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The Futur with Chris Do

180 - Forget The Algorithm — with Jake Fellman

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Design, Self-improvement, Education, Business, Marketing, Arts

5976 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jake Fellman is a self-taught 3D artist who spends his time making original, animated content for YouTube and TikTok. As of this episode, Jake has 10.9M YouTube subscribers and 11.7M TikTok followers—so whatever he’s making people enjoy watching. The videos Jake creates are anywhere from ten to thirty seconds long and often reference pop-culture and video games, like Among Us and Poppy Playtime. These animated shorts walk the line between comedy and horror and typically involve a surreal twist. In this episode, Jake tells us about how he got started making these animations, the meteoric rise in their popularity, and what his plans are for the future. If you are interested in making your own content for YouTube or TikTok, then don’t miss this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Being a perfectionist is going to be your downfall if you're trying to turn your passion into a social

0:06.1

media thing or a full-time freelance thing. The thing is about making good artwork, you can't make good

0:12.0

artwork or you can't make a good social media video until you've made a making good

0:13.0

social media video until you've made a lot of bad social media videos

0:16.0

because through the process of making a lot of bad content

0:19.0

or not necessarily even bad, just stuff even at the time

0:22.0

you can be proud of it. But through the

0:23.6

process of making a lot you're going to learn about what is good or what are the

0:27.9

redeeming qualities of the bad videos that you've made along the way. The I'm excited to talk to you Jake because you have posted some serious numbers on your

1:00.9

social media platforms you've you're smashing it, you're crushing it,

1:05.0

you're so, so young.

1:06.6

I'm very impressed by everything that you've done.

1:09.0

And the other thing that I'm really impressed by,

1:10.8

and something that I want to champion is that as I understand it you

1:14.6

start out your journey to build a portfolio to get work but now creating content is your primary

1:19.3

source of income so you're now fully part of this whole creator economy.

1:23.0

You're no longer a boss, you're self directed,

1:25.0

you're an artist, and hats off to you.

1:27.8

So in case people don't know who you are,

1:29.3

can you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about who you are?

1:32.0

Yeah, so my name is Jake Feldman.

1:34.8

I'm a 3D artist is the easiest way to kick it off.

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