This episode features Maddi Patton, a Screenwriter, YouTuber, and self-taught Animator, who shares how she mustered a team of 30 to produce her original web-series My Pride, which has over five million views on YouTube. You'll also learn: *Where she got funding to produce an entire season of My Pride *How it really feels to be producing and animating your own show *Some really strange facts about lions that you 99% chance haven’t heard of before ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by the awesome team at Startastudio.com Start A Studio, is a new online school focused on the business side of animation. They have both free and paid courses, an online community and downloads to help you succeed in your animation career, and build your own cool, creative and viable animation studio. You can use the unique discount code ‘AIP’ in the checkout to save 20% on their popular Pro Studio Startup course. So, whether you’re looking to up your freelance game or plan and launch your own animation company, check out https://startastudio.com/ ~ More about Maddi: Maddi Patton is a 26-year-old screenwriter, Youtuber and a self-taught animator. She holds a degree in Screenwriting and Creative Writing and has won multiple awards for her written work. She learned to animate starting at the age of 12 so she could adapt a Warrior Cats novel into a web series because she was extremely cool, after that gained some notoriety on Youtube for her first original series Cow of the Wild which she started at the age of 13. Now, just over a decade later, she's writing, producing and animating a new web series called My Pride, which has earned a collective 5.5 million views on the first 6 episodes. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/tribbleofdoom Twitter: https://twitter.com/myprideseries Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mypridetheseries/?hl=en Email Maddi: mypridetheseries [at] gmail.com