Tiny Inventions talks Rebounding from Rejection, Embracing Slow Processes, and Funding Work Abroad

I mean, I felt like I was in great, I mean, I feel in great company now talking to you, but even, you know, at Icon as I'm like preparing to do my talk and you get introduced, I'm like Oscar nominated.

I'm going to follow behind that.

Oh my God.

I'm just going to, okay, whatever.

I'll be fine.

I'll be fine.

And your talk was amazing.

I was so moved hearing you share so openly and vulnerably and honestly.

I really learned a lot from that talk.

And that was in just 20 minutes.

And we've had an hour plus here.

And I feel like I could ask you a million more questions.

Is there anything that we have not talked about that you would want to make sure to share? Any current work that you're working on that you want to promote?

Well, one thing is like, you know, why I love your podcast so much is, you know, I mentioned earlier on before we started recording is like how much you talk about finance.

But I think this is something I didn't quite understand before getting into animation is that when you start your own business, you become like half business.

owner, half artist, I don't know if it's actually 5050.

And I was talking to an artist a couple years ago.

And he was like, you know, what do you think your ratio is with like, you know, like, financing or business or administrative stuff versus art make? And I was like, I don't know, I never thought about this, like 2080.

And I was thinking 80% art.

And he's like, He's like, that's really good.

He's like, I think I'm like 10%, 90%.

I'm like, oh, really? I'm like, that's really good.

And he was actually saying like 10% art, 90% administrative.

I'm like, oh, an art conversation.

He's like, I documented hours that I put into art versus non-art.