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Karl Taylor on how Visual Education is transforming online learning for creatives

Creative Boom

They're doing multi-level types of visual media skills, from After Effects to Premiere Pro to photography to post-production." Visual Education also offers practical challenges and briefs, simulating real-world client work. "We This evolution reflects a broader trend in the creative industries.

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Useful tools and systems to make you more successful as a creative

Creative Boom

For instance, in the good times, when three clients offer you work all at once, you'll happily turn two down, knowing that more will surely come along later. Then there's the problem of shrinking client budgets. For freelancers, it's particularly useful in accurately tracking billable hours and generating client reports.

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A helpful guide to marketing for creative freelancers who want to quit Instagram

Creative Boom

"Instagram is still a good visual resource or portfolio for clients, but it's the PR push that has been the most effective.". We've even been collaborating with other creators on YouTube channels and in podcasts to talk about the industry and, by extension, our own work within it," says creator, filmmaker and broadcaster Neil Evans.

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How to embrace failure and turn it into a creative superpower

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We see people crafting superior work and succeeding spectacularly on social media. We work hard on creating what we think is great work, only for our managers or clients to send us back to the drawing board. As writer and filmmaker Daniel Johnson puts it, "I just accept failure as part of the process.

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32 affordable tools to keep costs down when you first go freelance

Creative Boom

It's particularly good if you need to craft captivating social media graphics or engaging presentations without the fuss (or cost). With excellent modelling tools and powerful digital sculpting capabilities, this is a great choice for everyone, from newbies to fully-fledged filmmakers. Photography 6. Collaboration and communication 30.

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Rafael Medeiros on enduring the Hollywood strikes as a freelance graphic designer

Creative Boom

The importance of entertainment Rafael might not be a filmmaker, but working in LA, he couldn't fail to be affected by the strikes. Having built much of his career designing creative marketing for movies and TV series, from digital and social media campaigns to one-sheets and OOH, this has posed a big problem. "As

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Fresh tools to help creatives run their freelance practice in 2024

Creative Boom

I'm looking forward to using it for more client projects in the future." It's another favourite of Haruko Hayakawa, who says: "I love Miro for brain dumping and collaboratively working with clients." It works for filmmaker Brett Chapman too. "I've recently started getting to grips with it," says Aaron. Works for me."

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