Motion Designer Stu Denbigh - Find Your Mentor

Being Freelance

English - March 02, 2015 11:08 - 29 minutes - 21.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 40 ratings
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Steve Folland chats to Motion Designer & Creative Editor Stu Denbigh on taking a step back to move forward early on his career, continually improving and learning, how finding two mentors made him stronger creatively and how he deals with the dreaded cash-flow - all part of being freelance for the past 10 years.

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Here’s some of the key takeaway points:

Sometimes you need to step back in your career to move forwards

The importance of referrals in getting new work

Even though his agreements say he’ll charge interest on fees not paid

after 30 days, he’s never done it in case it harms the client

relationship

Ask your bank for you a big overdraft to help your cash flow be less

painful

How hard it can be fitting in to a company’s culture when you’re

working on site as a freelancer

The challenge of re-do loops for designers

The benefit of working with other freelancers and learning from them

by seeing how they work

The importance of finding a mentor, someone to pull you up a level

When putting together your portfolio, ditch your oldest work and show

the most recent, it forces you to keep improving