I found that most teaching platforms for voice actors out there are run by a bunch of celebrities who are pushing edutainment, not education.
So I wanted to make something specific for voice actors. I will try to branch it out to other creators later.
I've got so much more that I'm afraid to publish. Might have to reconsider.
i'd love to read more of your work so i say do it! if not, rhoades.lorenzo@gmail.com and i promise not to share them ;)
"Make decisions that will give you more choices, not fewer."
I was the founding engineer and Head of Eng at Reforge the past 4+ years while I was building Closing Credits. I left in August 2021. So, it was a side project for nearly 5 years.
If I have 3 side projects and no full time job at this exact moment, where do I stand? I'll delete my post if I'm violating the side project rule.
Have you ever had any pushback from legal? Presumably to the effect of "What if you take our IP and put it into that project?"
Tech choices: I never reinvent the wheel. I just take working pieces from other work that I've done and glue it together. Anything custom, I'll read how others do it.
Lessons: I probably should've chosen a different market. If I had targeted companies and taught their employees professional education rather than poor amateur voice acting hobbyist, I'd probably be making $20M ARR. But I don't mind, this is still fun.
Read your blog, hopefully you aren't telling yourself that right before you fire yourself! In seriousness thanks for the insightful reply. I agree w/tech choices, I'm always thinking about reusability as I piece together my own projects.
p.s. I would love to fix the audio on your intro video - the hum and echo is killing me. I used to be married to a voice actor and I set up her studio and recording pipeline. [Audacity and Audition both have a quick filter to remove background noise]
It really can solve or at least, begin to solve, every problem in an individual's life.