Where to find animation work

Where to find animation work

Most TV animation jobs will be advertised; however, for freelance work, you'll likely be finding jobs through word of mouth, repeat clients, and direct cold outreach. It's worth checking these job sites regularly while you're starting out.

Job boards

• Animated Jobs - broad, US-heavy but worth a weekly scan

• Cartoon Recruit - US/UK animation jobs

• ScreenSkills - UK screen industry jobs and training

• Animation/vfx/game industry job postings - A spreadsheet maintained with jobs across the world

Direct studio outreach

For freelance work, cold emailing studios with your reel and portfolio is totally normal. A short, personal email including what you specialise in, your showreel and a link to your LinkedIn can be enough. It's also worth adding producers and people at the studio on LinkedIn to stay engaged!

Check out the School of Motions 500 studios to find a list of studios and reach out to the ones you'd like to work with.

CRM - Client Relationship Managment

It's super helpful to set up a CRM early, this can help keep track of which clients you've contacted and which clients you should follow up with, I made a free CRM software that you can check out here, which also includes Gantt charts for managing your projects Freelancer Ledger.