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The Demo Reel 101

A Demo Reel is a shortened collection of your work, no longer than 3 minutes (this is not a movie, and you don’t want them to fall asleep!) in VHS/DVD format that highlights your strenghts, experience, and shows off your skills. With that said, here are a few demo reel tips: * Keep it short [...]

The Interview 101

After all your hard work with getting your demo reel and resume completed and sent out, you want to make sure you give out the best impression when you get invited to a studio for an interview. Here are a few tips on how to make it a good one.

The Resume 101

First things first.. you need a Resume! The resume has become the initial selling piece of the individual. The new ‘foot in the door’, and without it – you are nothing. In the faster paced world of technology, time is precious, and the loss of a minute could spell doom for the savvy HR folk [...]

The Apprentice Program

Here at TSP we get a lot of letters from students asking how to get their foot in the door into the vfx industry. We try to create as many articles about the how to's and sending out job postings.. but we always feel like we should still expose more.

In Memory – William Hanna

It was summer 1981, when I arrived in New York, from Colombia. As a child coming from a country where we only had 2 channels, which began at 8am and ended at 12am, my discovery of dozens of channels all hosting Saturday morning cartoons was a huge turning point in my young life. The only [...]