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+  "text": " Hey there! In today's bonus lesson, we'll be talking about passion projects. A passion project is a creative side project that anyone can do no matter what your experience level. They can either be simple like creating personal work for yourself to experiment, or they can manifest on a grander scale with you hiring a team of animators to bring your illustration work to life. You could even potentially fund your passion projects through a platform like Kickstarter. On the flip side, maybe your side hustle is something completely different than your day job. Maybe you're a digital illustrator by day, but you love painting with gouache by night, or even creating ceramics. So let's go over the pros and cons of passion projects. The pros definitely outweigh the cons. Let's start with the cons and save the best for last. First one I would say is passion projects usually don't have a budget, especially if if they're self initiated, you're gonna have to invest in them yourself. That could either mean hiring people or using your own precious time to work on it instead of getting money from a client. So usually you'll have to fund something yourself and you could potentially use Kickstarter or another platform to get community support. For this project I did with Tyler, this was like a very long passion project. As you can see, it's a two and a half minute animation. So it took a really long time. And it was really amazing and really rewarding. and we were so happy when we were done with it. But I will say that during the project, we weren't getting paid a lot for it because it was self-initiated by Dan Stevers, the guy who reached out to us. So we were okay with that and we agreed to that, but it was hard because we didn't have much incentive to work on it. Another thing is additional stress. Sometimes passion projects feel like a burden to me, especially if they're long drawn out projects that I'm working on for over a year. This one actually took us about two years. They can be really overwhelming, But that's just my personality type, so I tend to like doing shorter projects that I can get more instant gratification from. But you could potentially also break your projects up into shorter, simple goals. Just try not to let a side project affect your self-care. If you're working alone, it can leave you feeling isolated and overwhelmed, especially if you're working all day, and then you go home to work some more, you won't get a chance to rest your eyes. So to solve this, you could slot in time for a couple hours a week, maybe on the weekend or during your work day, and pace yourself. Since this project is for you, just listen to your body and try to stay healthy. That, in turn, will make your project better. Some pros of passion projects are that there's no visual constraints. You get to work on something you truly love. There's not usually a timeline, so take it at your own pace. The deadlines are up to you, and there are no consequences if you don't meet them. They're also skill building. You have the freedom to experiment and test new techniques so you can create connections. If you have to hire a team to help you or get a friend to collaborate for free, you can build trusting relationships with colleagues by doing passion projects. And creating this new work will attract new clients. If you create something impressive, that will show the client you have experience in that particular style. So for this one, here's some of the design frames we worked on. I felt like this kind of leveled up my skill set and got clients to hire me based on what they saw here. Passion projects can also be rewarding and make you happy. If you can create something with no constraints that you're proud of, the great thing is you can share it with the world without having to worry about permission from clients and everything, so it's great and there's a little bit more gratification. The feedback you get from your peers could be really rewarding as well. Doing passion projects really helps you gain control which can lead to happiness. And in addition, it can be in your portfolio, so this was like a big heavy hitter in my portfolio, a project that I worked on that was more of a directing project, So that kind of gave me some of that recognition to be an art director. It has helped people to reach out to me and asked me to initiate bigger projects rather than just being a designer on a project. And if you're doing something, like you're selling your work as your passion project, like here I've got my shop, you can potentially make money off of this. I don't think this one is as important, but if your passion project involves something like prints or products there, it could potentially be a payoff as well. I don't think this should be your main goal with passion projects unless it's something you're really desperate for, but I think that makes them less of passion projects and more of a chore. There are all types of passion projects from big to small. I've actually had the opportunity to do almost all types of passion projects. I'm pretty lucky in that way. You could do simple sketches on your own like this. I kind of did a self-initiated warmup, like I said here. I took some photos and just sketched and I would classify this as a passion project. I was trying a new technique and playing with something and sharing it with the world. You could also just do an Instagram post once a week or just do them sporadically to try out new techniques and new subject matter. So here I was playing with a more quirky, silly style and kind of making it more of a joke, which was fun. I actually get a lot of work inquiries through my Instagram personal projects. This has actually helped project me forward the most in my career out of anything, I think. You could also try a new medium for a passion project. In this case, I tried Rizograph, which I've talked about