Juan Luis Bravo has worked as a storyboard artist in animation for shows like Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures and LEGO Dreamzzz.
Today het gets into the steps from a digital media specialist making corporate videos to storyboard artist for a Star Wars based show; how to actually yield results from networking events; and how to tap into your power as a member of a marginalized community.
EPISODE BREAKDOWN (updated - 2:36 is actually 1:43)
1:43 - Young Jedi Adventures: years in the making!
2:13 - Starting off as a Digital Media Specialist internally at Disney
4:52 - Getting aggressively poached from a show
1:27 - What’s the best way to follow up/advocate for yourself with a new connection?
13:27 - How to get someone to want to help you
18:07 - Landing & leveraging a first job toward your long-term goals
23:52 - Identifying opportunities for further education past college
26:57 - How to decide to leave your “steady” job to pursue your dreams - and convince the next hiring manager you can do it (leaving helping to cut Marvel animatics to pursue storyboarding)
33:07 - Cultivating relationships from college into long-term professional relationships
34:47 - How to balance being direct about what you want without being an egomaniac
39:17 - Friends from college making the Black List
40:27 - How to say what you want
44:37 - The right questions to ask in a cold email or mentor outreach
46:33 - Living situation impact on creativity
49:22 - If you hate LA…
50:17 - Were there moments of wanting to quit?
57:52 - How to tap into your power as a member of a marginalized community
1:00:55 - TIME CAPSULE
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