Video editing, animation and game art studios selling to studios abroad

A first step

Make one short piece to the kind of brief a studio sets: a 30-second animation, an edited trailer or a set of game art assets. Post it where studios hire, and send it directly to the production managers of 20 small studios abroad with a day rate. A first paid test job is the proof, and repeat work from the same studio is the business.

Who pays first

A small studio abroad with a deadline and not enough artists, which pays a day rate for work that matches its style.

What leaves today

Artists and animators trained here work for local clients or move abroad, while foreign studios pay well for the same work.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. ThreeWhat We Have Already Built
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