10 tips to help you go freelance.

1. Be competitive
Tom Baker
www.bakeranimator.com

"If you go around every studio in London and give in your showreel, you will get work. Everyone who had a full-time job in animation has lost it. They're worse off than freelancers because they haven't got their client base built up. If you're open-minded and show mobile stuff, internet work, TV and so on, you can get in there. It's competitive but you can do it."

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