To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:35:27 -0800
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] puppetry peers


Your are correct. My apologies.  I am bit on a tangent and off the original 
post.
I stack my work.  So I always have something going on.  Always trying to 
build that client base.








----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Jimsan777-AT-aol.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] puppetry peers


To All:

 I agree to an extent, BUT who pays the bills in the meanwhile?   I did the
free shows 50 years ago. I don't need to continually prove my work...and 
this
is not exactly what I was talking about....Original post was re: respect 
from
peers.

Jim Gamble


In a message dated 1/11/06 16:30:27, williamhennes-AT-charter.net writes:


> I believe if you present yourself right, and blow people away with a
> presentation, you show them what great one can be. I have done Animation
> for clients just to show them what I can do. I just finished a piece, pro
> bono, for a company that did not know me. So I asked them what I could do
> to show them what I could do, my expense. They gave me the task, I
> completed on time and way beyond their expectations and they used it in
> their production. They where used to so, so animation. They even asked me
> to do a little more, I did with no problem. They where very happy and they
> meet their deadline. Did I get paid, No. But I made an impression and a
> partnership. And the next week they thought of me first on their next
> project and I got it and got paid for it. I am now doing more work for 
> them.
> Sometimes, you have to prove what you can do to gain trust.
>

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