Animat2011

Animation Business Basics

orNotes from The Freelance Life

© J Caswell all rights reserved

It’s not that hardbut it’s constant.


Business StructureTaxes

ContractsFinding WorkRembrandt


It’s Show BUSINESSnot

Show ART


The Freelance Life © J Caswell 2011

read/think about

business© J Caswell all rights reserved

Think of yourself as a business personnot just as an artist.

PROFESSIONAL


BUSINESS STRUCTURE

Sole Proprietor

Partnership

Incorporation


Sole Proprietor

BUSINESS STRUCTURE


Partnership

BUSINESS STRUCTURE


Incorporation

BUSINESS STRUCTURE


Sole Proprietor

**DISCLAIMER**

BUSINESS STRUCTURE


Sole Proprietor

Register a name Current Account

HST #

BUSINESS STRUCTURE


Pre Payor save to pay at least

15%

TAXES


CRAAudit

TAXES


Paperworkread tax prep articles

listen to the budgets

get an accountant

TAXES


Paperwork


Deductionsor Write offs self-employment expenses

must be documented

TAXES


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


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.)


Home Based Business Expenses%

Rent.Mortgage.

Mortgage interest.Home/Apartment Insurance

-Power/Hydro Bills.Gas Bills.

Property Tax Assessment.Water/Sewer Bills.


loss against income


CONTRACTSaka:

Deal memoPurchase Order/PO

Production Agreementetc.


The Going Rate:

20 bucks an hour

benefits after 6 months.


For production companies,little negotiation in price.

CONTRACTS

Where did you pay last year’s taxes?


Uneducated clients

Your job to educate themthrough your deal memo.

CONTRACTS


How long will it take to do the work?What’s their deadline?

Is it enough?

Know thy time

CONTRACTS


Build in deadlines into a schedule.Link payments to these stages.

Know thy time

CONTRACTS


Where are they using the work?Is there any use beyond your work?

Know thy rights

CONTRACTS


Define this in your deal memo.Further use should mean more money.

Know thy rights

CONTRACTS


You have to be able to walk awayif you feel you’re being used.

CONTRACTS


Look at examples from graphic design or illustration business sites

and adapt them.

CONTRACTS


After you finish the job, invoice for it.

INVOICE

CONTRACTS


CONNECTIONSAnimation is a team sport

Finding Work


Finding Work

Learn fromYour peers


Finding WorkDon’t look for a JOB

Find Clients


Finding Work

Forget the blog

Build a website


Finding Work

Find your nichethen market the hell out of it


“Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast.In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.”

Ovid


GOOD work vs. good work



How to get a job at Pixar?


Have them call you.



Read Emerson’s“Self Reliance”


“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”

“Skill to do comes of doing.”


Faith will be rewarded

perseverance


BLISSfollow it


“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


Like any kind of language, you have to practice it or you’ll lose it.


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