A little over 11 years ago, I started Bloop Animation. It was a simple YouTube channel with a few animation tutorials, including one covering the process of how I made my student thesis film. Animation is what I went to …
5 Places to Find Funding for Your Short Film
Unsure how to get your animated film funded? As you might know, animation can become expensive quickly. Beyond the animation itself, there are many other costs to consider—compositing, coloring, storyboarding, sound design, musical scoring, distribution, and more. All these elements …
Where to Look for Work as an Independent Animator
If you’re in between jobs as an independent animator, or just starting and looking for work, we’ve compiled this list of some of the most useful places independent animators find their next gig (or have their next gig come to …
A Helpful Guide to Networking in Animation
Have you spent countless hours learning animation, building a website, editing your reel, and establishing a social media presence, only to struggle with breaking into the industry as a professional No matter how skilled you are, finding a job can …
How Much Money Do Animators Actually Make?
Are you trying to figure out how much animators make? It’s quite difficult to find solid information on salaries, plus there are so many career paths an animator can take that adds to the complexity. For instance, animators can work …
Why Our Next Project is an Animated Feature Film
We recently posted a teaser reveal for our next project – Snowlands. Here it is in case you missed it: Pretty cool, right? But before we get into the film, we need to go back a year or so. After …
They Wanted Me to Buy bloop.com for a Quarter Million Dollars
This is why domain or brand names don’t really matter. If you ever started a new business/company, or thought about doing so, you probably spent a good amount of time coming up with the “perfect” name. Naming your brand is hard. …
Spiderman into the Spider-Verse: 2D or 3D?
Every once in while an animated movie comes out that is impossible to ignore. Spiderman Into the Spider-Verse is one of those movies. It is without a doubt one of the best animated films I’ve ever seen. Apparently I’m not …
Why I Don’t Do Client Work
I worked for different productions studios (animation, VFX, film etc…), and noticed a few things about their business model. It’s mostly based on having minimal staff, getting clients, then hiring as many freelancers as possible to deliver the work to …
