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A talk delivered at Sheridan College to the 4th year BAA: Animation program on March 9, 2011TRANSCRIPT
Animation Business Basics
orNotes from The Freelance Life
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It’s not that hardbut it’s constant.
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Business StructureTaxes
ContractsFinding WorkRembrandt
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It’s Show BUSINESSnot
Show ART
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The Freelance Life © J Caswell 2011
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read/think about
business© J Caswell all rights reserved
Think of yourself as a business personnot just as an artist.
PROFESSIONAL
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BUSINESS STRUCTURE
Sole Proprietor
Partnership
Incorporation
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Sole Proprietor
BUSINESS STRUCTURE
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Partnership
BUSINESS STRUCTURE
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Partnership
BUSINESS STRUCTURE
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Incorporation
BUSINESS STRUCTURE
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Sole Proprietor
**DISCLAIMER**
BUSINESS STRUCTURE
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Register a name Current Account
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BUSINESS STRUCTURE
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TAXES© J Caswell all rights reserved
Pre Payor save to pay at least
15%
TAXES
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CRAAudit
TAXES
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Paperworkread tax prep articles
listen to the budgets
get an accountant
TAXES
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Paperwork
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Deductionsor Write offs self-employment expenses
must be documented
TAXES
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Not Free Money
You have spend it to write a portion off of next year’s taxes
Why I bought a PS3 on December 31
TAXESDeductions
or Write offs
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Business Expenses100%
SuppliesWebsite creation
Business stationaryComputer software
Convention expenses (2 per year)Travel for work
Capital Assets CCA30% per year
(Hardware, monitors, Cintiqs, tablets, scanners, printers, cars, etc.)
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Home Based Business Expenses%
Rent.Mortgage.
Mortgage interest.Home/Apartment Insurance
-Power/Hydro Bills.Gas Bills.
Property Tax Assessment.Water/Sewer Bills.
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loss against income
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CONTRACTSaka:
Deal memoPurchase Order/PO
Production Agreementetc.
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The Going Rate:
20 bucks an hour
benefits after 6 months.
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For production companies,little negotiation in price.
CONTRACTS
Where did you pay last year’s taxes?
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Uneducated clients
Your job to educate themthrough your deal memo.
CONTRACTS
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How long will it take to do the work?What’s their deadline?
Is it enough?
Know thy time
CONTRACTS
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Build in deadlines into a schedule.Link payments to these stages.
Know thy time
CONTRACTS
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Where are they using the work?Is there any use beyond your work?
Know thy rights
CONTRACTS
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Define this in your deal memo.Further use should mean more money.
Know thy rights
CONTRACTS
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You have to be able to walk awayif you feel you’re being used.
CONTRACTS
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Look at examples from graphic design or illustration business sites
and adapt them.
CONTRACTS
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After you finish the job, invoice for it.
INVOICE
CONTRACTS
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CONNECTIONSAnimation is a team sport
Finding Work
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Finding Work
Learn fromYour peers
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Finding WorkDon’t look for a JOB
Find Clients
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Finding Work
Forget the blog
Build a website
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Finding Work
Find your nichethen market the hell out of it
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“Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast.In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Ovid
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GOOD work vs. good work
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GOOD work vs. good work
How to get a job at Pixar?
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Have them call you.
GOOD work vs. good work
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Read Emerson’s“Self Reliance”
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“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
“Skill to do comes of doing.”
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Faith will be rewarded
perseverance
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BLISSfollow it
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“Often, when you want to be understand something, you have to take it apart or apply another kind of language to it. Drawing is another kind of language.”
Richard Serra
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Like any kind of language, you have to practice it or you’ll lose it.
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