Holistic Talent Development
for Studios
COACHING & CONSULTING | BOOTCAMPS | COURSES | TRAINING PROGRAMS
DESIGNED FOR VISUAL DEV AND CONCEPT ARTISTS FROM TRAINEE TO NEW DIRECTOR
FOR CUSTOM OPTIONS:
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TRAINING PROGRAM | Communication Workflows - Narrative & Art
Improve communication and develop more efficient collaborative workflows between Narrative and Art/Design departments by helping your teams build deeper comprehension of both processes. Through a combination of shadowing workshops, team workflow pitches and breakout groups, both teams will collaboratively work on a light original story pitch. Workshops are complemented by insights from producers and artist/writer hybrid individuals, and artist and writer partnerships.
ROI: Juniors read story documents more thoroughly and interpret correctly to prevent miscommunication and wasted hours deviating from the story needs. Minimizing time spent in feedback sessions going over notes that are already directed in guiding documents. Increased respect between narrative and design departments to improve efficiency of questions, keep integrity of story intact to improve quality, and transform wasted hours into time spent on work to meet production timelines more consistently.
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TRAINING PROGRAM | Artist Trainee Program
Leveling up design skills and improving communication between corporate and creative using original IP development, brand identity creation, and mindset trainings. Leveraging a blend of storytelling techniques and psychology approaches to build communication skills, a safe and empowering culture, and sustainable workflows. Customize with matched studio mentors to facilitate a full incubator experience.
ROI: Larger group of diverse entry level artists to hire from who can add fresh nuanced perspective and insights to their vis dev assignments, with story-driven design portfolios, efficient craft skills and workflows, improved communication skills, and ability to adapt to studio working environment / collaborative needs. At a budget friendly junior salary.
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TRAINING PROGRAM | Crew Journeys & Culture
Leverage storytelling approaches to develop thoughtful leadership and crew journeys that motivate and inform your crewing, onboarding, management, and beyond. Weave in core values and powerful communication approaches to develop an environment of trust and safety in your team culture that helps you lead with consistency under pressure.
ROI: More seniors with skill in guiding larger crews at different tiers, improved planning skills that leveraging familiar storytelling strategies to help them handle increase of pressure and pace in stride. Lowering the rate of burnout driven replacements that cause ripples in the morale and lengthen the production time.
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TRAINING PROGRAM | Inclusive Workflows for Burnout Prevention
Learn more about the common challenges and insightful adaptations of underrepresented creatives. Workshop specific departmental workflows as a group to create more inclusive and burnout free solutions, and pitch them to guest artists from each underrepresented group for feedback. Refine your strategies and workshop barriers to implementation. With special group panel talks to build deeper comprehension of their needs and strengths. Inclusivity focuses include: neurodivergence, mental health struggles, diverse cultural backgrounds, non-native English speakers, physical disability, and remote workers.
ROI: Increased number of new directors with ability to articulate their direction style in ways that support diverse crew morale and efficiency. Better understanding of their impact on the team, improved communication of needs, opening up more diverse options in selection of crew and decrease bottlenecks created by poor fit.
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COURSE | Story Medium: Holistic IP Development
An introduction to the “Parallax Method” which uses storytelling and psychology to draw on your personal story, help you develop and original IP based on an emotionally autobiographical theme, and channel your creative insights to improve flow.
ROI: Improved retention of talent with quality original IPs that have more diverse points of view, and who already have a positive relationship/investment in the studio. Lowering the cost of scouting new IPs from outside the studio.
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COURSE | Thematic Arcs: Pitching Original Concepts
Learn how to draw on personal storytelling and psychological archetypes to inform a variety of authentic thematic arcs and create empowering fictional concepts. Pitch 9 different art direction concepts to compliment your story ideas, and develop a set of personal brand assets. Use your insights to develop your self awareness, nurture self trust, and improve your clarity.
ROI: Juniors who contribute higher quality ideas that connect clearly to the story. With more efficient presentation skills, ability to combine story analysis with their specific process needs to solve challenges and self correct, ability to better assess their bias, and increased ability to separate personal and professional work to lower the tendency to get “precious”. Speeding up the production process for their supervisors.
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COURSE | Design Logic: Giving & Taking Feedback
Learn how to draw on theme and worldbuilding principles to engineer logic and powerful subtext into your design solutions. With step-by-step processes to help you build comprehension and clarity. Use the same logical approach to develop more considered questions, improving your ability to give actionable feedback and analyze abstract feedback.
ROI: Mid tier artists with increased efficiency through improving their ability to give, take, and implement feedback more effectively. Improving team morale, creating more self managing/correcting artists and decreasing the stress on production management as a result.
