This month, Sarah Marino (Color Supervisor at Nickelodeon), Jenn Ely (Production Designer for House Special, Visual Development Artist for Dreamworks) and I are teaching a new online workshop called First Flight: How To Create Your New Career In Visual Development.

I invited them both to join me here on The ArtCast to promote First Flight and talk about how they achieved such significant success in their animation careers…

Episode Highlights include:

• Turning fear into faith.


• Becoming more professional by de-emotionalizing your creative process.


• Why we stopped caring about job titles.


• How fear cost Jenn a a big opportunity (and why she’ll never make that mistake again).


• Why Sarah had to climb through a human hamster wheel. (That’s not a metaphor.)


• Inspiring gumball machines and the healing power of ice cream.


• Is a successful animation career worth the cost?

Listen To ‘Creative Bravery’:

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Connect With Sarah:

Sarah Marino

Follow Sarah on Instagram

Listen to Sarah on The ArtCast

Sarah on The Rising Stars Of Animation

Connect With Jenn:

Jenn Ely

Follow Jenn on Instagram

Listen to Jenn on The ArtCast

Claire Keane, Jenn Ely and Brian McDonald on Art, Fear & Finding Your Calling

Music Credits:

Theme Music by Storybook Steve

Recurring Musical Segments by Kangaralien

Are You Afraid Of The Dark?

In this episode, Jenn and I talked about how fear of failure cost each of us a big career opportunity.

We both survived, but we regret the moments when we let fear keep us from taking positive action…

What is a big fear you know you need to confront right now?

Don’t repeat our mistakes. Commit to taking action by sharing about it in the comments below!

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