways to earn an income as a motion designer. We spoke to someone who definitely plays a big part in the motion design industry but she doesn’t have a role by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

43 min listen

024: A legal crash course for motion designers w/ Jamie Lieberman: Let’s face it, we’re motion designers, not legal experts. But in this business, there are myriad legal concerns from understanding contracts to protecting intellectual property. This all may seem scary, but as my guest will tell you, they are nothing to b by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

34 min listen

041: Parenting as a freelancer w/ Doing it for the kids: Are you worried that being a freelancer and a parent are incompatible? It’s not uncommon for freelancers to have concerns about taking care of their kids among all their freelancing commitments. Since questions about this are so common in the Motion Hatch by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

65 min listen

031: Making Money in Mograph Part 1 w/ Adam Plouff - Battleaxe: This is part one of a new mini-series we’re doing here at Motion Hatch called Making Money in MoGraph. We’ll be hearing from people who are making money as motion designers in a number of different and less than conventional ways. Today, I sit down to tal by Motion Hatch: Helping Motion Designers Do Better Business

54 min listen

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