in previous lessons, the type of printing, but that challenged me in new ways and helped me to experiment. There are also challenges like 36 days of type and other Instagram challenges that encourage you to make something every day for an allotted amount of time. So these are either called like 52 weeks or 365 day projects. There's also these challenges like this one, the 36 day of type one. And it's easy to participate. You basically just post it on your Instagram or wherever your blog is. And then you do all of the letters and all of the numbers. And you can see lots of artists have participated. If you go to their Instagram, you can see some examples of that. It's really inspiring to look through these and see how different illustrators have worked with different numbers. And you can even turn it into more of an illustration challenge like Oliver Sin has. He has kind of made them more vague. So this one's a G and it's a little harder to read, but it's challenge him to post his characters in new ways, which I think is really cool and a little bit different than just using typography. There's also every days and if you're in the motion graphics industry, you might have heard of Beeple and he got really famous for doing his every days and he did them for 4,468 consecutive days, which is insane. And I mean, that's just that at the time of this recording. You should check out his website now to see how many he's done at this point. We'll have a link for that in the resources tab. I can't believe he's had time to do these every day. And if you look at these compositions, they're crazy. They're not simple compositions. And he does this every day. And I can tell that he's improved a ton over time and he's tried new techniques. So that's really cool. That's an interesting challenge you could give yourself. This is really embarrassing, but I did a 52 week portrait challenge in high school. And since I was the only person who is consistent, I actually took photos of myself because it was just the easiest. So this helped me learn a lot about photography and composition and it helped me stay dedicated and stick to a goal, which was really cool. Of course, being a teenager, I was excited about having pictures of myself. It's really embarrassing to look back on now, but I think it taught me a lot about my creativity. So even if you're doing something that's not related to your everyday job, it can be really beneficial. Or you could do larger animation projects that involve a team effort and a lot of time and energy. These can be stressful, but it just depends on your personality type really. So obviously this one was a collaboration between different people. I think we've actually looked at this one already in a different lesson, but this could be a little bit easier because you don't have everyone working on the whole thing. Everyone has their own shop, which is kind of nice. But if we look back on Koon, which was the one that I worked on with Tyler and Dan Stevers, it was really honestly pretty stressful. I don't know if I'd do a project this big again. It had a great payoff and a great reward and it really opened new doors for me. I still get inquiries about it. It has a great effect on new eyes and clients, but I personally found that type of project structure just a little bit stressful. So you just have to find what works best for you. There's all types of passion projects. You might prefer to do like a daily challenge and that's great, that works for you. And just make sure it's something you're excited about and that's the whole point of passion projects. You're supposed to be passionate about them. So pick something you're passionate about. Just like with any project, start your passion projects with concepting and brainstorming. What do you want to get out of this project and what are the benefits to you? Do you want something nice for your portfolio? Or are you doing this to learn a new skill? Or maybe your goal is for more people to see your work. In that case, you might want to consider doing some every days to gain some traction on social media. everything though, just make sure it's something that you're actually really excited about. So after you've figured out the benefits that you want from your project, start committing to just one idea. And from there, set a goal. And perhaps you break down that one goal and too much simpler achievable goals and put that on your calendar to stay on track. Make sure you have time for your passion project. What you choose should be manageable and achievable without causing you too much stress. That's why I like to do short sporadic projects every now and then so that I don't have to remain consistent and working on a a long project over a long period of time. This isn't necessary, but if you wanna create some accountability, tell the world about your project, put it on your social media. Then you might feel a bit more inclined to share your progress with your community as you work on it. But here's the most important step. Just start, start working on your project. Don't think twice, just jump in and start creating. If you're scared, start with a warmup or a no pressure exercise, just start putting that pen to paper. Once you get going, you'll get into a flow and you can start enjoying yourself. I also wanted to briefly show you some examples of passion projects from other artists in this industry. So here's Kenisha Sneeze website. She's clearly an amazing illustrator and she works with animation a lot. She worked on this Airbnb project that I worked on as well. But she also has this kind of side hustle where she does ceramics and tactile things called tactile matter. That's what the name of her artist identity is. And I think she does this closer to full time now than she did before. I know she still does a bit of her everyday motion work, but she gets a lot of attention for this amazing work she does with ceramics and textiles, et