Issue #98 | May 10th, 2026 Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers Hey Reader 👋 This week I've been trying really hard to discipline myself to work on my clients. And I'm going to be honest with you… it's not really fun anymore. Because the truth is... I'm so deep into Claude Code right now, building things, building apps, building tools, that jumping back into a huge amount of minutes of animation for clients feels like coming back to a job I used to love. Not the work itself. Just the contrast. When...
10 days ago • 8 min read
Issue #97 | May 3rd, 2026 Robot Dreams Hey Reader 👋 Not gonna lie to you this week. You know that thing where you push the limit, and at some point the limit pushes back? I'm pretty much there right now. My son woke up at 2am last night. Quick wake-up, back to sleep in 2 minutes. But I couldn't go back down. I laid there until 5am running through my Unreal project on a loop in my head, and I started to seriously freak out. The amount of content I signed for is probably way too much for one...
17 days ago • 6 min read
Issue #96 | April 26th, 2026 The Dam Keeper Hey Reader 👋 Okay, so quick confession before we get into this week's issue. If you've been reading this newsletter for a while, you probably have a pretty good sense of how insane my daily life is right now. Between the Freelancing for Animators community, client work, the baby, the house renovation, and everything else in between… there's genuinely no room for anything else. And yet. You probably guessed something's up. I found a little sliver of...
24 days ago • 6 min read
Issue #95 | April 19th, 2026 Spiderverse Hello Reader 👋 Quick one this week, because I'm genuinely buzzing. The Freelancing for Animators community has four paying members right now. Plus the founding members from the previous community who are still showing up and getting involved. All in, we're around 11 people. And I couldn't be happier about that number. I'm going to be transparent… I'm not even trying to grow it right now. Because this size is exactly right to actually do the work....
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
Issue #94 | April 12th, 2026 Dark Crystal Hello Reader 👋 So this week something happened that took me way, way back. A close friend of mine is the CEO of a pretty big visual effects company. The kind that works with Netflix, Marvel, Disney. The big ones. And we've been talking about me potentially joining the team in a management role to help develop the studio. Nothing is locked. We're still in discussion mode. But the conversation alone sent my brain on a trip. She asked me something like,...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
Issue #93 | April 5th, 2026 The Missing Link Hello Reader 👋 I'm writing this on Friday and I'm going at a thousand miles per hour. Not the exhausted kind. The kind where everything is clicking, every project is moving forward, and the energy just keeps coming. Let me tell you what's happening. The Freelancing for Animators community is live. We launched yesterday. We already have almost 10 people in there, and today at 5pm we're doing our first live call. Just meeting everyone, hearing what...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
Issue #92 | March 29th, 2026 Coraline Hey Reader 👋 I'm not gonna lie. I'm tired. Like… really tired. It feels like I'm flying a massive plane right now, and I can't slow down for even a second. Because if I do, the whole thing drops out of the sky. Exhausted... but showing up!! 💪 2026 feels like it's going one of two ways: I either crash in flames, or I land with fireworks. I genuinely have no idea which. The only thing I know is I have no choice but to keep going. The FFA community launches...
about 2 months ago • 8 min read
Issue #91 | March 22th, 2026 Persepolis Hey Reader 👋 I want to talk about AI today. Not in a hype way — in a real, honest, here's-where-I'm-at kind of way. I've been working with AI tools for months now, and I feel like I've reached a certain level of maturity with it. Enough to actually make a clear statement about how I use it. So here it is: I don't use AI to create in my place. I use AI to create better and faster. That's it. That's the whole thing. I'm really not interested in generating...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Issue #90 | March 15th, 2026 Frame from Fantastic Mr Fox Hey [FIRST NAME GOES HERE] 👋 The sun is back.☀️ I always say weather doesn't affect my mood. But honestly? After the insane floods we had in France, after months of grey and rain and just… heaviness — having sunny days again feels like coming back to life. And it's not just the weather. Everything feels like it's clicking right now. I've been heads down for a while. If you noticed I went quiet — on LinkedIn, on socials, just… everywhere...
2 months ago • 7 min read