Episode 49: Mexican Animator Alan Castaños On What The Animation Industry Is Like In Mexico

This episode of the Animation Industry Podcast features Alan Castaños, a Mexican 2D Freelance Animator, who shares his insights into the animation industry in Mexico. You’ll also learn: *How to land gigs on the freelancing site Upwork *The top 3 things that will make your clients happy *How many projects you need to take on per year to realistically survive in freelance ~[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 https://www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry. You can check out their complete course library at https://www.bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: https://www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: https://www.bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about Alan Castaños: Alan Castaños is an experienced freelance 2D Animator working out of Mexico. He has animated music videos and other projects for clients in the United States and around the world. He is a graduate of Universidad de las Américas Puebla. *Check out Alan’s Artstation: https://alanthemexican.artstation.com/ *Follow Alan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alanthemexicano/ *Email Alan: thatmexicanuzer -at- yahoo.com *Los Bvndidos, the band Alan animates for: https://www.instagram.com/losbvndidos/ *Pixelatl Conference: https://pixelatl.com/es-MX