cetera. She has different collections and you can buy her products. I actually have a few of her things because I just love it. So that's a really cool one and a really interesting way to see how a motion graphics artist branched out from this industry and is using her creativity in different ways. I also love Monica Yoon-Gi Kim. Hopefully I'm saying that correctly, but she's an amazing animator and illustrator. She works on short films and has her own work on this website. But then I also love her work because she's a tattoo artist. She does amazing tattoos and honestly, I'm tempted to go to New York to get some myself. You can tell that the way tattoos are illustrated, like that traditional tattoo style is actually going back and influencing her illustration work, which is really neat to see how those side projects are affecting her everyday work. We also have Mandy Wickens, and she's typically an animation director, but she has a lot of these amazing side projects with illustrations of people dancing. She posts them on her Instagram and everything. These aren't even really meant to make her money, I don't think. They're just gorgeous illustrations that kind of speak to her grief and loss. So she was illustrating something she cared deeply about, which is amazing. I think they're gorgeous. We also have people who create products. So this is Jimmy Simpson. I love his illustration work. And he's gone ahead and done a couple of zines, which are little mini artists magazines kind of, where they just show their work off and you can buy them online. I mean, I have some work as well, but I just love how intentional he is with his zines and prints. They're really cool and they have their own unique style as compared to his everyday work. Another artist I admire, who's done a really cool passion project is Fabian Molina. He's an amazing art director. He's created a Seed and Spark campaign for this film, Don't Ever Let Go, which is incredible. And I love that he actually raised money for the project and hired people. He's got a producer on it. He's hired animators. You can tell he's putting a lot of love into it. This is something you could potentially do as well. You could raise funds for your projects if you're really, really invested in it and you think it can tell something to the world it's something that people would be interested in, you could raise money. There are all sorts of passion projects out there, but your project is unique to you. Especially don't worry about making something that everyone else is making. This is your safe place to explore. All in all, I'd say the pros outweigh the cons when it comes to passion projects. Passion projects can level up your skills and open new doors for you all the while you're learning new techniques. I really hope that I've encouraged you here to start working on some passion projects after you finish this course. That's all for this bonus lesson. See you later. Music",
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+      "text": " Hey there! In today's bonus lesson, we'll be talking about passion projects. A passion project is a creative side project that anyone can do no matter what your experience level. They can either be simple like creating personal work for yourself to experiment, or they can manifest on a grander scale with you hiring a team of animators to bring your illustration work to life. You could even potentially fund your passion projects through a platform like Kickstarter. On the flip side, maybe your side hustle is something completely different than your day job. Maybe you're a digital illustrator by day, but you love painting with gouache by night, or even creating ceramics. So let's go over the pros and cons of passion projects. The pros definitely outweigh the cons. Let's start with the cons and save the best for last. First one I would say is passion projects usually don't have a budget, especially if if they're self initiated, you're gonna have to invest in them yourself. That could either mean hiring people or using your own precious time to work on it instead of getting money from a client. So usually you'll have to fund something yourself and you could potentially use Kickstarter or another platform to get community support. For this project I did with Tyler, this was like a very long passion project. As you can see, it's a two and a half minute animation. So it took a really long time. And it was really amazing and really rewarding. and we were so happy when we were done with it. But I will say that during the project, we weren't getting paid a lot for it because it was self-initiated by Dan Stevers, the guy who reached out to us. So we were okay with that and we agreed to that, but it was hard because we didn't have much incentive to work on it. Another thing is additional stress. Sometimes passion projects feel like a burden to me, especially if they're long drawn out projects that I'm working on for over a year. This one actually took us about two years. They can be really overwhelming, But that's just my personality type, so I tend to like doing shorter projects that I can get more instant gratification from. But you could potentially also break your projects up into shorter, simple goals. Just try not to let a side project affect your self-care. If you're working alone, it can leave you feeling isolated and overwhelmed, especially if you're working all day, and then you go home to work some more, you won't get a chance to rest your eyes. So to solve this, you could slot in time for a couple hours a week, maybe on the weekend or during your work day, and pace yourself. Since this project is for you, just listen to your body and try to stay healthy. That, in turn, will make your project better. Some pros of passion projects are that there's no visual constraints. You get to work on something you truly love. There's not usually a timeline, so take it at your own pace. The deadlines are up to