Motion Designer Stu Denbigh - Find Your Mentor | Being Freelance

Motion Designer Stu Denbigh - Find Your Mentor

Steve Folland chats to Motion Designer & Creative Editor Stu Denbigh on taking a step back to move forward early on his career, continually improving and learning, how finding two mentors made him stronger creatively and how he deals with the dreaded cash-flow - all part of being freelance for the past 10 years.

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Here’s some of the key takeaway points:

Sometimes you need to step back in your career to move forwards
The importance of referrals in getting new work
Even though his agreements say he’ll charge interest on fees not paid
after 30 days, he’s never done it in case it harms the client
relationship
Ask your bank for you a big overdraft to help your cash flow be less
painful
How hard it can be fitting in to a company’s culture when you’re
working on site as a freelancer
The challenge of re-do loops for designers
The benefit of working with other freelancers and learning from them
by seeing how they work
The importance of finding a mentor, someone to pull you up a level
When putting together your portfolio, ditch your oldest work and show
the most recent, it forces you to keep improving