Episode 48: Animator & Game Dev. Jess Stilwell On How To Start Developing An Indie Game

This episode of the Animation Industry Podcast features animator and game developer Jess Stilwell (who’s also a fellow classmate of mine at Sheridan College!), who shares her journey into indie game development. You’ll also learn *Three free software tools to start making your own indie game *How Jess is developing an audience for her game before it launches *Why you shouldn’t develop your “passion project” as your first game ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by Bloop Animation, which is an animation learning platform packed with premium online video courses for aspiring animation filmmakers. They have courses for all major animation programs like Maya, Animate CC, Toon Boom, Blender, TVPaint, and many others, as well as some non-software courses like a storyboarding course, Animation foundations course, and even one about making graphic novels, which covers absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish. The courses are all in video-form, so there’s no deadlines or application process, you simply pick a course and start learning in seconds. They even offer a free ebook titled “Making an animated short”, which covers their entire process, step-by-step, of how they made one of their films, from coming up with the idea, to storyboarding, animation and all the way to exporting the film. You can get that book for free at www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry. You can check out their complete course library at www.bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: www.bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about Jess Stilwell: Jess is currently a second-year student in Sheridan College's Bachelor of Animation program. She has also been developing two indie games over the last few years and plans on releasing progress work very soon. You can follow Jess' work on her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rnagolor You can find more information about this podcast here: https://terryibele.com/animation-industry-podcast/