you, and there are no consequences if you don't meet them. They're also skill building. You have the freedom to experiment and test new techniques so you can create connections. If you have to hire a team to help you or get a friend to collaborate for free, you can build trusting relationships with colleagues by doing passion projects. And creating this new work will attract new clients. If you create something impressive, that will show the client you have experience in that particular style. So for this one, here's some of the design frames we worked on. I felt like this kind of leveled up my skill set and got clients to hire me based on what they saw here. Passion projects can also be rewarding and make you happy. If you can create something with no constraints that you're proud of, the great thing is you can share it with the world without having to worry about permission from clients and everything, so it's great and there's a little bit more gratification. The feedback you get from your peers could be really rewarding as well. Doing passion projects really helps you gain control which can lead to happiness. And in addition, it can be in your portfolio, so this was like a big heavy hitter in my portfolio, a project that I worked on that was more of a directing project, So that kind of gave me some of that recognition to be an art director. It has helped people to reach out to me and asked me to initiate bigger projects rather than just being a designer on a project. And if you're doing something, like you're selling your work as your passion project, like here I've got my shop, you can potentially make money off of this. I don't think this one is as important, but if your passion project involves something like prints or products there, it could potentially be a payoff as well. I don't think this should be your main goal with passion projects unless it's something you're really desperate for, but I think that makes them less of passion projects and more of a chore. There are all types of passion projects from big to small. I've actually had the opportunity to do almost all types of passion projects. I'm pretty lucky in that way. You could do simple sketches on your own like this. I kind of did a self-initiated warmup, like I said here. I took some photos and just sketched and I would classify this as a passion project. I was trying a new technique and playing with something and sharing it with the world. You could also just do an Instagram post once a week or just do them sporadically to try out new techniques and new subject matter. So here I was playing with a more quirky, silly style and kind of making it more of a joke, which was fun. I actually get a lot of work inquiries through my Instagram personal projects. This has actually helped project me forward the most in my career out of anything, I think. You could also try a new medium for a passion project. In this case, I tried Rizograph, which I've talked about in previous lessons, the type of printing, but that challenged me in new ways and helped me to experiment. There are also challenges like 36 days of type and other Instagram challenges that encourage you to make something every day for an allotted amount of time. So these are either called like 52 weeks or 365 day projects. There's also these challenges like this one, the 36 day of type one. And it's easy to participate. You basically just post it on your Instagram or wherever your blog is. And then you do all of the letters and all of the numbers. And you can see lots of artists have participated. If you go to their Instagram, you can see some examples of that. It's really inspiring to look through these and see how different illustrators have worked with different numbers. And you can even turn it into more of an illustration challenge like Oliver Sin has. He has kind of made them more vague. So this one's a G and it's a little harder to read, but it's challenge him to post his characters in new ways, which I think is really cool and a little bit different than just using typography. There's also every days and if you're in the motion graphics industry, you might have heard of Beeple and he got really famous for doing his every days and he did them for 4,468 consecutive days, which is insane. And I mean, that's just that at the time of this recording. You should check out his website now to see how many he's done at this point. We'll have a link for that in the resources tab. I can't believe he's had time to do these every day. And if you look at these compositions, they're crazy. They're not simple compositions. And he does this every day. And I can tell that he's improved a ton over time and he's tried new techniques. So that's really cool. That's an interesting challenge you could give yourself. This is really embarrassing, but I did a 52 week portrait challenge in high school. And since I was the only person who is consistent, I actually took photos of myself because it was just the easiest. So this helped me learn a lot about photography and composition and it helped me stay dedicated and stick to a goal, which was really cool. Of course, being a teenager, I was excited about having pictures of myself. It's really embarrassing to look back on now, but I think it taught me a lot about my creativity. So even if you're doing something that's not related to your everyday job, it can be really beneficial. Or you could do larger animation projects that involve a team effort and a lot of time and energy. These can be stressful, but it just depends on your personality type really. So obviously this one was a collaboration between different people. I think we've actually looked at this one already in a different lesson, but this could be a little bit easier because you don't have everyone working on the whole thing. Everyone has their own shop, which is kind of nice. But if we look back on Koon, which was the one that I worked on with Tyler and Dan Stevers, it was