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COURSE | Narrative Magick: Inspiration in Daily Life
Align your life to tap into your inner voice and tackle daily challenges through storytelling and design. Use your insights to inspire fresh and nuanced authentic fictional stories, stabilize workflows, and reignite your creative spark. Helping you access a personal library of inspiration and story ideas that keeps on growing.
ROI: Improve retention strategies and assessment of the long term fit of experienced mid-tier artists for future projects through data gathered in the course. Mitigate the mental health impact from offboarding or role changes to make it easier to rehire artists who are already trained and a cultural fit in the future.
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BOOTCAMP | Human-First Storytelling in an AI World
Learn an efficient process for drawing story inspiration from life to drive more nuanced storytelling. Use it to gain new perspective on the role of creator and tools and share your thoughts in a facilitated group discussion around the practical and ethical use of AI to support authentic human stories.
ROI: Improve mid-tier artists reception to changing technologies to increase adoption for ethical budget friendly production strategies.
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BOOTCAMP | Bias Awareness through Storytelling
Dive into a series of personal story exercises to identify how your personal motivations and context drive your choices. Explore seeing your story from another point of view and share insights in a group discussion to troubleshoot how to lower bias in communication and craft.
ROI: Juniors who have the ability to better assess their bias and use their background to add nuance to their work, and improved respect for alternate points of view such as corporate perspectives. Improving communication and respect to speed up the production process for their supervisors.
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BOOTCAMP | Motivated Design Direction
Create personal and professional story-driven design concepts that resonate using intuitive approaches and research techniques. Learn how to weave psychology into your research approaches to connect with your audiences and elevate your visual subtext.
ROI: Juniors who understand what to look for in story documents to interpret theme and plot into art direction and design choices, preventing miscommunication and wasted hours deviating from the story needs. Keeping integrity of story intact to improve quality of output.
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BOOTCAMP | Work from Home Practice
Reset your working environment, routines, and workflows using story-driven strategies. Helping you gain back precious bandwidth and stabilize your productivity at home. Build on the same approaches by leveraging them to tackle creative block, help you gain fresh perspective and develop more sustainable approaches so you can stay in flow state longer.
ROI: Seniors with sustainable productivity and improved self management skills that counterbalance increased life demands, and distractions working from home. Increasing bandwidth to juggle new multiple priorities and support juniors and mid-tier artists efficiently.
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COACHING | Holistic Mindset
Tackle stubborn mindset challenges and integrate holistic storytelling approaches into your creative process and daily life. Use your insights to improve self trust, confidence, deep listening skills, and prevent burnout or imposter syndrome before they take hold.
ROI: More experienced seniors with who can transition into, and maintain leadership roles. Improved skill in guiding larger crews, improved business planning skills, mindset strategies to handle increase of pressure and pace. Lowering the rate of replacements that cause ripples in the morale and lengthen the production time.
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COACHING | Creative Strategy
Leverage storytelling approaches to improve your assertiveness, communication, boundary setting, and clarify your value and alignment with the studio or project. Use a combination of storytelling structure and enneagram to improve your ability to analyze challenging situations and assess a solution that has a balance of emotional and logical consideration. For example, adding your voice to an assignment within assignment and project limitations, adjusting to new responsibilities, navigating conflict between team members, or improving communication with production.
ROI: Larger group of diverse entry level artists to hire from who can add fresh nuanced perspective and insights to their vis dev assignments, improved communication skills, and ability to adapt to studio working environment / collaborative needs. At a budget friendly junior salary.
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CONSULTING | IP, Story Dev and Design
Using Dan Harmon’s story circle and Enneagram I analyze your project to clarify your story’s theme and structure. Based on the project needs, I provide specific solutions and iterate options to improve thematic arcs, story concepts, fictional worlds, characters, art direction, and costume design. Weave your personal brand story and project narrative together with confidence to elevate pitching presentations and project marketing concepts.
ROI: New director feel supported to navigate story and design challenges their first project in a safe, inclusive space. Helping to manage ego challenges while keeping the production moving. Improving their ability to articulate their direction style to support crew morale and efficiency. Better understanding of their impact on the team, improved communication of needs, and effective selection of support crew to decrease bottlenecks created by poor fit.
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CONSULTING | Inclusive Creative Process
Explore your creative process in a non-judgmental space to assess the impact of your context, personality, and lifestyle on your process. Identify recurring sources of burnout or creative block and fill knowledge gaps to set more realistic goals and timelines. Investigate your learning style and lifestyle needs to co-create customized exercises, and develop step by step approaches to help you make progress towards your goals.
ROI: Mid tier artists with more customized processes that optimize their efficiency while improving their ability to give, take, and implement feedback more effectively. Improving team morale, providing better timeline estimates, and decreasing bottlenecks, creating more self managing artists and decreasing the stress on production management as a result.
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