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Here is the best animal face you will see today!

This is a Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica), a species listed in CITES Appendix II and evaluated as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List. It lives in Asia (Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan).

Oh hell, yeah!! I love giving recs and I LOVE when people start getting interested in horror. I’ll give you recs in a few different categories so that you don’t watch anything you wouldn’t enjoy:

Early Horror Movies (Most Are Black and White, 1900′s-1950′s):

Nosferatu (1922) (silent film)

Cat People (1942)

Freaks (1932)

White Zombie (1932)

The Man who Laughs (1928)

M (1931)

Rear Window (1954)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) (silent film)

Metropolis (1927) (silent film)

Frankenstein (1931)

The Wolf Man (1941)

Dracula (1931)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Dead of Night (1945)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Personal Favorites From the 1960′s (Suspenseful):

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Psycho (1960)

The Birds (1963)

Must-Sees of the 70′s (The Beginning of the Golden Era):

Carrie (1976)

The Exorcist (1973)

Suspiria (1977)

Jaws (1975)

The Omen (1976)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Alien (1979)

Halloween (1978)

1980′s Cult Classics (The decade of good special-effects make up):

Re-Animator (1985)

The Shining (1980)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

The Evil Dead (1981)

The Thing (1982)

Hellraiser (1987)

Children of the Corn (1984)

Friday the 13th (1980)

The Lost Boys (1987)

Silver Bullet (1985)

Poltergeist (1982)

Horror-Comedies:

What We do in the Shadows (2014)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Deathgasm (2015)

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)

Zombieland (2009)

The Trouble With Harry (1955)

The Killer Condom (1996)

Dead Alive (1992)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Idle Hands (1999)

Dead Snow (2009)

Eight-Legged Freaks (2002)

American Psycho (2000)

The Faculty (1998)

Drag Me to Hell (2009)

Slither (2006)

Best of 2000′s-now:

The Loved Ones (2009)

Battle Royale (2000)

Trick R Treat (2007)

American Mary (2012)

The Babadook (2014)

Let the Right One in (2008)

Ginger Snaps (2000)

Martyrs (2008) (very gory, New French Extremity film)

The Hole (2001)

The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

Funny Games (2007)

The Descent (2005)

Excision (2012)

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

Inside (2007) (very gory, New French Extremity film)

High Tension (2003) (very gory, New French Extremity film)

Other Favorites (AKA 90′s horror):

La Ceremonie (1995)

Scream (1996)

Nightbreed (1990)

Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Hey there! Sorry I haven’t been able to get this sooner - I’ve been very occupied in my work lately.

I totally understand where you’re coming from though. Its hard to get a lot of work done in a timely manner by yourself when you’re pretty much your own boss. I suffer from this still, and from my experience - I do have thoughts to share. I’m going to talk about both freelance work, and doing personal work.So here are my top advices on being professionally independent!

1. Set yourself a deadline, use special events as reference Set a day on when you want/need to finish a certain project. A lot of my friends use events, conventions, and exhibitions as deadline placeholders for their own work. My former mentor and teacher uses things like CTNx to showcase a 2D project he’s been working on so that he can garner thoughts, reviews, and get people interested to help fund future projects. Trust me, when its set on a special day, there’s more reason to finish the work you set yourself to.

2. Organize yourself  workbook with a calender, a check list and notes Now that I think about it, I would not have been able to complete my previous shorts without setting myself a calender. You can make yourself a physical book (or an online excel) with a calender, and a checklist of things needed to finish during that day/week/month. Start crossing out the days that go by, and see if you are able to manage your goals. If you don’t make the quota, then its probably time to start thinking of ways to limit the work put into the next shots. That leads to my next point.

3. Understand your limitations, prioritize important parts In a lot of my animated work, there are shots that have high production value, and some that looked like it was clearly rushed. If your client gives you a sequence to animate, start thinking about shots that scream high quality, and then place the shots that don’t seem too important later on the list. For example, you might want to give yourself more time for a shot you feel will be highly difficult, and then less time for shots that can easily be done by you. If you’re still unsure about how to organize this, talk to your client and ask what parts of the animation do they want to have the best quality, so you can start thinking about prioritizing certain shots.

4. Do a pipeline test. Record notes and assess future problems and difficulties.

Depending on what your client asks for, you still need to do a pipeline test to see all the necessary steps you’ll be tackling in the future. Some clients will ask you to do from roughts to the final colors, or some will ask for rough animation only. The reason why pipeline tests exist is to see what future problems you’ll encounter. You should also record how long each step takes; how long it takes you to do certain footage of animation, so when you do plan your quota for the following days - you have a better idea in how to set it up.

5. Constantly check in with your client

If you’re lucky, you might get a client who is very hands on and is constantly checking up on you. This is good because its a good motivator to actually get work done! You’ll have more things work in progresses to show, and they can give feedback. It gives them a clear idea of the overall progress, so they have a better understanding on how long the work usually takes. You guys could also form some suggestions for future obstacles in the work.

6. Gather peers you trust and set up a frequent meet-up to show and share work

This mostly helps if you are doing your own personal work, but when its a project that is entirely under your control: its easy just to chill out and relax (I am highly guilty of this.) Some people can work on their own projects - and not show it to the world; whereas I constantly need to show work to my peers to keep me motivated. I’m the type of person who needs to get feedback and encouragement on continuing a project, so I’ve been showing people I really trust some things I’ve been doing on the side. This also helps keep you working on the project time to time.

7. If all still fails, hire yourself a production manager/personal producer/agent