Episode 91: Arcana Founder Sean O'Reilly Reveals How He Built A 3D Feature Film Studio From Scratch

This episode features Vancouver-based Arcana Entertainment and Animation Studio Founder and CEO Sean O’Reilly. Sean originally began his journey into animation by travelling to comic book conventions in an attempt to get his independent comic book sold. That experience led him to create a comic book company, Arcana, which now boasts over 300 titles and over 5,000 unique characters. From there, Arcana spanned into 3D animation and has since produced a number of features, television series, and short films. You’ll also learn: *The unique pipeline Arcana has built *How Sean evaluates business decisions to mitigate risk *Arcana’s hiring process for 3D animators ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by the awesome team at Startastudio.com Start A Studio, is a new online school focused on the business side of animation. They have both free and paid courses, an online community and downloads to help you succeed in your animation career, and build your own cool, creative and viable animation studio. You can use the unique discount code ‘AIP’ in the checkout to save 20% on their popular Pro Studio Startup course. So, whether you’re looking to up your freelance game or plan and launch your own animation company, check out https://startastudio.com/ ~ Check out Arcana's website: https://arcana.com/ Follow Arcana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arcanastudio