The Effective Freelance Compositor, with Shonda Hunt | TVAP EP31

The Effective Freelance Compositor, with Shonda Hunt | TVAP EP31
With credits including The Batman, Walking Dead: Worlds Beyond Thor, Love, and Thunder it's no wonder we've been wanting to catch up with Freelance Compositor, Shonda Hunt. But in the end, she got in touch with us after we asked about the issues facing mothers working in the VFX industry.
So in this two-pronged interview, Daniel and Shonda discuss the challenges of parenting while working on compositing. We also discuss Shonda's career and inspirations. This interview gives valuable insights for working more efficiently in Foundry Nuke, building trust and credibility with producers and supervisors, and tips for continual learning and improvement.
If you are interested in upping your compositing career you will not want to miss this one!
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00:54 : How I got started
04:52 : Tutorials and Books
06:07 : Deeper understanding
09:19 : Freelancing vs staff
28:33 : Advice to up your game
30:33 : Don't be afraid to test things out
31:32 : Read read read
33:50 : Custom tools and gizmos
37:35 : Being a parent in the VFX industry
40:44 : WFH and childcare
44:09 : Growing as an artist while working from home
45:24 : The value of blogging
49:37 : Hard greenscreens please!
56:30 : The value of feedback
58:45 : Becoming the go-to person for hard shots
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[@biglesent]

Great interview!! Shonda is amazing…

[@oartehaga]

I Love it.

[@afa80]

what an interesting conversation, thanks for sharing this

[@rishabhlaheja7689]

Interesting podcast! Even more interesting, I never read any of these books mentioned. Just watching tutorials or making personal projects. Would love to know which all would they be.

[@rishabhlaheja7689]

@@TheVFXArtistsPodcast that'll be interesting! I look forward to that then! 😃

[@tlabd9582]

Quick question: when you are freelancing for studio, are u contracted based on projects or based on time frame?

[@TheVFXArtistsPodcast]

At the studio where I work and where I've worked in the past we always contract based on duration although we normally crew up based on projects coming in. Still even if we have a project in mind it's not impossible that the freelancer may be moved to something else especially if one project is slow with turnover and/or feedback and another is more in need. Sure Shonda @postseries will have her own experience as a freelancer too (check out her channel and Linkedin as she does frequent Q&As)