Storyboarding for Star Wars Shows with Juan Luis Bravo

Show notes

Juan Luis Bravo has worked as a storyboard artist in animation for shows like Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures and LEGO Dreamzzz.
Today het gets into the steps from a digital media specialist making corporate videos to storyboard artist for a Star Wars based show; how to actually yield results from networking events; and how to tap into your power as a member of a marginalized community.

Episode Breakdown

(updated - 2:36 is actually 1:43)

1. 1:43Young Jedi Adventures: years in the making!
2. 2:13Starting off as a Digital Media Specialist internally at Disney
3. 4:52Getting aggressively poached from a show
4. 1:27What’s the best way to follow up/advocate for yourself with a new connection?
5. 13:27How to get someone to want to help you
6. 18:07Landing & leveraging a first job toward your long-term goals
7. 23:52Identifying opportunities for further education past college
8. 26:57How to decide to leave your “steady” job to pursue your dreams - and convince the next hiring manager you can do it (leaving helping to cut Marvel animatics to pursue storyboarding)
9. 33:07Cultivating relationships from college into long-term professional relationships
10. 34:47How to balance being direct about what you want without being an egomaniac
11. 39:17Friends from college making the Black List
12. 40:27How to say what you want
13. 44:37The right questions to ask in a cold email or mentor outreach
14. 46:33Living situation impact on creativity
15. 49:22If you hate LA…
16. 50:17Were there moments of wanting to quit?
17. 57:52How to tap into your power as a member of a marginalized community
18. 1:00:55TIME CAPSULE

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