This episode features story artist and illustrator Aaron Hazouri who sheds light into the harsh reality of pursuing work as a storyboard artist in LA. He also shares: *How much networking really matters in landing a job *The real reason he stopped pursuing storyboard work in LA *What studios will never tell you about their job postings ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by Bloop Animation, which is an animation learning platform packed with premium online video courses for aspiring animation filmmakers. They have courses for all major animation programs like Maya, Animate CC, Toon Boom, Blender, TVPaint, and many others, as well as some non-software courses like a storyboarding course, Animation foundations course, and even one about making graphic novels, which covers absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish. The courses are all in video-form, so there’s no deadlines or application process, you simply pick a course and start learning in seconds. They even offer a free ebook titled “Making an animated short”, which covers their entire process, step-by-step, of how they made one of their films, from coming up with the idea, to storyboarding, animation and all the way to exporting the film. You can get that book for free at www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry. You can check out their complete course library at www.bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: www.bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about Aaron Hazouri: Aaron Hazouri is a story artist and illustrator working in the animation and children's publishing industries. He holds a bachelor's degree in multimedia and has over a decade of experience in professionally telling stories and creating art. Follow Aaron on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cartoonistaaron/?hl=en Check out Aaron’s website: http://www.aaronhazouri.com/ Look up Aaron on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aaron.hazouri