The Unstoppable Sir Wade: A Rising Star in the World of VFX and YouTube

Starting out in VFX or working on your next career breakthrough? Questioning if you can have an Artist’s career? Are you a VFX artist dreaming of starting your own studio? Or an entrepreneur planning to launch a company or dreaming about launching your own YouTube Channel? Check out this career advice from Sir Wade Neistadt, a Freelance Animator, VFX Artist and YouTube Creator whose YouTube Channel has over 205K followers. In 2014, after his short film about a sick superhero brought him to the Cannes Film Festival, he completed Animation Mentor’s Character Animation Program and got immediately hired at DreamWorks Animation as a Technical Trainer / Educator. Two years later, he left the studio to travel, work freelance and build his YouTube Channel. Sir Wade had taught over 50 classes across our pipeline ranging from proprietary software for animation, layout, and lighting, to third-party tools such as Maya, Mari, Substance, After Effects, Nuke, etc. Speaking from successful experience in entrepreneurship, Sir Wade talks about his own career breakthrough when he transitioned from being a VFX Artist and Filmmaker – to YouTube Creator. In this video, he talks about the motivation behind his YouTube Channel, getting inspired by Film Riot, overcoming his self-sabotage and fear of failure, being aware of risk and being flexible – and essentially achieving great success as an entrepreneur. Whether you’re looking for inspiration or encouragement as an Artist or a Filmmaker, you don’t want to miss this motivational video from Sir Wade Neistadt! SIR WADE’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL: @SirWade TARGETED PLAYLIST LINK: PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL: Listen to ALLAN McKAY’S PODCAST: Upload THE ULTIMATE DEMO REEL GUIDE by Allan McKay: Upload PRODUCTIVE ARTIST GUIDEBOOK by Allan McKay: SAY HELLO ON SOCIAL MEDIA: • Instagram: • Facebook: • Twitter: • Website: YOUTUBE URL: VIDEO HASHTAGS: #AllanMcKay, #VFX, #BrandingforArtistsVIDEO