This short video offers a short introductory guide to taxes for  freelance animators .  At BNU we can't offer our students formal legal ...

Above is a short video setting out what we believe to be the eight rules for success when dealing with your first client.  For our students ...

Steve Burch Don't forget! On Tuesday 26 May we welcome Steve Burch visit Bucks for a lecture and workshop on Producing Animation .  ...

How do you deal with a tricky client?  Difficult clients are so common that there are websites such as are clientsfromhell.net , dedicated...

Animation image by Miles Skarin Miles Skarin is a first year animation and VFX student at Bucks, but he is already tackling professional...

A freelancer at work Part of our job at Bucks is to teach our students to be working professionals, which includes not only the ability...

What questions should you ask a client when you start work on your first freelance job - or indeed any freelance job? It's your job as...

Scofield Entertainment Should artists work for free? This is a knotty problem and a subject on which people tend to have strong feelings...

Every freelancer occasionally has to be deal with a difficult client. In fact, in happens all the time. Talk to any freelancer, especially...

www.peopleperhour.com is a website that every freelancer should know about. Why? Because it's a way of finding and hiring sk...

On Monday May 12th we welcome Lydiah Igweh, who runs the Enterprise at Bucks program, to introduce a freelancer's workshop for o...

David Wheeler is one of our talented third year students at Bucks, building a portfolio of work to start looking for freelance wor...

Animation Producer Steve Burch Animation Producer Steve Burch visited Bucks recently to talk to our students about the business of produ...

Our new animation collaboration at Bucks One of the most common questions asked by prospective students at our university open days is ...

If you work in the animation industry, the chances are that at some point you will be self-employed, either running your own small busin...

Everyone needs an animated film, even if they don't know it yet. Ten years ago, no-one could have imagined that every plumber would ne...

We're famous again! Well, sort of. Skwigly , the Online Animation Magazine, have run a piece by me about how to survive and thrive as...

Sabah Masood is one of our many talented students here at Bucks, specialising in 3D modeling - with a focus on design and architectural v...

Render unto Caesar what is due to Caesar The tax code in the UK runs to 10,000 pages, and there is no human being who knows the whole co...

OK, so you have got your first freelance job. You've pitched the idea, you've agreed a price for the job, the client is shiny-e...