really honestly pretty stressful. I don't know if I'd do a project this big again. It had a great payoff and a great reward and it really opened new doors for me. I still get inquiries about it. It has a great effect on new eyes and clients, but I personally found that type of project structure just a little bit stressful. So you just have to find what works best for you. There's all types of passion projects. You might prefer to do like a daily challenge and that's great, that works for you. And just make sure it's something you're excited about and that's the whole point of passion projects. You're supposed to be passionate about them. So pick something you're passionate about. Just like with any project, start your passion projects with concepting and brainstorming. What do you want to get out of this project and what are the benefits to you? Do you want something nice for your portfolio? Or are you doing this to learn a new skill? Or maybe your goal is for more people to see your work. In that case, you might want to consider doing some every days to gain some traction on social media. everything though, just make sure it's something that you're actually really excited about. So after you've figured out the benefits that you want from your project, start committing to just one idea. And from there, set a goal. And perhaps you break down that one goal and too much simpler achievable goals and put that on your calendar to stay on track. Make sure you have time for your passion project. What you choose should be manageable and achievable without causing you too much stress. That's why I like to do short sporadic projects every now and then so that I don't have to remain consistent and working on a a long project over a long period of time. This isn't necessary, but if you wanna create some accountability, tell the world about your project, put it on your social media. Then you might feel a bit more inclined to share your progress with your community as you work on it. But here's the most important step. Just start, start working on your project. Don't think twice, just jump in and start creating. If you're scared, start with a warmup or a no pressure exercise, just start putting that pen to paper. Once you get going, you'll get into a flow and you can start enjoying yourself. I also wanted to briefly show you some examples of passion projects from other artists in this industry. So here's Kenisha Sneeze website. She's clearly an amazing illustrator and she works with animation a lot. She worked on this Airbnb project that I worked on as well. But she also has this kind of side hustle where she does ceramics and tactile things called tactile matter. That's what the name of her artist identity is. And I think she does this closer to full time now than she did before. I know she still does a bit of her everyday motion work, but she gets a lot of attention for this amazing work she does with ceramics and textiles, et cetera. She has different collections and you can buy her products. I actually have a few of her things because I just love it. So that's a really cool one and a really interesting way to see how a motion graphics artist branched out from this industry and is using her creativity in different ways. I also love Monica Yoon-Gi Kim. Hopefully I'm saying that correctly, but she's an amazing animator and illustrator. She works on short films and has her own work on this website. But then I also love her work because she's a tattoo artist. She does amazing tattoos and honestly, I'm tempted to go to New York to get some myself. You can tell that the way tattoos are illustrated, like that traditional tattoo style is actually going back and influencing her illustration work, which is really neat to see how those side projects are affecting her everyday work. We also have Mandy Wickens, and she's typically an animation director, but she has a lot of these amazing side projects with illustrations of people dancing. She posts them on her Instagram and everything. These aren't even really meant to make her money, I don't think. They're just gorgeous illustrations that kind of speak to her grief and loss. So she was illustrating something she cared deeply about, which is amazing. I think they're gorgeous. We also have people who create products. So this is Jimmy Simpson. I love his illustration work. And he's gone ahead and done a couple of zines, which are little mini artists magazines kind of, where they just show their work off and you can buy them online. I mean, I have some work as well, but I just love how intentional he is with his zines and prints. They're really cool and they have their own unique style as compared to his everyday work. Another artist I admire, who's done a really cool passion project is Fabian Molina. He's an amazing art director. He's created a Seed and Spark campaign for this film, Don't Ever Let Go, which is incredible. And I love that he actually raised money for the project and hired people. He's got a producer on it. He's hired animators. You can tell he's putting a lot of love into it. This is something you could potentially do as well. You could raise funds for your projects if you're really, really invested in it and you think it can tell something to the world it's something that people would be interested in, you could raise money. There are all sorts of passion projects out there, but your project is unique to you. Especially don't worry about making something that everyone else is making. This is your safe place to explore. All in all, I'd say the pros outweigh the cons when it comes to passion projects. Passion projects can level up your skills and open new doors for you all the while you're learning new techniques. I really hope that I've encouraged you here to start working on some passion projects after you finish this course. That's all for this bonus lesson. See you later. Music"
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